Shayna M. Silverstein
@shaynamsilverstein.bsky.social
Academic working across performance studies, music studies, dance studies, and the SWANA region/MENA studies-- particularly Syria. Based in Chicago. Mom, partner, avid ⛷️⚽️🎻🍚⛰️🏇🏼
Grateful for this review of Fraught Balance in the Saudi publication Makkah al-Mukarramah by Dr Hatoon Al-Fassi! Especially on the anniversary of Syria’s liberation!
makkahnewspaper.com/article/1627...
makkahnewspaper.com/article/1627...
الدبكة السورية بين ميزان الفنون الأدائية ولعبة السياسة
عقدت جمعية دراسات المرأة للشرق الأوسط الأمريكية AMEWS مؤتمرها السنوي للعام الأربعين MESA، في نهاية...
makkahnewspaper.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Grateful for this review of Fraught Balance in the Saudi publication Makkah al-Mukarramah by Dr Hatoon Al-Fassi! Especially on the anniversary of Syria’s liberation!
makkahnewspaper.com/article/1627...
makkahnewspaper.com/article/1627...
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Trump is making the f-word acceptable. He is destigmatizing the concept of "fascism". This is in line with the criminalization of "antifascism."
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Trump is making the f-word acceptable. He is destigmatizing the concept of "fascism". This is in line with the criminalization of "antifascism."
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I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Thrilled to share that Fraught Balance won the 2025 de la Torre Bueno First Book Award presented by the Dance Studies Association! Filled with gratitude that the book’s work is recognized and that dance studies is a capacious field. And offering thanks to all the readers for whom the work resonates!
June 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thrilled to share that Fraught Balance won the 2025 de la Torre Bueno First Book Award presented by the Dance Studies Association! Filled with gratitude that the book’s work is recognized and that dance studies is a capacious field. And offering thanks to all the readers for whom the work resonates!
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Brief reflection on a Yale reunion last week.
First, it's impressive to me how many of my classmates are actually helping the world. Lots of scientists with NIH/NSF grants, lots of federal employees including USAID... an alarming number recently lost their jobs, or had to fire half their staff.
First, it's impressive to me how many of my classmates are actually helping the world. Lots of scientists with NIH/NSF grants, lots of federal employees including USAID... an alarming number recently lost their jobs, or had to fire half their staff.
May 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Brief reflection on a Yale reunion last week.
First, it's impressive to me how many of my classmates are actually helping the world. Lots of scientists with NIH/NSF grants, lots of federal employees including USAID... an alarming number recently lost their jobs, or had to fire half their staff.
First, it's impressive to me how many of my classmates are actually helping the world. Lots of scientists with NIH/NSF grants, lots of federal employees including USAID... an alarming number recently lost their jobs, or had to fire half their staff.
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Excited to launch this new podcast on Syria ...
Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Excited to launch this new podcast on Syria ...
Gross. I just cancelled a flight with @aveloair.bsky.social because they secured a contract with ICE to service deportation flights. No thank you. #boycottavelo
www.aviacionline.com/avelo-airlin...
www.aviacionline.com/avelo-airlin...
Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash Over Deportation Contract with ICE
Company executives stated that operating those flights would provide financial stability.
www.aviacionline.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Gross. I just cancelled a flight with @aveloair.bsky.social because they secured a contract with ICE to service deportation flights. No thank you. #boycottavelo
www.aviacionline.com/avelo-airlin...
www.aviacionline.com/avelo-airlin...
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Important and accurate:
Please watch this and make sure you are prepared for this level of Gestapo invasion of privacy.
March 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Important and accurate:
My talk for the Anthro Research seminar on conflict, war, and genocide was cancelled today due to ongoing strike actions at Brunel, a response massive job cuts. ✊🏼✊🏼 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/brunel-...
Brunel staff are latest to vote for strike action over job cuts
Brunel joins staff members at East Anglia, Newcastle and Dundee to vote for strike action in the past week
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My talk for the Anthro Research seminar on conflict, war, and genocide was cancelled today due to ongoing strike actions at Brunel, a response massive job cuts. ✊🏼✊🏼 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/brunel-...
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
February 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Just got this press release. Beyond dystopian.
February 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just got this press release. Beyond dystopian.
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THIS IS AMAZING. ✊
February 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
THIS IS AMAZING. ✊
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What a historical moment.
Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.
Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What a historical moment.
Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.
Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.
Fascism Affective Disorder
February 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Fascism Affective Disorder
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If you are on Facebook just for Buy Nothing, here is your lifeboat!
Buy Nothing now has an app so we can share with each other without supporting Zuck
Please join me, I am posting a bunch of stuff this weekend.
buynothingproject.org/join
Buy Nothing now has an app so we can share with each other without supporting Zuck
Please join me, I am posting a bunch of stuff this weekend.
buynothingproject.org/join
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buynothingproject.org
January 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you are on Facebook just for Buy Nothing, here is your lifeboat!
Buy Nothing now has an app so we can share with each other without supporting Zuck
Please join me, I am posting a bunch of stuff this weekend.
buynothingproject.org/join
Buy Nothing now has an app so we can share with each other without supporting Zuck
Please join me, I am posting a bunch of stuff this weekend.
buynothingproject.org/join
This is the question we need to be asking.
January 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is the question we need to be asking.
I talked to Zainab Iqbal at Middle East Eye about emerging sociopolitical dynamics in Syria in this excellent piece, which xenters Syria from a diasporic perspective. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... bc
'I could smell Syria': Trauma lingers among diaspora but returning home means closure
Assad’s collapse marked an abrupt end to a war frozen in time, and with it, a new path home for Syrians
urldefense.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I talked to Zainab Iqbal at Middle East Eye about emerging sociopolitical dynamics in Syria in this excellent piece, which xenters Syria from a diasporic perspective. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... bc
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I'm really excited about this Brian Massumi book which we need now & will be out in late March. Why do we look at fascism with tools from the 30s based on individual choices psychologically or ideologically swayed, when something more collective is clearly at work? www.dukeupress.edu/the-personal...
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I'm really excited about this Brian Massumi book which we need now & will be out in late March. Why do we look at fascism with tools from the 30s based on individual choices psychologically or ideologically swayed, when something more collective is clearly at work? www.dukeupress.edu/the-personal...
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Recently opened a package from Penzeys Spices that you didn’t remember ordering and found a seasoning blend called “Resist! Keep America Alive”? You’re not alone.
Penzeys Is Sending Tens of Thousands of Boxes of Free Spices to People in the DC Area - Washingtonian
Did a box of "Resist!" seasoning show up at your house, too?
www.washingtonian.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Recently opened a package from Penzeys Spices that you didn’t remember ordering and found a seasoning blend called “Resist! Keep America Alive”? You’re not alone.