Emile Dirks
@emiledirks.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate at The Citizen Lab. Researching policing & authoritarianism in China and beyond.
On Orange Shirt Day, I want to share a painting by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, "Indian Residential School, Leaving the Shallow Graves and Going Home."
As Yuxweluptun has said, "This country has to carry the burden of what it did to us, as a nation. It has to be accountable for what it did."
As Yuxweluptun has said, "This country has to carry the burden of what it did to us, as a nation. It has to be accountable for what it did."
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
On Orange Shirt Day, I want to share a painting by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, "Indian Residential School, Leaving the Shallow Graves and Going Home."
As Yuxweluptun has said, "This country has to carry the burden of what it did to us, as a nation. It has to be accountable for what it did."
As Yuxweluptun has said, "This country has to carry the burden of what it did to us, as a nation. It has to be accountable for what it did."
Re-reading 民主的细节/Details of Democracy (2009) by Liu Yu, a Chinese liberals account of the Bush-era. Covering everything from Guantanamo to healthcare to Jerry Springer, it's an optimistic book, full of faith in US institutions & civil society. It's hard to imagine her writing the same book today.
March 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Re-reading 民主的细节/Details of Democracy (2009) by Liu Yu, a Chinese liberals account of the Bush-era. Covering everything from Guantanamo to healthcare to Jerry Springer, it's an optimistic book, full of faith in US institutions & civil society. It's hard to imagine her writing the same book today.