Yasemin Toron

To be diverse in this setting is not to differ, but to conform to a new global idiom of correctness.

Diversity: Postcolonial Melancholia in the German-American Exchange
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The word diversity hovers above the older German terms—Integration, Ausländer—but never quite replaces them. It creates an illusion of progress, an English-speaking surface that covers the older hierarchies underneath.

The Blues Novel: Aesthetic, History, Survival What follows is an abstract on, not an attempt to define, what I think is the most vital fusion of African American musical, cultural, and narrative traditions in American literary history.

My favorite book, perhaps, is Gayl Jones’s *Corregidora* #bluesnovels #abstract open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...

Both political and organizational authoritarianism rely on the same psychological fuel: fear. When people are afraid to get punished, excluded, or fired, they obey. But fear corrodes trust, and obedience born from fear is fragile.

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Yasemin Toron (@yasemintoron) Great diagnosis by @Ijeoma Oluo, which is why many current protests don’t appeal to those who have always been oppressed and silenced.

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Getting a Ph.D. is now something that teenagers at age 17 do.

Austin Kocher (@austinkocher) Live Discussion: US Citizens Separated from Spouses w/ Julie Moreno I spoke with Julie Moreno yesterday, a U.S. citizen from New Jersey who made the gut-wrenching decision to help her husband of nine...

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The Crackdown There was a time when knowledge seemed like a vast but orderly map, its boundaries expanding with every experiment, every discovery, and every act of naming.

The Crackdown
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Family units are disrupted not simply for enforcement but to send a message: to deter, to frighten, to make everyone watching understand that belonging is conditional and precarious.

Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.

The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...

Die meisten deutschen Profs sind geistesgeschichtliche Zufälle. Keine bemerkenswerten Leistungen. Das einzige, was sie interessant macht ist die Germanisierung der lateinischen Sprache.

"Negative Dialektik." Boom.

🥙 Goethe 🥙

Minimizing the legacy of their/our colonialism, European and U.S. scholars like to poetically shift accountability elsewhere: open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...

The privileged discontent about a dysfunctional dishwasher.

"Upholding the ideals that have guided generations of Americans"

Unter dem Einfluss der Heldensage verlangt die gegenwärtige Kultur von uns eine kämpferische Haltung gegenüber den Widrigkeiten des Lebens.

Kann man, muss man nicht erfüllen.

The Case for Separation | Argument für eine Trennung open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...

Right-wing movements across Europe and the U.S. that seek to delegitimize the status of naturalized citizens as lesser or conditional citizens are not new but repeat older exclusions that sought to police belonging through

1. blood
2. soil
3. ancestry

Passdeutsche bedeutet eine Schlange von Leuten, die sich mit dem deutschen Pass an den Schalter für Nicht-EU-Leute stellen bis der oder die deutsche Grenzbeamte sagt, gehen Sie bitte durch und machen mir keine zusätzliche unbezahlte Arbeit.

Frau Weidels Doktortitel versteht halt nix von Wirtschaft.

Very cool.

Why do male and non-immigrant colleagues still earn more money for more predictable and less public-facing jobs?

Did the State seriously think immigrant women wouldn't find out? We did find out, and it is there for the bind between us to break.

Essay related to animals: open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...

repost because it's necessary:
Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.
-Frank Zappa

Bu bakımdan göç evrenseldir ve yolculuktan önce gerçekleşmiş olabilir.

In this respect, migration is universal and can have already taken place before the trip.

Göç sadece mekânın değişmesi değildir. Hafızanın da başka bir coğrafyaya yerleştirilmesidir.

Migration is not just a physical change of place. It is also the adjustment of one’s consciousness to a different geography.

The answer that was asked of Michel Foucault in his prominent conversation with Werner Schroeter, who asked whether Foucault would go for passion or love, was actually a demand for a decision between two stories.

Here's one that encourages both:
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It's my professional opinion that literature lectures shouldn't be subject to time constraints. They should take place spontaneously. Nothing has hurt us more than schedules and slots.

to appear and to disrupt.

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"Die stören die Leute! Die stören die Leute!"

The expression of annoyance at protest as I experienced yesterday around Palestine and Gaza is not an expression of political neutrality. It is a culturally sanctioned affect, one developed through racialized and colonial histories of who gets to speak,