Christopher Silsby
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Christopher Silsby
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Theatre Ph.D.

Manager of a large WordPress multisite network

Research in Race, Musical Theatre, and Post-Revolutionary and Stalinist Russia

Teach theatre history and theory

Midwest born and bred. Mid-Atlantic by trade
Makes me want to deliver another Shakespearean scene at the school... (Not blaming your kids, despite Lear's meaning)
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There was something on NPR (WNYC) recently about it and Khrushchev's Secret Speech, but I can't find it right now. There is this older article by Miriam Dobson that provides a societal overview, and has lots of great footnotes, too.

eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/75...
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I know this isn't what you asked, but there is also an entire field of Soviet history studies devoted to de-Stalinization if you want to look at another post-specific-authoritarian (denouncing the Personality Cult while keeping the authoritarianism itself) for warnings about this kind of process.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Now I have the second verse of "You're the Top" stuck in my head.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
But I think we can all agree that half-assing both of those is definitely a great system.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
but it wasn't the actual dance the Harlem Shake but just a beat drop and visual cut in a song called "Harlem Shake."
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Christopher Silsby
It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action."

Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [2/2]
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Reposted by Christopher Silsby
"When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating "blah." ... [1/2]
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I believe the proper, academic counter argument to Gee is, "I know you are, but what am I?"¹

1. Herman, P., et al.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am not going to click that link, and just assume that you meant "at the same time."

My new Apple TV+ series Julia & Genghis is going to be so fire!
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What of "it" is a pink slip?
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM