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Farah Bakaari

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
editors at revered, refereed journals: we allow AI in service of equity because not everyone has the resources to write well in this beautiful difficult and god-anointed medium called the english language. me: showing up to english-only boarding school at age 13 without a word of english.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it’s so rare i get behind a berkeley bumper sticker 😇
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
imagine my absolute delight when i discovered that brilliant minds of “twenty twelve” and W1A have brought ian fletcher out from retirement to advice BLEEP for 2026 world cup…imagine my sadness to discover it’s not as good and barely has any brits in it.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
what if you started your morning with hortense spillers? 😎
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“This is what California can do to you.” i cannot think of a better place to read @mitchtherieau.bsky.social tearing at how everything, and especially love, is desublimated in california than on a flight TO california 🤩 defector.com/the-red-hot-...
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
PSA: google sucks now. it’s no longer a search engine. but did you know it’s so easy to install duckduckgo and make it your default browser on your chrome app?!
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
i feel like i watch the “free churro” episode of bojack horseman at least once a quarter, more in the winter months.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
sure, you can see christopher nolan’s the odyssey or you can spend the morning re-reading thomas mofolo’a chaka (trans. from sesotho) be reminded of 2008 bollywood historical epic ‘jodhaa akbar’ which you then proceed to watch dubbed in arabic. just saying, there’s also that kind of sunday available
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
but instead i got myself a glass ⚡️
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
this morning, i have to open my email inbox after living carefree & laptop free on the better coast for two glorious weeks.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ya rab ya rahman 🧿🇸🇳
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
during the 2018 world cup i got into a fight with my friend (a liberal french white woman) who objected to mine stating the obvious that year’s entire team were african immigrants or children of african immigrants. “no, they’re french,” she insisted.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
how your email finds me 🫠
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
sometimes i find this town rather endearing :/
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Once you have overcome your initial shock at conversing with a mellifluous, perky, female AI recruiter with a two-syllable name, it becomes easy to do so again, and again, and again.“
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
here, a task: i read this multiple times. think i understand it, yet i know i don’t fully grasp it. that feeling of knowing something almost but not quite is so fun & exhilarating. it’s even more exhilarating knowing i can bring it to a room of other interested smart folks & work through it together
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
in berkeley, like anywhere else, people make use of stop signs to get a point across. i want a place to collect these little pronouncements that isn’t my camera roll and since i’m too lazy to use bluesky to communicate my virtues, i shall use it for this 🛑
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
may your spite be this powerful
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
it’s always best to buy print because in addition to supporting great independent publishing, you can also forever own my typos. they’re yours, no one can take them away from you! @bostonreview.bsky.social
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
oakland beer says: you do you, babe, but we ain’t chasing nothing 🍻
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
the two degrees to amazon of it all
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
i’m “re”reading this because i don’t recall anything about what i read a year ago in the haze and haste of writing my dissertation introduction. @manshel.bsky.social
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
i’m also curious as to why modern people should read novels. and would be grateful for some insight, but could settle for a nice picture
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
today’s class.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
i do sincerely believe there’s an emily dickinson poem for every one of life’s occasions and emotions.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
it only took me 7 months of being on the job but i can finally print all on my own.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Oh yes! I love them. It’s one of the signature for my goodbye party when i was leaving ithaca
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
no, please don’t delete!! that’s my emotional support new historicist anecdote
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
today i started class with bad bunny’s halftime show because that’s where the students were at and it became an excellent fodder for our unit on narratology, also a great way to review our discussion on immanent critique and totality from a few sessions ago.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
as part of “easing into” the seminar on criticism we read auerbach’s essay on odysseus’ scar alongside first 10 pages of sinykin & winant’s close reading book. it’s not an easy essay but the students were up for the challenge and for exploring the worlds opened up by an attention to a single detail!
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My review of Aboulela’s River Spirit is now out in Africa Journal. The line of argument I follow here differs from what I had focused on in my trade review of the book for LARB over two years ago. The book I’m supposedly writing also opens with this novel and the question of generations. Link below.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
i did some high school, all of college, and grad school in the US and i have never experienced any institutional acknowledgement of ramadan before let alone a plan for accommodation. there’s so much to despair about in higher ed these days but this made me smile.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
i move to california, the drought ends. draw your causal conclusions, please.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
me bracing myself for all the circling back emails tomorrow 🫠
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
right?!? although i do love watching a brawl. in reality there’s none. as i told you earlier we should just all read doris lessing and rejoice.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
in the spring, i’m teaching an undergraduate seminar on criticism that is solely organized around doris lessing’s the golden notebook and i couldn’t be more excited :/
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
my mood at 9am on this sunday.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
as someone who went to not one but two small experimental art pubs parties last night and who co-founded another, i find the scene i just read pretty funny.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
every day this week, while i had been cooped up inside with a deadline, it’s been 50° and sunny, but the minute i finished and could go run errands and get life done, it rains all day.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
teaching a short excerpt from rob nixon’s ‘slow violence’ this morning. this is how nixon starts the book, reminding you that the global south has always known larry summers for the moral degenerate that he is.
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
when i signed up i hadn’t realized that what i thought was a comments section was actually where your preferred name was supposed to go, so this was my name at the berkeley half marathon today 🤦🏾‍♀️
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Go Bears 🐻✨
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
i just want to finish ONE thing this semester, just one thing. how am i this tired and this behind??
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
a grading interlude: brownies for class tomorrow. i’ve finally christened my oven and baked in berkeley! but i still have 11 more papers to grade 🥹
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
this little guy is the apartment building’s communal pet. he’s always by the door except when he sneaks into windows
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
and now i’m reminded of laundry! there’s simply too much demand on a sunday. i waited too long and so this view came at a considerable dehydrating cost
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
i’m so disappointed in female vets for not leading to the downfall of society. women really are weak
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
these are certainly “interesting times” because delta airlines now has free wifi and i’m squandering it by hate-reading this oxymoronic garbage. if that’s not a sign of female pathology, i don’t know what is. feminism can’t save me from the new york crimes
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