Dr. Giusi Russo
@giusirusso.bsky.social
Historian and author in the Philadelphia area.
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I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
A Movie About America Broke My Heart www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Opinion | A Movie About America Broke My Heart
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February 8, 2026 at 11:04 PM
A Movie About America Broke My Heart www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
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Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
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Billy Strings! Tiny Desk Concert
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Billy Strings! Tiny Desk Concert
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
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Mad Men has returned to streaming, and these books are ready to compliment your next rewatch.
Three books to read if you too are rewatching Mad Men.
This week, the internet got a fun little treat when Mad Men, a pinnacle of early prestige TV, landed on HBOMax after a long absence from streaming services. Unfortunately, the new, much-hyped 4K re…
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December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Mad Men has returned to streaming, and these books are ready to compliment your next rewatch.
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Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
uncpress.org/978146968989...
uncpress.org/978146968989...
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
uncpress.org/978146968989...
uncpress.org/978146968989...
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Wisdom from Charles Schulz.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Wisdom from Charles Schulz.
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Hi there! I work on migration & asylum w/ a focus on rights, race, coloniality, & testimony in the Mediterranean & globally.
#CriticalRefugeeStudies via ethnography, media, narrative
My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
@ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 1/
#CriticalRefugeeStudies via ethnography, media, narrative
My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
@ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 1/
Emergency in Transit by Eleanor Paynter - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 11, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Hi there! I work on migration & asylum w/ a focus on rights, race, coloniality, & testimony in the Mediterranean & globally.
#CriticalRefugeeStudies via ethnography, media, narrative
My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
@ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 1/
#CriticalRefugeeStudies via ethnography, media, narrative
My book Emergency in Transit is out this month
@ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/emerge... 1/
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✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
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June 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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My review of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the UN, 1946–1975 by @giusirusso.bsky.social is out in Comparativ!
Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rights–and the roots of the global order.
Hope it inspires you to dive in! ✨
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rights–and the roots of the global order.
Hope it inspires you to dive in! ✨
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
Vol. 35 No. 1-2 (2025): Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900
| Comparativ
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May 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My review of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the UN, 1946–1975 by @giusirusso.bsky.social is out in Comparativ!
Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rights–and the roots of the global order.
Hope it inspires you to dive in! ✨
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
Her research is a vital read for anyone interested in international women's rights–and the roots of the global order.
Hope it inspires you to dive in! ✨
comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
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Join us for a May seminar series!
Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle
Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
Please register via the Making Worlds website.
See you there!
Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle
Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
Please register via the Making Worlds website.
See you there!
April 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Join us for a May seminar series!
Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle
Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
Please register via the Making Worlds website.
See you there!
Silvia Federici and Decolonial Topographies of Struggle
Every Wednesday in May from 3 PM - 4:30 PM
Please register via the Making Worlds website.
See you there!
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Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
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"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.
January 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.
If you are teaching a course on gender and internationalism, I'd like to recommend my book, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations," University of Nebraska Press, 2023,
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 - Nebraska Press
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 tells the story of how women’s bodies were at the center of the international politics...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If you are teaching a course on gender and internationalism, I'd like to recommend my book, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations," University of Nebraska Press, 2023,
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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I'm returning to teach this summer for a week at the Provincetown Work Center's Queer Week, 6/22-6/27. I'm teaching alongside Andrea Lawlor, Carmen Maria Machado, Catherine Opie, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Celeste Lecesne, Ilanda Savdie, and Miriam Klein-Stahl:
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Resurrections - FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown
This workshop is about returning to a piece of fiction you have struggled with and set aside–returning to it and bringing it back to life. We will look for ways to complete this work, including inner ...
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January 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'm returning to teach this summer for a week at the Provincetown Work Center's Queer Week, 6/22-6/27. I'm teaching alongside Andrea Lawlor, Carmen Maria Machado, Catherine Opie, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Celeste Lecesne, Ilanda Savdie, and Miriam Klein-Stahl:
fawc.org/summer-progr...
fawc.org/summer-progr...
bbc.com/news/article... The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine.
Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine
Blouin ran in the same circles as liberation icons like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré.
bbc.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
bbc.com/news/article... The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine.
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Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club), 1963 www.moma.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club), 1963 www.moma.org/collection/w...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... a new review of my book!
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
December 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... a new review of my book!
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She lives on: Nikki Giovanni, poet who wrote of Black joy www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
She lives on: Nikki Giovanni, poet who wrote of Black joy www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
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I interviewed @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about her new book, By The Fire We Carry, what Native people will be up against under Donald Trump, and the histories people in the US need to understand if they hope to create a just future.
Reclaiming History: Rebecca Nagle on Native Struggle and Survival
"There are historical patterns and political patterns that a lot of people might not be able to recognize," says Rebecca Nagle.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:05 PM
I interviewed @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about her new book, By The Fire We Carry, what Native people will be up against under Donald Trump, and the histories people in the US need to understand if they hope to create a just future.