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Rebecca Glade

@rmglade.bsky.social
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Historian of protest, political claim making, and state crackdowns. Student of Sudans and Horn of Africa. Visiting Researcher at Makerere University. New Orleanian.

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Interesting-it's similar to the distinction David Schoenbrun makes between instrumental and creative power in central Africa in the deep past.
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Open call for Sudanese fine artists from around the world to participate in an art project. Each selected artist will receive €800 to produce an artwork. Details and link to apply here: www.instagram.com/gz_kampala/p...
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This will pretty much end international students pursuing doctorates. A shocking decision and one which will do irreparable damage to the United States in the long term. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump administration caps student visa stays at 4 years under final rule
Critics have castigated the measure, arguing it ignores average degree completion times and creates unnecessary burdens for international students.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Large scale historical datasets are very hard to come by. Historical research is often about pulling scraps of different things together to make sense of it all. Historical primary sources can be considered *traces* of the past, because so much stuff goes unrecorded.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You guys, why is this copy editor trying to insert a million emdashes into my article?? Am I just not a cool kid or is there a problem with commas that I'm unaware of?
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I care about the topic of the panel (Higher Education in Sudan since the war) but will definitely rethink agreeing to participate in future events organized by this university or the colleagues who put it together.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In any case, I'm struck by the incredible lack of accountability. No one acknowledged anything was wrong, and I expect to hear nothing in follow-up. The moderator will be able to continue treating more junior female colleagues this way and no one will say anything.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This same moderator outright forgot to give me time to answer questions despite attendees addressing questions to me directly, then cut me off and didn't give me time to answer all the questions.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just spoke on a panel where the moderator addressed all other academics using their academic title (Dr/Prof) except for me, where he used my first name...
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm excited to share my contribution to the AHA's Authoritarianism 101 syllabus. My module uses a Sudanese national security report from 1971 to discuss how authoritarian regimes evaluate threats. www.historians.org/module/threa...
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Threat Assessment in Authoritarian States – AHA
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I was pretty dispirited after last year's meeting. I have no plans to attend AHA's annual meeting this year, and may well have forgotten or decided not to renew my membership to vote. This email changed my mind: it's clear they're scared.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I mean, the reason they sent that email is they're scared... It may make more sense to register to vote and vote for the HPAD slate instead. Make this their last email.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Muzan’s ability to create space for new possibilities should not be one that we yield in this terrible moment. By carrying her sensibility with us, we might build that better world, one of which she would be proud."
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The principled gardener: A tribute to Muzan Alneel - أتر
The past weeks have been defined by loss for Sudan and for the Sudanese political sphere. April 15th, the third anniversary of the outbreak of war in Sudan, was already set to be a sad day. Muzan al N...
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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026
(I was in grad school. I knew many assholes who read a lot. Reading a lot does not improve character or build imagination.)
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It was a way to keep a degree of restriction without paralyzing all businesses. They also kept online banking running. This seems like an attempt to deal with the slowdowns that having an extended internet outage create socially and economically.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In many ways, "tiered internet subscription censorship" seems like a more sophisticated form of internet blackout. When Sudan blocked internet for a month in 2021, it kept DSL wifi (available at businesses that paid more for it) online, but blocked standard data and wifi.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I was happy to review Harry Cross' new book Undoing a Revolution: Sudan and the Politics of Debt. atarnetwork.com?p=25376
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Debt, Power, and the Unmaking of Sudan’s Revolution - أتر
Harry Cross’ Undoing a Revolution takes on a tough topic: the politics of sovereign debt. More often than not, this topic is discussed at the global level rather than that of an individual country. In...
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It reminds me of that quote from a Terry Pratchett novel about a character knowing how to start spelling banana but not how to finish spelling it. I don't think I've ever spelled accommodation right on the first try
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
read every genre, especially if you want to be a writer. read everything, if you want to call yourself a reader. read a short story collection about astronauts and then read a children’s book about mortality. grow up.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Oh wow, you said hot takes, but I did not expect this...
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I have a Sudanese friend who commented that when he went to Egypt for the first time, he felt like he had entered a movie or musalsal because he associated Egyptian dialect so heavily with tv 🤣
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is absolutely true. It also intersects with the enshittification of social media-during the 2018/19 revolution in Sudan, people could see how many people were on the street even when other media refused to cover it. Now we think it isn't there because we don't see our community going out online
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/01/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Today at tv time, my nephew earnestly asked his parents if he could watch "the show with a gargoyle and dragon, and they're both good, and they're both friends." Turns out this show does not (yet) exist. TV producers, you have your task. We're waiting.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
1000 days ago we woke up to my then 3 year old asking me if I could turn that horrible sound (of gunshots and explosions) off, because it’s scary. My heart goes out to everyone, especially those parenting while surviving this war in Sudan and elsewhere. May it all end inshallah. Everywhere.
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵
Image of a train in a sea of revolutionaries waving Sudanese flags. Protestors fill the image, including many standing on top of the train.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/12/2025
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real Both are true
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Those interested should submit to the journal! Our CfP for next year's issue is still active until December 19th.
journals.mak.ac.ug
Makerere Historical Journal (MHJ)
Peer-reviewed research journal on Ugandan and Eastern African history, archaeology, and heritage. Established in 1975 at Makerere University.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Makerere Historical Journal was established in 1975 and ran from 1975-77 then from 1988-91. We are now publishing again with support from Makerere University Press and their excellent production team.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The revival issue of the Makerere Historical Journal is out! It has been an honor working with the rest of the editorial team to publish this issue and revive a historic East African journal.
journals.mak.ac.ug
Makerere Historical Journal (MHJ)
Peer-reviewed research journal on Ugandan and Eastern African history, archaeology, and heritage. Established in 1975 at Makerere University.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This article profiles how impressive Khartoum residents are in rebuilding their homes together, as a community. I'm struck by the injustice of it though nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
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Sudan’s People Are Rebuilding Their Capital Without Government Help
U.S. aid has evaporated. Government promises remain unfulfilled. But Khartoum's residents are making their neighborhoods livable again, with or without institutional backing.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine. "in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."
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Education Denied: How War and Inequality Have Weaponised Education Access Against the Next Generation - أتر
The war is systemically eliminating pathways for education, normalising a future where learning becomes a privilege of the few. Education in Sudan has been not only an essential service but a means of...
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Sudan needs support and funding for food aid among many things. But the country will not be "saved" by foreigners. Communities are surviving now because of the heroic work of ERRs and Sudanese civil society. Miliband's interview is ghoulish.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The transitional government "did not get the backing it needed" because the int'l community demanded austerity, not security sector reform, yet somehow that's not mentioned. Then fudging about genocide in Darfur (explain 2023 Geneina to me without the term), and demanding support for INGOs. Gross.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
What an embarrassing interview. Choosing to interview a British NGO director rather than someone specialized in Sudan. THEN editing out almost all mention of the revolution, popular demands for civilian government, and ERRs and Sudanese mutual aid. Bad choices by Harris, and bad framing by Miliband
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The Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World Is Going Mostly Ignored
And things are only going to get worse as U.S. aid lags.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine. "in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."
atarnetwork.com
Education Denied: How War and Inequality Have Weaponised Education Access Against the Next Generation - أتر
The war is systemically eliminating pathways for education, normalising a future where learning becomes a privilege of the few. Education in Sudan has been not only an essential service but a means of...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 12/11/2025
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thank you so much Nisrin for writing this excellent essay! I've learned a lot from it.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Talk about disgraceful. It's also remarkable how completely this sort of discussion ignores that this is counterrevolutionary war-you don't have to endorse SAF to decry the RSF.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This. I've found that there's often a downside to strict policies in high achieving environments, even on things that are important. Students who you need to be firm with don't necessarily respond better to harsher policies, but the students who are rule followers end up getting VERY stressed.
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Some people really make me wish their liberation was not bound up with mine. But like, you deserve to be free, but I wish you would stop being a turd.
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
During each of the previous assaults on Gaza, Sudanese women brought their gold - their only asset and means for security - to send aid to the people of Palestine. Do not dishonor my people by using Sudan's suffering as a zionist shield.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Some forms of automation are useful. Others aren't. All should be understood as tools with limits, advantages, and disadvantages.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
One thing that gets lost is that people have called things "AI" for a long while, and in many ways, all it means is "automation." Translation via machine learning can be really useful-and it also functions differently than LLMs.
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
and she seems very very upset...
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Obviously it won't come to that extreme in the US with cutting SNAP benefits. But I wouldn't be surprised if poor people made homeless end up taking up poorly paid jobs that they otherwise would have passed on due to poor working conditions or insufficient pay for commute, etc
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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is important. During famines in Sudan in the 1980s, rural dwellers would leave their land in moments of food unavailability (from systematic dispossession followed by crop failures) and take up exploitatively low wage jobs in cities in order to get food, creating essentially a slave economy.
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