Anna Žabicka
@zabicka.bsky.social
Anthropology of aging, care, & health equity.
PhDing/ABD U Vienna
Formerly: Wayne State U, Rīga Stradiņš U
I work across way too many institutions...
Opinions my own
PhDing/ABD U Vienna
Formerly: Wayne State U, Rīga Stradiņš U
I work across way too many institutions...
Opinions my own
🎓International symposium "Reproductive Health in Fragile Democracies: Bodies, Technologies and Futures"
📆June 8–9, 2026
🗺️Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum in Riga, Latvia.
⏱️Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
🔗Submission link: forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmX...
#academicsky
📆June 8–9, 2026
🗺️Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum in Riga, Latvia.
⏱️Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
🔗Submission link: forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmX...
#academicsky
January 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
🎓International symposium "Reproductive Health in Fragile Democracies: Bodies, Technologies and Futures"
📆June 8–9, 2026
🗺️Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum in Riga, Latvia.
⏱️Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
🔗Submission link: forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmX...
#academicsky
📆June 8–9, 2026
🗺️Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum in Riga, Latvia.
⏱️Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
🔗Submission link: forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmX...
#academicsky
"The probable illegality of Trump’s actions does not foreclose the possibility that his approach will improve life for Venezuelans. [..] Now that the United States has involved itself this way, its leaders are implicated in securing a stable postwar Venezuela" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"The probable illegality of Trump’s actions does not foreclose the possibility that his approach will improve life for Venezuelans. [..] Now that the United States has involved itself this way, its leaders are implicated in securing a stable postwar Venezuela" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
SUBMITTED MY DISSERTATION.
Now what?
Now what?
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
SUBMITTED MY DISSERTATION.
Now what?
Now what?
Hermanis paziņo, ka LV sabiedrība esot bezcerīga. Nu, ja. Viņš ir ģēnijs. Vilnis. Karogs. Bet visi citi bezcerīgi.
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hermanis paziņo, ka LV sabiedrība esot bezcerīga. Nu, ja. Viņš ir ģēnijs. Vilnis. Karogs. Bet visi citi bezcerīgi.
Reposted by Anna Žabicka
Tikmēr latvieši nevar saprast, vai genocīds un kara noziegumi ir slikti vispār vai tikai tad, ja tie vērsti pret mums pašiem
📡 #Eurovision Song Contest Director Martin Green has sent a statement to BBC News about Nemo returning their trophy to the EBU.
(1/2) "We're saddened that Nemo wishes to return their trophy which they deservedly won in 2024."
(1/2) "We're saddened that Nemo wishes to return their trophy which they deservedly won in 2024."
🇨🇭 Eurovision 2024 winner Nemo will be sending their trophy back to the EBU.
"Eurovision says it stands for unity, inclusion, and dignity for all. [...] But Israel's continued participation [...] shows a clear conflict between those ideals and the decisions made by the EBU."
"Eurovision says it stands for unity, inclusion, and dignity for all. [...] But Israel's continued participation [...] shows a clear conflict between those ideals and the decisions made by the EBU."
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tikmēr latvieši nevar saprast, vai genocīds un kara noziegumi ir slikti vispār vai tikai tad, ja tie vērsti pret mums pašiem
Autobusā blakus stāvošai meitenei zvana vecmāmiņa: "Бабушка Абьюзер" 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Autobusā blakus stāvošai meitenei zvana vecmāmiņa: "Бабушка Абьюзер" 🙃
💔
Viena vakara izstādē 15. decembrī ikviens interesents varēs aplūkot evakuēto palestīniešu bērnu gleznojumus un tradicionālās palestīniešu izšūšanas mākslas darinājumus.
Norisināsies izstāde, kurā būs skatāmi Gazas bērnu gleznojumi un palestīniešu izšuvumi
Izstāde būs atvērta tikai vienu dienu.
satori.lv
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Tas, cik maksā pētn. projekts vs par pasniegšanu, parāda ļoti skaidri - pasniegšana nav nekāda vērtība.
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tas, cik maksā pētn. projekts vs par pasniegšanu, parāda ļoti skaidri - pasniegšana nav nekāda vērtība.
Interviewing foreigners living in Latvia. A few gems:
"Latvians LOVE paper."(about bureaucracy, which heavily relies on physical paper sheets)
"It's a culture of penalty." (so true)
"Latvian society is like islands of warmth with a placid ocean in between." (also true)
"Latvians LOVE paper."(about bureaucracy, which heavily relies on physical paper sheets)
"It's a culture of penalty." (so true)
"Latvian society is like islands of warmth with a placid ocean in between." (also true)
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Interviewing foreigners living in Latvia. A few gems:
"Latvians LOVE paper."(about bureaucracy, which heavily relies on physical paper sheets)
"It's a culture of penalty." (so true)
"Latvian society is like islands of warmth with a placid ocean in between." (also true)
"Latvians LOVE paper."(about bureaucracy, which heavily relies on physical paper sheets)
"It's a culture of penalty." (so true)
"Latvian society is like islands of warmth with a placid ocean in between." (also true)
Sveicam Upesleju! Latvijas paraugciems.
Pēc 613 Upesleju ciema iedzīvotāju parakstu saņemšanas un iebildēm Ropažu novada dome tomēr lēmusi piekāpties un meklēt citu vietu, kur izbūvēt dienas centru cilvēkiem ar garīga rakstura traucējumiem.
🖥️ youtu.be/n-0WPiaeUUo
🖥️ youtu.be/n-0WPiaeUUo
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sveicam Upesleju! Latvijas paraugciems.
Reposted by Anna Žabicka
Scholars from Estonia, Czechia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine write nuanced, deeply argued pieces about the war. One of them about Westsplaing. An American scholar jumps in, distorts their views, and explains that their ideas are “American frameworks.” You can't make this stuff up.
What ensues in academia when one critiques another’s favourite empire…The charge of borrowing from US frameworks toward a robust critique of westsplaining must be the biggest straw person fallacy to my work so far. How did this get through peer review? But also glad to stand there with Maria Mälksoo
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Scholars from Estonia, Czechia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine write nuanced, deeply argued pieces about the war. One of them about Westsplaing. An American scholar jumps in, distorts their views, and explains that their ideas are “American frameworks.” You can't make this stuff up.
November, are you ok?
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
November, are you ok?
This.
Musk is on his way to becoming the world’s first trillionaire
He could have done so much good… or just paid a fair share of taxes
He chose to kill USAID, which has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them kids
He could have done so much good… or just paid a fair share of taxes
He chose to kill USAID, which has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them kids
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This.
Amazing!
‘Everyone said it was impossible’: disabled hikers find freedom through off-road wheelchairs
‘Everyone said it was impossible’: disabled hikers find freedom through off-road wheelchairs
Using an all-terrain vehicle that’s essentially the Jeep of wheelchairs, a New York tour group helps disabled people get on the trail
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Amazing!
At least 10,000 people gathered in Riga tonight (with many more in Latvia and abroad) to protest the majority decision by Latvian politicians to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention (Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women). We are powerful! 🇱🇻
Photo: LSM.lv
Photo: LSM.lv
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
At least 10,000 people gathered in Riga tonight (with many more in Latvia and abroad) to protest the majority decision by Latvian politicians to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention (Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women). We are powerful! 🇱🇻
Photo: LSM.lv
Photo: LSM.lv
Es vienkārši šo te atstāšu, nr. 1 #Hermaņadomas www.instagram.com/reel/DQb33Wa...
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Es vienkārši šo te atstāšu, nr. 1 #Hermaņadomas www.instagram.com/reel/DQb33Wa...
N-tie iemesli, kāpēc vairs neeju un neiešu uz JRT.
Iztulkošu Alvja teikto:
"Sievietes, beidziet vienreiz d.... un uzņemieties pašas atbildību par to, ka dzīvojam patriarhāli iekārtotā sabiedrībā! Ja jums būs melnā josta, tad jums nekad vairs nebūs bail, ka jūsu liecībām neticēs, ka jūs kauninās, ka iebiedēs jūsu bērnus!"
"Sievietes, beidziet vienreiz d.... un uzņemieties pašas atbildību par to, ka dzīvojam patriarhāli iekārtotā sabiedrībā! Ja jums būs melnā josta, tad jums nekad vairs nebūs bail, ka jūsu liecībām neticēs, ka jūs kauninās, ka iebiedēs jūsu bērnus!"
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
N-tie iemesli, kāpēc vairs neeju un neiešu uz JRT.
Reposted by Anna Žabicka
After receiving a petition signed by more than 62,000 citizens President Edgars Rinkēvičs has exercised his constitutional right to return the law on Latvia’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to the Parliament for reconsideration.
Big protests in support of Convention planned on Nov 6.
Big protests in support of Convention planned on Nov 6.
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
After receiving a petition signed by more than 62,000 citizens President Edgars Rinkēvičs has exercised his constitutional right to return the law on Latvia’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to the Parliament for reconsideration.
Big protests in support of Convention planned on Nov 6.
Big protests in support of Convention planned on Nov 6.
The University of Vienna (where I’m doing my PhD) keeps teaching coloniality not through theory but practice.After pulling rooms for Anti-Colonial Week on global legacies and Palestine,its pattern of silencing Palestine discourse has become its own lesson in colonial power. linktr.ee/anticolonial...
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The University of Vienna (where I’m doing my PhD) keeps teaching coloniality not through theory but practice.After pulling rooms for Anti-Colonial Week on global legacies and Palestine,its pattern of silencing Palestine discourse has become its own lesson in colonial power. linktr.ee/anticolonial...
Reposted by Anna Žabicka
Sometimes it is not only about values, but also about optics. In Latvia we discuss local political gambles behind yesterday's vote for the country to leave the Istanbul Convention, from the outside, it is clear - Latvia follows Hungary, Slovakia and other countries that head East.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sometimes it is not only about values, but also about optics. In Latvia we discuss local political gambles behind yesterday's vote for the country to leave the Istanbul Convention, from the outside, it is clear - Latvia follows Hungary, Slovakia and other countries that head East.
The way a skilled language editor works shows one thing: AI still doesn’t come close. (I might be a little bit in love with my Eng editor 😍)
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The way a skilled language editor works shows one thing: AI still doesn’t come close. (I might be a little bit in love with my Eng editor 😍)
Reposted by Anna Žabicka
On the left: protests in Riga against the Istanbul Convention
On the right: protests in Riga in support of the Istanbul Convention
On the right: protests in Riga in support of the Istanbul Convention
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
On the left: protests in Riga against the Istanbul Convention
On the right: protests in Riga in support of the Istanbul Convention
On the right: protests in Riga in support of the Istanbul Convention
"Bez partijām" ir kaut kāds rūgto vīriešu klubiņš.
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Bez partijām" ir kaut kāds rūgto vīriešu klubiņš.