as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia

The Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe has released a public statement on the fascist 'Za Dom Spremni' salute👇

Just bracing for the backlash that has already begun to trickle in... this is an inevitability, particularly in November.
chgrse.wordpress.com/public-state...

Over 50 masked men gathered in front of the Serb Cultural Centre in Zagreb tonight, chanting the Croatian version of Sieg Heil–Za Dom Spremni.

The police checked their IDs and let them go. This follows a similar incident in Split and death threats made to Pupovac.

www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

Centering his minoritised identity is "a radical move in a political culture that expects minoritised candidates to constantly reassure majority audiences."

The author makes an interesting comparison to Obama, who attempted to downplay his difference to appease white Americans.👇

Great documentary on student protests in Serbia, highly recommended: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3t4...

I wonder if Vučić is watching this with trepidation.

Zašto su HDZ-ovci poludjeli na benkovački festival:

"Mirotvorac" ruši službeni narativ o tzv. Domovinskom ratu kao crno-bijeloj priči skroz nevinih Hrvata i krivih Srba. Film otvara pitanje unutarnje odgovornosti za rat i pokazuje krvave HDZ-ove ruke za ratne zločine u Osijeku.

Pogledajte film:

The pertinent question is not whether languages exist. Of course they exist. What those of us who are often derisively called “postmodern” are pushing the field to ask is how languages come to exist, who benefits from them existing in these particular ways and how else they can and do exist.

Worth every second of your day.

"But I'm closer to you than you are to yourself
and this, my enemy friend,
is the definition of distance."

A new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, published by Artikularij, includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection.

Here are four of the images; four were posted last week, and we'll share the rest in coming weeks!

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Where many linguists see a language tree I see race science presenting itself as objective linguistic fact

LSA Presidential Research Forum

Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use.

Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

#LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

If you're interested in the linguistic practises of the Serb minority in post-war Croatia, or, more generally, wondering how is it possible to *hear* ethnicity & (im)morality, check out my first peer-reviewed article published in @nationalitiesp.bsky.social!

This is a really good and succinct overview of what has been happening in Serbia, with lessons for resistance/progressive movements elsewhere. Read up! jacobin.com/2025/06/serb...

If you haven't watched The Peacemaker [Mirotvorac] yet, make it a priority. I am grateful that more complex narratives of the 1990s war are finally being disseminated in Croatia.
vimeo.com/1067050253

Exploring how people find dignity in situations of mass violence, genocide, and callous warfare is both heartbreaking and incredibly important work.

7 years ago today I testified in front of a NYC judge + jury how widespread ignorance of how academia works helped a murderer kill a promising scholar vulnerable only because he wanted a stable job. Things have only gotten scarier. Please share: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/historian-mu...