English prof @UMassBoston | 19thc US lit | new project on the American beach | *Adulthood & Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age* 🌈
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You can disagree with some (or all) of the tactics and rhetoric of the student protesters at Columbia--and I'm happy to debate this in the future--but right now this is very simple: The Trump administration is trying to deport someone for speech they don't agree with. That is all
Starting now, the right wing and some of their Democrat establishment enablers will defame Palestinian American Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil as he remains missing after a White House directed ICE deportation order.
A "dangerous" negotiator co leading a non violent protest. A permanent resident with a wife who is 8 months pregnant. Without any trial.
If we don't all work to reverse this and end this, you're eventually next. No matter who you are.
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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When she happened upon Gloria Steinem’s “The Beach Book,” @NotSorrySari recounts, it was like discovering buried treasure, a time capsule from the 1960s.
What did it mean for the queen of the second wave to write a book so superficial and silly? buff.ly/40RD5N1
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This fabulous collection of essays on Emerson by @CornelWest @JeffreyInsko @mlmcgill @MarthaSchoolman @profhollyj @NotSorrySari @BrigField @AndrewJKopec @DonJamesM @lauralmielke @prentissBclark @jsmurison and so many others IS OUT & this gets you 30% off its absurd price.
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Patti Smith sang a very emotional cover of 'Summertime Sadness' by Lana Del Rey at @Vicar_Street tonight. She said the song makes her reflect on moments she had with her late husband, Fred Smith.
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Trump said murderers and rapists and @JakeTapper responded with “we’ll get to immigration in a minute”
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"The film’s real subject is bourgeois domesticity, the mundane concerns of child-rearing, household management, class striving; it is about the way the private family becomes its own fortress and how its insularity, atomization, and privatization enable horrific violence."
"The Zone of Interest can be better understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and household work" - @NotSorrySari thenewinquiry.com/the-sentim…
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Close-up shots of flowers in The Zone of Interest reveal "what the family does to scale and focus; the outsized images of flowers suggest the disproportionate attention lavished on domestic endeavors even while human beings next door are subjected to gruesome acts of brutality."
ALT Image of a purple, blossoming flower, close-up, from the film The Zone of Interest
ALT text: "The film indulges in decadent close-up shots of blossoming flowers, dwelling on their almost surreal vividness. Such shots invoke the eugenic obsession at the heart of the Nazi program, foregrounding the role of the family in the colonization of resources and in the production of superior types. But there are no close-ups of human faces, just human screams barely audible in the background. With such close-ups, Glazer is revealing something about what the family does to scale and focus; the outsized images of flowers suggest the disproportionate attention lavished on domestic endeavors even while human beings next door are subjected to gruesome acts of brutality. Glazer asks us to see the private family as a moral vacuum that trains attention inward, directs resources toward itself, and refuses to look beyond its own walls."
On Jonathan Glazer's film, "The Zone of Interest": "it is about the way the private family becomes its own fortress and how its insularity, atomization, and privatization enable horrific violence." - @NotSorrySari
thenewinquiry.com/the-sentim…
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"The notion of Lebensraum links family comfort with genocide and settler colonialism, and naturalizes the state’s agenda through the practice of domesticity. ... Glazer asks us to see the private family as a moral vacuum that refuses to look beyond its own walls." -Sari Edelstein
On The Zone of Interest (2023), @NotSorrySari writes: "the film’s real subject is bourgeois domesticity, the mundane concerns of child-rearing, household management, class striving" thenewinquiry.com/the-sentim…
sari edelstein retweeted
On The Zone of Interest (2023), @NotSorrySari writes: "the film’s real subject is bourgeois domesticity, the mundane concerns of child-rearing, household management, class striving" thenewinquiry.com/the-sentim…
sari edelstein retweeted
in every single one of these campuses, the presence of police CAUSED violence. the relationship is CAUSAL.
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This is an incredible amount of Jewish folks demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and saying "not in our name"
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Artforum Editor David Velasco was fired for publishing an open letter signed by thousands of artists. Here is the back story of how art world money pressured the signatories and took away his job. theintercept.com/2023/10/26/…
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i truly hope that these blows to the fragile diversity, access, inclusion frame encourage students, staff & faculty to organize for more transformational education, like open enrollment, free tuition, dropping standardized tests, community control mechanisms over private boards
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I have sunk
the boats
that were in
the ocean
and which
you were probably
hoping
to sail around Europe
forgive me
I am an Orca
and I hate boats
so much
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Wonderful event organized by my colleague @NotSorrySari @bostonathenaeum with her MA students @UMassBoston. Congrats! Learned a lot about eco lit, Moby Dick, seaweed, and feminism.
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This isn't just a regional phenomenon — in Boston, life expectancy in Back Bay is almost 92 years, while in parts of Roxbury just a 1/2 mile away it's less than 59 years.
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We are so excited about our upcoming event with Stefan Helmreich! Save the date! #oceanicstudies @umassboston
