Edith Mirante

1899 Felix Thioller photo of dark horse and woman in long black coat moving across snow, trees & fence background.

that would be Joy Division,"Ice Age."

3 ER doctors in Myanmar (Burma) in 2020 during COVID pandemic. They wear blue scrubs, hair coverings and masks.

Healthcare professionals led the first resistance to the Feb. 2021 coup. For background on healthcare professionals of Burma (Myanmar), my May 2020 History Thread on another site: x.com/EdithMirante...

People-led Healthcare as Resistance to the Junta’s Crimes Against Care - Progressive Voice Since the military junta’s attempted coup on 1 February 2021, Myanmar has been plunged into a man-made humanitarian and healthcare catastrophe driven by systematic violence, collective punishment, the...

Healthcare efforts in Myanmar (Burma.) @pvamplify.bsky.social describes how Civil Disobedience Movement strikers, revolutionary medics & other healthcare professionals provide crucial services despite coup regime targeting & lack of funding. 🩺
progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2026/02/14/p...

Clive Branson wearing WW2 British Army uniform, with sketchbook. Noreen Branson smiling in plaid shirt. Clive Branson painting of London street march.

studio portrait of Karl Yoneda in dark suit, with Elaine Buchman Black in dress with white collar & ribbon. serious expressions.

For your radical Valentine ❤️: my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" includes 2 of the great 20th Century comrade romances: Clive & Noreen Branson and Karl Yoneda & Elaine Black (+ a reference to George & Mary Oppen.) 💝 🌹 📚 Order from: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...

Portland Oregon Indigenous groups in solidarity with Minnesota AIM organizing in the abolish ICE liberate Turtle Island Movement.
DHR PDX Decolonize Heal Resist and American Indigenous Movement Nomads (AIM) direct actions at PDX ICE

a white Victorian 2 story house with a porch and lawn with shrubs.

I stayed in the (former) bank building visible in that still from "Shadow of a Doubt" (it is now a hotel) last summer when I gave a lecture in Sonoma. Here's my photo of the house from the movie.

an array of candles & flowers on table & ledge at Portland ICE facility in 2018, some people in background.

a banner "Kick ICE out of Portland" on a fence next to ICE building, Portland Oregon 2018 & tents along adjacent railway tracks.

Here's a couple of pix of Portland, Oregon's Occupy ICE protest, which took place in Summer 2018. Yes, at the same wretched building from which Federal agents barraged toxic gas at our Labor march (incl. children) on Jan. 31, 2026 & launched gas clouds over the whole neighborhood the next evening.

Defiant beauty of jingle dress dance in Minneapolis. Indigenous resistance also at forefront vs ICE in Portland, OR since last summer (& all the way back to Portland 2018 Occupy Ice.) @cozca.bsky.social & other Indigenous defenders have been arrested by Feds for dancing/ceremonies at Portland ICE.

Against Refugee-ness The crisis I observed was not the crisis being represented. Refugee-ness is a visual grammar: unwritten rules insisting refugees look a certain way to be recognized. It edits people into narrow roles:...

New piece in THROAT on how the Rohingya have been seen and mis-seen since 2017. I look at the visual grammar of “refugee-ness,” how images shape public perception and policy, and why Rohingya photographers matter.

www.throat.art/feature/agai...

Clive Branson wearing WW2 British Army uniform, with sketchbook. Noreen Branson smiling in plaid shirt. Clive Branson painting of London street march.

studio portrait of Karl Yoneda in dark suit, with Elaine Buchman Black in dress with white collar & ribbon. serious expressions.

For your radical Valentine ❤️: my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" includes 2 of the great 20th Century comrade romances: Clive & Noreen Branson and Karl Yoneda & Elaine Black (+ a reference to George & Mary Oppen.) 💝 🌹 📚 Order from: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...

5 years after Feb. 1, 2021 Myanmar coup, unrelenting revolution vs coup regime continues throughout Burma (Myanmar.) People undaunted, in cities, forests, fields. Effective armed struggle & Civil Disobedience Movement are united to overcome oppression. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌿

crowd of people with signs in front of ICE building (at center) with white smoke.

Thousands marched against ICE/fascism Jan. 31 '26 Portland, Oregon (the rainy Portland) endorsed & led by 20 labor unions. Peaceful afternoon crowd incl. children, met with massive clouds of toxic gas unleashed by Fed agents at ICE facility. Solidarity with Minnesota and Maine (the snowy Portland.)

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The impact of Temporary Protected Status termination on Myanmar - DVB Guest contributor James Shwe Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from Myanmar in the United States is scheduled to end on January 26, even though Myanmar remains engulfed in civil war and huma...

Excellent overview on TPS for Burmese nationals from James Shwe.

Another ruling just yesterday in Minnesota: A federal judge calls it "particularly craven" that ICE transfered "a nursing refugee mother" out of state. Ta Eh Doh Lah was admitted as a refugee from Myanmar in 2024, has no criminal history and a 5-month-old. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fire Is Not an Accident or Why Rohingya Shelters Keep Burning A response to the Norwegian Refugee Council's press release on the 20 January fire in Rohingya Camp 16.

Fire Is Not an Accident or Why Rohingya Shelters Keep Burning

It has been 11 years now, still remembering the two Kachin teachers who were brutally raped and killed by Burmese Army soldiers. The brutal rape and killing of these two Kachin teachers is just one of the many examples of how the Burmese military is using rape as a weapon of war.

Cover of "where the mithuns are: essays on war, art and beasts"

When trying to learn about a struggle or context, what came before can be daunting to get an understanding of. With Myanmar @edithmirante.bsky.social work has really helped me learn more, that I maybe wouldnt have got to otherwise.

Very grateful to have been able to get a copy of her new book.
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Author: Edith Mirante The author reads from and discusses "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" her new book of inspiring essays. . Event starts at January 15, 2026 6:30 PM EST

For readers in New Jersey, I'll be speaking about my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" at @princetonpl.bsky.social Thurs. Jan. 15, 6:30 PM. Revolution in Burma (Myanmar), wild Arctic herbivores & labor firebrand Karl Yoneda. 📚 princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/15417929

Over the past 48 hours, more than ten individuals from the Myanmar diaspora in Minnesota have been detained by ICE and U.S. Border Patrol. Most have already been transferred to Houston, Texas, where they are now awaiting bond and deportation hearings. We have confirmed that many of these individuals were pressured by ICE officials to sign documents that would waive their legal rights and result in immediate deportation. Our staff has been working tirelessly alongside affected families, immigration attorneys, and trusted community partners to support those who have been detained and to protect others who may be at risk.

Absolutely devastating.
Message (Via news letter) from "the urban village" who work with mainly Karen & Karenni diaspora youth in Minnesota.

10 community members detained by ICE. Now at risk of being deported back to Myanmar.

Can support their work here:
www.theurbanvillage.org

Fuck ICE

Author: Edith Mirante The author reads from and discusses "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" her new book of inspiring essays. . Event starts at January 15, 2026 6:30 PM EST

For readers in New Jersey, I'll be speaking about my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" at @princetonpl.bsky.social Thurs. Jan. 15, 6:30 PM. Revolution in Burma (Myanmar), wild Arctic herbivores & labor firebrand Karl Yoneda. 📚 princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/15417929

Residents from a village of northern zone of Yinmarbin Twp, Sagaing Region, staged a morning protest to demolish the MilitaryDictatorship 10th jan. They can be seen holding hand painted banners & holding their fists in the air.

People in Myanmar continue to protest against the Junta despite huge risks, attacks & airstrikes.

They've embraced the full spectrum in terms of diversity of tactics. Peaceful protests, malicious compliance, global campaigns on & offline, mutual aid, armed resistance & more.

##RejectShamElection

18/18. Sources incl. Selth '00 & '10, McMillen '16, @minemonitor.bsky.social & @mattyrdubs.bsky.social. Other History Threads: projectmaje.org. Order my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" at: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi... (ebook for international readers tba in '26.)

Survivors of landmines and unexploded ordnance in Myanmar - DVB Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), which are munitions that have failed to detonate, continue to cause injuries that permanently alter lives in conflict-affected areas of Myanmar. “A landmine ex...

17. Landmines more widespread than ever in Myanmar, with nearly entire country evidencing landmine contamination in @minefreeworld mapping as of '24. Terrible effects on children. Civilian displacement & loss of livelihood as well as combatant casualties. english.dvb.no/survivors-of...

16. @chinhumanrights.bsky.social, @karenhrg.bsky.social, Karenni Human Rights Group & other NGOs in Myanmar document landmine casualties. Grassroots projects continue unsupported demining & safety info/training efforts, which can & should receive international funding through non-junta channels.

15. Anti-coup forces use landmines & remote-controlled IEDs to block regime transport routes. They also attempt landmine clearance. These high-risk efforts involve brave individuals (incl. civilian volunteers) who disable mines by hand & sometimes use of construction vehicles.

Myanmar: Surging Landmine Use Claims Lives, Livelihoods Myanmar’s military forces are increasingly using banned antipersonnel landmines that indiscriminately kill and injure people across the country. For the first time, Myanmar has topped the global list ...

14. 2024 UNOCHA described Myanmar as "littered with landmines." Landmine & Cluster Munitions Monitor showed landmine & "explosive remnants of war" casualties doubling '23 to '24, w. coup regime "expansion of mine/ERW contamination into residential areas". www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...

Myanmar: Military’s use of banned landmines in Kayah State amounts to war crimes Myanmar's military has been using internationally banned landmines in Kayah State, a new Amnesty International investigation found.

13. Following 2021 Myanmar military coup, use of landmines increased significantly. In 2022 Amnesty International described Myanmar coup regime landmines in Kayah (Karenni) St. as "on a massive scale" in civilian villages, fields, church. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Myanmar Landmine Casualty Rate Among World’s Worst: Report Burma is second only to Colombia and Afghanistan for landmine-related casualties, according to a new report from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

12. As civil society & press gained more freedom in 2010s Myanmar, awareness of landmine danger grew, with Myanmar in top 3 countries for landmine casualties (2014.) But it was difficult for nongovernmental organizations to establish demining projects. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/b...

Burma: Landmines Deadly for Fleeing Rohingya Burmese security forces have laid landmines during attacks on villages and along the Bangladesh border, posing a grave risk to Rohingya Muslims fleeing atrocities.

11. Myanmar was one of the last countries persisting with official military use of landmines in 21st C. Where Myanmar's western Rakhine St. (Arakan) borders Bangladesh, landmines were added to the array of genocidal attacks on Rohingya civilians in 2017. www.hrw.org/news/2017/09...