Rebecca Brenner Graham
@theotherrbg.bsky.social
Brown postdoc | author, Dear Miss Perkins | writing on female millennial popular culture and the American Revolution | rebeccabrennergraham.com
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Review | Her family spied for Germany in WWII. She tried to learn the truth.
In ‘Family of Spies,’ Christine Kuehn wrestles with whether her relatives, who helped pave the way for Pearl Harbor, are monsters.
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I had the pleasure of reading and the privilege of reviewing FAMILY OF SPIES for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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It's a good day to cry.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It's a good day to cry.
this morning I’m coping by deleting the final exam from canvas and leaving positive reinforcement on all my freshmen’s participation grades. they’re each so special. I’m relieved to know they’re alive and unspeakably heartbroken for those whose aren’t.
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
this morning I’m coping by deleting the final exam from canvas and leaving positive reinforcement on all my freshmen’s participation grades. they’re each so special. I’m relieved to know they’re alive and unspeakably heartbroken for those whose aren’t.
light in a time of darkness
night one
📍 Cumberland, RI
night one
📍 Cumberland, RI
December 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
light in a time of darkness
night one
📍 Cumberland, RI
night one
📍 Cumberland, RI
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But for now, to the students who experienced what no one and yet too many are experiencing regularly, you are what matters.
(Also, the Rhode Island Blood Center is open with extended hours and walk in availability. Their staff volunteered in big numbers to come in for these shifts.)
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(Also, the Rhode Island Blood Center is open with extended hours and walk in availability. Their staff volunteered in big numbers to come in for these shifts.)
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December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
But for now, to the students who experienced what no one and yet too many are experiencing regularly, you are what matters.
(Also, the Rhode Island Blood Center is open with extended hours and walk in availability. Their staff volunteered in big numbers to come in for these shifts.)
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(Also, the Rhode Island Blood Center is open with extended hours and walk in availability. Their staff volunteered in big numbers to come in for these shifts.)
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The JCB's staff, fellows, and student workers were all safe, thankfully- though the bitter consolation is such that we know that only means that others were not. We will be posting information about our schedules for this week and more as soon as possible.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The JCB's staff, fellows, and student workers were all safe, thankfully- though the bitter consolation is such that we know that only means that others were not. We will be posting information about our schedules for this week and more as soon as possible.
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Thank you to everyone who has reached out by text and email and DM. Yesterday's events at Brown were, as we know, always going to be replaced by another act of gun violence; on a heartrending anniversary of gun violence, it was crushing to see the news this morning of Bondi Beach.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thank you to everyone who has reached out by text and email and DM. Yesterday's events at Brown were, as we know, always going to be replaced by another act of gun violence; on a heartrending anniversary of gun violence, it was crushing to see the news this morning of Bondi Beach.
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💔 The library was achingly beautiful in this morning's snow.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
💔 The library was achingly beautiful in this morning's snow.
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Brown has canceled all remaining classes and exams for the Fall semester.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Brown has canceled all remaining classes and exams for the Fall semester.
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I am heartbroken for Brown and the students, staff, and faculty who have to get through this. I hope they have everything they need to navigate such senseless brutality.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I am heartbroken for Brown and the students, staff, and faculty who have to get through this. I hope they have everything they need to navigate such senseless brutality.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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My phone is alight with official notices from Brown. (I’m not in Rhode Island today.) Situation is still ongoing as of a few minutes ago.
Heartbreaking news.
Heartbreaking news.
December 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My phone is alight with official notices from Brown. (I’m not in Rhode Island today.) Situation is still ongoing as of a few minutes ago.
Heartbreaking news.
Heartbreaking news.
in my apt glued to alerts as active shooter situation unfolds on campus.
December 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
in my apt glued to alerts as active shooter situation unfolds on campus.
“at any stage of my life I would not live in that building” -my dad re: my apartment 😂
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“at any stage of my life I would not live in that building” -my dad re: my apartment 😂
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I have a baby theory that this Disney deal is an expression of rage against anyone who has creative talent or a wish to do a job that matters. Management resents any work that matters or fulfills. Even when it benefits, even when that work is the primary source of profit.
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I have a baby theory that this Disney deal is an expression of rage against anyone who has creative talent or a wish to do a job that matters. Management resents any work that matters or fulfills. Even when it benefits, even when that work is the primary source of profit.
I LOVE an empty Saturday, but am anxious! shall take Ritalin to (1) clean my apartment, (2) create tomorrow’s final, & (3) hopefully restart writing
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I LOVE an empty Saturday, but am anxious! shall take Ritalin to (1) clean my apartment, (2) create tomorrow’s final, & (3) hopefully restart writing
one of my favorite songs when I’m devastatingly sad is Put On A Happy Face — there’s a deep sadness in it — by Dick Van Dyke, who I hope is having a happy 100th birthday open.spotify.com/track/4buF9A...
Put on a Happy Face
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December 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
one of my favorite songs when I’m devastatingly sad is Put On A Happy Face — there’s a deep sadness in it — by Dick Van Dyke, who I hope is having a happy 100th birthday open.spotify.com/track/4buF9A...
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Samantha accompanied me to Easter dinner one year! We didn't have the official AG matching dresses, but my mom found something similar to her fancy tea dress for me.
December 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Samantha accompanied me to Easter dinner one year! We didn't have the official AG matching dresses, but my mom found something similar to her fancy tea dress for me.
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let’s see historians with AG dolls in the 80s and 90s
Thanks to @theotherrbg.bsky.social , I went looking for and found my photos of me with my favorite American Girl (who was the same age as my grandmother but with money, which led to my first lesson about class status and tenant farming in the Florida panhandle).
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
let’s see historians with AG dolls in the 80s and 90s
let’s see historians with AG dolls in the 80s and 90s
Thanks to @theotherrbg.bsky.social , I went looking for and found my photos of me with my favorite American Girl (who was the same age as my grandmother but with money, which led to my first lesson about class status and tenant farming in the Florida panhandle).
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
let’s see historians with AG dolls in the 80s and 90s
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Thanks to @theotherrbg.bsky.social , I went looking for and found my photos of me with my favorite American Girl (who was the same age as my grandmother but with money, which led to my first lesson about class status and tenant farming in the Florida panhandle).
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Thanks to @theotherrbg.bsky.social , I went looking for and found my photos of me with my favorite American Girl (who was the same age as my grandmother but with money, which led to my first lesson about class status and tenant farming in the Florida panhandle).
toward the beginning I light a match for the first time ever. Shabbat shalom www.youtube.com/live/1xVg_1B...
Erev Shabbat Service: December 12, 2025
YouTube video by Temple Habonim
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December 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
toward the beginning I light a match for the first time ever. Shabbat shalom www.youtube.com/live/1xVg_1B...
Boston bound in two coats and a hat 🥶
a person is putting a scarf around another person 's neck .
ALT: a person is putting a scarf around another person 's neck .
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December 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Boston bound in two coats and a hat 🥶
they changed the rules for bingo at the postdoc holiday party bc I was too competitive w it last year
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
they changed the rules for bingo at the postdoc holiday party bc I was too competitive w it last year
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US borders were never open. Not even in colonial times. We can debate whether colonial, early republic, & antebellum state govts had the admin capacity to seal borders w/ enforcement, but there was a crazy quilt of state laws restricting & encouraging migration. See my pinned post & bio.
4. For instance, the southern border is not open. It has never been open in our lifetimes. But Trump says it is. The Republicans say it is. Their rightwing allies say it is. And the Democrats rarely challenge them.
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
US borders were never open. Not even in colonial times. We can debate whether colonial, early republic, & antebellum state govts had the admin capacity to seal borders w/ enforcement, but there was a crazy quilt of state laws restricting & encouraging migration. See my pinned post & bio.
starting a new therapist tomorrow, in Warwick, which is where the airport is. And setting my alarm like I’m going to the airport, which is stupid bc I don’t have to board the therapy
a cartoon character sitting on a table with the words " goodnight " below him
ALT: a cartoon character sitting on a table with the words " goodnight " below him
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December 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
starting a new therapist tomorrow, in Warwick, which is where the airport is. And setting my alarm like I’m going to the airport, which is stupid bc I don’t have to board the therapy