Farah Bakaari
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I wrote about the stunning growth of Ramy and the fraught concept of the “Muslim American show” for
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a few days ago my neighbor (artist of 50+ years) and i were casually chatting, then as she’s leaving she says, “hey i’ve a painting at this art show opening on friday, maybe you wanna come?” i enthusiastically agree. then she adds, “if you want you can wear your yellow dress.”1/2
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i think the dress thing is sorta weird but she’s funny that way & i say “well, it’s dirty…if i can wash it in time.” then i turn up and everyone looks & smile & murmurs, and she takes me to her painting & she painted me standing in her garden. the exhibit’s theme “SEEING ITHACA”
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needless to say, i’m so incredibly moved and so grateful for the wonderful community of kind strange friends i’ve made in this town 1/3
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overheard an undergrad tell another: “even though i’m taking 20 credits, i’m treating college like a 9-5 job, stopping around 5 to have my nights free for relaxing and whatever.” gen-z is on track on becoming the most anti-work generation america has ever seen and i’m here for it
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I think the problem with graduate school is that a 27-year-old mortal is expected to possess the physical stamina of a 19-year old athlete and the intellectual output of a middle-age tenured professor.
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a glass for my aunt who passed yesterday. the oddest woman i knew though no one one really knew her. she kept no job, no address only a suitcase in dozen cities in at least four countries. she once got married and asked for divorce the next morning because he had “fake teeth” 1/2
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when we asked how come she didn’t already know. she said, “i only saw him at night. he looks different in the morning.” she marched to the beat of her own indecipherable drum. my own resemblances to her terrified me as a child but now i’m only intrigued even grateful 2/2
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cornell admin cited the evocation of “intifada” by the student activists as evidence why the gaza solidarity encampment is violent and antisemitic. cornell faculty who work in arabic were like, ‘may we lend you our dictionary?’
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I have just been notified that even though I finished high school in the US, got my B.A. in English in the US, currently getting my PhD in English Language and Literatures in the US, I must take a 30-min test to demonstrate my English proficiency in order to continue teaching.
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A major Somali city essentially went underwater this week and displaced a quarter million people. You don't need Kim Stanley Robinson to imagine the "future" of climate apocalypse or why it didn't make breaking news anywhere. The future is here, killing us
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mogadishu, circa 1972: somali women marching for the release of angela davis. a reminder on this international women’s day that the best of feminism has always been anti-imperialists, affirming & fighting for the liberation struggles of all peoples whether at home or faraway ✊🏾
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TÁR was a lot like a Duke University Press book...it looked amazing, shiny, provocative, led by a Charismatic star in the field, but if you look too closely, you're like wait, what? what are we talking about here? where is the evidence?
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@lahartvillalta
So her garden is out of this world. The painting was from a party earlier in the summer. The bonfire in the back was a thing, is a regular thing. Water fountain and paintings and just magical place!!
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i will never understand why i need duel-factor authentication to access library materials... if someone is willing to commit identity theft just to access jstor, maybe we should just let them.
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Considering leaving large junks of untranslated Somali in this thing I am writing, like some kind of big shot white academic writing on French and German texts.
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Best student comment today: “Writing takes a lot of time, but not writing also takes a lot of time.”
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in my interpretation, the brave emory professor who cried out “i’m a professor” while being brutalized by police for intervening in police brutality was addressing her colleagues, all faculty nationwide who walk by the encampments & hear about the suspensions, but choose silence.
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@melissafebos
@DeanBakopoulos
Yes. I wash them and label them, so I can reuse the meat ones for meat and the bread one for bread, etc.
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what if instead of the usual diversity statement, i simply wrote: "I, farah, daughter of maryam, have managed, against all odds and the best efforts of few, to stay in the violent suffocating walls of the american academy. and i took very good notes, which i share judiciously"
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Poor undergrad girl has been sitting with this guy who hasn’t stopped talking about himself for 90min from his discoveries in therapy to his “philosophical tightropes with Kant” to “holding the earth on our shoulders.” How can I tell her she need not endure and save her a decade?
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every spring i wait, anxiously, for the weekend in april when my neighbor’s tree bursts & blossoms & showers the block in precious pink.
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random prof: you should watch your back on twitter
me: lady, my middle school principal was a warlord, my high school was a cult, and I hold “shithole” passport in heart of Empire. Do you really think I’m scared of some pasty senior academic whose last book was published in 1986?
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Ummm… last night after work I went to see a friend for a drink. Gave my dead phone to the bartender to charge and sat outside where I uncharacteristically stayed until 11 o’clock. Then without opening any apps I went to bed. This morning I woke up to this 🤦🏾♀️
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last night i put on a dress & consented to dramatic makeup just to go to a party where a white aussie guy got really righteous & indignant about me studying african lit b/c, "did i know africa isn't a country?" he concludes 10min monologue w/ "i know nothing about africa, but..."
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The Norton Anthology of Guys Who Won’t Fucking Shut Up About Deleuze.
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What’s the scariest moment in academic twitter and why is it getting this reply?
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I don’t kill my darlings, I send them to a draft farm upstate where they can roam free and be friends with other unruly darlings.
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@ashleyn1cole
I actually think, she wouldn't be... not because of his politics but because of his complete lack of etiquette and decorum.
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best fucking day because not only did we drop our union cards and had a rousing rally in the unforgiving heat but while we’re at it, WVU had an a near 90% vote of no confidence in Gee & co. labor wins! ✊🏾
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to help salvage the somali name i ran a 10k before coffee this morning…but i did a little skip at the end because we all must do that now 😂
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At the tender age of 73 Charles III has finally gotten on the tenure track. Don’t give up hope on academia.
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This morning cleaning up my desktop I found my “2020 Writing Goals” and without even opening the document, retitled it “2023 Writing Goals”
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I'm holding world literature hostage until you surrender all your "horizons" and "imagining otherwises." This is untenable.
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I know it’s cliché and cringe and whatever but this James Baldwin quote is the only antidote to my debilitating imposter syndrome, endless doubt. I posted it above my reading lists during comps.
Happy birthday, James Baldwin! 💙
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Particularly infuriating trend in academia now is white person fears the big white man theory they’re trained on is no longer in vogue, so they go on a touristy-extraction spree of BIPOC literary and cultural traditions as a spring board to legitimize said white old man theory.
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a white man i’ve met in passing twice who i’ve never had a conversation w/ emails me on saturday saying he saw i worked for corn*ll writing center and he’d like to pay me to edit, revise, format his diss plus write parts of intro and concl by *july 11*
my *actual* response: LOL.
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Ithaca has so far been stingy with spring but delighted it made an exception for Eid 🌸🌙
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I guess I’m a PhD Candidate now…
Cons: I still had to come home at a reasonable hour and pack my own suitcase.
Pro: it provided an occasion to be in company of dear friends
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i recently lost a bet to a friend. the wager: i finally shave my hair... while this isn’t exactly a shave, i feel transformed ✨
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Should I buy this prom dress I saw on Ithaca virtual garage?? I’d be wearing it exclusively to the airport.
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It’s been raining all day but then after my psychoanalysis reading group, we came outside to this majestic scene. With all due respect to Lacan, I’ve found the Object, and I’m now wholly and completely satisfied.
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I’ve never met an unkind or unhelpful librarian, like not even once. It’s amazing how unanimously and universally librarians rock 💚💚
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it makes total sense to me that when you’re disempowered, your life is threatened, & two men with guns are on top of you that you would recite salient & essential vassets of your identity out loud. anyone who doesn’t get this instinct has never experienced authoritarian violence.
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@safiyaaaay
thank you walaalo 🧿 she insisted on being herself until the very end which it turns out is no easy task for a woman
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For those following at home: technically, I did not pass my english proficiency test only b/c I spent 15min voicing my strong objections to the process that the associate director was like fine you don’t need to test but will you please consider becoming a fellow at our center?
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It’s a riot teaching this novel. And to teach it to a group of people who haven’t yet encountered Foucault. The text is its own theory.
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we saw you across the room and really dig your vibe. we’re wondering if you’d like to join our panel on ‘regulating informal markets in sudan and somalia’
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nothing has made me lose faith in the university & esp. the humanities than our genocidal present. example: this article on protest, published this week by a tenured endowed full professor in my very own dept w/ a new book entitled "Activist Humanist" 1/x
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A scene from a local wine store:
Woman: I’m looking to buy a bottle of champagne to celebrate my friend, any suggestions?
Wine guy: *unironically* so it’s only champagne if it’s from the champagne region of France otherwise it’s sparkling wine…
Me: *audibly* jesus fucking christ
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this persian love cake was such a hit with my friends that i made it again for my neighbors’ baby party 🌸🦋
bought bunch of edible flowers & made a persian love cake 🌸🥀🌿
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We have called on Israel to immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened.
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Muslims staying late in mosques during Ramadan to pray is called “Itikāf.” It’s not “barricading” you fucking morons.
The Israeli police raided the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, to detain scores of Palestinians who had barricaded themselves inside. This prompted rocket fire from Gaza, to which Israel responded with strikes on Gaza military sites.
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We’re dunking on this poor girl w/ powerful relatives but when I came to US I thought I’m Somali, my people fast, running is in my DNA, so having never jogged I signed up for XC tryouts, 5K. By the time I emerged out of the NE woods practice was over & everyone had gone to dinner
The Ministry of Youth and Sports should step down. It's disheartening to witness such an incompetent government. How could they select an untrained girl to represent Somalia in running? It's truly shocking and reflects poorly on our country internationally.
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cornell police clearly unprepared for the mass & continuous support for the encampment finally announced around 9pm that there will be no arrests tonight, adding, however, that everyone in the quad including the majority who were outside the camp were “arrest-able.” 🇵🇸
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my 80s-inspired 🌈 jello won “the grooviest” category in my friends’ jellofest party, but honestly it’s an honor just to be nominated among such outstanding gelatinous creations 🏆
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I’ve spent every August morning reading, writing, and trying to understand just two Hadraawi poems. He’s a poetic genius, freedom fighter, people lover, champion of all Somali people, and a master bar none of the Somali language. I hope he and Gaariye are having a laugh somewhere
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It arrived!! I thought in the two years between my writing this chapter & it appearing in print, I’d grow comfortable with what I wrote: writing about Islam, the harshness of the *I*, the discomfort with the personal. But, alas, I am still uneasy with it all but here it is anyway
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It’s rare these days that I read a book of criticism from cover to cover. But I took my time with this generative and generous text that’s a gift to all who are invested in the politics of form and the perils of narrative.
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went to see barbie last night dressed up as the third favorite sisterwife of an evangelical cult leader. my favorite part: the birkenstocks cameo as a very recent and very reluctant birks convert. lease favorite part: last line of the movie.
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it’s extremely convenient for the ruling class to frame any critique of them, esp. any that draws attention to the discrepancy b/w their talents & their high stations or makes a link b/w their mediocre rise & their access to wealth/privilege as mere jealousy. extremely convenient
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I start writing my first qualifying exam tomorrow and I’m prepping for it the way my people taught me: cleaning and cooking 🥘
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Thrilled to announce that there comes a point in every working woman’s life where she voluntarily, unironically, enthusiastically purchases Clarks.
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“each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity” —frantz fanon
Cornell Liberated Zone 🇵🇸
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I never understood smoking…until I discovered the damage dairy inflicts on my body, and I decided to eat soft cheeses and yogurts and ice cream several times a day anyway.
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My article on Armah’s spellbinding novel and postcolonial temporality is out from JALA where I had the best editorial and peer-review experience!
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I had big plans for this Monday but delighted to ignore them to work on these proofs for an essay in a forthcoming special issue of Representations.
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I was just thinking how in college I had a massive crush on this guy then one day I told him about my internal monologues and he was baffled. “Don’t you talk to yourselves?” I asked. “No,” he said, “if I’m not doing something my head is empty.” And my crush evaporated immediately
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my favorite part was when he said, "it'd be like talking about the EU as though it were a thing"
and i said, "the EU is a thing."
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Just one day I’d love to see an “I’m thrilled to announce” post that says, “it truly blows to move to this dusty town and join a community of bitter scholars and former rivals. But hey what are you gonna do?”
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“Close reading, at its best, allows one to draw connections in a way that prevents universalizing ahistoricism, on the one hand,and, on the other, impedes the tendency to reduce literarity on the basis of preprogrammed historical knowledge.”
@nicolemrizzuto1
, I’ll die on this hill
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“The first wound for all of us who are classified as ‘black’ is empire. This is a truth many of us — whether we are included in that category or not — prefer to avoid.”
@EfieZethu
new essay collection is unsurprisingly astonishing
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I’d love to explain to people that churning out 4k word a month on the sex lives and horny vibes of various mid-century authors and overblown millennial novelists isn’t actually doing criticism but wouldn’t wanna sound jealous with my average looks and all.
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Great news: I get to work on this project in the summer thanks to the generous support of the Graduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities at Cornell. Thank you for your generous responses in the winter and hope to follow up on your wonderful leads soon💚🎉
I am currently compiling a database of African fiction published between 1930-1990. It is fun but with less-than-sound methodology. If anyone knows of already-existing databases I could use or lesser-known names I ought not to overlook, I shall be grateful 🙏
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If I have to go to campus on a Saturday morning, I’m gonna take the scenic route, thank you very much.
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My absolute favorite people are people who leave group chats. Like that’s such a baller move and one I will never have the courage to do.
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I am currently compiling a database of African fiction published between 1930-1990. It is fun but with less-than-sound methodology. If anyone knows of already-existing databases I could use or lesser-known names I ought not to overlook, I shall be grateful 🙏
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this heart of mine was already tired, tattered and now i learn that the best person i know, the single best person that has ever happened to me, my chosen family, my champion has died. i don’t know what to do with myself, i’m beyond destroyed.
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@hinesaj
the level of blatant antisemitism from people whose only arsenal against the left seems to be calling us antisemitic, i just…it hurts my head.
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I hope
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@CornellGSU
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Incredible honor, incredible fun to have worked with these kind rigorous minds! Thank you
@pocothought
@poulomiqsaha
& Diana Wise for making this a reality! Best incentive to finish ALA paper so I could revisit these essays in their full written glory! 🍾
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bought bunch of edible flowers & made a persian love cake 🌸🥀🌿
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PROOFS: I wrote the first draft of this article at the end of my first year of grad school. The extensive revisions it had since undergone track my intellectual evolution in the last three years. Out from JALA soon
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I did worse than read that NYer article, I listened to it and I can say with furious confidence that the human race as a whole needs no more representation of the sex lives of boring privileged white people. For fuck sakes
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I know I’m way too old for a bathroom mirror selfie but I need everyone to know that today at 7:55am as I existed the
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bus with my second-day hair and bags under my eyes a well-dressed woman came up to me to ask if I’d consider being A MODEL in a show her org was putting on!!!
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sometimes i feel crushed by the loneliness of writing: the relative solitude, the stamina and discipline required to work on the same thing for months or years, the not knowing whether any of it is good or if it’s all in your head. is it too late to become a park ranger?
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nope, nope! we’ve reached our quota on unhinged cut articles on the silly sex lives of crazy white people
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On my way home it suddenly dawned on me that today marks:
✅Last day of teaching
✅End of grad school coursework
✅Submission of all written materials for my qualifying exam
✅Evening class cancelled
So I made a detour and bought me a negroni, reading poetry, relishing the quiet
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stress insomnia, the humidity is 100%, the bus is 15min late, my groceries didn’t arrive, already received two emails about an error in my syllabus, I’m mixing my patterns. This is gonna be a great first year of school 🏫
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The length a certain woman would go to for a cinnamon roll is frankly quite embarrassing.
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this labor day weekend marks my one year baking anniversary. i made this apple pie for beloved neighbor’s birthday last night 🥧
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me turning in my first dissertation chapter to my committee...
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