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Anna Storti

@storti.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke diaspora dyke 💜💛 bicoastal biracial www.annamstorti.com

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Whether indifferent or idealistic, the reactions that racial satire elicit say as much about the moment, about power—the unfinished project of anti-racism—as they do about the fiction that is a life unburdened by race.” Anna Storti on “The White Lotus”:

“Could I be an Asian girl?”: Racist Fantasy in HBO’s “The White Lotus” - Public Books

Portraying the fall of the mighty is easy money, low-hanging fruit. Eat the rich! What’s riskier and harder to swallow are the moments when the viewer comes into contact with the white elite’s racist…

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“If satire mobilizes critique through emotion, to what extent does the genre fail when the subject is racist fantasy?” New at PB: @storti.bsky.social revisits the reactions to Frank’s (Sam Rockwell) season 3 monologue about sexual desire in “The White Lotus.”

“Could I be an Asian girl?”: Racist Fantasy in HBO’s “The White Lotus” - Public Books

Portraying the fall of the mighty is easy money, low-hanging fruit. Eat the rich! What’s riskier and harder to swallow are the moments when the viewer comes into contact with the white elite’s racist…

publicbooks.org

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New at PB: Anna Storti (@storti.bsky.social) revisits “The White Lotus,” and in particular season 3's headline-making scene where Frank, played by Sam Rockwell, delivers a five-minute-long monologue where he asks, "Could I be an Asian girl?"

“Could I be an Asian girl?”: Racist Fantasy in HBO’s “The White Lotus” - Public Books

Portraying the fall of the mighty is easy money, low-hanging fruit. Eat the rich! What’s riskier and harder to swallow are the moments when the viewer comes into contact with the white elite’s racist…

publicbooks.org

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 9mo ago

Racial profiling by immigration agents isn’t new. It echoes one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history, with clear parallels between today’s targeting of Latino communities and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II

Asian Americans have drawn parallels between today’s attacks on Latinos and a historically exclusive immigration policy that favors some families over others.

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David Daniel@daviddaniel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@storti.bsky.social writes in @us.theconversation.com, we've seen this before. "The fiction that undergirds the U.S. immigration system: that immigration policy’s preference for certain immigrants is enough to justify the discriminatory policies which deem some families more valuable than others."

Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II

Asian Americans have drawn parallels between today’s attacks on Latinos and a historically exclusive immigration policy that favors some families over others.

theconversation.com

Wolf Humanities Center@wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 2y ago

As we gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ book "“Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society,” scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts gather on 2/21 for the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 interdisciplinary symposium “Keywords.”

Graphic promoting Panel 1 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Imperialism” featuring Mariam Durrani, Professorial Lecturer, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University; Hafsa Kanjwal, Associate Professor, South Asian History, Lafayette College; and Anna Storti, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University with moderator Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities CenterGraphic promoting Panel 2 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Humanity” featuring Manu Chander, Associate Professor, English, Georgetown University; Gabrielle Cornish, Assistant Professor, Musicology, Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin; and Steven Weitzman, Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania with moderator: Jacob Myers, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of PennsylvaniaGraphic promoting Panel 3 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Aesthetics” featuring Sa'ed Atshan, Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore University; Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, Art History, University of Pennsylvania; and Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Associate Professor, Art History, Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture, Southern Methodist University with moderator Jeremy Steinberg, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of PennsylvaniaGraphic promoting the keynote lecture of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Redefining the Political: Persianate Sociability and its States” by Mana Kia, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University with moderator Maryam Athari, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
Anna Storti@storti.bsky.social · 2y ago

Job: Postdoc in 'Feminism and the Culture Wars' at Duke University Apps due 1/15. Please apply and circulate widely. I’m leading this search and happy to answer questions academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29141

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