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Posts by Dr. Giusi Russo

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Kokuho - DMovies After witnessing his father's murder, 14-year-old decides to devote his life to all-male traditional theatre - Japanese film of outstanding beauty is in cinemas on Friday, May 8th

After witnessing his father's murder, 14-year-old decides to devote his life to all-male traditional theatre

Japanese film of outstanding beauty is in cinemas soon:

dmovies.org/2026/04/20/k...

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The Chappell Roan harassment campaign is plain old misogyny The artist faces online backlash not for any wrongdoing but because she's a woman.

Justice for Chappell Roan!

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CfP Genesis: Le Conferenze dell’ONU sulle donne e la crescita del femminismo – SIS – Società Italiana delle Storiche

CFP: The UN Conferences on Women and the Global Rise of Feminism: Tensions and Interactions, Special Issue of «Genesis»
Journal of the Italian Society of Women Historians
No. 2/2026, Edited by Marica Tolomelli and Anna Nasser. Here is the link, societadellestoriche.it/le-conferenz...

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Growing Up as the Child of Radical Revolutionaries Most kids play hide-and-seek. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, whose parents became fugitives after founding the Weather Underground, learned how to lose a tail.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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March 25, 1965: Viola Liuzzo Murdered by KKK After Selma to Montgomery March Viola Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965), Civil Rights activist, was murdered in 1965 by the KKK after the Selma to Montgomery March.

#tdih 1965, Viola Liuzzo murdered by KKK while driving on a deserted highway after Selma to Montgomery march.

She had traveled from Detroit to support voting rights. After her death, FBI led smear campaign that helped erase her from textbooks & public memory.

www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...

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Substack Live annoucement
Top reads: "Substack Live with Heather Cox Richardson"
Image has headshots of Timothy Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson with their names.
Text: Timothy Snyder in conversation with Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson on the state of politics in America, history, and effective resistance strategies.
1:00pm ET
March 25
On snyder.substack.com

Substack Live annoucement Top reads: "Substack Live with Heather Cox Richardson" Image has headshots of Timothy Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson with their names. Text: Timothy Snyder in conversation with Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson on the state of politics in America, history, and effective resistance strategies. 1:00pm ET March 25 On snyder.substack.com

Join me on Wednesday, March 25th, for a conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social. We'll be talking about history, politics, and resistance strategies. 1pm ET on "Thinking Live," snyder.substack.com.

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John Foot | Years of Lead Revisited On 5 June 1975, four carabinieri officers, in one car, drove up a winding road to an isolated farmhouse above Acqui...

On the blog: John Foot (@footymac.bsky.social) on the trial of three former Red Brigades members accused of involvement in a 1975 kidnapping that left two dead.

Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

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After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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The Citizen Recommends: In Pursuit — Philadelphia and the Making of America Sam Katz’s In Pursuit documentary series has been nearly 20 years in the making. See the first episode on February 19

Sam Katz’s History Making Productions is releasing a sweeping Philly documentary series nearly 20 years in the making. See the first episode on February 20.

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A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top.

The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements:

    Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below.

    Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam.

    Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground.

    Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched.

The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

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Opinion | A Movie About America Broke My Heart

A Movie About America Broke My Heart www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

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We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

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Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert
Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Billy Strings! Tiny Desk Concert
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️

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Three books to read if you too are rewatching Mad Men. This week, the internet got a fun little treat when Mad Men, a pinnacle of early prestige TV, landed on HBOMax after a long absence from streaming services. Unfortunately, the new, much-hyped 4K re…

Mad Men has returned to streaming, and these books are ready to compliment your next rewatch.

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Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!

uncpress.org/978146968989...

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Wisdom from Charles Schulz.

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Hi Eleanor! The book looks amazing and necessary!

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Emergency in Transit by Eleanor Paynter - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Hi there! I work on migration & asylum w/ a focus on rights, race, coloniality, & testimony in the Mediterranean & globally.
#CriticalRefugeeStudies via ethnography, media, narrative

My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
@ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 1/

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New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

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Vol. 35 No. 1-2 (2025): Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900 | Comparativ

My review of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the UN, 1946–1975 by @giusirusso.bsky.social is out in Comparativ!
Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rights–and the roots of the global order.
Hope it inspires you to dive in! ✨
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...

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Join us for a May seminar series!
Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle

Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
Please register via the Making Worlds website.

See you there!

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Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!

#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025

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drawing of three women on peach background title of exhibition Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade For Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now 10 Feb to 22 Aug.

drawing of three women on peach background title of exhibition Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade For Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now 10 Feb to 22 Aug.

"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

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Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 - Nebraska Press Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 tells the story of how women’s bodies were at the center of the international politics...

If you are teaching a course on gender and internationalism, I'd like to recommend my book, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations," University of Nebraska Press, 2023,

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Resurrections - FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown This workshop is about returning to a piece of fiction you have struggled with and set aside–returning to it and bringing it back to life. We will look for ways to complete this work, including inner ...

I'm returning to teach this summer for a week at the Provincetown Work Center's Queer Week, 6/22-6/27. I'm teaching alongside Andrea Lawlor, Carmen Maria Machado, Catherine Opie, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Celeste Lecesne, Ilanda Savdie, and Miriam Klein-Stahl:
fawc.org/summer-progr...

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Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine Blouin ran in the same circles as liberation icons like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré.

bbc.com/news/article... The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine.

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Two people, a man and a woman, dance on an open air dance floor. The two are close together, their heads almost touching. Both look down, apparently at their feet. This black and white photo conveys a palpable sense of joy

Two people, a man and a woman, dance on an open air dance floor. The two are close together, their heads almost touching. Both look down, apparently at their feet. This black and white photo conveys a palpable sense of joy

Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club), 1963 www.moma.org/collection/w...

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Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... a new review of my book!

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What does the verdict in the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial mean for France? Our panel responds | Rokhaya Diallo, Anne Bouillon and others All 51 men on trial have been found guilty, a fact that needs to prompt major changes in French society, say Rokhaya Diallo, Anne Bouillon and others

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