The people of my life have decisively spoken: if I were an MCU superhero, I would be Yelena Belova. I can live with this.
Roopika Risam
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Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses š“ https://roopikarisam.com
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I have written the last sentence of my final chapter!!!!! And I ended it exactly like @jenguiliano.bsky.social told me to. (Still more work to do but at least this is done!)
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Apparently I have some weird myth about Bill Belichick in my headā¦
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As I wrap up this chapter and my book with DOGE, it just occurred to me how completely absurd it is that itās called DOGE. š
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It's a sad world where you have to think, "you know, I better document who called this a genocide and why, just in case...." (re: Rohingya in Burma).
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has never seen one that in the U.S. we basically build trash mountains and this is totally normal.
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One of the best conversations I have ever had was with a man in Shan State who wanted to know about things in the U.S, so we were comparing all kinds of random stuff.... like what we do with our trash. And you just don't realize how bizarre a landfill is until you have to explain to someone who +
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I am also not a person who cries easily.... but the section on Uyghurs and the section on the Rohingya genocide are destroying me. The latter because I went to Burma in 2012 and it really felt like a moment of promise. For EVERYONE. And I still have to do the DOGE part. Blergh.
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The frequency with which things I have to write about in ch. 10 make me cry is why I seem to be unable to finish it.
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Yup with all the statues of the Great Men
