essayist, lapsed academic, commie propaganda. 👀: @dilettantearmy@LAReviewofBooks @strangehorizons @decolonialhackr + 🏆:@dream_foundry'21 (she/her)https://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3kow52kxabc2kI barely use this site, but I updated my portfolio and would love if you commissioned me/said something nice about my work. shinjinidey.wordpress.com https://shinjinidey.wordpress.com/30 Mar 2024 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kow52kxabc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3kiewp756522lI wrote this! And I'm damned pleased with it! And I'd be even happier if you read it! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2024 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kiewp756522lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3kdnwors7r52wI wrote about Olga Ravn's incredible My Work for On The Seawall's Nov/Dec issue—motherhood as practice, occupation, and a nationalized spectator sport. ronslate.com/on-my-work-a-n…08 Nov 2023 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdnwors7r52whttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3kak7aoihws2cWhat feeds should I follow?29 Sep 2023 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kak7aoihws2chttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3kak756kyvh2lAs an editor: editors only really edit your work if they're going out of their way, taking time outside work, delaying, etc. to do it. They don't do it on the (big 5) company dime.29 Sep 2023 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kak756kyvh2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3kak73s7ads2bCan't believe I wrote this (almost three years ago) about Kolkata and its Bangalis—and here I am now, gallivanting around (the nationalistic) CR Park as if I can't identify the stench of a festering wound.29 Sep 2023 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kak73s7ads2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k7wfoyhixu2yWhat's a good Gillian Rose and Jacqueline Rose intellectual-biography-ish piece?21 Sep 2023 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7wfoyhixu2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k7ex5ywsxs26I'm quite weary of the supplication required to prove my worth, and worn out by the constant desperation present in my performance of competence.14 Sep 2023 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7ex5ywsxs26https://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k6yfdviszj2wWhen will the "you're so good with words" or "how can you like literature so much" stop being a opening address? How to repel these pandering assholes?09 Sep 2023 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6yfdviszj2whttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k6p32pdvs52bForgot to share the news here, but I also reviewed @indrapramitdas.bsky.social THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR for @seizethepress.bsky.social last week and wrote about myths, the city, and the suggestions and persuasions of his fiction. https://www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/the-mythicisation-of-kolkata-immigration-and-culture-in-the-last-dragoners-of-bowbazar-by-shinjini-dey/06 Sep 2023 03:22 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6p32pdvs52bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k6myzgjxv72gI have a review/essay on Yuri Herrera in @strangehorizons.bsky.social newest issue, meandering through surrealism, translation, Latin American fiction, and Herrera's own claims about writing TEN PLANETS alongside his non-fic debut, A SILENT FURY. http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/ten-planets-by-yuri-herrera-translated-by-lisa-dillman/05 Sep 2023 07:40 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6myzgjxv72ghttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k5djm5wsvj2rMoyra Davey, Index Cards19 Aug 2023 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k5djm5wsvj2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k5c2emhvmj27I failed the Sealey challenge on many occassions this month, but I did read about a dozen books of poetry.19 Aug 2023 05:40 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k5c2emhvmj27https://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k444izyf4t2bHeather Treseler, Thoraic Ode04 Aug 2023 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k444izyf4t2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k3v2j6lrzc2gthe sealey challenge so I'm reading the language poets. Diane Ward's Trop-i-dom (Jawbone, 1977)01 Aug 2023 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3v2j6lrzc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k3v2ex2lwt2oToday's work regimen has involved screaming at a pigeon and drinking limeade01 Aug 2023 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3v2ex2lwt2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/shinjinidey.bsky.social/post/3k3uqv3ul2t2nSpecfic is like "imagine ......... dragons"01 Aug 2023 05:20 +0000at://did:plc:5kulz2gturonutralrnldwr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3uqv3ul2t2n