ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
@chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social
WGS and Jewish Studies Prof at Brandeis U on unceded Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pawtucket homelands. Grew up in Ethiopia and Kenya (1975-1987)
Pinned
Imperiled Bodies John E. Sawyer Mellon Seminar
www.brandeis.edu
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...
www.brandeis.edu/womens-gende...
I asked Jearica Foundation for permission to post her brilliant poster on Bluesky. You can download and print it for free using the link below but she welcomes donations.
www.mnmad.org/art-for-advo...
Venmo: @Jearica-Fountain , Cashapp: $Jearicafountain , PayPal: Jearica Fountain for donations.
www.mnmad.org/art-for-advo...
Venmo: @Jearica-Fountain , Cashapp: $Jearicafountain , PayPal: Jearica Fountain for donations.
January 23, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I asked Jearica Foundation for permission to post her brilliant poster on Bluesky. You can download and print it for free using the link below but she welcomes donations.
www.mnmad.org/art-for-advo...
Venmo: @Jearica-Fountain , Cashapp: $Jearicafountain , PayPal: Jearica Fountain for donations.
www.mnmad.org/art-for-advo...
Venmo: @Jearica-Fountain , Cashapp: $Jearicafountain , PayPal: Jearica Fountain for donations.
Jearica Fountain’s Native anti-Ice art from Mni Sóta Makoce is incredible! www.instagram.com/p/DTbS4OGDwF...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Jearica Fountain’s Native anti-Ice art from Mni Sóta Makoce is incredible! www.instagram.com/p/DTbS4OGDwF...
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need some kimchi fried rice and an overthrow of the federal government
January 19, 2026 at 12:34 AM
need some kimchi fried rice and an overthrow of the federal government
I have been waiting for Jihyun Yun’s debut YA horror novel, And the River Drags Her Down. Her collection of poetry, Some Are Always Hungry, is my very favorite.❤️
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I have been waiting for Jihyun Yun’s debut YA horror novel, And the River Drags Her Down. Her collection of poetry, Some Are Always Hungry, is my very favorite.❤️
Same @chanda.blacksky.app @antonhur.com! A full shelf! Plus I always buy second copies for my daughter who is a huge fan after studying Cursed Bunny in college so her childhood room is also filled with Hur translations! She will eventually move her favorites to Madison.🥹🥰
2026 is my tenth year as a literary translator!
January 17, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Same @chanda.blacksky.app @antonhur.com! A full shelf! Plus I always buy second copies for my daughter who is a huge fan after studying Cursed Bunny in college so her childhood room is also filled with Hur translations! She will eventually move her favorites to Madison.🥹🥰
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The only people who have a legitimate right to speak about the political future of Kalaallit Nunaat are Inuk/Greenlanders themselves.
Certainly not politicians in Washington — I'd imagine Greenlanders would probably desire more autonomy from Copenhagen as well.
Certainly not politicians in Washington — I'd imagine Greenlanders would probably desire more autonomy from Copenhagen as well.
a red and white flag with a white circle in the middle is waving in the wind
ALT: a red and white flag with a white circle in the middle is waving in the wind
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The only people who have a legitimate right to speak about the political future of Kalaallit Nunaat are Inuk/Greenlanders themselves.
Certainly not politicians in Washington — I'd imagine Greenlanders would probably desire more autonomy from Copenhagen as well.
Certainly not politicians in Washington — I'd imagine Greenlanders would probably desire more autonomy from Copenhagen as well.
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
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So many profiteering scumbags lining up at the trough of the Trump admin.
A Billionaire Tries Again to Hijack Veterans’ Care - The American Prospect
Hedge fund giant Steven Cohen’s first effort to accelerate mental health care privatization failed. His second attempt has begun.
prospect.org
January 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
So many profiteering scumbags lining up at the trough of the Trump admin.
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Devastating! Mississippi's largest synagogue in charred ruins by arsonist. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Devastating! Mississippi's largest synagogue in charred ruins by arsonist. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
I just told my Korean mother that I paid for something when she actually did! I’m f-ed forever.
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I just told my Korean mother that I paid for something when she actually did! I’m f-ed forever.
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will not survive living in a car. terrified. ICE is murdering white women in cars and i don’t have certificate of citizenship.
January 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
will not survive living in a car. terrified. ICE is murdering white women in cars and i don’t have certificate of citizenship.
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THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.
I want to read everything on this list beginning with Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A Minor Chorus.
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I want to read everything on this list beginning with Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A Minor Chorus.
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
—Toni Morrison
www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
—Toni Morrison
www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:45 AM
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
—Toni Morrison
www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
—Toni Morrison
www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
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ICE has detained 4 Oglala Lakota men in Minneapolis.
Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.
Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.
January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
ICE has detained 4 Oglala Lakota men in Minneapolis.
Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.
Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.
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Thousands of residents from US territories oppose proposed deep-sea mining in waters surrounding the Mariana Islands archipelago and American Samoa, joining a wider Pasifika movement over the exclusion of Indigenous communities from consultation. nit.com.au/08-01-2026/2...
Pacific opposition to deep-sea mining stretches to Indigenous communities living in US territories
Thousands of residents from US territories have signed a petition to oppose proposed deep-sea mining in waters surrounding the Mariana Islands archipelago and American Samoa, joining a wider Pasifika ...
nit.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Thousands of residents from US territories oppose proposed deep-sea mining in waters surrounding the Mariana Islands archipelago and American Samoa, joining a wider Pasifika movement over the exclusion of Indigenous communities from consultation. nit.com.au/08-01-2026/2...
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and maybe this is just me but i personally think there is a lot that is simpatico in korean cuisine with the cuisine of the american south. like, have you ever had collard greens with kimchi? ELITE COMBO. banchan with brisket and pulled pork?
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 AM
and maybe this is just me but i personally think there is a lot that is simpatico in korean cuisine with the cuisine of the american south. like, have you ever had collard greens with kimchi? ELITE COMBO. banchan with brisket and pulled pork?
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Minneapolis 💗
![In 2020, when she went by Renée Nicole Macklin, she won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Prize for a poem called
"On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which begins:
i want back my rocking chairs, solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.
i've donated bibles to thrift stores
(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—
the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):
remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,
& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.
[READ THE FULL POEM HERE]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:unnjqmel4ud3wy3pmfi57yqn/bafkreieg7zli4hhxkgfbq4v6wg2f3rxwbfb7ydu2ujycrewaylv4mzpioi@jpeg)
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Minneapolis 💗
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I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
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ICE shot her in the head for daring to document their inhumanity
Her name was Renee Nicole Good.
Her mother said she was a kind and caring soul.
ICE murdered her.
Her mother said she was a kind and caring soul.
ICE murdered her.
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
ICE shot her in the head for daring to document their inhumanity
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Texas A&M says PLATO may be gender or race ideology
I mean, they are so close to getting the criticisms of the western canon 😹
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
I mean, they are so close to getting the criticisms of the western canon 😹
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Texas A&M says PLATO may be gender or race ideology
I mean, they are so close to getting the criticisms of the western canon 😹
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
I mean, they are so close to getting the criticisms of the western canon 😹
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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We've been warning you that abortion bans will restrict overall access to ob/gyn care!!
Iowa Doesn't Have Enough OB-GYNs. The State’s Abortion Ban Might Be Making It Worse. - KFF Health News
Abortion bans like Iowa’s have put OB-GYNs under increasing strain and surveillance, complicating the standard medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature membrane rupture, and ot...
kffhealthnews.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
We've been warning you that abortion bans will restrict overall access to ob/gyn care!!
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I don’t know whether to be pleasantly surprised at the shout out by Dr. Kocher (an old grad school friend of mine) or dismayed at the fact that my article is yet again relevant.
Maybe both at the same time.
Maybe both at the same time.
There's a reason they tried to silence everyone talking about the role of settler colonialism in the accumulation and exercise of political power in the United States and my colleague Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles said it as clear as you can say it. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 5:10 AM
I don’t know whether to be pleasantly surprised at the shout out by Dr. Kocher (an old grad school friend of mine) or dismayed at the fact that my article is yet again relevant.
Maybe both at the same time.
Maybe both at the same time.