Edith Mirante
@edithmirante.bsky.social
Author, activist, artist, adventurer. "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art & Beasts" latest book. Also 3 SE Asia books. Founded Project Maje in 1986 (Burma human rights & environmental info.) History Threads. projectmaje.org
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Here's a little thread about my new book, "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts." Order direct from independent blueearbooks.com (based in Seattle but no yachts or billionaires involved) & buy it as a gift for your favorite barista or activist collective! ☕📚
Here's a little thread about my new book, "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts." Order direct from independent blueearbooks.com (based in Seattle but no yachts or billionaires involved) & buy it as a gift for your favorite barista or activist collective! ☕📚
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Here's a little thread about my new book, "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts." Order direct from independent blueearbooks.com (based in Seattle but no yachts or billionaires involved) & buy it as a gift for your favorite barista or activist collective! ☕📚
Here's a little thread about my new book, "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts." Order direct from independent blueearbooks.com (based in Seattle but no yachts or billionaires involved) & buy it as a gift for your favorite barista or activist collective! ☕📚
10/10. Order "Where the Mithuns Are" direct from independent publisher Blue Ear Books: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi... (US orders only currently, e-book for international tba in '26.) An ideal 📚 gift during holiday season! And please suggest purchase to your public or academic library.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
10/10. Order "Where the Mithuns Are" direct from independent publisher Blue Ear Books: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi... (US orders only currently, e-book for international tba in '26.) An ideal 📚 gift during holiday season! And please suggest purchase to your public or academic library.
9. "An Ark of Horn: Ruminations on the Muskox" is a "tour de force" essay ranging across the natural/cultural history, captivity narratives & climate change vulnerability of these extraordinary Arctic tundra herd mammals.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
9. "An Ark of Horn: Ruminations on the Muskox" is a "tour de force" essay ranging across the natural/cultural history, captivity narratives & climate change vulnerability of these extraordinary Arctic tundra herd mammals.
8. “The Army Coat: Antifascist Karl Yoneda from Manzanar to Burma” is a portrait of the fearless Japanese-American labor organizer & Manzanar prisoner who served with the US Army in WW2 Burma's pivotal battle of Myitkyina.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
8. “The Army Coat: Antifascist Karl Yoneda from Manzanar to Burma” is a portrait of the fearless Japanese-American labor organizer & Manzanar prisoner who served with the US Army in WW2 Burma's pivotal battle of Myitkyina.
7. “Mounds, Ticks, City, Ants” situates my visit to Michael Heizer’s vast “City” art installation in Nevada in the context of some much older, Indigenous earthworks. A ragged-edged plague years travel narrative of contemporary land art, stolen land history & contaminated desert.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
7. “Mounds, Ticks, City, Ants” situates my visit to Michael Heizer’s vast “City” art installation in Nevada in the context of some much older, Indigenous earthworks. A ragged-edged plague years travel narrative of contemporary land art, stolen land history & contaminated desert.
6. Since the 2021 Myanmar coup, remote Chin State has been at forefront of anti-coup revolution. “The Chins @ War” describes my 2022 trip to the India/Burma border of Chin State's Thantlang war zone, with the refugees, drone guerrillas & mithuns I met there.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
6. Since the 2021 Myanmar coup, remote Chin State has been at forefront of anti-coup revolution. “The Chins @ War” describes my 2022 trip to the India/Burma border of Chin State's Thantlang war zone, with the refugees, drone guerrillas & mithuns I met there.
5. The daring British Communist painter & poet Clive Branson fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War & died as a tank commander in WW2 Burma's brutal Admin Box battle. I tell his epic story (+ some other WW2 combat poets) in “A Death in Arakan.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
5. The daring British Communist painter & poet Clive Branson fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War & died as a tank commander in WW2 Burma's brutal Admin Box battle. I tell his epic story (+ some other WW2 combat poets) in “A Death in Arakan.”
4. Nick Hunt commented about "Our Riot Elk", “It feels like all of 2020 condensed into one road-trip: fires, police brutality, BLM, the pandemic, the wild, the sacred, the political.” The elk, bison & wolves of Yellowstone National Park appear within.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
4. Nick Hunt commented about "Our Riot Elk", “It feels like all of 2020 condensed into one road-trip: fires, police brutality, BLM, the pandemic, the wild, the sacred, the political.” The elk, bison & wolves of Yellowstone National Park appear within.
3. Anthony Gross was a highly intrepid war artist who traveled through WW2 Arakan & Chin State, Burma, armed with watercolor paints. "Drawing Soldiers in Burma" depicts Gross & other war artists of WW2 & more recent conflicts. "Where the Mithuns Are" cover image is by Gross.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
3. Anthony Gross was a highly intrepid war artist who traveled through WW2 Arakan & Chin State, Burma, armed with watercolor paints. "Drawing Soldiers in Burma" depicts Gross & other war artists of WW2 & more recent conflicts. "Where the Mithuns Are" cover image is by Gross.
2. The mithuns of "Where the Mithuns Are" are a domesticated forest ox of highland Myanmar (Burma) & NE India. Mithuns have been revered, cherished & sacrificed. "Beasts of the Northern Mountains" is about my encounters with these charismatic mammals in Chin State, Myanmar.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
2. The mithuns of "Where the Mithuns Are" are a domesticated forest ox of highland Myanmar (Burma) & NE India. Mithuns have been revered, cherished & sacrificed. "Beasts of the Northern Mountains" is about my encounters with these charismatic mammals in Chin State, Myanmar.
17/17. Previous History Threads at www.projectmaje.org. My latest book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" (topics including WW2 Burma & post-coup revolutionary Chin State) is now available for pre-order (publication Nov. 2025) here: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
17/17. Previous History Threads at www.projectmaje.org. My latest book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" (topics including WW2 Burma & post-coup revolutionary Chin State) is now available for pre-order (publication Nov. 2025) here: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...
16. Conflict researcher @hedstrom.bsky.social new study, "Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland" (2025) reveals an array of "roles and responsibilities" in wartime northern Myanmar. https//www.cornell...
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
16. Conflict researcher @hedstrom.bsky.social new study, "Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland" (2025) reveals an array of "roles and responsibilities" in wartime northern Myanmar. https//www.cornell...
15. Khin Mar Mar Kyi's "Invisible yet Invincible: Narratives of Women Fighting Dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar" (2024) & @altsean.bsky.social "Women’s Voices from the Revolution" ('25) present crucial viewpoints from the ongoing struggle for freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqZ...
BURMA WOMEN'S VOICES FROM THE REVOLUTION
YouTube video by Altsean Burma
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October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
15. Khin Mar Mar Kyi's "Invisible yet Invincible: Narratives of Women Fighting Dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar" (2024) & @altsean.bsky.social "Women’s Voices from the Revolution" ('25) present crucial viewpoints from the ongoing struggle for freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqZ...
14. Nandita Haksar & Soe Myint co-authored "Resisting Military Rule in Burma (1988-2024), Story of Mizzima Media: Born in Exile, Banned in Myanmar" (2025), a first hand account of journalism & political struggle. frontline.thehindu.com/books/myanma...
The Story of Mizzima and the Fight for Press Freedom in Myanmar
A new book, co-written by Indian human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar, and Burmese journalist Soe Myint and titled Resisting Military Rule in Burma (1988-2024), Story of Mizzima Media: Born in Exile, Ba...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
14. Nandita Haksar & Soe Myint co-authored "Resisting Military Rule in Burma (1988-2024), Story of Mizzima Media: Born in Exile, Banned in Myanmar" (2025), a first hand account of journalism & political struggle. frontline.thehindu.com/books/myanma...
13. "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" (2025) by @jwassers.bsky.social has Myanmar content. @liasciortino.bsky.social & Linn Lat Tar Yar edited "Living the Coup: Collective Diary of Daily Life in Myanmar" ('25) @SEAJunction obor.or.id/living-the-c...
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
13. "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" (2025) by @jwassers.bsky.social has Myanmar content. @liasciortino.bsky.social & Linn Lat Tar Yar edited "Living the Coup: Collective Diary of Daily Life in Myanmar" ('25) @SEAJunction obor.or.id/living-the-c...
12. Journalists Joe Freeman & @aungnaingsoeans.bsky.social co-wrote the important "Frontline Poets: The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar's Military" (2025) which describes the anti-coup revolutionary role of poets & poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGU...
Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar's military
YouTube video by DVB English News
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October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
12. Journalists Joe Freeman & @aungnaingsoeans.bsky.social co-wrote the important "Frontline Poets: The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar's Military" (2025) which describes the anti-coup revolutionary role of poets & poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGU...
11. "Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies" (2025) was edited by @nucubd.bsky.social. It compiles research on refugee resilience, digital empowerment & other issues of the Bangladesh border camps. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reshaping Rohingya Futures
This edited book highlights coping strategies and emerging agencies of Rohingya living in camps to alter their present and reshape their future.
link.springer.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
11. "Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies" (2025) was edited by @nucubd.bsky.social. It compiles research on refugee resilience, digital empowerment & other issues of the Bangladesh border camps. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
10. Bertil Lintner & Hseng Noung Lintner's latest ethnic history is "Young Tigers: Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar" ('25.) Francesco Buscemi's "Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar" ('25) examines Shan St armed resistance.
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
10. Bertil Lintner & Hseng Noung Lintner's latest ethnic history is "Young Tigers: Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar" ('25.) Francesco Buscemi's "Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar" ('25) examines Shan St armed resistance.
9. "Mountain Rhododendron: A Chin Lady in Jade Land of Myanmar" (2025) is a novel about the lives of migrant workers in Hpakant, Kachin State, by Chin journalist Joel Ling.
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
9. "Mountain Rhododendron: A Chin Lady in Jade Land of Myanmar" (2025) is a novel about the lives of migrant workers in Hpakant, Kachin State, by Chin journalist Joel Ling.