Joshua Thermidor
@joshuathermidor.bsky.social
Writer, Translator, Photographer / Creative Nonfic Editor @brinkliterary / Iowa Writers' Workshop '25 / 🇭🇹
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Total global immiseration. The only possible ways through are ones we make together.
September 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Total global immiseration. The only possible ways through are ones we make together.
My review of Keisha Scarville's PASSPORTS in Brooklyn Rail's September issue. Thank you to Megan Liberty for editing and taking this on. Thankful to Keisha Scarville for this book. Its many refusals, love, and numerous other imaginings.
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Keisha Scarville’s Passports | The Brooklyn Rail
These collages reimagine her father’s Guyanese passport photograph in over three-hundred iterations. The images enact a vision and selfhood that precedes the state’s instruction for us to be singular ...
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September 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
My review of Keisha Scarville's PASSPORTS in Brooklyn Rail's September issue. Thank you to Megan Liberty for editing and taking this on. Thankful to Keisha Scarville for this book. Its many refusals, love, and numerous other imaginings.
brooklynrail.org/2026/09/art_...
brooklynrail.org/2026/09/art_...
From The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley
September 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM
From The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley
It goes without saying, but writing is incredibly difficult
September 1, 2026 at 1:35 AM
It goes without saying, but writing is incredibly difficult
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We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday.
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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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August 15, 2026 at 3:09 PM
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday.
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Registration Link for the Toronto launch. September 15, 2026. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon.
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Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON
Join us for the launch of The Practicing Refusal Collective's THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON.
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August 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Registration Link for the Toronto launch. September 15, 2026. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon.
Come out. Join us!
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Come out. Join us!
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"So when I understood myself as being opposed to the poem, really I was experiencing the onslaught of questions that had likely brought Adnan to both page and canvas."
Taking this opportunity to share some Etel Adnan poetry from the archives: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Taking this opportunity to share some Etel Adnan poetry from the archives: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
July 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
"So when I understood myself as being opposed to the poem, really I was experiencing the onslaught of questions that had likely brought Adnan to both page and canvas."
Taking this opportunity to share some Etel Adnan poetry from the archives: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Taking this opportunity to share some Etel Adnan poetry from the archives: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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@joshuathermidor.bsky.social reflects on how Etel Adnan influenced a generation of poets.
How Etel Adnan Shaped a Generation of Poets
At the 2026 Venice Biennale, artists and writers converged on Yto Barrada’s exhibition at the French Pavillion to pay tribute to Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan. A stalwart polymath working acr…
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July 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
@joshuathermidor.bsky.social reflects on how Etel Adnan influenced a generation of poets.
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My essay on Abdaljawad's writings and Palestinian resistance is my attempt to answer the question that Fargo Tbakhi asked us in December 2023: 'What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this moment of genocide?'
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
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Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine
Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, w...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
My essay on Abdaljawad's writings and Palestinian resistance is my attempt to answer the question that Fargo Tbakhi asked us in December 2023: 'What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this moment of genocide?'
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
Poets, what is the opposite (or inverse) of the exile?
January 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Poets, what is the opposite (or inverse) of the exile?
currently in montpellier, france and went to the bookstore yesterday looking for glissant's poetics of relation and had to place an order for it— when i gave him my last name he couldn't believe it. found it funny considering that i'm in france for bastille day
July 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
currently in montpellier, france and went to the bookstore yesterday looking for glissant's poetics of relation and had to place an order for it— when i gave him my last name he couldn't believe it. found it funny considering that i'm in france for bastille day
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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