Laura Mason
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Laura Mason
@lm8son.bsky.social
History & critical film studies (France). Author of The Last Revolutionaries; editor of Imaginaries. Flaneuse. Speaking only for myself.
Yes! Tell them you'll break for pizza halfway through. They won't think about Bollywood, cricket, or colonial tax collection in the same way again. (To say nothing of encouraging them to think in many interesting ways about how to "write" imperial lives)
August 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Apparently AI will also save us from proper syntax. Shouldn't that last sentence be: "Because when everyone does, no one does"?
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
docs.google.com/document/d/1....
Addresses the sacking, if not the police funding
Columbia Boycott
docs.google.com
April 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Marking Passover by creating new plagues.
April 22, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I would argue that women of color are bearing a disproportionate burden. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/h...
The Times has run a number of stories over the past year about declining resources & maternal mortality among Black mothers.
October 3, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Sounds like the makings of a great assignment-- what would a not-depressing (happy? hopeful? uplifting?)-- history look like? Can the student write one? It's a great way to investigate the relationship between evidence and opinion.
September 17, 2023 at 2:06 PM