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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
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Prof of WGS & Russian-Jewish History at Brandeis U on unceded Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pawtucket homelands. Grew up in Ethiopia and Kenya. Author and Bookworm.
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Save the date! Evangelina Macias will present her original dance “Niikosokowaiks My Relatives” and be in conversation w/ Native dance artist Daystar Rosalie Jones (who will also dance!) about dispossession, the trauma of residential boarding schools, and more. 4/11 evening

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Brittany Watts, the Black Ohio woman who was charged after having a miscarriage in her bathroom toilet, says a nurse called the police on her: www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Upon arriving at the hospital a third time in the middle of her miscarriage, Watts said a nurse reassured her that “everything’s going to be OK.” Meanwhile, that nurse, whom the hospital has not identified, called the police, Watts said. In a call with a 911 dispatcher shared by CBS News, the nurse said Watts “didn’t want to look” at the fetus. She also alleged Watts “didn’t want the baby and she didn’t look,” according to the 911 audio. Watts said, however, this was not true.

“I said I did not want to look,” Watts said Friday. “I have never said I didn’t want my baby. I would have never said something like that. It just makes me angry that somebody would put those type of words in my mouth to make me seem so callous and so — so hateful.”
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It’s like asking to choose my favorite child, but I think these are my top new* 2023 reads. The weirdest books, the ones that moved me to tears, biggest punches to the gut, those I’m still thinking about months later. *newly-translated or published in the US. One came out in Dec ‘22, but oh well. 💙📚

4x4 grid of book covers against a white background. Titles, authors, and translators (if applicable) starting in the top left: Human Sacrifices by Maria Fernanda Ampuero, trans. Frances Riddle. Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang. Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, trans. Anton Hur. Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paul Maia, trans. Zoë Perry. Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall. Rose Quartz by Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe. Time Without Keys by Ida Vitale, trans. Sarah Pollack. Candelaria by Melissa Lozado-Oliva. Counterweight by Djuna, trans. Anton Hur. Nefando by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Sarah Booker. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, trans. Megan McDowell. Walking Practice by Dolki Min, trans. Victoria Caudle. Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed, trans. by the author. Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner. Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, trans. Chi-Young Kim.
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I'm supposed to be researching the Russian Jewish tea merchant Wissotzky's Socialist Revolutionary grandchildren, but I've gone done a rabbit hole reading works by their friend Vladimir Zenzinov who wrote about his dog Nena who kept him company in Siberian exile.

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Looks like a visionary to me!

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"How does one revisit the scene of subjection without replicating the grammar of violence?" - Saidiya Hartman

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This film blew me away. Haven’t had an experience with a film like this in a long time.

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Intrusive thought today is what if the NYT covered the Thomas & Alito bribery scandal the way they're covering the college presidents. Not just an endless stream of articles but framing it as though it's a shock and an obvious affront that they haven't resigned yet

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Yup! I saw this on the other platform.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
@chaeran.bsky.social
Prof of WGS & Russian-Jewish History at Brandeis U on unceded Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pawtucket homelands. Grew up in Ethiopia and Kenya. Author and Bookworm.
88 followers219 following96 posts