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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor
@ttw1984.bsky.social
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Research Associate @germancambridge.bsky.social & @cpsjcam.bsky.social.
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sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social
Anyway. Please buy my book when it's out ⬇️

#SoInEtwaIstEsGeschehen
So, in etwa, ist es geschehen - Sharon Dodua Otoo | S. Fischer Verlage
Eine Road-Novelle der Bachmann-Preisträgerin Sharon Dodua Otoo Sie sind auf dem Weg zum Timmendorfer Strand: Amata Haller und ihr Chef Heinz Brockhaus, der ihr...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
ttw1984.bsky.social
Great article otherwise…

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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ttw1984.bsky.social
Great article otherwise…

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Nota Bene: was im Polizeibericht steht muss nicht der Wahrheit entsprechen.
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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leilaessai.bsky.social
also read out this by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social in the first lecture just now to explain rationale of the assignments; it’s so nice (from here: slate.com/life/2025/10...)
Caring is the intellectual prerequisite of interpretation and argument. Close reading begins, as we describe it, with noticing: homing in on a detail in a text that piques one's curiosity or puzzlement. You cannot be curious or puzzled—or excited or angry or disappointed—unless you first care. Why this word rather than another? What difference does it make that Lincoln uses dedicate? Why does the young Antonía ask about colors; why does she connect Jim's eyes and the sky? The close reader scales up from a detail to build an argument about the entire text: a poem, a story, or a whole book. It's this move-from the noticed detail to a local claim about the detail in its immediate context, to an argument about the whole-that we believe is an act of communication and an argument, which is to say a way to share something that matters to you with someone else.
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ttw1984.bsky.social
Ahhh Sharon, I’ve only just seen this 🥹 You were certainly flying!! Having you there for the workshop also gave me strength 🙏🏽🫶🏽💪🏽
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Thank *you* too, for *everything* 💗 Hope the launch goes well later🤞🏽🙌🏽 With you in spirit 🥂
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
ttw1984.bsky.social
Ahhh I want to take this course! 🤓
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM