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Dr. Giusi Russo

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Historian and author in the Philadelphia area.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
All of us lately.
Toni, it’s so hot.

It’s the heat.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The sky at sunset tonight from Herring Cove in Provincetown.
An enormous cloud at sunset along Herring Cove beach in Provincetown, a faint orange smear by the horizon, a golden streak heading to the right.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Read my piece for the Guardian on the hypocrisy and double standards on full display.
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Gramsci & Lonzi | Incite Seminars
Imaginary Meetings in Auto-Coscienza  with GIUSI RUSSO ___________________ 📅 THURSDAYS: weekly, beginning May 14, 2026. ⏰ 6-7 PM Eastern US Time. See time zone converter if you’re in a different l...
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
link.springer.com/book/10.1007... My new edited collection on Third Worldism!
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Visions of Third Worldism
This volume provides a new definition of Third Worldism by exploring the collaborations between Europe and the Global South in response to colonialism.
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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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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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
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/04/2026
Justice for Chappell Roan!
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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.
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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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CfP Genesis: Le Conferenze dell’ONU sulle donne e la crescita del femminismo – SIS – Società Italiana delle Storiche
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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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.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Join us now! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#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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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.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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.
Substack Live annoucement
Top reads: "Substack Live with Heather Cox Richardson"
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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
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/03/2026
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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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...
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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 Philadelphia Citizen @thephilacitizen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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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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
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/02/2026
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!
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.
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A Movie About America Broke My Heart www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
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Opinion | A Movie About America Broke My Heart
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NPR @npr.org · 25/12/2025
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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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.
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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Billy Strings! Tiny Desk Concert These guys are fantastic! 👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
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Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Mad Men has returned to streaming, and these books are ready to compliment your next rewatch.
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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…
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 25/11/2025
Wisdom from Charles Schulz.
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Eleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · 11/11/2024
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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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.
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
✨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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New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
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Myriam Piguet @myriampiguet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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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Vol. 35 No. 1-2 (2025): Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900 | Comparativ
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Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center @makingworlds.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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
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.
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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.
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.
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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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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...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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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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 ...
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
bbc.com/news/article... The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine.
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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.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club), 1963 www.moma.org/collection/w...
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
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... a new review of my book!
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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)
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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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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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
She lives on: Nikki Giovanni, poet who wrote of Black joy www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
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Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
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Dr. Giusi Russo @giusirusso.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
@anardozi.bsky.social Angela 😘😘
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I interviewed @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about her new book, By The Fire We Carry, what Native people will be up against under Donald Trump, and the histories people in the US need to understand if they hope to create a just future.
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Reclaiming History: Rebecca Nagle on Native Struggle and Survival
"There are historical patterns and political patterns that a lot of people might not be able to recognize," says Rebecca Nagle.
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