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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze

@chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social

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WGS and Jewish Studies Prof at Brandeis U on unceded Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pawtucket homelands. Grew up in Ethiopia and Kenya (1975-1987)

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 26d

Anita Hill, Harleen Singh, Carmel Ohman, and I are now editing a volume based on our Mellon Sawyer Seminar on gender-based violence and the abiding fiction that it is a natural and inevitable facet of the family, state, and nation, to envision a future without it.
www.brandeis.edu/womens-gende...

Imperiled Bodies John E. Sawyer Mellon Seminar

www.brandeis.edu

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 3d

Check out the Green Life Trading Co’s “monster” and witchy sustainable swaps in Madison. www.instagram.com/p/DQcUy4kCbQ...

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 4d

Trump thought he could use the government shutdown he created to purge our federal workforce.

The law says otherwise.

This is a victory for our dedicated federal workers & we won’t stop until every federal worker unjustly fired by this Administration has been reinstated.

The Hill @thehill.com · 6d

JUST IN: A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Trump’s efforts to lay off thousands of federal employees amid the government shutdown.

thehill.com

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 4d

Reporting from night school @huntercollege.bsky.social CUNY.
-💔💔💔 We talked about the cycle of crisis with hurricanes in Jamaica.

-Kingston Noir, Marlon James
-The Pagoda, Patricia Powell

Afro-Chinese add LGBT narratives 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ in the #Caribbean

Donate to help Jamaica 🇯🇲
supportjamaica.gov.jm

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 5d

A memorable celebration of Maria Pinto’s gorgeous debut book, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival. Note Hurricane Melissa overJamaica (Pinto’s country of origin) under the title in the PPT.

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 5d

“Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant & thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani & his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan.” It explores “drag as a practice & a celebration of its transformative potential.” #drag #aunties #divas
brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties

Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan. Beginning with an intimate interview, the book unfold...

brandeisuniversitypress.com

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow! Mario Pinto will discuss her new book, which has the best title of all time: Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival.” #mushrooms #blacksurvival

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 7d

Menstrual blood, previously viewed as useless waste, is now being used by femtechs as “an underexplored sample source” with clinical potential to diagnose conditions from endometriosis to cancers.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis

www.theguardian.com

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday!! Looks like an incredible album.

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 7d

Toni Shapiro-Phim & I had the pleasure of taking our students to the #ICA for an engaging guided tour of “The Indigenous Present” exhibition, which includes works by 15 artists who use “strategies of abstraction to represent personal and collective narratives.”
www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/...

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Aquilino A. Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social · 9d

He really really cares about veterans.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 8d

The forecasts for Jamaica and Haiti are terrifying. Thinking of my friends and families of my colleagues and students who are facing Hurricane Melissa.😢

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 9d

This evening's update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center on #Melissa is ominous, and explicitly mentions: "catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding...extensive infrastructural damage...and potentially prolonged isolation of communities" in both Jamaica & Haiti.

Screenshot from evening update from NOAA's National Hurricane Center regarding dire impacts from Melissa in Jamaica and Haiti.

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re a praying, spiritual, ritual or witchy type, do your thing for Jamaica. They’re saying it could be the worse hurricane in 35 years with 15-25 inches of rain between Saturday and Monday. I’ll never get used to this worried waiting from afar.

abcnews.go.com/US/tropical-...

Tropical Storm Melissa to strengthen into major hurricane: Latest forecast

Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to bring catastrophic flash flooding and landslides to parts of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.

abcnews.go.com

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Absolutely Petrify Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 9d

Okay this made me laugh very hard. Bravo and more please. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Man detained for protesting
National Guard with Star Wars
song sues

ACLU lawsuit says detention violated rights of a man who followed National Guard patrols in
D.C. while playing "The Imperial March."

Photo: five National guard members in camo from behind, looking at the Lincoln Memorial

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 9d

“You teach me too. To use pine roots to bring luck. Or sassafras roots for measles. […] to bring up rapunzel-the stems that only rise from soil fed with our blood. Medicine-the good and the bad of it-is a gift.” christibelcourt.com’s roots & flowers & If The Dead Belong Here are perfect together.

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 9d

@carsonfaust.bsky.social discussed how horror allows Indigenous writers to speak their truths, confront their monsters, & survive embodied fears that manifest as sleep paralysis & night terrors. “It’s not escapism. It’s documentation. It’s testimony. It is ceremony disguised as a ghost story.”

Photo of Carson Faust (dressed in gray collar sweater and dark jeans) and Claudia Fox Tree (in a yellow ribbon dress) who is holding Faust’s novel If the Dead Belong Here with beautiful cover of flowers against a black background, art by Christi Belcourt.

Photo of Preston Taylor Stone in a colorful shirt with red, yellow, blue and white abstract print standing with Carson Faust in black tshirt and white, yellow, red, and black beaded Native necklace.

Photo of Preston Taylor Stone, Carson Faust (same description as picture 2 with Brandon Callender who is dressed in a black tshirt and copper cardigan and large copper colored pendant necklace

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 9d

As SNAP benefits are set to expire, a reminder of Sodom's real sin: "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezek. 16:49). Pirkei Eliezer 25

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like Forrest Gump. Exactly 8 years ago, I met @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social in person when she was awarded the Joseph B. And Toby Gittler Prize at Brandeis. Every year I teach her work in WGS5a, I wax eloquent about this moment 😍

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 10d

What is an academic?
Someone who reaches their desk promptly each morning. In the middle of the desk they find a molehill. By the time they
leave, they have built a mountain.😂

Adapted from Ray Ginger's Jokebook about American History (1974)

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 11d

A reminder that @carsonfaust.bsky.social (contributor to Never Whistle at Night) will read from their debut novel, If the Dead Belong Here and discuss this haunting book with Prof. Preston Taylor Stone. @claudia-foxtree.bsky.social @mahtowin1.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 11d

So how much have your insurance premiums gone up for next year? Ours went up 20.5%, and faculty will shoulder 10% of this increase. I worry especially about our junior faculty who will find this additional burden very onerous on top of inflation and tariffs.😢