Barbara
@behalla63.bsky.social
PhD student work on French and Italian feminist theory, women's writing, and literary criticism.
I don't know what it is about Anne Carson, but she has this way of writing poetry/sentences that make me want to cry. The latest, from "H of H Playbook":
"I'm not saying move back towards life, I'm saying the future isn't elsewhere."
"I'm not saying move back towards life, I'm saying the future isn't elsewhere."
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I don't know what it is about Anne Carson, but she has this way of writing poetry/sentences that make me want to cry. The latest, from "H of H Playbook":
"I'm not saying move back towards life, I'm saying the future isn't elsewhere."
"I'm not saying move back towards life, I'm saying the future isn't elsewhere."
I will get be over the guy in front of me at the Cowboy Carter tour who spent the entirety of the show watching the Nicks game while his wife danced next to him 🥲
May 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I will get be over the guy in front of me at the Cowboy Carter tour who spent the entirety of the show watching the Nicks game while his wife danced next to him 🥲
When your academic twin knows you all too well and gives you the best (early) birthday gifts to keep you from losing your marbles during exam season @bofosusomuah.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When your academic twin knows you all too well and gives you the best (early) birthday gifts to keep you from losing your marbles during exam season @bofosusomuah.bsky.social
There has got to be a direct line between forcing high school students to found initiatives (non profits to help send food to "third world countries" etc) and all these single-uses business I see popping up on Instagram ads (cold brew, slime, overnight oats)
February 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There has got to be a direct line between forcing high school students to found initiatives (non profits to help send food to "third world countries" etc) and all these single-uses business I see popping up on Instagram ads (cold brew, slime, overnight oats)
Being on a college campus is so funny cause you can see TikTok (or social media in general) change consumer habits in real time. When I got here two years ago, everyone had a Stanley which are now being transformed into Owalas.
February 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Being on a college campus is so funny cause you can see TikTok (or social media in general) change consumer habits in real time. When I got here two years ago, everyone had a Stanley which are now being transformed into Owalas.
"All these books and not a single snack for me" - Jonah, probably
January 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"All these books and not a single snack for me" - Jonah, probably
Went to a free screening of Blue Velvet but then @bofosusomuah.bsky.social had to rescue me because it started snowing out of the blue and I got stranded.
January 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Went to a free screening of Blue Velvet but then @bofosusomuah.bsky.social had to rescue me because it started snowing out of the blue and I got stranded.
For a special issue of Full Stop on "Postcolonial Cities," I have an essay about growing up in Tirana and seeing the city of my childhood disappear because of an unfettered construction boom - and the literature that helped me make sense of it all.
January 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For a special issue of Full Stop on "Postcolonial Cities," I have an essay about growing up in Tirana and seeing the city of my childhood disappear because of an unfettered construction boom - and the literature that helped me make sense of it all.
Found out about a summer fellowship decision right as I was passing my favorite bookstore, so I had to celebrate. I will say that buying two hardbacks is not easy on a grad student's wallet, but everything to support the profession
January 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Found out about a summer fellowship decision right as I was passing my favorite bookstore, so I had to celebrate. I will say that buying two hardbacks is not easy on a grad student's wallet, but everything to support the profession
Had the first Fed fries + bemoaning session of the year/semester with @bofosusomuah.bsky.social. We are officially back!
January 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Had the first Fed fries + bemoaning session of the year/semester with @bofosusomuah.bsky.social. We are officially back!
I have a friend who runs a shelter in Albania and I helped her bring a blind dog to the US where she will have a forever family. I have known this dog for 24 hours and I cried when I said goodbye at JFK. Never beating the Pisces allegations.
January 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I have a friend who runs a shelter in Albania and I helped her bring a blind dog to the US where she will have a forever family. I have known this dog for 24 hours and I cried when I said goodbye at JFK. Never beating the Pisces allegations.
The way air travel has become such a lottery even with supposedly respectable airlines. I don't even travel that often but over the past three years I have had four inter-continental flights cancelled out of the blue, and on one occasion Turkish refused to rebook me.
January 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The way air travel has become such a lottery even with supposedly respectable airlines. I don't even travel that often but over the past three years I have had four inter-continental flights cancelled out of the blue, and on one occasion Turkish refused to rebook me.
I have been obsessed with The Leftovers for years and I cannot believe this exists. Will be reading every single essay.
🚨 NEW CLUSTER 🚨
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
After The Leftovers - Post45
There are two different kinds of leftovers, two different problems they represent. The first problem is long division, which teaches us to let the leftovers be. The leftovers of division are excess qu...
post45.org
January 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have been obsessed with The Leftovers for years and I cannot believe this exists. Will be reading every single essay.
Favorite part about starting a new year: new Hobonichi planner to set up.
January 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Favorite part about starting a new year: new Hobonichi planner to set up.
Long shot but I have a travel-related question. Anyone traveled with Austrian and done a layover in Vienna where they needed to check out a dog and then check in again? (Because layover is too long)
December 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Long shot but I have a travel-related question. Anyone traveled with Austrian and done a layover in Vienna where they needed to check out a dog and then check in again? (Because layover is too long)
Stealing this from my Twitter account but the three best books I read (or re-read) this year
December 24, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Stealing this from my Twitter account but the three best books I read (or re-read) this year
"This is a central problem...with liberal historiography of the Troubles: the failure to reckon with the reality of state violence, and the implicit insistence that the state has a more legitimate right to kill than a paramilitary." thebaffler.com/latest/codes...
Codes of Silence | Jack Sheehan
Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling 2019 book “Say Nothing” has been adapted into a miniseries. It repeats the sins of its source material.
thebaffler.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:02 PM
"This is a central problem...with liberal historiography of the Troubles: the failure to reckon with the reality of state violence, and the implicit insistence that the state has a more legitimate right to kill than a paramilitary." thebaffler.com/latest/codes...
Been doing some freelance editing work in the UK (not in the humanities) and I'm sorry but who teaches British people to write so much in the passive voice? Maybe I've become too Americanized, but it's such a grating reading experience.
December 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Been doing some freelance editing work in the UK (not in the humanities) and I'm sorry but who teaches British people to write so much in the passive voice? Maybe I've become too Americanized, but it's such a grating reading experience.
International flight home got cancelled. Booked a new one which got delayed multiple times. Took me 24 hours to get home, and immediately got sick. Happy holidays to me! But least, I did get approved for an early copy of Madeleine Thien's new book 🤷♀️
December 17, 2024 at 2:26 PM
International flight home got cancelled. Booked a new one which got delayed multiple times. Took me 24 hours to get home, and immediately got sick. Happy holidays to me! But least, I did get approved for an early copy of Madeleine Thien's new book 🤷♀️
Had a good Saturday: Met this beautiful sheep disguised as a dog and my @sublunary.bsky.social purchases arrived!
November 30, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Had a good Saturday: Met this beautiful sheep disguised as a dog and my @sublunary.bsky.social purchases arrived!
Exam readings: piling up.
Writing: not done.
How I spent my evening: finally binge reading "Say Nothing." I guess you were all right, it's fantastic.
Writing: not done.
How I spent my evening: finally binge reading "Say Nothing." I guess you were all right, it's fantastic.
November 20, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Exam readings: piling up.
Writing: not done.
How I spent my evening: finally binge reading "Say Nothing." I guess you were all right, it's fantastic.
Writing: not done.
How I spent my evening: finally binge reading "Say Nothing." I guess you were all right, it's fantastic.
It's the most wonderful time of the year: binge watching all the Thanksgiving prep content from my favorite food channels on YouTube
November 19, 2024 at 7:44 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: binge watching all the Thanksgiving prep content from my favorite food channels on YouTube
Reposted by Barbara
I have re-read Elisa Gonzalez's "After my brother's death, I reflect on the Iliad" multiple times and it still hits me very hard.
"Homer’s similes, I’ve been told, are holes cut in the cloth between the world of war
and another, more peaceful world."
"Homer’s similes, I’ve been told, are holes cut in the cloth between the world of war
and another, more peaceful world."
“After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad”
“In my ear Priam repeats, I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.”
www.newyorker.com
August 5, 2023 at 5:35 PM
I have re-read Elisa Gonzalez's "After my brother's death, I reflect on the Iliad" multiple times and it still hits me very hard.
"Homer’s similes, I’ve been told, are holes cut in the cloth between the world of war
and another, more peaceful world."
"Homer’s similes, I’ve been told, are holes cut in the cloth between the world of war
and another, more peaceful world."
Why does the London Review of Books assign its film criticism to a writer who can't rise above summary? I was reading their review of Anora and I recognized the author immediately because the writing style was just as bad as their review of La Chimera. Both movies deserved so much better
November 17, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Why does the London Review of Books assign its film criticism to a writer who can't rise above summary? I was reading their review of Anora and I recognized the author immediately because the writing style was just as bad as their review of La Chimera. Both movies deserved so much better
She received appropriate compensation for the humiliation I put her through
November 16, 2024 at 11:34 PM
She received appropriate compensation for the humiliation I put her through