katherine mckittrick

We’re excited to announce the 2026 #SSHRC Impact Award finalists in the Insight category! Congratulations to: 👏 Jutta Gutberlet (@uvic.ca) 👏 Katherine McKittrick (@queensuresearch.bsky.social) 👏Linda Pagani (@umontreal-en.bsky.social) Learn more: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2026...

I don’t think that ballroom is funny, it is violence and misogyny spatialized—for what else is a ballroom for, if not to institutionalize and normalize gender conformity, militarism, empire, accumulation by dispossession. Professor Ahmed might call me a killjoy, lol. Obama snark is the worst.

DEAR SCIENCE by @demonicgrounds.bsky.social fundamentally changed how we understood the idea and origins of "situated knowledges," allowing us to see how knowledge systems are multiple, and exist in relation to each other.

very excited that my new book is now available to BUY!! (and will be #openaccess in early December). 'Animated Urbanism' is a critical examination of the digital imagery that mediates smart urban life. @uminnpress.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151792206...

For the Queen's financial forum since questions were hidden: Over the past three years, Queen's total surplus was $296 million ($76, $60, $160) and its operating surplus was $124 million ($20, $16, $88). Last year, even w/o investment income above budget, the operating fund was in the green.

New #OpenAccess -- "Settler Toxicity: Contaminated Restitutions and the Contagion of Hope" @noamleshem.bsky.social and "Development's Race Problem: Post-Black Lives Matter Erasures, Palestine and the Politics of Publishing" @robtelneajai.bsky.social @kalpana-w.bsky.social et al tinyurl.com/3nbzhkns

Call for proposals for Special Issues and Symposia -- due date 31st October -- antipodeonline.org/about-the-jo...

The Weapon of Geography — A Marxist Geography workshop for graduate students, organizers, adjuncts, and independent and junior scholars, Feb. 6-7, 2027, New York City — Call for Participants, deadline Nov. 15, 2026 marxgeog.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Demonic Grounds at Yale…

Elleza Kelley's "Flight Lines" reads across African American literature and art, showing how black form is fundamentally shaped by efforts to represent black space. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/BmpwRcc

We here!

Hot off the press, two new articles -- "Palestinian Wall Art Production: Livingness, Desire, and Sumud" and "Hormonal Hinterlands: Mapping a Materialist Prehistory of Trans Medicine" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678330...

heartbreak, again.

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Demonic at 20 + Celebrating Carby—with all the cools.

🚨🚨Professor of Creative Writing job at University College London! Permanent aka tenure track equivalent 🚨🚨 Closed Oct 6 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join me today at 4:15 pm [ET] for a free public livestream of my new course, The Story of Capital. The course meets on Tuesdays from 4:15 - 6:15 pm [ET] from September 8th to December 1st. www.youtube.com/live/diGbBGs...

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Assia Tamerdjent examines how the diaspora is experienced differently by Algerians born in France and those who moved to France after growing up in Algeria. In doing so, she explores two distinct ways of understanding one’s relationship to Algeria and France,

Presented in a hybrid format and convened by Sali Lafrenie (LAC), RSVP to attend the fall Shannon Lectures series: carleton.ca/history/shan....

Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.

what we are doing…

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Practicing Bios-Mythoi (Or, Why Sylvia Wynter is Not Refashioning the Human) demonicground.substack.com/p/practicing...

Is anyone else thinking about how Canadian unis are recruiting loads of US scholars while aggressively sustaining hiring freezes and actively defunding fields like humanities, black studies, gender studies and insisting that international graduate students somehow drain the sector’s economy? I am.

I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

[Exit Queen.]

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No.

read muthafuckas! read!!!!!!

Sending a package to the USA from Canada takes longer and is more frustrating than grading a stack of 1st year essays on intersectionality.

what I wrote today demonicground.substack.com/p/misdiagnos...

Krista Franklin sent me “Bind” 😭😭😭😭 ✌🏾🎶

tonight with lanois.

last night

yesterday.

tonight was glorious!

…tonight at Osler Records we launch the reissues of She Tries and Looking by nourbeSe philip. come early, buy a book, get a free copy of Smile while supplies last! ✌🏾🥂🎶

We're extending our Solidarity Summer Sale until July 31st!

Mark Campbell talking about Black Studies, the archiving of hip hop culture, and centering blackness in that work #blackstudiespodcast #blackstudies Full episode: go.umd.edu/MarkCampbell