Yasemin Toron
@yasemintoron.bsky.social
Americanist with a focus on language, literature and culture. Doing a Ph.D. at Frankfurt University @goetheuni.bsky.social. Influences: Anzaldúa, Hall, hooks, Lorde, Ricœur.
🔏 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-6991
🔏 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-6991
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Newspaper articles about Haftbefehl that use his work to market an analysis of Germany further contribute to alienation.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Newspaper articles about Haftbefehl that use his work to market an analysis of Germany further contribute to alienation.
It should not surprise us how quickly the nineteenth-century prejudice that white men should dominate “inferior” Africans, Asians, and Latin American peoples has become common sense for much of Western politics and journalism.
—Pankaj Mishra
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—Pankaj Mishra
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November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It should not surprise us how quickly the nineteenth-century prejudice that white men should dominate “inferior” Africans, Asians, and Latin American peoples has become common sense for much of Western politics and journalism.
—Pankaj Mishra
substack.com/@junot/note/...
—Pankaj Mishra
substack.com/@junot/note/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Er ist jetzt nicht mehr allein, sondern integriertes Mitglied des Praktikum-in-der-Presse-Clubs der Ende 1990er Abiturient*innen mit Middle East-Expertise aus der Urlaubs- und Bildungsreiseerfahrung in Israel und antimuslimischer Leidenschaft.
Constantin Schreiber: Wie der Ex-»Tagesschau«-Sprecher an seiner Marke arbeitet: Im Sommer wechselte Constantin Schreiber als Reporter zu »Bild« und »Welt«. Weil er mehr sein will als nur Stimme und Gesicht der Nachrichten. Aber was ist er jetzt?
Constantin Schreiber: Wie der Ex-»Tagesschau«-Sprecher an seiner Marke arbeitet
Im Sommer wechselte Constantin Schreiber als Reporter zu »Bild« und »Welt«. Weil er mehr sein will als nur Stimme und Gesicht der Nachrichten. Aber was ist er jetzt?
www.spiegel.de
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Er ist jetzt nicht mehr allein, sondern integriertes Mitglied des Praktikum-in-der-Presse-Clubs der Ende 1990er Abiturient*innen mit Middle East-Expertise aus der Urlaubs- und Bildungsreiseerfahrung in Israel und antimuslimischer Leidenschaft.
Wenn man genauer hinsieht, besteht die Bossetage der Rechtsextreme aus Losern mit Doktortiteln.
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Wenn man genauer hinsieht, besteht die Bossetage der Rechtsextreme aus Losern mit Doktortiteln.
Had he not become a shooter but a writer, he would not be an Afghan but an American.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Had he not become a shooter but a writer, he would not be an Afghan but an American.
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So Israel just bombed Dahieh in southern Beirut.
Yay, ceasefire!
Yay, ceasefire!
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So Israel just bombed Dahieh in southern Beirut.
Yay, ceasefire!
Yay, ceasefire!
The word diversity hovers above the older German terms—Integration, Ausländer—but never quite replaces them. It creates an illusion of progress, an English-speaking surface that covers the older hierarchies underneath.
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The word diversity hovers above the older German terms—Integration, Ausländer—but never quite replaces them. It creates an illusion of progress, an English-speaking surface that covers the older hierarchies underneath.
My favorite book, perhaps, is Gayl Jones’s *Corregidora* #bluesnovels #abstract open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
The Blues Novel: Aesthetic, History, Survival
What follows is an abstract on, not an attempt to define, what I think is the most vital fusion of African American musical, cultural, and narrative traditions in American literary history.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My favorite book, perhaps, is Gayl Jones’s *Corregidora* #bluesnovels #abstract open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
Both political and organizational authoritarianism rely on the same psychological fuel: fear. When people are afraid to get punished, excluded, or fired, they obey. But fear corrodes trust, and obedience born from fear is fragile.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Both political and organizational authoritarianism rely on the same psychological fuel: fear. When people are afraid to get punished, excluded, or fired, they obey. But fear corrodes trust, and obedience born from fear is fragile.
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open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
Getting a Ph.D. is now something that teenagers at age 17 do.
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Getting a Ph.D. is now something that teenagers at age 17 do.
The Crackdown
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The Crackdown
There was a time when knowledge seemed like a vast but orderly map, its boundaries expanding with every experiment, every discovery, and every act of naming.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The Crackdown
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Family units are disrupted not simply for enforcement but to send a message: to deter, to frighten, to make everyone watching understand that belonging is conditional and precarious.
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
September 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Family units are disrupted not simply for enforcement but to send a message: to deter, to frighten, to make everyone watching understand that belonging is conditional and precarious.
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
Die meisten deutschen Profs sind geistesgeschichtliche Zufälle. Keine bemerkenswerten Leistungen. Das einzige, was sie interessant macht ist die Germanisierung der lateinischen Sprache.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
September 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Die meisten deutschen Profs sind geistesgeschichtliche Zufälle. Keine bemerkenswerten Leistungen. Das einzige, was sie interessant macht ist die Germanisierung der lateinischen Sprache.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
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Minimizing the legacy of their/our colonialism, European and U.S. scholars like to poetically shift accountability elsewhere: open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
September 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Minimizing the legacy of their/our colonialism, European and U.S. scholars like to poetically shift accountability elsewhere: open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
The privileged discontent about a dysfunctional dishwasher.
For the first time, far-right parties are leading the polls in the U.K., France and Germany, signaling growing voter discontent across the continent.
Populist Right-Wing Parties Lead Polls in Europe’s Biggest Economies
For the first time, far-right parties are leading in the U.K., France and Germany, the latest sign of growing voter discontent across the continent.
on.wsj.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The privileged discontent about a dysfunctional dishwasher.
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"Upholding the ideals that have guided generations of Americans"
August 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Upholding the ideals that have guided generations of Americans"
Unter dem Einfluss der Heldensage verlangt die gegenwärtige Kultur von uns eine kämpferische Haltung gegenüber den Widrigkeiten des Lebens.
Kann man, muss man nicht erfüllen.
Kann man, muss man nicht erfüllen.
The Case for Separation | Argument für eine Trennung open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
August 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Unter dem Einfluss der Heldensage verlangt die gegenwärtige Kultur von uns eine kämpferische Haltung gegenüber den Widrigkeiten des Lebens.
Kann man, muss man nicht erfüllen.
Kann man, muss man nicht erfüllen.
The Case for Separation | Argument für eine Trennung open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
August 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The Case for Separation | Argument für eine Trennung open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...