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Jelena Radovic-Fanta
@jradovicfanta.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, educator, ethnographer | gender, labor, first gen college experiences, migration, América Latina, Chile | Antropóloga que estudia género, el trabajo y procesos migratorios
Associate prof @ Governors State University
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jradovicfanta.bsky.social
Entre medio la censura, el facismo y genocidio, se me van los días observando estas hermosas cuncunas. Ya salió la primera mariposa ayer
#swallowtail #papiliopolyxenes #cuncuna #butterfly
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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octoberk.bsky.social
the feeling of powerlessness combined with the craven, evil behavior i'm witnessing -- ppl destroying food for Gazans, blocking them from speech now of all times -- is really making it hard to keep going, honestly.
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Jul 22
Bluesky just suspended Alaa AGAIN, accusing her of being a "fake account."

SHE IS NOT FAKE.

Hey @support.bsky.team @bsky.app maybe you can explain to me why Jesse Singal is welcome on this platform but a mom in Gaza isn't.
July 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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zeteo.com
SCOOP: After weeks of murkiness about who is funding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, sources reveal top Trump officials are *forcing* USAID to send up to $210 million to GHF.

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's article:
zeteo.com/p/scoop-usai...
SCOOP: USAID Being 'Forced' to Award Millions to Disastrous Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
GHF’s ‘initial’ funding request for $30 million in June comes as Israeli forces continue to kill scores of Palestinians at or near the aid sites.
zeteo.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
Lovely not-surprising surprise when we log on to write.
#friendswhowritetogetherstaytogether #palestino
octoberk.bsky.social october krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · Jun 19
expand the image to see what happens when you log on for the best writing group ever!
two smiling people on a zoom call both wearing Club Palestino football jerseys
June 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
Gracias totales #SLACA2025! Excelentes investigaciones y ponencias, compañerismo antropológico, conversas, risas y calidez panameña. Justo lo que se necesita estos días.
#antropologia #latinoamerica #caribe #anthropology #socialsciences #research #panama #museodelcanal
March 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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claudistics.bsky.social
excellent timing for a new publication to come out in #AJBA! 🧪 proud to be a co-author on this! @awutich.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @cvansickle.bsky.social @awrgenes.bsky.social @ethnoprimate.bsky.social @jradovicfanta.bsky.social @kstsosie.bsky.social et al.!
“Rigorous and Systematic Qualitative Data Analysis in Biological Anthropology”
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March 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
there’s this very american idea that everything we do to fight facism must be “productive” and “results-driven” in order for it to be meaningful as if the act of calling out injustice is not worthwhile on its own.
March 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
“We sing because we must… like the robin, we sometimes sing to show how strong we are, and we sometimes sing in hope of better times. We sing either way.”

por eso sigo cantando
#singing #choir #canto #wintering #rest #descanso
Page 228 of “Wintering: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times” by Katherine May (2020). About singing and the power of song. Hard cover of book “Wintering: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times” by Katherine May. Peach/salmon colored cover with a white leaf in the background and white dots. Laying on a wooden table.
March 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
so important. great volunteer opportunity
octoberk.bsky.social october krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · Feb 28
great opportunity to get involved for someone who has lots of committed computer time
edrabinski.bsky.social Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · Feb 28
Invisible Histories is looking for volunteers who can assist with documenting and preserving information from DEIA offices that have been closed or are facing closure. Read more and sign up here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
Starting the semester con frío, nieve y mucho ánimo.
#highered #chicagoland #academicsky
Photograph showing snowy landscape at a small college campus. Snow covered walkways, earth, benches, and frozen lake. The sun is setting and trees are bare against the blue sky.
January 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Recently I missed a couple of weeks of posting my photos here due to really bad mental health but I hope to make up for that.
I design my photos using recent research into the shift in brain activity from fight/flight to rest &relaxation triggered by looking at plants/at something we find beautiful.
An arrangement of spring flowers in various old ink & poison bottles & a tiny old jam jar, including primulas, cowslip, forget me not, anemone blanda, cow parsley leaves, pulmonary, daisies & saxifrage.
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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ferrisjabr.bsky.social
In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages
A photo of groundcherries (Alkekengi) in a garden in winter. The round, orange, cherry tomato-like fruits are suspended in the center of pendulous, vaguely heart-shaped husks made of networks of dried beige veins. The husks have a delicate, skeletal, lattice-like structure, reminiscent of laser-cut papercraft.
January 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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laprofelgp.bsky.social
Mutual aid, sanctuary spaces, sharing pantries, freedom schools, reading collectives, childcare collectives, shared gardens. Just a few ideas of how we keep us safe. We don’t have to give up. But we need to commune. Peace in the struggle. Joy in the fight.
December 4, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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laprofelgp.bsky.social
Ok. Then let’s vote that in though.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
One after another, the billionaire media and social media bosses - Bezos, Zuckerberg, Soon-Shiong, Benioff - bend the knee to Trump. No wonder Trump himself is bragging about having "tamed" the US media. For once, he's not lying.
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · Dec 13
This is nauseating.
#lapdog
Marc Benioff plugging the new issue of Time congratulating and fawning over Trump to a nauseating degree
December 13, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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tbfreelance.bsky.social
Some migrant laborers I've photographed picking crops in CA and living in canyons to avoid detection. Brutal work.

Experts have made it clear that mass deportations as promised will not only destroy lives, but cripple corporate and small agriculture and drive food inflation. #immigration
December 12, 2024 at 2:02 AM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
Hermoso
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Dec 9
Unseasonal I know👇🏼🌿, but we recover from a source of stress 60% more quickly if we’ve looked at plant specimens beforehand. Take a 30 seconds to zoom in & look at the details my photo-it really will make your brain more resilient to the tricky stuff Monday may have in store:
A variety of brightly coloured flowers from my garden in May 2019, arranged on a chopped black enamel background
December 9, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
Since immigrants (and their children) are a frequent topic of discussion, I thought I'd remind folks that the U.S. National Academies studied the effects of immigration on the U.S. and published a free report. Here's one finding that stands out to me. 1/4
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2355...
Beyond wage and employment considerations, policy makers and the general public are interested in the impact that an expanding population, and immigration in particular, has on public finances and the sustainability of government programs. All population subgroups contribute to government finances by paying taxes and add to expenditures by consuming public services—but the levels differ. On average, individuals in the first generation are more costly to governments, mainly at the state and local levels, than are the native-born generations; however, immigrants’ children—the second generation—are among the strongest economic and fiscal contributors in the population. Estimates of the long-run fiscal impact of immigrants and their descendants would likely be more positive if their role in sustaining labor force growth and contributing to innovation and entrepreneurial activity were taken into account.
December 7, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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miriamposner.com
Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.
laurenginsberg.bsky.social Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · Dec 5
Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization:

eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
eattherichtextformat.github.io
December 7, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
55 Years Ago Today, Police Murdered Fred Hampton. His Activism Lives On. truthout.org/articles/50-...
50 Years Ago Today, Police Murdered Fred Hampton. His Activism Lives On.
Civil rights attorney Flint Taylor discusses the past and present fight against Chicago’s systemic racist policing.
truthout.org
December 4, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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swankyanniek.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/small-n...
Poem by Ross Gay A Small Needful Fact Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow, continue to do what such plants do, like house and feed small and necessary creatures, like being pleasant to touch and smell, like converting sunlight into food, like making it easier for us to breathe.
December 3, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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dgpnanomedlab.bsky.social
I curated a list of really smart scientists (and me) of Latin American and/or Hispanic background to follow… Still trying to figure out Bsky, so I apologize if there’s already one going around. Please help spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added.

go.bsky.app/ReQgt2H
December 3, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Proud to be defending our title as “Best independent book publisher” in the Chicago Reader’s annual “Best of Chicago” poll. Go vote! bestof.chicagoreader.com/arts-and-cul...
A list of candidates for the Best Independent book publishers: Haymarket Books, Half Letter Press, Long Day Press, Northwestern University Press, Okpara House, Rose Metal Press, and Tortoise Books
December 3, 2024 at 2:54 AM
jradovicfanta.bsky.social
I highly recommend the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute. I attended 2 years ago, a fantastic experience of learning, community, and growth. They have one for doctoral students and another for early career faculty.
#qualitativemethods #intersectionality #research #highered
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December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM