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Roopika Risam
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Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com

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Roopika Risam is an associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature and faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. She was formerly Chair of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education at Salem State University. She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities. .. more

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 17d
AAAAAAAAAAH. Publisher's Weekly named DATA EMPIRE one of the top 10 history books to look for Spring 2026!!!!!!!! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: History
This season, culture wars and their origins are dissected, fascism and its opponents are profiled, and enclaves of the rich and famous are infiltrated.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 25m
Have baffled the Risams by telling them exactly what was wrong with their water heater before even going to the basement to look at it, then stopping the leak while we wait for the replacement. Little do they know that I am the handy one in my house.👩🏽‍🔧🪠👷🏽‍♀️🔨

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 13h
This is brilliant

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 13h
This is amazing. I definitely had to not say anything about the pink turkey and eat around it 😂

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14h
😍

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14h
Dinner doesn’t look like this without me in the kitchen but so long as no one gets food poisoning, everything will be fine. And if there is food poisoning, I am not responsible. (Photo from last Christmas.)
Massive Christmas feast taking up whole kitchen counter

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14h
If you let go of dinner, you have to just accept that there are some questionable things happening in the kitchen.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14h
In personal growth, I punted on Christmas dinner for the first time in 25 years, let everyone else make it, took a nap, and watched the Imagine Dragons concert on Hulu, and it was DELIGHTFUL 🎄🎅🏽

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 16h
We went in February and it was wonderful - I hope you can go!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18h
I did! I wanted to do something for them with my book advance and they are not really things people.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18h
My parents did a very credible job of being enthusiastic about a random Turks & Caicos mug before realizing there was an itinerary inside. And then they were verklempt for a solid minute while processing. 😍🎄🎅🏽

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18h
I am the baby by 9 years!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 19h
My sister gave me the funniest Christmas card 😆
Card says Merry Christmas inferior sibling

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
An important distinction from the person currently wearing her Grinch Santa hat.
Picture of the Grinch and the words “to be clear: the grinch didn’t hate Christmas. He hated people. Which is understandable”

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Glad you have a chance to breathe. My dad has had TIAs too and it’s very scary. Sending lots of good thoughts your way.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Merry, merry, merry, dear friends!
Black horse in Christmas hat in snow with Merry Christmas at top and Pls send 🥕thx at bottom

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Oh my goodness - I am so glad to hear that your dad was able to receive treatment quickly 💕

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
So true… the “you can’t do that for the next four years” 😅☹️

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Kumail Nanjiani’s Night Thoughts standup special on Hulu has been the great uniter of Risams.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
#goals

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
😍

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Listen, [name redacted]’s parents went to JAPAN to get her a Cabbage Patch Kid.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
If only the Myrns had sprung for Boba Fett. The world could have been a better place 😂

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Omg this is amazing 😍😍😍😍

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
He really didn’t have a chance, did he.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
That is so sweet 🥹

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
This could easily be fixed

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Omg!!! Desi parents!!!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
For me, it was a Cabbage Patch Kid. For @cgsaw.bsky.social it was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Technodrome. Tell us, Gen Xers and Geriatric Millennials, what Christmas present did you never receive that you clearly aren’t still fixated on 30-40 years later?
a group of cabbage patch kids standing in a grassy field
Alt: a group of cabbage patch kids standing in a grassy field
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
I wish I had an auntie like that!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
I think they were impossible to find and also baby dolls were not encouraged in my fam.