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Do you know any high school students in 🇺🇸 or 🇨🇦 who have stories about their Iranian background? Tell them about our essay contest presented in partnership w/ IAAB. Share this link w/ students who want to share their stories as hyphenated Iranians: bit.ly/2yFusaz

Probably not the best day to have a non-impeachment story run, but I wrote about Iranian graduate students who learned their visas had been revoked as they were getting ready for their flights to the U.S. Most of them were bound for UC schools. latimes.com/california/sto…

What is the difference between Persia/Persian and Iran/Iranian? A thread 🧵 1/7

STOP hoarding Trump's fake #COVIDー19 medicine! It's going to kill #Lupus patients who need it to stay alive and often productive. #coronavirus #DemCast #healthcare #pharmacy #Resist propublica.org/article/lupus-…

Please help me raise funds to bring medical supplies to Iranian health workers who risk their lives on the frontlines of the fight against coronavirus. Your donations will go directly to Relief International that is doing great work on the ground in Iran gofundme.com/f/negar039s-ca… GoFundMe

Wrote a blog on how collaborative close reading can be done online! Took a sec to figure out, but now that I've got it & students loved it, can't wait to do it again. Plz feel free to use, remix, share, etc. HASTAC hastac.org/blogs/danicasa…

The DC City Council just passed the Nowruz Resolution that me and Niki نیکی drafted, to recognize this ancient cultural tradition and celebrate its ideals of community & reconciliation hand in hand with our natural environment. LINK: lims.dccouncil.us/Legislation/CE…

The first version of our "Abolitionist Media Literacy" Library Guide is now live, a project of the Abolition Lab at Knox "Towards an Abolitionist Media Lit Project," co-led by Roya Biggie and me, with Rebecca Yowler, Mary Lyons, and Emily Anderson.

Fresh drama from Renaissance Drama~ our 50th volume's 2nd issue--leading off w/ essays on Katherine's voice and feminine performance in Shrew by @B_as_in_Boat, and on botany, indigeneity, racial identity in Fletcher's Island Princess by Roya Biggie, plus.. journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rd/current

Congratulations to Prof. Wayne Koestenbaum (Wayne Koestenbaum), Prof. Tanya Pollard, and Deborah Lutz, Ph.D. '04 for their Guggenheim Fellowships! GuggenheimFoundation

My department is hiring a VAP in Transatlantic Lit. Please spread the word! 📚

Thanks for the shout-out, Chicago Journals!

Hannah Brooks-Motl

A must-see video giving a history lesson that too many people are unaware of. Please watch and share. #IranRevolution #humanrights

Enrollments for SAA 2024 in Portland, OR closes on September 1st, which is just around the corner! If anyone is still looking for a seminar to join, I hope you will consider working with Urvashi Chakravarty and me in #39 Shakespeare, Power and Consent.