Dafna Rachok
@dafnushka.bsky.social
Assistant Prof UNC | medical anthropologist: global health, bureaucracies, humanitarianism | geek & sci fi fan 🖖 | 🦮 parent | a 🇺🇦 in 🇺🇸
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Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist.
🧵 1/4 ⬇️
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If you are a junior scholar and have recently published a paper or a book chapter on any aspect of postsocialism (broadly defined), submit your paper for the Sonja Luerhmann Article Prize soyuz.americananthro.org/article-prize/ ! We’re looking for good papers to give prizes to ☺️
Sonja Luehrmann Article Prize – Soyuz
soyuz.americananthro.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If you are a junior scholar and have recently published a paper or a book chapter on any aspect of postsocialism (broadly defined), submit your paper for the Sonja Luerhmann Article Prize soyuz.americananthro.org/article-prize/ ! We’re looking for good papers to give prizes to ☺️
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We are so pleased to share n important essay by @dafnushka.bsky.social regardin the Russian occupation of Ukraine in the first issue of MAQ’s online publicaetion Critical Care:
medanthro.net/critical-car... Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor – Society for Medical Anthropology
medanthro.net/critical-car... Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor – Society for Medical Anthropology
Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor – Society for Medical Anthropology
medanthro.net
June 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We are so pleased to share n important essay by @dafnushka.bsky.social regardin the Russian occupation of Ukraine in the first issue of MAQ’s online publicaetion Critical Care:
medanthro.net/critical-car... Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor – Society for Medical Anthropology
medanthro.net/critical-car... Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor – Society for Medical Anthropology
My short piece about vulnerability and care during the invasion of Ukraine is out!
Huge thanks to the MAQ team and especially to Jess Robbins-Panko medanthro.net/critical-car...
Huge thanks to the MAQ team and especially to Jess Robbins-Panko medanthro.net/critical-car...
May 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My short piece about vulnerability and care during the invasion of Ukraine is out!
Huge thanks to the MAQ team and especially to Jess Robbins-Panko medanthro.net/critical-car...
Huge thanks to the MAQ team and especially to Jess Robbins-Panko medanthro.net/critical-car...
She loves stretching on my yoga mat! It’s as if she’s telling me “this is what a proper downward facing dog looks like, you clumsy human”
January 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
She loves stretching on my yoga mat! It’s as if she’s telling me “this is what a proper downward facing dog looks like, you clumsy human”
We had a little snow in Durham, NC and the city went dead because apparently even a whiff of snow equals apocalypse in the US south
January 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We had a little snow in Durham, NC and the city went dead because apparently even a whiff of snow equals apocalypse in the US south
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why yes i do need all these adjectives and adverbs. they’re there to emotionally support my argument.
January 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
why yes i do need all these adjectives and adverbs. they’re there to emotionally support my argument.
Here’s my reading list for the winter break 😊 I’ll try to read as many as I can but I tend to overplan, so I’m also cognizant that it’s a lot of books and it’s okay to not finish all of them before Jan 6. Still, I am super excited to have a cozy and reading-intense holidays
December 15, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Here’s my reading list for the winter break 😊 I’ll try to read as many as I can but I tend to overplan, so I’m also cognizant that it’s a lot of books and it’s okay to not finish all of them before Jan 6. Still, I am super excited to have a cozy and reading-intense holidays
Unexpectedly there is a decent article in today’s @nytimes.com about the executed renaissance and how Russia continues to destroy Ukrainian culture in the ongoing war (link in the next comment)
December 4, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Unexpectedly there is a decent article in today’s @nytimes.com about the executed renaissance and how Russia continues to destroy Ukrainian culture in the ongoing war (link in the next comment)
This Wednesday, 12/4, I am back in Boston, presenting some ideas of mine at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. I will talk about how imperial ambitions sometimes disguise themselves as care about the vulnerable and humanitarianism
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM
This Wednesday, 12/4, I am back in Boston, presenting some ideas of mine at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. I will talk about how imperial ambitions sometimes disguise themselves as care about the vulnerable and humanitarianism
This Thursday (Nov 28), we’re having a virtual book presentation, exploring feminist perspectives on russia’s war on Ukraine
👉 Register now (a link to join the discussion will be sent upon registration): bit.ly/4fWz9zp
👉 Register now (a link to join the discussion will be sent upon registration): bit.ly/4fWz9zp
November 26, 2024 at 5:30 PM
This Thursday (Nov 28), we’re having a virtual book presentation, exploring feminist perspectives on russia’s war on Ukraine
👉 Register now (a link to join the discussion will be sent upon registration): bit.ly/4fWz9zp
👉 Register now (a link to join the discussion will be sent upon registration): bit.ly/4fWz9zp
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Thank you, Dafna, for the endorsement! We had a great book panel at #ASEEES24. Anyone interested in purchasing the book, 30% discount code (PSH30) is in my pinned post on the other platform.
November 25, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Thank you, Dafna, for the endorsement! We had a great book panel at #ASEEES24. Anyone interested in purchasing the book, 30% discount code (PSH30) is in my pinned post on the other platform.
Brought this book from #ASEEES24. And it is amazing. I’ve been reading it on the plane, in the dog park, every spare second I get. A huge thanks to @popovaprof.bsky.social and @oxanashevel.bsky.social for writing such a timely, thoughtful, and easy to read book!
November 25, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Brought this book from #ASEEES24. And it is amazing. I’ve been reading it on the plane, in the dog park, every spare second I get. A huge thanks to @popovaprof.bsky.social and @oxanashevel.bsky.social for writing such a timely, thoughtful, and easy to read book!
This Friday at #ASEEES I’ll be my usual grumpy self talking about feminist and anti-authoritarian initiatives in Ukraine during war and whether “liberation” even means anything now. I don’t promise to be very articulate, but I do have some thoughts and I’ll be in a good company
November 20, 2024 at 5:58 PM
This Friday at #ASEEES I’ll be my usual grumpy self talking about feminist and anti-authoritarian initiatives in Ukraine during war and whether “liberation” even means anything now. I don’t promise to be very articulate, but I do have some thoughts and I’ll be in a good company
My dog was posing for a picture this morning. She makes a great model
November 12, 2024 at 1:53 PM
My dog was posing for a picture this morning. She makes a great model
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To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁
A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health!
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health!
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
If you had to read one book on global health...
If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 400 books generated by this question on Twitter!
communities.springernature.com
November 11, 2024 at 9:42 PM
To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁
A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health!
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health!
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
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Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
November 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
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Here's a start at a Starter Pack for #medanthro, broadly defined. Some of these folks might not call themselves medical anthropologists, but if they study health, healing systems, or human biology in context, I've included them. Let me know who else should be added to the list.
#anthrosky
#anthrosky
September 19, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Here's a start at a Starter Pack for #medanthro, broadly defined. Some of these folks might not call themselves medical anthropologists, but if they study health, healing systems, or human biology in context, I've included them. Let me know who else should be added to the list.
#anthrosky
#anthrosky
I did smth super uncharacteristic yesterday: took a mental health day and went to Charlotte (NC) for a day to just get lost in a new city and take my mind off things
November 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I did smth super uncharacteristic yesterday: took a mental health day and went to Charlotte (NC) for a day to just get lost in a new city and take my mind off things
What do y’all think?
“It’s clear that bringing Ukraine into Nato might take years, but in the meantime, European countries should consider deploying troops to Ukraine as a security guarantee for this interim period”
“It’s clear that bringing Ukraine into Nato might take years, but in the meantime, European countries should consider deploying troops to Ukraine as a security guarantee for this interim period”
November 8, 2024 at 7:56 PM
What do y’all think?
“It’s clear that bringing Ukraine into Nato might take years, but in the meantime, European countries should consider deploying troops to Ukraine as a security guarantee for this interim period”
“It’s clear that bringing Ukraine into Nato might take years, but in the meantime, European countries should consider deploying troops to Ukraine as a security guarantee for this interim period”
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just because there were zero consequences for russians bombing kids cancer hospital in Kyiv, today they bombed a cancer hospital in Zaporizhzhia, burning alive both doctors and cancer patients. are Ukrainian lives that dispensable?
November 7, 2024 at 3:53 PM
just because there were zero consequences for russians bombing kids cancer hospital in Kyiv, today they bombed a cancer hospital in Zaporizhzhia, burning alive both doctors and cancer patients. are Ukrainian lives that dispensable?
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Although some are giving up.
Ukrainians do not have that luxury.
Ukraine fights on.
& if you haven’t understood it yet, Ukrainians won’t give up or give in.
(Neither should you!)
Ukrainians do not have that luxury.
Ukraine fights on.
& if you haven’t understood it yet, Ukrainians won’t give up or give in.
(Neither should you!)
November 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Although some are giving up.
Ukrainians do not have that luxury.
Ukraine fights on.
& if you haven’t understood it yet, Ukrainians won’t give up or give in.
(Neither should you!)
Ukrainians do not have that luxury.
Ukraine fights on.
& if you haven’t understood it yet, Ukrainians won’t give up or give in.
(Neither should you!)
Coming here from Twitter feels like moving to a new city as a child and having to go to new school and make all new friends all over again
December 29, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Coming here from Twitter feels like moving to a new city as a child and having to go to new school and make all new friends all over again