Dr. Rachel Schine

have a little taste of the episode! plus @profgabriele.com does a silly little voice - which is exactly what Edward Gibbon sounded like. it's true. we're historians

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yeah and somehow journalists and academics are really proving themselves to be the biggest of the dumb-dumbs!

lol ok faiiiir...

it's also a little condescending to treat the home of one of the world's OG empires like it's incapable of participating in modern empire games...

Richard Medhurst being a dumbass

ok seriously the "Iran is doing decolonization" thing was maybe a bit pathetically naïve yesterday but today I'm beginning to wonder if any of you know the colonial history of Iran... or the Gulf in general for that matter... or what words mean

Fun fact, my phd advisor had to literally tell me to stop reading books because I needed to write my dissertation already. I didn't need that many connections to that meany different literatures.

ugh that's not the same! lol 😂

If writing is thinking and reading is thinking, then transitively reading should be writing, no? ... Wait, you mean actually no?

There's so much to be depressed about right now, particularly if you are connected to or focused on the Middle East.

This podcast with @rachelschine.bsky.social, talking about her recent monograph on race in medieval Islam, gave me joy.

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🥹 I’m so glad!

Shout out to the marvelous Sheida Dayani, Panahi’s translator!

She’s wonderful!!

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jafar Panahi - "It Was Just An Accident" | The Daily Show

Hearing this much continuous Farsi spoken on an American television program rn is its own win, and I will take it.
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lmao

😂

Dang

Lolsob

I hope there’s candy inside

Oh I’m sure she’s said that, but that also describes at least 4 ladies I know lol.

Oh I assumed it was short for wombat because of course we’d all have shrieking rodents inside us.

And if Iran bombs it into postcolonial peace is that better than us bombing everyone into neoimperial peace? How dead is irony should I keep beating it with my stick or nah?

wait so is the embassy a colonial outpost or is the UAE a colonial entity or is it all a colonial nesting doll and any layer down is one less doll to deal with?

🤷🏻‍♀️

I mean I can DM you but suffice it to say that this might be one of her smarter takes.

AND WHO'S FAULT IS THAT MARCO
WHO'S SUPPOSED TO PLAN FOR THAT MARCO

Masculinity is a scourge, and you can’t eat your way into or out of it: A History.

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

The Sultan's Sex Potions Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable a...

And of course there's also a male counterpart in the 'materia medica' adjacent genre. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi is known among historians of astronomy for his mathematical devices, but while looking up what else he wrote during his career, suddenly I was like wait, what? 👀 indiepubs.com/collections/...

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