I have been living in the UK for 5 years and everyday I am faced with another reason to make me question HOW this country was able to colonise most of the world if the culture is so opposed to doing anything in a timely, efficient manner.

“Redescobrindo” mais fácil um camelo passar pelo buraco duma agulha do que um gringo tirar a cabeça do próprio cy

Here’s some self-righteous scolding for you, sweetie. Many translators believe that Charco Press has a bias against L2 translators, or translators translating into their second language (English). This is a classic White Publishing bias, by the way. You guys should do better?

If there is something I am not surprised about is random white privileged literary translators thinking their experience of the industry is the default and being dismissive of criticism. Nothing new here.

I haven't tweeted much in 2023... the exodus (more talked about than actually acted upon) kinda killed my mood. I am still here though. 2023 was a year full of disease and stress, here's to a better 2024!

Upon signing a book contract today, this poem speaks to me in so many ways. Mutti Gisela, pretending she isn’t dead, is very proud of lil nobody Lucia. ❤️

"yeah the summer was great. super relaxing. recharged and ready to dive back into work"

Academic job market tips: 1) Inherit wealth 2) Be luckier somehow 3) Time travel to the 90s 4) Start your own fake university

We’d love to hire you but that position is currently filled by a professor who hates students, refuses to teach, and hasn’t published this century

What’s wild here is that both the potato and the tomato are New World vegetables.

We lived unhappily in the genocide

Academics will organise a workshop hosted in the global north, attended by the global north, and citing the global north, and call it "connecting with the global south"

The Israel lobby claims UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt is an antisemite. Someone who knows about antisemitism, the Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, begs to differ. Here he is with Francesca after her recent speech at SOAS university, London #IsraelLobby #GazaGenocide

Very important day for the #FeministTranslationStudies community! The inaugural issue of our journal is now out w/all articles in #FreeAccess until 31 Jan. Come & see! tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/1/1 Pleasure working w/ María Laura Spoturno Dr Olga Castro Vasiliki Misiou #LucianaCarvalho Taylor & Francis

I barely come here anymore, not gonna delete this due to archival, but I created a profile over at the other social network bsky.app/profile/lucyco…

I guess one of my last tweets will be a desperate reaching out to my twitter friends for some help towards the costs of our cat’s surgery. More on this link gofund.me/f71b11c7

New Cambridge Element Literary Exophonic Translation by Lúcia Collischonn is now free to read for 2 weeks! cup.org/3FrurNe #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics