I’m the new co-editor of Feminist German Studies. Send your work my way.
AE Ellis
@bedauerlich.bsky.social
Reading Fiend; Lover of the Lyric; Clotheshorse; Co-editor, Feminist German Studies; Colby College: Associate Professor of German Studies & Chair of African American Studies
It has been 20 years since I’ve visited Berlin and I’ll be there from 12/9 to 12/19. So excited.
"...we imagine the Holocaust in great detail, but we conceive of it as fundamentally unimaginable. It is the kind of evil that we cannot comprehend. But anything that happens in the present is, by definition, imaginable. We can see it." www.zeit.de/kultur/2023-...
“A World Without Civilians” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wow! How will banks remain profitable, she wants to know: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
If you don’t know Jamel Shabazz’s photography, please get to it with haste. www.gordonparksfoundation.org/grants/gpf-s...
If Habermas has not an iota of space in his moral imagination for people such as Palestinians, do we have any reason to consider his entire philosophical project as being in any way related to the rest of humanity…? www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-...
“It plays on the latent but powerful idea that government — big government — unfairly helps undeserving people, many of them women and people of color, who drain the pool of opportunity for deserving people.” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/o...
Looking at the lineup of opinion pieces in Harvard’s student newspaper and feeling so proud that there’s at least one elite media institution that hasn’t completely lost its fucking mind:
I wouldn’t be a journalist today if it weren’t for the education I got at The Harvard Crimson. It’s totally independent of the university, and they’ve had stunningly incisive and empathic coverage of the recent horrors there. I just donated to them because independent media must survive
Unbelievable! But fully a tactic that is working more and more often. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Happy Parable of the Sower Is Set In This Year to all who celebrate.