ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
@chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social
WGS and Jewish Studies Prof at Brandeis U on unceded Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Pawtucket homelands. Grew up in Ethiopia and Kenya (1975-1987)
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Imperiled Bodies John E. Sawyer Mellon Seminar
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Anita Hill, Harleen Singh, Carmel Ohman, and I are now editing a volume based on our Mellon Sawyer Seminar on gender-based violence and the abiding fiction that it is a natural and inevitable facet of the family, state, and nation, to envision a future without it.
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@alexanderchee.bsky.social is 100% correct! Women faculty of color in particular end up shouldering all the labor bc of the so-called restructuring (speaking from experience of having been Chair with minimal - nonexistent admin support).
Vampires.
In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’
September 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
@alexanderchee.bsky.social is 100% correct! Women faculty of color in particular end up shouldering all the labor bc of the so-called restructuring (speaking from experience of having been Chair with minimal - nonexistent admin support).
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From off-Broadway play "Gloria: A Life"
GLORIA: “The truth is, I learned feminism from black women.”
FLO: “But if you Google Second Wave Feminism—there’s not one reference on the Wikipedia page to a black feminist."
The play names 11 Black women. #BlackSky
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GLORIA: “The truth is, I learned feminism from black women.”
FLO: “But if you Google Second Wave Feminism—there’s not one reference on the Wikipedia page to a black feminist."
The play names 11 Black women. #BlackSky
www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/...
September 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM
From off-Broadway play "Gloria: A Life"
GLORIA: “The truth is, I learned feminism from black women.”
FLO: “But if you Google Second Wave Feminism—there’s not one reference on the Wikipedia page to a black feminist."
The play names 11 Black women. #BlackSky
www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/...
GLORIA: “The truth is, I learned feminism from black women.”
FLO: “But if you Google Second Wave Feminism—there’s not one reference on the Wikipedia page to a black feminist."
The play names 11 Black women. #BlackSky
www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/...
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“Weaponizing the IRS to attack colleges & universities that uphold & expand civil rights is outrageous. This is blatantly racist political coercion intended to deny minority students reparative opportunities to further their education.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
“Weaponizing the IRS to attack colleges & universities that uphold & expand civil rights is outrageous. This is blatantly racist political coercion intended to deny minority students reparative opportunities to further their education.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Our friends Sharon and Bert Smith gifted us the lyrical and deeply moving memoirs of Jason Allen-Paisant, “The Possibility of Tenderness. A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams” and every page has been marked up.
September 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Our friends Sharon and Bert Smith gifted us the lyrical and deeply moving memoirs of Jason Allen-Paisant, “The Possibility of Tenderness. A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams” and every page has been marked up.
Join my daughter at the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters! New position - Director of Sciences and Climate Programs to lead their climate & energy initiatives!
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WE'RE HIRING!
Your reminder that we are currently hiring a Director of Sciences and Climate Programs, a leadership role for someone who believes in the power of listening, learning, collaboration, a...
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September 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Join my daughter at the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters! New position - Director of Sciences and Climate Programs to lead their climate & energy initiatives!
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Mochi is showing off her Sealey Challenge pile. August was a special month of reading poetry with our sweet puppy at the break of dawn when she wakes me up. New favorites included @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Jake Skeets, Kevin Young, Lee Seong-bok, Su Cho, Gbenga Adesina etc.
September 3, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Mochi is showing off her Sealey Challenge pile. August was a special month of reading poetry with our sweet puppy at the break of dawn when she wakes me up. New favorites included @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Jake Skeets, Kevin Young, Lee Seong-bok, Su Cho, Gbenga Adesina etc.
Our copy of Lee Seong-bok’s That Summer’s End, translated by @antonhur.com arrived and we savoured it. We are a day behind on the Sealey Challenge. A gorgeous volume!!
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“Like a puddle after rain you shall be/ at the other side of my waiting A worm in the mud, or rainwater/ reflecting the sky after a storm…/ All these insignificant things I know now as your gaze” ...
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August 26, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Our copy of Lee Seong-bok’s That Summer’s End, translated by @antonhur.com arrived and we savoured it. We are a day behind on the Sealey Challenge. A gorgeous volume!!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDbMcrVv/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDbMcrVv/
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Universities do not represent the interests of professors, who are their rank-and-file labor force, except incidentally.
A university is not a coven of professors, much though I wish that were the case.
A university is not a coven of professors, much though I wish that were the case.
August 25, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Universities do not represent the interests of professors, who are their rank-and-file labor force, except incidentally.
A university is not a coven of professors, much though I wish that were the case.
A university is not a coven of professors, much though I wish that were the case.
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Read nothing else about the case but read this please. Allen’s brilliantly calls it like it is like all of us who are not born white experience “success”. #arday
The Machine That Came for Jason Arday
It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.
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August 24, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Read nothing else about the case but read this please. Allen’s brilliantly calls it like it is like all of us who are not born white experience “success”. #arday
My puppy Mochi and I reread aeheelee.bsky.social’s Connotary for the Sealey Challenge and learned about her 2024 volume Asterism: Poems, which we just ordered! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDxut9xA/
We are one day behind but Mochi insists on consuming each poem slowly (lots of naps btw poems)😃
We are one day behind but Mochi insists on consuming each poem slowly (lots of naps btw poems)😃
“For most of my life, I slept/by the music of sand dunes/ shifting yearlong. But today I/wake up, spot a snowflake/ melting into the window’s glass./ I think I’ll never grasp the true/ width of the wo...
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August 23, 2026 at 6:58 PM
My puppy Mochi and I reread aeheelee.bsky.social’s Connotary for the Sealey Challenge and learned about her 2024 volume Asterism: Poems, which we just ordered! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDxut9xA/
We are one day behind but Mochi insists on consuming each poem slowly (lots of naps btw poems)😃
We are one day behind but Mochi insists on consuming each poem slowly (lots of naps btw poems)😃
Sealey Challenge Day 17 (late as usual)
My puppy and I read Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil which really resonated with us. We still have a pile of volumes to consume together! Suggestions welcome.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDBdKHar/
My puppy and I read Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil which really resonated with us. We still have a pile of volumes to consume together! Suggestions welcome.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDBdKHar/
Ilulissat “I thought I understood summer for example— the season of fruit and firefly glow—but I never knew it with the midnight sun on my face. Now I know summer as polka dots of sunburst lichen— lik...
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August 18, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Sealey Challenge Day 17 (late as usual)
My puppy and I read Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil which really resonated with us. We still have a pile of volumes to consume together! Suggestions welcome.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDBdKHar/
My puppy and I read Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil which really resonated with us. We still have a pile of volumes to consume together! Suggestions welcome.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDBdKHar/
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As the mom of an autistic boy and as Black public scholar I am broken about what has been done Jason Arday and his family. And the thing is that now that they know they can actually kill us with words, they won’t stop. #blackacademia #arday #autism
I was yelled at years ago when I wrote that academia was killing us (if you’re an us, you know). When mediocre white men plagiarize or worse, it’s handled quietly. When one of us fucks us they’re driven to death in a public spectacle that implicates us all. Shame. Peace to Arday. 💔
August 17, 2026 at 1:11 AM
As the mom of an autistic boy and as Black public scholar I am broken about what has been done Jason Arday and his family. And the thing is that now that they know they can actually kill us with words, they won’t stop. #blackacademia #arday #autism
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No one should be homeless. No one should have to live in their car, be rationing rescue inhalers & disabled. No one should be all alone w/o support.
Please share this info for my friend Désirée ! If you can give to her, it would mean the world! ❤️🩹🫂🍀
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Please share this info for my friend Désirée ! If you can give to her, it would mean the world! ❤️🩹🫂🍀
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The thing about living in your car is that it does not protect you from the elements like cold and heat.
You still need shelter. Indoors. Another space.
The thing about living in your car is that a car is not a home.
Cars are not meant for living in.
You still need shelter. Indoors. Another space.
The thing about living in your car is that a car is not a home.
Cars are not meant for living in.
August 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
No one should be homeless. No one should have to live in their car, be rationing rescue inhalers & disabled. No one should be all alone w/o support.
Please share this info for my friend Désirée ! If you can give to her, it would mean the world! ❤️🩹🫂🍀
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Please share this info for my friend Désirée ! If you can give to her, it would mean the world! ❤️🩹🫂🍀
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Our puppy really enjoyed “consuming” @chenchenwrites.bsky.social’s volume “When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities” during our Sealey Challenge month!❤️❤️❤️
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“Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango. As friendly as a tomato. Merciless to chin & shirtfront. Realizing I hate the word “sip.” But that’s all I do. I drink. So slowly. & say I’...
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August 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Our puppy really enjoyed “consuming” @chenchenwrites.bsky.social’s volume “When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities” during our Sealey Challenge month!❤️❤️❤️
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDjPwfdP/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDjPwfdP/
My puppy and I have been doing the Sealey Challenge (reading poetry after she wakes me up at 4:30 am😅). Seriously, Jake Skeets’ Horses is gorgeous.
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IF CRANE “a gold moon beneath the black water laps at the surface white cranes carry on their backs hope for another storm dim clouds as tall as tomorrow sit mean over sand dunes collapse on collaps...
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August 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
My puppy and I have been doing the Sealey Challenge (reading poetry after she wakes me up at 4:30 am😅). Seriously, Jake Skeets’ Horses is gorgeous.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAo7LTkH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAo7LTkH/
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The Dewey-Burdock project — spanning nearly 20 square miles in southwestern South Dakota— secured the last of its necessary federal permits for a uranium mining project last month.
There is substantial opposition from Native & environmental organizations.
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There is substantial opposition from Native & environmental organizations.
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Company proposing Black Hills uranium mine eyes state permitting restart after 13-year pause - ICT
The Oglala Sioux Tribe and NDN Collective, a Rapid City-based Indigenous advocacy group, have also opposed the project, citing concerns about potential impacts to historic and cultural sites in the Bl...
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July 8, 2026 at 4:27 AM
The Dewey-Burdock project — spanning nearly 20 square miles in southwestern South Dakota— secured the last of its necessary federal permits for a uranium mining project last month.
There is substantial opposition from Native & environmental organizations.
ictnews.org/news/company...
There is substantial opposition from Native & environmental organizations.
ictnews.org/news/company...
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My grandpuppy Mochi congratulates Bora Chung and translator @antonhur.com on being named to the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist! Mochi “consumed” the book in one gulp😂.
My grandpuppy Mochi congratulates Bora Chung and translator @antonhur.com on being named to the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist! Mochi “consumed” the book in one gulp😂.
“Sayings like ‘an eldest daughter is an asset to the household’ or ‘mothers with sons die on the road while pulling a cart’ basically mean the same thing. Only by sucking the marrow dry of those most ...
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July 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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My grandpuppy Mochi congratulates Bora Chung and translator @antonhur.com on being named to the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist! Mochi “consumed” the book in one gulp😂.
My grandpuppy Mochi congratulates Bora Chung and translator @antonhur.com on being named to the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist! Mochi “consumed” the book in one gulp😂.
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fascism treats disabled homeless poor immigrant women of color like me as expendable.
please be the exception.
thankful for any and all shares.
please be the exception.
thankful for any and all shares.
a car is the only thing i have in the world. it needs to stay insured. coverage expires at end of June. i continue applying for work. please help.
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June 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
fascism treats disabled homeless poor immigrant women of color like me as expendable.
please be the exception.
thankful for any and all shares.
please be the exception.
thankful for any and all shares.
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“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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May 27, 2026 at 8:21 PM
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.
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April 18, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
www.nbcnews.com
April 19, 2026 at 12:46 AM
anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is
In these terrible times it is comforting to know that my grand puppy thinks that she’s a book.
April 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
In these terrible times it is comforting to know that my grand puppy thinks that she’s a book.
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As a reader, I’ve surpassed the point of being like “Sarah Schulman’s new book is one of her best yet” to wanting to buy a box of copies and start mailing it to people. And I deeply, deeply hate having to put things in the mail.
This book is about why solidarity is so difficult and so necessary.
This book is about why solidarity is so difficult and so necessary.
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
Check out The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity - <b>From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examinati...
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April 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
As a reader, I’ve surpassed the point of being like “Sarah Schulman’s new book is one of her best yet” to wanting to buy a box of copies and start mailing it to people. And I deeply, deeply hate having to put things in the mail.
This book is about why solidarity is so difficult and so necessary.
This book is about why solidarity is so difficult and so necessary.
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Jeju citizens awaiting execution during the Jeju uprising, 3 April 1948. Defiant faces.
Jeju citizens awaiting execution during the Jeju uprising, 1948.
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[via: www.koreanquarterly.org/tag/jeju-mas...
April 4, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Jeju citizens awaiting execution during the Jeju uprising, 3 April 1948. Defiant faces.
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Calling all killjoys in Boston, NYC, Philly and DC. Come along and say no loudly and together to the abusers and the harassers and the fascists and the systems they create that create them 🔥🔥
March 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Calling all killjoys in Boston, NYC, Philly and DC. Come along and say no loudly and together to the abusers and the harassers and the fascists and the systems they create that create them 🔥🔥