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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧩 Spent this Saturday morning building the Diasporas Speaking @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social website!

🚀 Coming soon!

#Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Bosnia #Croatia #Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia #Slovenia #Balkans #DiasporasSpeaking

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · Aug 11

You have asked for my Diaspora story and my dear friend Arber Qerka-Gashi interviewed me in a BBC Desert Island inspired format where I tell my diaspora story through seven songs.

Listen to

Music, Memory & Movement: Exploring Diasporic life through sound
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Music, Memory & Movement: Exploring Diasporic life through sound

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · Aug 11

You have asked for my Diaspora story and my dear friend Arber Qerka-Gashi interviewed me in a BBC Desert Island inspired format where I tell my diaspora story through seven songs.

Listen to

Music, Memory & Movement: Exploring Diasporic life through sound
open.spotify.com/episode/3O0f...

Music, Memory & Movement: Exploring Diasporic life through sound

Diasporas Speaking · Episode

open.spotify.com

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · Jul 11

It was an honour and a privilege to be entrusted with Selma Jahic's story.
Listen to Selma narrating how her family survived the Srebrenica genocide and the importance remembrance.

linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

#Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #RememberSrebrenica #NeverForget

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · Jul 11

For this episode of Diasporas Speaking, I speak with Selma Jahić, who, together with her brother and mother, survived the Srebrenica genocide. She shares her family’s story of survival, loss, and the ongoing fight for justice and remembrance.

#RememberSrebrenica #NeverForget #Bosnia

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · Jul 11

Listen in full: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

Diasporas Speaking | Instagram | Linktree

View diasporaspeaking’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · Jul 11

30 years on, we honour over 8372 Bosniak men and boys murdered brutally by Serbian forces in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Remembering is resistance against denial.

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · Jun 3

Dear Academics,

All materials produced at Diasporas Speaking can only be explicitly used upon written request for permission.

Thank you!

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 30

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking:

Post-2000 Migration from Serbia: Storming Against Your Government's Political Legacy with Damnjan Jovanovic

Listen on Spotify: inkd.in/ebHGCswR
YouTube: inkd.in/eUATkADQ
ApplePodcasts: inkd.in/eXrP3zZxl

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · May 24

Unfortunately Meta has without reason closed my @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social Instagram page there. While I am waiting to retrieve it, please follow me at @njegruashkruan on IG where I will be posting updates. Thank you 🙏

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · May 17

A few thoughts before #Eurovision 2025 grand final.

This is an event that asks contestants and viewers to put politics aside for a night and enjoy a song contest, created in 1956 when all participating countries were at peace with each other, 11 years after most of them had been at war.

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · May 17

#Eurovision ✨✨✨

The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 17

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking:

After all, Eurovision explains everything with Dr Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social

Listen in full: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · May 17

A pleasure to talk to @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social for this one.

If @rinel.bsky.social invites you on her podcast, you’re in for a treat.

The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 17

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking:

After all, Eurovision explains everything with Dr Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social

Listen in full: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · May 17

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 17

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking:

After all, Eurovision explains everything with Dr Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social

Listen in full: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 13

Also proof that Č and Ć or in Albanian Ç and Q are the same letters 😅

The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 13

What does it mean to learn a language as a non-local when you do not live in the country?
Curious insight from Dr Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social in the most recent episode of Diasporas Speaking, where he among others explains how he learned the B/C/S language.
linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 13

What does it mean to learn a language as a non-local when you do not live in the country?
Curious insight from Dr Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social in the most recent episode of Diasporas Speaking, where he among others explains how he learned the B/C/S language.
linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · May 10

„Der deutsche Softwarekonzern SAP beendet einem Medienbericht zufolge seine Programme für Geschlechtervielfalt im Unternehmen.
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Das Unternehmen gibt in dem internen Schreiben dem Bericht zufolge als Grund die starke Präsenz von SAP in den USA an.“

Reaktionäre Waschlappen.

#SAPdichtmachen

Handelsblatt - SAP beendet Programme für Geschlechtervielfalt - Reaktion auf US-Politik

Der deutsche Softwarekonzern SAP beendet einem Medienbericht zufolge seine Programme für Geschlechtervielfalt im Unternehmen.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · May 9

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · May 9

Please do not use this word in my presence or at all. Do not write it out. Do not spell. Do not whisper it.

After writing this, I had to face a court of whataboutist messages. As if I sat there on my sofa thinking of something spectacular to say. The tone policing is despicable.

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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · May 9

Please do not use this word in my presence or at all. Do not write it out. Do not spell. Do not whisper it.

After writing this, I had to face a court of whataboutist messages. As if I sat there on my sofa thinking of something spectacular to say. The tone policing is despicable.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · May 7

Hear the sad story of how a misspent youth hanging out in Seattle led to a misspent dotage hanging out in the Balkans. She gave me a soundtrack too!

The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 7

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking:
Sounds of Struggle: Music and Cultural Divides in 1990s Serbia with Dr Eric Gordy (@ericgordy.bsky.social)

Listen to the full episode: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 7

Happy to share the latest episode of Diasporas Speaking:
Sounds of Struggle: Music and Cultural Divides in 1990s Serbia with Dr Eric Gordy (@ericgordy.bsky.social)

Listen to the full episode: linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · May 6

I really enjoyed talking to Rina, she asked great questions and got, well, some kinds of answers.

The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 6

Dr Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social will be our guest in the next episode of Diasporas Speaking:

Sounds of Struggle: Music and Cultural Divides in 1990s Serbia

(Photo credit: Wiktoria Cocek)

Coming soon!

#Kosova #Kosovo #Albania #Bosnia #Croatia #Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia #Slovenia

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The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social · May 6

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