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Jen Woronow 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈
@thejauntycrow.bsky.social
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🔹️International Security Studies
🔹️Visual Culture & Rhetoric of Conflict
🔹️Blogs & art when I feel like it
🔹️Co-Owner of Yankee Vandal Vintage

Not a war hawk or peace dove. Just a jaunty crow. (she/her)
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Jen Woronow 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @thejauntycrow.bsky.social · May 1
About me:
- 🇺🇸 living in 🇨🇦 since 2023
- Latte Loyalist ☕
- Cat Mom 🐈
- Occasional blogger
- Out of practice artist
- Aging scenester of the spooky variety 🦇
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Another new one. I suppose it must be obvious how much I love Anselm Kiefer's paintings.
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I started with no plan—just textures and gradients.
What emerged was a meditation on war’s hidden aftermath: smoke, ash, radiation, and the scars that linger long after the guns fall silent.

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#Art #Sustainability #Aftermath #CreativeVoices
The Lingering Shadows of War
Art, Memory, and Environmental Aftermath
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November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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When a nation prioritizes "national security" (security for WHO?) above all else, anything becomes permissible. We saw this in the years following 9/11 and we're seeing it now.

This isn't security. This is state sponsored terror fueled by racism, xenophobia, and white nationalism.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Did you know I run a vintage clothing business with my husband, @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social? We have Vietnam, Korea, and Persian Gulf era uniforms in stock! Find out why they can be a great addition to your everyday wardrobe!

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Marching Orders for Your Closet
The Case for Military Surplus Style in a World of Fast Fashion Fatigue
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November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Oh, by the way. Every so often I actually make art and stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I'm watching a mini-series about Mussolini's rise to power from 1919-1925, and it's wild. There's a scene with the Blackshirts moshing, then M stagediving and crowdsurfing.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Imagine if every disappearance caused by US immigration enforcement was marked with flowers, photos, and grief. How many memorials would line our streets?

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What If We Memorialized Every ICE Detention?
A Reflection on Immigration, Loss, and Resistance Memorializing the missing feels deeply appropriate for what’s happening in the U.S. right now. Memorials honour the dead, but they also commemorate wh...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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What happens when government recruitment borrows the brushstrokes of nostalgia to paint exclusion as a form of patriotism? The US government’s latest ads promote a wholesome veneer, but within these sentimental scenes lie a dangerous myth about who belongs.

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Make America White Again? ICE Recruitment and the Weaponization of Nostalgia
Mass Deportation and the Imagined Past. What happens when government recruitment borrows the brushstrokes of nostalgia to paint exclusion as a form of patriotism? The US government’s latest ads promot...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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@tattooedhistorian.bsky.social and I started a blog for our small business, Yankee Vandal Vintage.

Meet John: yankeevandalvintage.substack.com/p/meet-john-...

Meet Jen: yankeevandalvintage.substack.com/p/meet-jen-w...

Pictured below: Jen's interpretation of the movie "Beyond the Black Rainbow"
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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In case the world feels like too much and you're questioning if anything matters anymore:

"It wasn't meaningless as long as you, yourself, believe it wasn't meaningless. After all, that's why I've continued to exist."

(I post far too many #Xenosaga references.)
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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If you need something humiliating to yell at ICE:

"Is that costume your gender affirming care or does Daddy just like it when you dress up for him?"

You're welcome.
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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If your nation cannot even provide basic human necessities, than it cannot achieve any meaningful state of national security.
October 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my [paper]. So [cite] me, maybe?"
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Systems often treat people as problems to be fixed rather than as individuals to be understood. If fiction can spark empathy, maybe it can help bridge the divide between civilians and #veterans.

#Xenosaga #MentalHealth

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How a Sci-Fi Role Playing Game Became the Most Honest Portrait of a Veteran's Mind
The tragic arc of a video game character explores survivor’s guilt, identity loss, and the power of shared experience. If fiction can spark empathy, maybe it can help bridge the divide between civilia...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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👕 What happens when fashion goes extremist?
Join Bellingcat’s @colborne.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide as they trace far-right brands, symbols & the people behind them, Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT.
Ask your own questions live: discord.gg/hSRQ9RpQ?eve...
Bellingcat Stage Talk Thursday 23/10, 5pm CEST/11am EDT Discord.com/invite/bellingcat Identifying Far-Right Fashion
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed or inspired (maybe both?) that I've gotten this far in my life and am only now learning about Nietzsche's philosophy from ResonantArc's analysis of a 20+ year old JRPG. #xenosaga
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October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Gradually getting better at blogging more consistently.

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Rendering Memory: How AI Can Honour History Without Distorting Humanity
Preserving Truth in a Digital Age
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October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I renamed my blog "No Fighting in the War Room," and if you know me, this should come as absolutely no surprise.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I'll never forget recreating some of the work of the US Army Graves Registration men at a WW2 event and having a re-enactor come up and say "You're ruining my weekend." That led to discussions with others about our responsibilities in studying conflict.
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📚Call for Chapters! Ethics in Conflict Studies
It's time to consider our engagement with narratives of hostility
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October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"America has NEVER been antifascist. It has always been a fascist nation. And the merch I’m seeing floating around is just another example of white liberal politics, because one thing y’all will do is make merch before you make a plan.”

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The Original Antifa?
Decentering Whiteness in America’s Fascist Mythmaking
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October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I just watched a documentary on BBC Select and had to write a blog post about one particular image that we're introduced to in the piece.

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A Soldier Disappears at the Somme
What does this tell us about conflict imagery?
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October 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Watching an excellent documentary on a soldier's photography from the western front during WWI. This young man was such a master of his craft. Such compelling images.

How's your Saturday going? Drop a comment and let me know!
October 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Another must-read from the desk of @thejauntycrow.bsky.social!
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The Visual and Rhetorical Cruelty of Trump's Immigration Policy
President Donald Trump’s immigration policies thrive on spectacle, both in public statements and in imagery—and that imagery is the visual language of cruelty.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Check out @aaronmauro.bsky.social's lecture, "AI, Security, and the Future of Education," delivered as part of Brock's Homecoming events! #brocku #AI #cybersecurity #edtech
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AI & Cybersecurity with Dr. Mauro
YouTube video by Brock University
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September 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Cold-applying for jobs is tough, especially those automated rejection emails.
#xenosaga

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Out of context Xenosaga
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September 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM