Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social
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✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
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Reposted by Tom Clark, Diane Ravitch, Iveta Silova , and 2 more Tom Clark, Diane Ravitch, Iveta Silova, Gerald Friedman, Margot C. Finn
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
Reposted by Iveta Silova, James Goodwin, David Darmofal
“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”
✍️ Tatyana Kleyn
A child leaves Soviet Riga with a red sweater, a teddy bear—
and an amber necklace hidden inside.
As immigration crackdowns intensify worldwide,
this memory reminds that children still carry what adults cannot.
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Reposted by Iveta Silova, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Magda Teter
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
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Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
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Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Kimberly A. Prather, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 29 more Anne Applebaum, Kimberly A. Prather, Stephan Lewandowsky, Shadd Maruna, Adam H. Sobel, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John McLaren, Richard Ashby Wilson, Caroline Krafft, Amir Attaran, Elizabeth Stokoe, Melissa Johnson, Alison Phipps, John Foot, John Collins, Rosanna E. Guadagno, Clyde W. Barrow, Melanie C. Green, Alan Richardson, Iveta Silova, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Jacob T. Levy, Nazita Lajevardi, Samantha Brennan, W Grant, Mark Rice, Lisa Diedrich, Federica Genovese, Olivier Mannoni, Magda Teter, Timothy D. McBride
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✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
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✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
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✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
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#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Reposted by Iveta Silova, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
✍️ Erica Burman
What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.
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The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
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✍️ Erica Burman
What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.
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#Anarchive #Memory
✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos
What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography?
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✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos
What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography?
@microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa
What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
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#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa
What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
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#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei
✍️ By Pia Koivunen
What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?
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‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar
✍️ By Pia Koivunen
What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?
Read (open access):
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#anarchive #memory
By Olga Mun
What does it mean to remember across displacement, across borders within borders? A reflection through Korean philosophy of kindness, relationality, and more-than-human. Read more 👇
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By Olga Mun
What does it mean to remember across displacement, across borders within borders? A reflection through Korean philosophy of kindness, relationality, and more-than-human. Read more 👇
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Reposted by Iveta Silova
✍️ By Petar Odak
What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
