Vesna Jaksic Lowe
@vesnajaksic
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she/her. writer & comms consultant. immigration/human rights/intl affairs. #KRWW @Tin_House @MVICW. https://t.co/0mQ8qy0M1C
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Joined June 2011
i'm so grateful and humbled that i got to write this essay and share this story about my immigration journey in the @nytimes
nytimes.com
The fighting in Yugoslavia forced my family to immigrate to Canada, where I found solace on the court.
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such a pleasure interviewing Croatian author Lidija Hilje for LARB
"Learning to write in another language is humongously difficult. But I feel it gives me uniqueness in expressing myself." @vesnajaksic interviews Croatian author Lidija Hilje about her debut novel, “Slanting Towards the Sea.” https://t.co/n4nanYAHLX
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i wrote about Eurovision, coming from a country that no longer exists, nostalgia, and more for @ElectricLit, one of my favorite literary magazines. https://t.co/WdYlgyLZty
@CroAmPro @CWNLeaders @CroatiaWeek @allCroats @Eurovision @DubrovnikTimes
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Europe’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it
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THE ZACH LOWE SHOW ON YOUTUBE! SUBSCRIBE PLEASE! https://t.co/2IfwTPJXNo
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Good morning. Time to knock the rust off.
You asked, we answered. The Zach Lowe Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network. Coming soon to Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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not active here any more, just dropping the link to my latest newsletter for those who want to read writing by immigrants and children of immigrants. newsletter is free and monthly: https://t.co/BRy9pbAaHC
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Immigrant Strong is out - if you want to stay in touch, subscribe below (it's free!) or connect via BlueSky or Insta b/c i'm not into fascism embraced by the owner of this site. already lost one country to it. https://t.co/KJ5vvQaEO0
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honored to be among these women
Thrilled to introduce our 2025 Croatian Women of Influence Awards and Future Leader Awards, 2025 laureates. It is our honor to celebrate them! Join us in congratulating them! #CWoI2025 @CWNLeaders #WomenCelebatingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen
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October issue of Immigrant Strong (free and monthly!) is out! Featuring @rajivmohabir @ByFernandaS @bdantaslobato @Elif_Safak @CarlosNYT, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Andre Aciman, and more https://t.co/vAb80W3qwB
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excited to have an essay in this beautiful anthology, now out! i'll be reading it this sunday at Stratford library in CT
Happy #BookBirthday! Editors @vic_toriawrites, Summer Tate, and @christinekandic constellated together the best #poetry, #nonfiction, and #prose from #Connecticutwriters for 2024 Connecticut Literary Anthology. https://t.co/O15dVA9ZHJ
#publicationday #newbook #mustread #fiction
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Infant mortality in the U.S. worsened after Supreme Court limited abortion access
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Just months after the Supreme Court limited abortion access, infant mortality rates rose significantly higher, according to a new study.
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ICRC teams were recently in the north of Gaza and saw firsthand the devastating humanitarian situation civilians are experiencing. Deputy head of Gaza sub-delegation Stephanie Eller shares more 👇🏽
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"Embracing this new chapter was a disorienting adventure, a process that forced me to recalibrate my understanding of self in the context of a country that had a pre-assigned label for people like me." @ByFernandaS
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The 19th’s managing editor, Fernanda Santos, reflects on her journey from Brazil’s first capital to raising America’s next generation.
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"Is immigration something you do or something you are? Is it a step on the way to becoming something else or does the passage itself forever define you?" @CarlosNYT
https://t.co/dxrTi6wPMx
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His hostility has taught me more about myself.
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“The world must stop standing by while Israel uses siege, starvation and atrocity crimes to forcibly displace and destroy civilians and civilian life.
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Immigrants have been awarded 38% (45 of 117) of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. Immigrants also have been awarded 31% (24 of 78) of Nobels won by Americans in economics, including 28% since 2000 https://t.co/5TC1WoNDJW
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