Mary Tezak
@maryetezak.bsky.social
Late Ottoman History / labor, popular economies, borders, and the occasional map projection / PhD candidate
@Georgetown / (she/هي) 🌖
@Georgetown / (she/هي) 🌖
For me, nothing highlights the reality of how poorly PhD students are paid quite like the summer I worked as a waitress at a fancy restaurant to pay my rent and ended up serving a student I had taught and graded a couple of months prior.
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
For me, nothing highlights the reality of how poorly PhD students are paid quite like the summer I worked as a waitress at a fancy restaurant to pay my rent and ended up serving a student I had taught and graded a couple of months prior.
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ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
What’s my fantasy? A referendum to remove Muriel Bowser from office effective immediately.
September 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What’s my fantasy? A referendum to remove Muriel Bowser from office effective immediately.
a block from my house this morning
August 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
a block from my house this morning
Pistachio tree overload
August 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Pistachio tree overload
I’m looking for anyone London-based who might be able to make some copies of materials in a box at the Royal Geographical Society Archives for me. I would of course pay for the work. Please message me if you are interested or know of anyone who might be.
August 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I’m looking for anyone London-based who might be able to make some copies of materials in a box at the Royal Geographical Society Archives for me. I would of course pay for the work. Please message me if you are interested or know of anyone who might be.
Just noticed that Antakya was accidentally omitted in Redhouse’s original version of the dictionary. Everyone makes mistakes 🤪
July 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Just noticed that Antakya was accidentally omitted in Redhouse’s original version of the dictionary. Everyone makes mistakes 🤪
Almost got hit by a car (ran a stop sign) and then a truck (driving up the wrong side of the road) today while biking to campus. Do people not realize they are operating 2+ ton machines in dense urban areas? You can’t be silly/goofy/careless behind that kind of thing!!
June 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Almost got hit by a car (ran a stop sign) and then a truck (driving up the wrong side of the road) today while biking to campus. Do people not realize they are operating 2+ ton machines in dense urban areas? You can’t be silly/goofy/careless behind that kind of thing!!
from Judith Tucker’s Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt but seems relevant to this whole trad wife phenomenon today
June 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
from Judith Tucker’s Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt but seems relevant to this whole trad wife phenomenon today
caught these little fighters making something out of nothing while mountain biking yesterday
May 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
caught these little fighters making something out of nothing while mountain biking yesterday
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what’s happening at the newark airport?
hundreds of beasts and demagorgons have crawled up from bowels of the earth to wrest control of the FAA from the trump administration.
that’s what.
hundreds of beasts and demagorgons have crawled up from bowels of the earth to wrest control of the FAA from the trump administration.
that’s what.
May 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
what’s happening at the newark airport?
hundreds of beasts and demagorgons have crawled up from bowels of the earth to wrest control of the FAA from the trump administration.
that’s what.
hundreds of beasts and demagorgons have crawled up from bowels of the earth to wrest control of the FAA from the trump administration.
that’s what.
Absolutely wild how many buses and bus stop in DC right now have recruitment advertisements for Border Patrol. Laying off people from places like the NEH and expecting them to pivot and join the Gestapo? Seems unlikely.
May 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Absolutely wild how many buses and bus stop in DC right now have recruitment advertisements for Border Patrol. Laying off people from places like the NEH and expecting them to pivot and join the Gestapo? Seems unlikely.
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Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.
May 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.
Found this in NYU Abu Dhabi’s Akkasah archive today, tentatively titled Gearheads of the Ottoman Empire, 1883ish
April 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Found this in NYU Abu Dhabi’s Akkasah archive today, tentatively titled Gearheads of the Ottoman Empire, 1883ish
i’m always like “omg how could they!?” when i learn about banned books, religious curriculums, etc. and it’s like i somehow blacked out all of my memories of being raised in catholic schools that quite literally removed great books from the curriculum in favor of catholic fantasy (yes, it exists.)
April 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
i’m always like “omg how could they!?” when i learn about banned books, religious curriculums, etc. and it’s like i somehow blacked out all of my memories of being raised in catholic schools that quite literally removed great books from the curriculum in favor of catholic fantasy (yes, it exists.)
trump’s calling his tariffs his “medicine” is akin to the medieval doctors who would cut people open and just fully bled them out to get rid of the bad spirits
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
trump’s calling his tariffs his “medicine” is akin to the medieval doctors who would cut people open and just fully bled them out to get rid of the bad spirits
what was the equivalent of live tweeting after Smoot-Hawley?
April 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
what was the equivalent of live tweeting after Smoot-Hawley?
when i was working as a waitress this woman asked me to complain to the chef about serving palm hearts on a salad because it was bad for the environment and then proceeded to order lamb chops
April 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
when i was working as a waitress this woman asked me to complain to the chef about serving palm hearts on a salad because it was bad for the environment and then proceeded to order lamb chops
umm… babe, you’re the president of the same university that tried to revoke Momodou Taal’s visa for standing against genocide.
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
umm… babe, you’re the president of the same university that tried to revoke Momodou Taal’s visa for standing against genocide.
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.
March 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.