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Dr. Laura M. Furlan

@laurafurlan.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of English. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). ACLS Fellow. Writer of creative nonfiction. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.

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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Congrats! It’s lovely!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ooh! I’ve been looking for work on digital archives!!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Western Mass is gorgeous in fall. Pics from a hike at Earl’s yesterday.
Reflection of multi-colored fall trees on a pond. Not a cloud in the sky.Close up pic of a cutie little fern amidst fallen leaves.Roots under more fallen leaves. Many reds and yellows in there.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
First Indigenous Peoples Day where I can say: If you are not fully aware of how the US government has terrorized Indigenous people and our children from its inception, read my book.
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Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story by Ashley Fairbanks | Moon Palace Books
Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Adorable!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Saw her open for Brandi Carlile twice! She was great.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh, they’re trying to KILL kill us.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can confirm: “Not knowing anything about yourself genetically is terrifying," says the 26-year-old, "you can't even begin to imagine it." 🥚 Many heritable health problems emerge later in life. Hence, ongoing communication between adoptees and birth families is needed. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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What happens when you grow up not knowing your family medical history?
People who have been adopted or are in care sometimes struggle to access family medical history which could be crucial to their own health.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is such horrible news.Tofik is wicked good. Hoping for the best for him.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nearly hit a fox on the Province Lands bike path! 🚲
Sign for Cape Cod National Seashore, with arrows pointing toward Race Point Beach, Herring Cove Beach, Bennett Pond, and the Province Lands Visitor Center. Behind the sign is sand and some scrubby trees.A yellow sign with a bicycle on a black triangle, warning of incline. Sand and scrubby trees behind.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Last day of my Ptown writing retreat. Book intro is up to 22 pages, a nearly complete draft! #acwriting
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World
I came of age as a writer reading N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain, House Made of Dawn, and Angle of Geese (his creative nonfiction memoir, novel, and collection of poems). Momaday, lik…
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my Econ dept at UMass Amherst is hiring 🎺 I love my job; our students and faculty are excellent, and we have a strong faculty union pls reach out if you or an excellent candidate you know is applying deadline 11/15 careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lovely work!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cosmic Crisp. Jazz if I ever see them again.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yellow dahlias outside the Provincetown art museum.
Very big yellow dahlias, with a silver railing below the bottom one. Street scene behind is out of focus.
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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Feels immediate and responsive to the current moment in the United States." Ronnie K. Stephens's review of “We” by Layli Long Soldier (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/10/06/c...
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Collective Memory and Resistance in "We" - Chicago Review of Books
Renowned poet and artist Layli Long Soldier follows up her award-winning collection, Whereas, with a complex new collection that challenges the conventions of genre. We continues Long Soldier’s confro...
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Book intro is up to 16 pages, give or take some unfinished paragraphs. 🎉 #acwriting
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I did my part! Raised and released about 20 this year.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/10/2026
"Talking Objects is an attempt to contextualise objects that were plundered through colonial domination. It is an experiment in building a decolonial archive for decolonial knowledge production." africandigitalheritage.org/talking-obje...
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Talking Objects - Building a Digital Archive for Decolonial Knowledge Production
What comes to mind when you encounter the term ‘Talking Objects’? If we challenged you to let your imagination run free and restrict every impulse to limit your thoughts and ideas, what do you picture...
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Walking out at low tide.
Wet sandy beach, calm water. Some houses to the left. The sky is some amazing shades of blue. The sun is behind me.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just saw 10 of them hanging out across the street from the grocery store in Ptown.
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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We’ve Been Here The Whole Time! A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America is out TODAY! Buy the book, and see me all across the country on my national book tour! Links in comments. See you tonight at The Elysian in Los Angeles and tomorrow at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The view from my writing desk in Ptown.
A peek of very blue water thru buildings  and power lines and fences. Long Point lighthouse is in the distance.
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Jessica Wranosky @jessicawranosky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve done something like this in Gen Ed courses. I may call them “quick writes,” but they are essentially a one-question reading quiz. Some students still won’t read tho.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A beautiful, windy ride to Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro.
A sandy path thru a meadow, with the ocean at the end. There is a line of white capped waves. The sky is blue, with a little menacing cloud nearby.Trail sign for Head of the Meadow Bicycle Trail Connector, which shows paths and roads thru Truro, water on either side.
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Bob “Birdman” Price @drbirdmanbob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... Red Power is back! RPH hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz continue their series on Indigenous futurisms through a discussion of the new collection of stories and poems, "Beyond the Glittering World" (2026)
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Living in the ripe world - RPH vs. "Beyond the Glittering World"
Podcast Episode · The Red Nation Podcast · October 5 · 1h 27m
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m in Ptown this week too! Would you be interested in meeting up for a coffee or to co-write?
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I start with a little bit of reading on some part that excites me, falling into some rabbit holes, typing passages I like, putting together bibliography.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This👇. I got a free trial of YouTube tv just so I could get USA. Why do I have a WNBA subscription even?
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Packing up my 📚 and my 🚲 for this week’s writing retreat in Ptown!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ooh this comes at the perfect time for me!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been wanting to find Angel De Cora in the Bridge Street Cemetery, and I finally did. I’ve been a little obsessed with her since I saw some of her archives at Carlisle.
A headstone set into the ground that reads Angel De Cora Deitz 1871-1919. Behind it stands a large headstone made from a pointed rock that indicates this is a Clapp family plot. There is a white shed to the left, and you can see a red house on Parsons St. These were the clues the Northampton Historical Society gave me. She attended Smith College and caught the flu while back visiting a friend. She is buried in that friend’s family plot. Her headstone is newer because non-family members were not allowed to have them at the time of her burial.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wrote four new sketchy paragraphs of my book introduction today at a lovely catered writing retreat. #writingishard
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am so excited about this behind- the-scenes tour of Emily Dickinson’s house! @emilydickinson.bsky.social
Description of the Behind the Scenes Tour with Executive Director Jane Wald, promising to reveal parts of the house under restoration.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m sorry! I was in a rush. I meant Lilly Dancyger’s book, about her artist father.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is such a fabulous piece! As a book, it could be akin to Negative Space or the Autobiography of Carson McCullers in its telling and personal experience in the archive.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heck yeah.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t tell you how many of my creative nonfiction students write about it too.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to Layli Long Soldier! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
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Layli Long Soldier
Exploring ways to articulate Native American histories and celebrate enduring kinship, strength, and creativity.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always nice to see the Hawkeyes in the news. 😜
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am wondering the same.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think the Courtyard is a mile away?
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Re-sharing (and shares welcomed!!!), my upcoming class for @shipmanagency.bsky.social … Starting this Saturday, on pitching, open to nonfiction writers of all kinds … Enroll today, if you are considering doing so, it’s last call … www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
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Craft Seminar: The Art of the Pitch with Sandy Ernest Allen — The Shipman Agency
2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a...
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My wife just got us pre-sale tickets for Port Chester!
Poster for Brandi Carlile’s Burn the Setlist Tour, which features a black and white photo with burned edges of her and the twins playing guitars. The dates of the shows are printed at the bottom.
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Port Chester here I come!
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Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think about this every time I see a Maura Healey sign in someone’s yard.
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