Yasemin Toron
@yasemintoron.bsky.social
Americanist with a focus on language, literature and culture. Doing a Ph.D. at Frankfurt University @goetheuni.bsky.social. Influences: Anzaldúa, Hall, hooks, Lorde, Ricœur.
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Framing Turkish American Literature
I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here:
www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...
I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here:
www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Framing Turkish American Literature
I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here:
www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...
I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here:
www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...
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“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward W. Said
― Edward W. Said
January 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward W. Said
― Edward W. Said
Despite advancement in transnational knowledge, the public is led into and remains with a vision of migration as departure and arrival. In reality, however, it doesn't happen so linearly, and we experience manifold returns.
What We Return To: substack.com/home/post/p-...
What We Return To: substack.com/home/post/p-...
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Despite advancement in transnational knowledge, the public is led into and remains with a vision of migration as departure and arrival. In reality, however, it doesn't happen so linearly, and we experience manifold returns.
What We Return To: substack.com/home/post/p-...
What We Return To: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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PEN America's newly elected president Dinaw Mengestu reflects on the organization’s role within a global network of writers standing against repression and censorship — and on the work of upholding a culture where every voice can be heard.
Read our new interview at: pen.org/dinaw-menges...
Read our new interview at: pen.org/dinaw-menges...
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
PEN America's newly elected president Dinaw Mengestu reflects on the organization’s role within a global network of writers standing against repression and censorship — and on the work of upholding a culture where every voice can be heard.
Read our new interview at: pen.org/dinaw-menges...
Read our new interview at: pen.org/dinaw-menges...
If we lose awareness of how important our culture of literary and artistic production is, our understanding of free expression goes with it.
---Dinaw Mengestu
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...
---Dinaw Mengestu
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...
PEN America Elects New President at Fraught Time for Free Speech
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If we lose awareness of how important our culture of literary and artistic production is, our understanding of free expression goes with it.
---Dinaw Mengestu
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...
---Dinaw Mengestu
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...
When the German patriot @oezdemir.de splits the EU flag into X, all the self-righteous Germans crawl out of the woodwork and display their hatred for what made Germany stable. Parts of the population are so stupid that they believe the German flag and isolationism have made Germany strong.
December 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
When the German patriot @oezdemir.de splits the EU flag into X, all the self-righteous Germans crawl out of the woodwork and display their hatred for what made Germany stable. Parts of the population are so stupid that they believe the German flag and isolationism have made Germany strong.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Newspaper articles about Haftbefehl that use his work to market an analysis of Germany further contribute to alienation.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Newspaper articles about Haftbefehl that use his work to market an analysis of Germany further contribute to alienation.
It should not surprise us how quickly the nineteenth-century prejudice that white men should dominate “inferior” Africans, Asians, and Latin American peoples has become common sense for much of Western politics and journalism.
—Pankaj Mishra
substack.com/@junot/note/...
—Pankaj Mishra
substack.com/@junot/note/...
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It should not surprise us how quickly the nineteenth-century prejudice that white men should dominate “inferior” Africans, Asians, and Latin American peoples has become common sense for much of Western politics and journalism.
—Pankaj Mishra
substack.com/@junot/note/...
—Pankaj Mishra
substack.com/@junot/note/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Er ist jetzt nicht mehr allein, sondern integriertes Mitglied des Praktikum-in-der-Presse-Clubs der Ende 1990er Abiturient*innen mit Middle East-Expertise aus der Urlaubs- und Bildungsreiseerfahrung in Israel und antimuslimischer Leidenschaft.
Constantin Schreiber: Wie der Ex-»Tagesschau«-Sprecher an seiner Marke arbeitet: Im Sommer wechselte Constantin Schreiber als Reporter zu »Bild« und »Welt«. Weil er mehr sein will als nur Stimme und Gesicht der Nachrichten. Aber was ist er jetzt?
Constantin Schreiber: Wie der Ex-»Tagesschau«-Sprecher an seiner Marke arbeitet
Im Sommer wechselte Constantin Schreiber als Reporter zu »Bild« und »Welt«. Weil er mehr sein will als nur Stimme und Gesicht der Nachrichten. Aber was ist er jetzt?
www.spiegel.de
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Er ist jetzt nicht mehr allein, sondern integriertes Mitglied des Praktikum-in-der-Presse-Clubs der Ende 1990er Abiturient*innen mit Middle East-Expertise aus der Urlaubs- und Bildungsreiseerfahrung in Israel und antimuslimischer Leidenschaft.
Wenn man genauer hinsieht, besteht die Bossetage der Rechtsextreme aus Losern mit Doktortiteln.
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Wenn man genauer hinsieht, besteht die Bossetage der Rechtsextreme aus Losern mit Doktortiteln.
Had he not become a shooter but a writer, he would not be an Afghan but an American.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Had he not become a shooter but a writer, he would not be an Afghan but an American.
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So Israel just bombed Dahieh in southern Beirut.
Yay, ceasefire!
Yay, ceasefire!
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So Israel just bombed Dahieh in southern Beirut.
Yay, ceasefire!
Yay, ceasefire!
The word diversity hovers above the older German terms—Integration, Ausländer—but never quite replaces them. It creates an illusion of progress, an English-speaking surface that covers the older hierarchies underneath.
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The word diversity hovers above the older German terms—Integration, Ausländer—but never quite replaces them. It creates an illusion of progress, an English-speaking surface that covers the older hierarchies underneath.
My favorite book, perhaps, is Gayl Jones’s *Corregidora* #bluesnovels #abstract open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
The Blues Novel: Aesthetic, History, Survival
What follows is an abstract on, not an attempt to define, what I think is the most vital fusion of African American musical, cultural, and narrative traditions in American literary history.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My favorite book, perhaps, is Gayl Jones’s *Corregidora* #bluesnovels #abstract open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
Both political and organizational authoritarianism rely on the same psychological fuel: fear. When people are afraid to get punished, excluded, or fired, they obey. But fear corrodes trust, and obedience born from fear is fragile.
open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Both political and organizational authoritarianism rely on the same psychological fuel: fear. When people are afraid to get punished, excluded, or fired, they obey. But fear corrodes trust, and obedience born from fear is fragile.
open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
open.substack.com/pub/yasemint...
Getting a Ph.D. is now something that teenagers at age 17 do.
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Getting a Ph.D. is now something that teenagers at age 17 do.
The Crackdown
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The Crackdown
There was a time when knowledge seemed like a vast but orderly map, its boundaries expanding with every experiment, every discovery, and every act of naming.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The Crackdown
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Family units are disrupted not simply for enforcement but to send a message: to deter, to frighten, to make everyone watching understand that belonging is conditional and precarious.
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
September 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Family units are disrupted not simply for enforcement but to send a message: to deter, to frighten, to make everyone watching understand that belonging is conditional and precarious.
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
Cruelty, here, is not a side effect but the point.
The Deportationist: yasemintoron.substack.com/p/the-deport...
Die meisten deutschen Profs sind geistesgeschichtliche Zufälle. Keine bemerkenswerten Leistungen. Das einzige, was sie interessant macht ist die Germanisierung der lateinischen Sprache.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
September 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Die meisten deutschen Profs sind geistesgeschichtliche Zufälle. Keine bemerkenswerten Leistungen. Das einzige, was sie interessant macht ist die Germanisierung der lateinischen Sprache.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
"Negative Dialektik." Boom.
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