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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

September issue of my newsletter, Immigrant Strong, is out. It's completely free (and has been since I started it 6 years ago) and drops in your inbox just once a month. immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

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Immigrant Strong: September 2025 Issue

On model immigrants, a neighborhood friendship, and inheriting belonging

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Lidija Hilje @lidijahilje.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

So excited about this interview @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Thank you @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social for asking such insightful questions! And enormous thanks to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🤍

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

July issue of my newsletter on immigrant literature is out. As always, it's free, and drops in your inbox just once a month. immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

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Immigrant Strong: July 2025 Issue

On belonging in Cuba, a homecoming, and colonial legacies

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"Srebrenica should have been a model for post-genocide accountability. Instead, it stands as a case study in how legal truth, without official and societal acknowledgment, can entrench exclusionary nationalism." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

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Opinion | The Law Is Not Enough to Stop War Crimes

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

June issue of my free monthly newsletter, Immigrant Strong, is out: immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

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Immigrant Strong: June 2025 Issue

On writing in two languages, fever dreams, and Iran

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Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2025

This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy. Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

proud to be a part of this beautiful—and now award-winning!—anthology, entirely written by immigrants and children of immigrants

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

may issue of Immigrant Strong, my free monthly newsletter, is out! includes an essay i published this month, my favorite memoir of the year so far, and more writing and interviews with immigrant writers open.substack.com/pub/immigran...

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Immigrant Strong: May 2025

My Electric Lit essay, the newsletter turns six, and my favorite memoir of the year

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 20/05/2025

Read Vesna Jaksic Lowe’s (@vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social‬) essay on the politics surrounding Eurovision, and how the world’s most watched non-sports event strives for a failed national premise of unity.

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

i wrote about Eurovision, coming from a country that no longer exists, nostalgia, and more for one of my favorite literary magazines, @electricliterature.com. this essay has been in my head for years—thank you for giving it a home. electricliterature.com/eurovision-r...

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Eurovision Reminds Me of a Country That No Longer Exists - Electric Literature

Europe’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it

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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

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E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

April issue of my newsletter is out! Three poetry collections, and beautiful essays and interviews. As always, it's free and lands in your inbox just once a month. A great way to support immigrant writers and immigrant literature! immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

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Immigrant Strong: April 2025 Issue

On cousins, otherness, and how fear changes society

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.

“It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.”

The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

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Zach Lowe @zachlowenba.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New Zach Lowe Show! The Wild West playoff race, Lakers-OKC, MVP, All-NBA, All-Defense w/ @howardbeck.bsky.social -- then @anthonyvslater.bsky.social for a Warriors deep dive: open.spotify.com/episode/1Qxi...

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Lakers' Statement Win Over OKC? Plus, Awards Talk With Howard Beck and a Warriors Check-In With Anthony Slater.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thank you Croatian Women's Network/Mreza Hrvatskih Zena for this honor 🇭🇷 ❤️

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

February issue of my newsletter is out! As always, it's free and drops in your inbox only once a month —just enter e-mail to subscribe. immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

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Immigrant Strong: February 2025 Issue

On female friendship, a bike, and Dominican immigrants in New York

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

lovely experience to hear one of my essays performed on stage at the Your Faithful Reader show in NYC

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

bravo, studenti, bravo novi sade ❤️ a small town with a huge heart. this is what it looks like to fight against corruption and injustice.

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

i'm used to US media largely ignoring the rest of the world, but it's incomprehensible that the protests in Serbia have barely made it into news here. they are massive and student-led—just like they they were when Milosevic was overthrown. my beautiful birth city ❤️ www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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Protesters in Serbia arrive in Novi Sad for weekend bridge blockade

Weeks of student-led protests, the largest in Serbia in decades, continue to mount a challenge to the Western Balkan country's President Aleksandar Vučić. #EuropeNews

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

oh the irony of my parents leaving yugoslavia on the verge of war and now me living under fascism in the US

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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CDC Data Are Disappearing

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

excited to have an essay in this show, on in nyc through sunday

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

January issue of Immigrant Strong is out! As always, my newsletter is free and drops in your inbox just once a month! immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-... Featuring @farah-ali.bsky.social @anandalima.bsky.social @nikchanghoon.bsky.social, Stephanie Foo, Sahar Delijani, Edwidge Danticat...

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Immigrant Strong: January 2025 Issue

On Hedgebrook, writing in dangerous times, translating your life, and the politics of place

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

i plan to stay informed, but don't want to be constantly bombarded by the fascists' latest episode of stupidity, racism, hatred, ignorance and incompetence bc i cannot function if i'm always angry and outraged. so FYI that you can go under settings and mute certain words.

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'll send the January issue of my newsletter, Immigrant Strong, early nest week. It's free and drops in your inbox just once a month, with links to books, essays, and interviews by immigrants, children of immigrants, and others in diaspora. Just enter email to subscribe: immigrantstrong.substack.com

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Immigrant Strong by Vesna Jaksic Lowe | Substack

Writing by—and children of—immigrants and refugees. The struggles, the triumphs, and the quirks. Click to read Immigrant Strong by Vesna Jaksic Lowe, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribe...

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

eternally grateful for the time, space, community, and radical hospitality from Hedgebrook ❤️

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

beautiful, incredibly creative, vulnerable and powerful at the same time - congrats, Nik!

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

at the airport, heading to Hedgebrook. beyond grateful, excited, nervous—all the feels. the world is hell and celebrating personal stuff feels weird, but i’m holding on to every piece of joy and my writing life as tightly as i can.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 05/12/2024

Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our new Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor! Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]

Want to join the Split/Lip Press Team? We're looking for a Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor! Applications open 12/5-12/15! For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

wonderful reading in my former hometown of toronto this week for the launch of Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home. so deeply grateful to be a part of this book, entirely written by immigrants and children of immigrants ❤️📚🌏

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We're less than a week out from the Toronto launch of Back Where I Came From & are happy to share that @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social will now be joining us! Also ft. Hannah Zaala-Uul, Lisha Peel, Mahta Riazi, Nadine Araksi, Angelo Santos & Alexandra C. Yeboah. www.facebook.com/events/57846...

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vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

i’ll be in my former hometown of toronto on monday for the launch of this beautiful anthology written by immigrants and children of immigrants about our diasporic lives. join me and other contributors at this free reading!

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