🧶 #MemoryMondays | Searching for Gummi Bears
✍️ Nadine Bernhard
Gummi bears — not quite the same, not always available.
Before and after 1989.
Memory sits in small details.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | The Door
✍️ Khanum Gevorgyan
She counted down to zero.
At zero, the door would open.
Her father home from Russia—
a taped duffel bag, Russian chocolates, relief.
A childhood shaped by migration, war, and waiting.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | The Power of Other Worlds
✍️ Jennifer Patico
What did “the West” feel like at ten? Shiny catalogues. Colourful photos. Forbidden makeup. Cold War hierarchies lived through desire, shame & growing up.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Sleepy Smuggles
✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smuggling Jewelry
✍️ Tatyana Kleyn
A child leaves Soviet Riga with a red sweater, a teddy bear—
and an amber necklace hidden inside.
As immigration crackdowns intensify worldwide,
this memory reminds that children still carry what adults cannot.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.
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the funny thing about going through puberty for me was the sometimes weird contradictions of my mum’s progressive attitudes: she wanted me to not grow up with sex hang ups so she allowed me to read books like anais nin, henry miller, and dh lawrence; and i could look at old nude photos and watch French movies with lots of nudity etc, but things like play boy and penthouse were routinely lambasted by her
consequently, much of my masturbation was inspired by photos like this of georgia o’keefe my mum actually allowed me to “borrow” this photo book to use while i masturbated !
#monochromeMonday meets #MomMonday meets #MemoryMondays
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: What is (An)archive? 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: The (An)archive
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
We co-edited this book as MnemoZIN, a collective name for Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova, and Nelli Piattoeva. Writing together is our method—and our refusal of academic individualism. Inspired by Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory & Daughter of Gaia
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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS begins.
What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War"
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I can recall when *reversible cassettes were a major upgrade for tunes in the car,
compared to 8 tracks,
way back in the days when reg fuel was still under $2 per gallon;
if there were no long lines at the gas station, that is...
(thanks #OPEC🖕)
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