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Suzanne Conklin Akbari
@sakbari.bsky.social
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Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog.
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Describe your cat’s personality with one photo
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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saved this clipping since 28 Sept 1988 smdh
September 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Soft gray cat with Laurie Colwin’s books Home Cooking and More Home Cooking, plus a 1980s article clipping.
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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💔❤️
June 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Jamelle Bouie having a Kantorowicz moment lol
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This was such a fun episode to do — the Oz books are amazing, and I was happy to get to talk with @wordgarbler.bsky.social about museums 📚
Soft gray cat looks wistfully at a book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
May 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Two cats sleeping
May 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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This one is my favorite 🐟🐾
A poem by Michelle Sylliboy written in the Komqwejwi’kasikl writing system (#11 in her book ‘Kiskajeyi-I AM READY’).
April 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Chonky cat in cat tree surrounded by books.
February 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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“There’s ‘no such consensus’ among US historians on the situation in Gaza” - Jim Grossman in IHE: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
“Grossman told Inside Higher Ed Friday that ‘the Ukraine statement was purely historical. It was well within our scope.’ He said, ‘No serious professional historian in the United States considers Putin’s historical explanation to be anything close to accurate history, so the war itself was based on an abuse of history, and that’s what our statement addressed.’ There’s ‘no such consensus’ among U.S. historians on the situation in Gaza, he said. Two pro-Israel organizations, the American Jewish Committee and the Academic Engagement Network, said they sent a joint letter to the council Thursday urging the veto. The letter calls the scholasticide accusation ‘preposterous.’”
January 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Suddenly the Executive Director of AHA @historians.org, Jim Grossman, is able to comment on our current moment: “History and facts matter.” Sure do, Jim…
January 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“Palestinian-American artist Emily Jacir serves as both a vessel of hope and a human link within a broken infrastructure — a conduit for messages that connect severed lives.”
January 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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snow has arrived 🐾❤️
January 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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“To see this protest, this movement emerging at the MLA, to see this national and international movement of solidarity with Palestine to emerge in the last year, has been incredibly moving for me.” — Karim Mattar, Palestinian American professor of English. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/01/resi...
Jan 9 –12: MLA Members for Justice in Palestine stage a number of successful protests at the MLA annual convention, including a die-in and walkout at the Saturday DA meeting, as covered in IHE, Common Dreams, and LitHub. I cannot do justice to the scale and impact of the protests here, but will share the words of Karim Mattar, a Palestinian American professor of English, who told Common Dreams that “Saturday's protest brought tears to his eyes. ‘To see this protest, this movement emerging at the MLA, to see this national and international movement of solidarity with Palestine to emerge in the last year, has been incredibly moving for me.’” In that, Mattar is not alone.
January 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This is the second time this academic year of the top body of a major scholarly organization has shot down a pro-Palestinian resolution before the group’s full membership could vote on it. In the fall, the Modern Language Association’s elected Executive Council rejected a resolution that would’ve also accused Israel of scholasticide—and would’ve gone further by endorsing the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli policy. Unlike the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association Executive Council, which has different bylaws, axed that resolution before its convention this month even began.
January 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Mangione is no autoworker, and his lawyers are not members of a revolutionary union movement. Still, a percussive line of popular support is scrambling the banal and increasingly feckless story that American politics is about fealty for two parties, rather than, say, class warfare. Mangione’s lawyers have floated the possibility of invoking temporary insanity, presumably to ease the path to jury nullification. Calls to “Free Luigi” on the streets and inside jails express solidarity not just with one man, but against the catastrophic realities of capitalism, where necessities like health care, food, and housing are financialized commodities that few can truly afford. This is the system UnitedHealthcare stands for and profits from. This is the system that Mangione (allegedly) took aim at.
January 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Packing for MLA
January 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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Feeling anxious that the next chancellor of Germany is likely to be Fred Mertz

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/w...
December 16, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Another view:
December 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Friday timeline cleanse:
December 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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I can’t even:
December 8, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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One excerpt (p.243):
December 8, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Current status 🐾❤️❤️
December 4, 2024 at 7:48 PM