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rpanchasi.bsky.social
roxanne panchasi
@rpanchasi.bsky.social
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assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france/empire/culture; nuclear weapons & power; world endings; founding host-new books in french studies; co-editor-journal of the WSFH; brown; settler; NOT my employer
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when it’s december in vancouver and it’s not raining or grey when you look out your office window you just know the goddesses are smiling down on you before telling you to get your shit together & write already

#acadecawriteathon
View of traffic, roads downtown Vancouver on a sunny day in December with mountains in the background and a few clouds, but blue sky above.
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
rudy‘s all bro can i join in any reindeer games pull yer sleigh & whatnot
A man dressed as Santa walking on the sidewalk with Frenchton in a leash behind him in a red jacket. Red car parked on the street to the left, grass on either side of the sidewalk.
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
ok but ngl this is my new favourite meme
Still from the film After the Hunt. Scene with Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri in a kitchen. Ayo’s character says (shown in white subtitles at the bottom of the screen) “And what if I don’t care to be a career academic?”
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
writing something re: a campus novel so thought it would be a good idea to watch AFTER THE HUNT & omgggg noooope whyyyyyyy
Poster for the 2025 film AFTER THE HUNT. Images of main characters cropped as shards and collaged together against an off-white background.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
free libraries rule
A hand holding a copy of The Phil Collins Story by Johnny Waller in front of a small blue free library shelf. Other music bios and books on a shelf behind and autumn leaves below.
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
fyi everyone on my xmas list is getting a jellycat angel of history this year
A beige Jellycat stuffed toy in the shape of a piece of ginger that kind of resembles the Paul Klee painting "Angelus Novus" (branches off to the sides like wings) and has little brown corduroy legs and feet.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior."

Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.

doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Screenshot of a French History journal webpage for the article "On ne peut pas couler un arc-en-ciel: the Rainbow Warrior bombing at forty," by Roxanne Panchasi. Black text on a white background with links and a blue banner up top.
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
don’t be hard on yourself if you can’t find the dog in this photo the camouflage is pretty next-level
A black and white dog lying between the legs of a person wearing black and white sweatpants and black socks on a grey sofa.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
merci montréal for your rad streets, murals, sandwiches & solidarity with palestine

♥️👋🏽

#NoPlaceLikeHome
A Montreal side street on a sunny November day. A mural in Montreal on the side of a building depicting Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People”. Another to the right of a baguette. An arm outstretched holding an open wrapper with a smoked meat sandwich on rye inside. A black car driving east on Sherbrooke street in Montreal with a Palestinian flag on the hood of their car and two others flying from windows on either side.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Fantastic evening event + journée de travail hosted by @skmiles.bsky.social at UQAM this weekend on the theme « Mort et Militantisme ». Wonderful group of scholars doing fascinating research. It was a real delight and privilege to be involved!
Panel of fours speakers seated behind a conference table in front of a screen. Speaker standing at a podium next to a screen showing presentation slide with a few audience members seated around them. Speaker standing at a podium with a screen to their right showing slides. Speaker ar a podium with two other seated panelists and a screen with colourful images of political/memorial posters in a screen behind.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
home sweet home
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BIENVENUE À/WELCOME TO MONTRÉAL sign in arrival/baggage area of airport. White text again a red background with baggage conveyor belt below.
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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@parisnoire.bsky.social
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Photo of the back of an airplane seat with a screen showing the poster image for the film Megan 2.0 (creepy girl robot with long hair and a pink top against a blue illuminated background)
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
why does the illustration on the first page of my institution’s new “AI strategy” look like a cross section of a nuclear weapon oh wait i know this one
A grey, white, orange and red diagram outlining a university’s “AI strategy” as a series of concentric circles from the school’s core values out to various levels of planning. A grey, white and black diagram of the cross section of a nuclear weapon from its radioactive core to its various layers of liners and other materials
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
last night @writersfest.bc.ca gord hill told me to smash fascism and i said ok
Signed inside front page (with black text on a white background)of the Gord Hill book The Antifa Comic Book with the inscription SMASH FASCISM.
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Looking forward to hearing what Kate Beaton + Gord Hill have to say about their wonderful books and these insane times at tonight‘s “Pen & Ink” session at the Vancouver Writers Fest (moderated by Am Johal).
Two book-Gord Hill’s The Antifa Comic Book (2025) and Kate Beaton’s Ducks (2022) side by side on a white table. Hill’s cover is dominated by black, red, and white with an illustration of protesters. Beaton’s is in greys and a deep yellow with an illustration of the author climbing up the ladder of a heavy hauler against a natural backdrop.
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
rereading rochelle davis for a thing this afternoon and omfg does it ever hit hard right now
A copy of Rochelle Davis’s Palestinian Village histories on a stack of papers and other books. Title in yellow on a black cover with a green, red, and black illustration of village homes and a yellow sun in the background.
October 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
a neighbour saw me carrying my regalia for fall convocation and asked me if it was a lord farquaad costume for halloween fml
Read and black academic regalia hanging from a French door.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
sometimes it’s the little things that bring us joy
A white Tesla parked in an absurd place -at an angle close to a building and blocking a foot path and stairway-with a yellow parking boot on its front wheel.
October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
Congratulations to SFU’s Indigenous graduates celebrating their achievements at today‘s Honouring Feast.
A collection of traditional cedar headbands with black and red backing laid out on a table.
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
idk how it’s been 30 years since mad professor vs. massive attack came out but at 70 this man is pretty incredible…
October 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Last night I saw Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” at VIFF and laughed and loved it and also I thought about how if Joshua was still here we might have passed notes about it like we often did about stuff like that and it made me miss him so much.
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Poster for Richard Linklater’s 2025 film Nouvelle Vague. Black and white closeup image of a woman and man looking at each other and smiling with a director and cameraman between them in the distance. Title in white letters with the N and V in read and yellow boxes.
October 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
JEUNES MÈRES (2025) by the Dardenne bros will punch you in the heart A LOT but it’s so fabulously done-wow.🖤

Thanks VIFF!
Poster for 2025 film JEUNES MÈRES featuring multiple teen mothers with their babies on/around a white park bench.
October 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social um excuse me have you seen this
A Little Golden children’s book biography of Keanu Reeves with an illustration of the actor in a dark grey suit on a red carpet surrounded by photographers and flashes of light.
October 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
rpanchasi.bsky.social
file under things french men say on tv in 2025
Screen shot of former French secret services leader Alain Chouet appearing in a television documentary on 2025. The subtitles read “Mais on a soulevé la jupe de Marianne et montré son derrière”
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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caught brb reading from/speaking about his new book of poems last night @museumofvan.bsky.social & picked up a copy to love
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Copy of new Billy-Ray Belcourt book of poems “the idea of an entire life” opened to title page signed xoxo Billy-Ray
September 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM