Mike Brislen 🇩🇯🇰🇪🇫🇷🇺🇲🇪🇹🇬🇧
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Mike Brislen 🇩🇯🇰🇪🇫🇷🇺🇲🇪🇹🇬🇧
@yurugu67.bsky.social
I recently retired from teaching at James Madison University. I have personal and intellectual interests. Personally, I enjoy sports, gardening, hiking, reading, and warm places.
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Apathy is the biggest problem.
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
French and Somali language film made by a young filmmaker in Djibouti. It was a really good film.
August 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 18: Arundhati Roy

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July 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 17: Alice Walker

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July 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 16: Shannon Chakraborty

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July 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
July 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 15: Kelly Brown Douglas

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July 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 14: Nalo Hopkinson

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July 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 13: Sofia Samatar

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June 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 12: Saidiya Hartman

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June 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This study concludes that when a people are no longer existentially threatened by poverty and have reached a level of society security, that religious devotion and adherence decline. They looked at countries around the world. The US was noted as the only exception.
June 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 11: Shirin Ebadi

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#Iran

In honor of Iran. Ebadi is also a great and important writer.
June 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 10: Louise Erdrich

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June 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 9: Imani Perry

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June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 8: Nnedi Okorafor

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June 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 7: Octavia Butler

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June 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#booksky
I just finished this book. Read others by the same author. She is an incredible writer. I'm posting this here, because I hear very little about her. This book is simply incredible.
June 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 6: Toni Morrison

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June 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Here are some examples where nonviolence stopped dictatorship.
June 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 5: Thrity Umrigar

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June 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 4: Ursula LeGuin

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June 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 3: Angie Kim

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June 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 2: N.K. Jemisin

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June 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 1: Silvia Moreno Garcia

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June 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM