Dr Emma Louise Backe
@emmalouisebacke.bsky.social
Anthropologist working on the politics of care for survivors of gender-based violence / Managing Editor of The Geek Anthropologist / feminist killjoy
When your chronic illness prevents you from flying to the #AAA2025 conference to present on the ravages of insufficient funding and support for health care access to vulnerable populations-is this praxis? #anthrosky
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When your chronic illness prevents you from flying to the #AAA2025 conference to present on the ravages of insufficient funding and support for health care access to vulnerable populations-is this praxis? #anthrosky
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"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
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F&P seeks EOIs for a new Associate Editor (Book Reviews & Public Engagement). Ideal for someone skilled in new media + feminist public scholarship. Applications from ECRs, Global South & underrepresented groups welcome!
🔗 Details: LinkedIn. Queries: [email protected]
@tracymorison.bsky.social
🔗 Details: LinkedIn. Queries: [email protected]
@tracymorison.bsky.social
Call for EOIs - Associate Editor | Feminism & Psychology
The editorial team invites Expressions of Interest for a new role: Associate Editor, Book Reviews & Public Engagement.
🗓️ Deadline: 10 Jan 2026
📧Queries and EOIs to Tracy Morison (EiC): T.Morison@mas...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
F&P seeks EOIs for a new Associate Editor (Book Reviews & Public Engagement). Ideal for someone skilled in new media + feminist public scholarship. Applications from ECRs, Global South & underrepresented groups welcome!
🔗 Details: LinkedIn. Queries: [email protected]
@tracymorison.bsky.social
🔗 Details: LinkedIn. Queries: [email protected]
@tracymorison.bsky.social
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This week's Bitch Media reprint is so key to the archives we are trying to rebuild. Vanessa Willoughby writes on Black women's influence in punk culture--and the attempts to erase their influence over the years.
the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...
the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...
Loud and Clear
There is no punk without Black women.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This week's Bitch Media reprint is so key to the archives we are trying to rebuild. Vanessa Willoughby writes on Black women's influence in punk culture--and the attempts to erase their influence over the years.
the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...
the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...
Gee I wonder why I am getting targeted ads on Twitter about the Israeli embassy in South Africa? Perhaps I’ll have to ask Grok…
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gee I wonder why I am getting targeted ads on Twitter about the Israeli embassy in South Africa? Perhaps I’ll have to ask Grok…
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Platypus is hiring! 📣📣📣
The official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor!
blog.castac.org/call-for-mce...
The official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor!
blog.castac.org/call-for-mce...
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Platypus is hiring! 📣📣📣
The official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor!
blog.castac.org/call-for-mce...
The official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor!
blog.castac.org/call-for-mce...
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Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."
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One of the best outlets covering politics is being gutted and replacing their politics coverage with.....lies about the future young people will never see.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
One of the best outlets covering politics is being gutted and replacing their politics coverage with.....lies about the future young people will never see.
In honor of spooky season, I'm resharing a GeekAnthro article I wrote on Midsommar, the dynamics of exploitation and assault in the academy (looking at you Comaroff), and what we consider "sacred" in Anthropology thegeekanthropologist.com/2020/10/30/b...
“Burn Him”: Midsommar, Horror and Anthropology
[Content and spoiler warning: This piece discusses key plot points from the film Midsommar and includes descriptions of suicide and racial violence.] When the five main characters of Ari Aster’s ho…
thegeekanthropologist.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In honor of spooky season, I'm resharing a GeekAnthro article I wrote on Midsommar, the dynamics of exploitation and assault in the academy (looking at you Comaroff), and what we consider "sacred" in Anthropology thegeekanthropologist.com/2020/10/30/b...
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Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.
If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.
#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen
If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.
#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen
Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon
Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...
alaskabeacon.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.
If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.
#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen
If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.
#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen
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Hi friends mutual aid call: a survivor I work with in Cape Town is at risk of being evicted. Please donate and circulate with your networks! www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/hel...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hi friends mutual aid call: a survivor I work with in Cape Town is at risk of being evicted. Please donate and circulate with your networks! www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/hel...
Hi friends mutual aid call: a survivor I work with in Cape Town is at risk of being evicted. Please donate and circulate with your networks! www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/hel...
BackaBuddy | Your SA fundraising platform
Online campaigns to raise funds for causes you are passionate about. Free Campaign Support.
Proudly South African. Trusted For 11 Years. Types: NPO Funding, Individual Cause Funding, Charity ...
www.backabuddy.co.za
September 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hi friends mutual aid call: a survivor I work with in Cape Town is at risk of being evicted. Please donate and circulate with your networks! www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/hel...
I am trying so hard to let my brain rest and recover post PhD and focus on dealing my auto immune issues. But the academic goblin in my brain keeps telling me I need to adapt my thesis into articles and be “productive.”
September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I am trying so hard to let my brain rest and recover post PhD and focus on dealing my auto immune issues. But the academic goblin in my brain keeps telling me I need to adapt my thesis into articles and be “productive.”
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Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social.
Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
September 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social.
Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer.
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer.
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
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Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
www.404media.co
September 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
The news outlets refusing to name Charlie Kirk as a right wing white supremacist and condemning “political violence” are the very same who have refused to name Israel’s violence against the Palestinians as genocide.
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The news outlets refusing to name Charlie Kirk as a right wing white supremacist and condemning “political violence” are the very same who have refused to name Israel’s violence against the Palestinians as genocide.
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"Sonja Burns just wants officials to stop putting people like her twin brother in jail. He has cycled in and out of incarceration, hospitalization and homelessness because he is living with a serious mental illness, traumatic brain injury, autism spectrum disorder and seizure disorder."
For People Mentally Unfit For Trial, Waits For Treatment Get Longer
U.S. defendants must be able to understand the charges against them — but many who can’t remain behind bars waiting for mental health treatment.
www.themarshallproject.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Sonja Burns just wants officials to stop putting people like her twin brother in jail. He has cycled in and out of incarceration, hospitalization and homelessness because he is living with a serious mental illness, traumatic brain injury, autism spectrum disorder and seizure disorder."
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A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in.
Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in.
Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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ICE body slams man's head hard into pavement—for eating crabs in public.
Agents shove him into ground with arms twisted behind his back—bleeding severely from his forehead.
"My head! You're breaking my arm!" he cries out. "Why are you doing this? I was just eating crabs!"
Washington, D.C.
Agents shove him into ground with arms twisted behind his back—bleeding severely from his forehead.
"My head! You're breaking my arm!" he cries out. "Why are you doing this? I was just eating crabs!"
Washington, D.C.
August 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ICE body slams man's head hard into pavement—for eating crabs in public.
Agents shove him into ground with arms twisted behind his back—bleeding severely from his forehead.
"My head! You're breaking my arm!" he cries out. "Why are you doing this? I was just eating crabs!"
Washington, D.C.
Agents shove him into ground with arms twisted behind his back—bleeding severely from his forehead.
"My head! You're breaking my arm!" he cries out. "Why are you doing this? I was just eating crabs!"
Washington, D.C.
Everyone’s been asking what I an doing post PhD. The main thing is that I am resting and relaxing after developing an auto immune disorder during my PhD. But I’m also helping to do rapid response research on the impacts of USAID cuts in Cape Town, especially for sex workers, people living with HIV.
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Everyone’s been asking what I an doing post PhD. The main thing is that I am resting and relaxing after developing an auto immune disorder during my PhD. But I’m also helping to do rapid response research on the impacts of USAID cuts in Cape Town, especially for sex workers, people living with HIV.
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“She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have much power—could empower themselves and others and change the world.” What Octavia Butler’s early writings reveal about her trajectory as a literary icon.
Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer
It was Octavia Margaret who gave her daughter the spark to even consider a writing career. She saw her quiet, bookish ten-year-old daughter writing, saw the delight on her face as she created, and …
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August 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have much power—could empower themselves and others and change the world.” What Octavia Butler’s early writings reveal about her trajectory as a literary icon.
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JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry).
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
#academia
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
#academia
Junior Professorship (non-tenure) in Environmental Anthropology
Deadline: 01.10.2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
August 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry).
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
#academia
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
#academia
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Just a heads up that @haymarketbooks.org's summer sale ends Friday. You can currently get 40% off all books, including my book with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Let This Radicalize You.
Let This Radicalize You
Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
www.haymarketbooks.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just a heads up that @haymarketbooks.org's summer sale ends Friday. You can currently get 40% off all books, including my book with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Let This Radicalize You.