Iveta Silova
@isilova.bsky.social
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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Iveta Silova
@isilova.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
theconversation.com
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again.
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#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
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#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Sleepy Smuggles
✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
🔗 books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #Memory
@OpenBookPublishers #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
🔗 books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #Memory
@OpenBookPublishers #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Sleepy Smuggles
✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
🔗 books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #Memory
@OpenBookPublishers #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
🔗 books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #Memory
@OpenBookPublishers #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
Reposted by Iveta Silova
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:
“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.”
“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.”
February 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:
“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.”
“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.”
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“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.”
“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.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“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.”
“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.”
This a memory glimpse from "An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War" coedited with @microbial-child.bsky.social and Nelli Piattoeva. Read more here (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War
What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible f...
www.openbookpublishers.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
This a memory glimpse from "An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War" coedited with @microbial-child.bsky.social and Nelli Piattoeva. Read more here (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smuggling Jewelry
✍️ 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.
📽️ hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434...
✍️ 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.
📽️ hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434...
February 1, 2026 at 9:41 PM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smuggling Jewelry
✍️ 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.
📽️ hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434...
✍️ 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.
📽️ hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434...
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Damn proud of Minnesota.
January 26, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Damn proud of Minnesota.
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
Reposted by Iveta Silova
The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
snyder.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.
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.
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.
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.
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.
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.
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:35 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ 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.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
✍️ 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.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
December 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
December 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ 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.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
✍️ 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.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
December 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ 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.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
✍️ 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.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders”
✍️ 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
✍️ 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
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders”
✍️ 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
✍️ 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
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders”
✍️ 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
✍️ 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
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“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.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
“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.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“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.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
“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.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“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.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
“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.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
Reposted by Iveta Silova
11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
May 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2
‘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
‘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
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’
✍️ 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 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
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2
‘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
‘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