Agata Izabela Brewer
@agatabrewer.bsky.social
author The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland (winner Gournay Prize and BWR Creative Nonfiction Prize); Empire and Pilgrimage; editor Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad; coeditor Asymmetries: South Africa, Ireland, and Postcolonial Comparison
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed.”
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed.”
Y’all, celebrate this new book with me on Monday, September 29, noon, at Wabash College’s Lilly Library! We’ll feed you!
September 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Y’all, celebrate this new book with me on Monday, September 29, noon, at Wabash College’s Lilly Library! We’ll feed you!
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Woooohooo! Today is the official publication date of my new book! Order it for your library!
June 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Woooohooo! Today is the official publication date of my new book! Order it for your library!
So much fun talking to Rima and Hallie about writing!
On writing in between academic and creative nonfiction genres, an interview with Agatha Brewer, the author of the award winning
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland and
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
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writewhatyoulike.substack.com/p/interview-...
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland and
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
@agatabrewer.bsky.social
writewhatyoulike.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with Agata Szczeszak-Brewer
I'm going to write what I like
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June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So much fun talking to Rima and Hallie about writing!
Woooohooo! Today is the official publication date of my new book! Order it for your library!
June 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Woooohooo! Today is the official publication date of my new book! Order it for your library!
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A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
March 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
You may have publications listed on your grant proposal, but do you have PUBICATIONS? I do! Follow me for more tips on how to ensure you don’t get the fellowship you desperately need.
March 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
You may have publications listed on your grant proposal, but do you have PUBICATIONS? I do! Follow me for more tips on how to ensure you don’t get the fellowship you desperately need.
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Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...
DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...
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Imagine thinking the most disrespectful thing in that office is the guy not wearing a suit, rather than, y'know, the rapist.
February 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Imagine thinking the most disrespectful thing in that office is the guy not wearing a suit, rather than, y'know, the rapist.
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The remains of a missing Native American girl were found in the woods near Globe, Arizona. I want this to get as much exposure and out cry as Gaby Petito did. She was only 14. A baby. Our people deserve better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The remains of a missing Native American girl were found in the woods near Globe, Arizona. I want this to get as much exposure and out cry as Gaby Petito did. She was only 14. A baby. Our people deserve better.
I wrote for @msmagazine.com about the anti-trans Executive Order and the value of studying gender and the Liberal Arts.
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What My All-Male Students Could Teach the President About Sex and Empathy
I teach gender studies at Wabash, an all-male college. Our elective introductory course is always waitlisted. The students, mostly from the Midwest where sex ed is virtually nonexistent in public scho...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I wrote for @msmagazine.com about the anti-trans Executive Order and the value of studying gender and the Liberal Arts.
msmagazine.com/2025/02/24/w...
msmagazine.com/2025/02/24/w...
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Enough with the rationalizations and excuses: the Nazi salute is not a troll, and it is not an accident.
The neo-Nazi movement is alive and well, and some of the most powerful people in our country have now actively embraced it.
The neo-Nazi movement is alive and well, and some of the most powerful people in our country have now actively embraced it.
February 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Enough with the rationalizations and excuses: the Nazi salute is not a troll, and it is not an accident.
The neo-Nazi movement is alive and well, and some of the most powerful people in our country have now actively embraced it.
The neo-Nazi movement is alive and well, and some of the most powerful people in our country have now actively embraced it.
It’s hard to go on with our daily lives as if the U.S. were not rushing toward dictatorship and fascism, as if global instability as a result of Trump’s echoing Putin’s propaganda were not to escalate, as if genocide were not happening across the pond, supported by taxpayer money.
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It’s hard to go on with our daily lives as if the U.S. were not rushing toward dictatorship and fascism, as if global instability as a result of Trump’s echoing Putin’s propaganda were not to escalate, as if genocide were not happening across the pond, supported by taxpayer money.
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If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this.
REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
www.justice.gov
February 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this.
REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
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Payday's "Day Without Immigrants" Strike Tracker found strikes in 120 cities & at least 40 states on Monday.
While tens of thousands of workers of immigrant workers participated, neither the NYT, WashPost nor the big TV networks covered it.
paydayreport.com/map-day-with...
While tens of thousands of workers of immigrant workers participated, neither the NYT, WashPost nor the big TV networks covered it.
paydayreport.com/map-day-with...
MAP: "Day Without Immigrants" Strikes in 120 Cities & 40 States
PITTSBURGH, PA. - On Monday, February 3rd, "Day Without Immigrants" strikes were held in at least 120 cities, 40 states, and Puerto Rico, according to strike tracking analysis by Payday Report. This a...
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February 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Payday's "Day Without Immigrants" Strike Tracker found strikes in 120 cities & at least 40 states on Monday.
While tens of thousands of workers of immigrant workers participated, neither the NYT, WashPost nor the big TV networks covered it.
paydayreport.com/map-day-with...
While tens of thousands of workers of immigrant workers participated, neither the NYT, WashPost nor the big TV networks covered it.
paydayreport.com/map-day-with...
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
Friends who are immigrants in the US and can safely strike, here’s the info. I am joining in.
January 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Friends who are immigrants in the US and can safely strike, here’s the info. I am joining in.
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Hey Bluesky, we're Hey Jane 👋 We're the leading virtual abortion clinic in the US, and we're excited to get to share info, insights, and updates with you here. We've faced censorship on other platforms, so we're hopeful that we'll find a supportive community here that will help to amplify our work.
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Hey Jane’s telehealth clinic offers safe, affordable, and convenient reproductive & sexual health care. Get abortion pills, vaginal infection treatments, & birth control delivered fast.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hey Bluesky, we're Hey Jane 👋 We're the leading virtual abortion clinic in the US, and we're excited to get to share info, insights, and updates with you here. We've faced censorship on other platforms, so we're hopeful that we'll find a supportive community here that will help to amplify our work.
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The opposite of diversity is segregation.
The opposite of equity is hoarding resources.
The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.
We need to name that these are segregationists who are excluding to hoard resources.
The opposite of equity is hoarding resources.
The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.
We need to name that these are segregationists who are excluding to hoard resources.
One of the real problems is that too many people conveniently believe the opposite of diversity is merit, and the opposite of inclusion is high standards.
Yeah, that’s just not the case.
(See: Pete Hegseth among countless others.)
Yeah, that’s just not the case.
(See: Pete Hegseth among countless others.)
January 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The opposite of diversity is segregation.
The opposite of equity is hoarding resources.
The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.
We need to name that these are segregationists who are excluding to hoard resources.
The opposite of equity is hoarding resources.
The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.
We need to name that these are segregationists who are excluding to hoard resources.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.