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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 10h

Art sustains us and serves as a space of resistance.

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The Importance of Art as Resistance and Exis

A few weeks ago, someone told me about the work of neurologist and psychologist Viktor Frankl and his time in a concentration camp duroing…

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1h

Teaching @pornsak.bsky.social & Alexander Tefengki’s “The Good Asian” and going to use this thread on Angel Island tomorrow. Thank you.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 23h

Just returned from SF where I went with my cousins & their kids to explain the history of Angel Island immigrant landing depot. It's an island off of SF, look how close it is to SF, yet for detained immigrants who were there, it was a world away to getting to the US. Was in operation 1910-1941. 1/

Angel Island in the distance in the water, photo taken from a San Francisco scenic point with a few other tourists.

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1h

I’m teaching @pornsak.bsky.social & Alexandre Tefengki’s “The Good Asian,” and the first issue takes place partly in Angel Island in 1936. It’s a great series dealing with The Chinese Exclusion Act and more.

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1h

Not shocked in that region, and the company only has a 3.5 rating.

Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 10h

Art sustains us and serves as a space of resistance.

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The Importance of Art as Resistance and Exis

A few weeks ago, someone told me about the work of neurologist and psychologist Viktor Frankl and his time in a concentration camp duroing…

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

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Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 23h

So, the kid has no fear. Thank you @massgovernor.bsky.social for taking time with him today and speaking with him. It made his day!

underapurplesky.bsky.social @underapurplesky.bsky.social · 23h

@massgovernor.bsky.social Just want to say thank you for taking a few minutes to chat with my 12-year-old son today who is visiting Boston from Georgia with his grandfather. It made his day. Hope he didn’t bombard you with too many questions!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1d

“Flashes of lightning to quicken our steps”: Lillian E. Smith and Christian Fascism

I have been sitting on this essay for a couple of years. It is an essay that Emma Williams and I co-wrote in my Lillian E. Smith and Christian Nationalism course two years ago. During that class, we wrote…

“Flashes of lightning to quicken our steps”: Lillian E. Smith and Christian Fascism

I have been sitting on this essay for a couple of years. It is an essay that Emma Williams and I co-wrote in my Lillian E. Smith and Christian Nationalism course two years ago. During that class, we wrote “Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Clams to Protect” in Religion Dispatches, and this essay arose, partly, out of that article.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.

Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

A a teal flyer for the Western Alaska Disaster Relief with a QR code to donate. Text reads:

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF

Alaska's Western coastal communities are experiencing devastating impacts from Typhoon Halong, with families displaced and villages facing severe flooding and loss.

ONLINE FUNDRAISER:
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate
online. All funds raised will go directly to
assisting communities.
QUYANA CAKNEQ - QUYANAQPAK - QAGAASAKUNG - TAIKUU
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MAHSÌ CHO - GUNALCHÈESH - HÀW’AA - THANK YOU

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1d

French bodega cat

Cat sitting on street in St Paul de Vence

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1d

I proclaim that Ernest Gaines’ “Of Love and Dust” is the the most important American novel of the 20th century.

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 1d

Tell my students this all the time. Treat it like going to the gym. Most of my students say they wish they read more.

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I Wish I Read More

Every semester, I ask students a series of questions to learn more about them and how to tailor my pedagogy. I usually ask them if they are…

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP).

It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 3d

Seen em last two nights in my area during MLB and SEC games. 🤮

Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 3d

Baldwin really talks about the joy and peace he found there too. I did a study travel trip a couple of years ago, and got to go see where he found that peace and respite.

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Communing With James Baldwin in France

Communing With James Baldwin in France Over the past two posts, I’ve been sharing my journal entries from the study travel trip I led to France a couple of weeks ago. Today, I want to finish up …

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 3d

All I gotta say is, yes! Happy for her and so wanna follow so I can say hey agin to my seagull friend in Nice and commune with James Baldwin again in St Paul de Vence.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 245 (10/12/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & en...

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 3d

One criticizes something because they want it to be a better place. I don’t hate the South; I just want a better South. Shout out @blacktopkid.bsky.social Hayley Williams @bittersouth.bsky.social in this post.

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I Don’t Hate the South: I Just Want a Better South

During my undergraduate career, even though I was not what you would call an exemplary student, I sat amazed at professors, specifically…

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 5d

This Banned Books Week Thursday, we’ll take a look at Strange Fruit. This book was published in 1944 and almost immediately banned in Boston and Detroit, on the basis of “obscenity.” That charge, ostensibly, was based on one profanity and a few lines of sexual content. (1/3)

Cover of Strange Fruit, a novel by Lillian Smith. The cover shows a black woman and a white Nan together, divided by flames from a small town.

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 5d

Even though on Starz, kinda why I can’t wait for the new Spartacus season.

Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for sharing this. I was director of the Lillian E Smith Center and did these libguides.

Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! This also got Smith an FBI file. I’d say people need to read her memoir, Killers of the Dream, at this moment. Plus, if helps understand some of the things in SF.

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The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024

The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the initial publication of Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream, and as …

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