Charlotte E. Rosen
@CharlotteERosen
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associate editor @publicbooks; historian; writer; buttercream enthusiast; abolition now! she/her
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2018
being an adult is just an endless loop of wiping down the counter.
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they got the fashion girlies? it's literally joever wow.
Students at FIT have just taken over the museum building and set up a Gaza Solidarity Encampment 🇵🇸🫡
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It remains stunning to me that just mere weeks ago people were acting aghast at the suggestion that Israel would target a hospital, implying it was basically anti-semitic to say as much. Now, Israel is casually *re-targeting* hospitals that they've already bombed.
Palestinian hospitals giving any health care, even as a First Aid stations, are being re-targeted by the Israeli army. Yesturday it was Al Awda hospital. Morning they shelled Shifa Hospital. This afternoon they attacked Al Ahli hospital and are rounding up the staff and wounded.
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faculty getting arrested protecting students is so metal and cool.
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Lots to critique about Barbie, but notable that there aren't any police officer Barbies in Barbieland (!).
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are there not substantial numbers of Jewish students involved in the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampments, enough so that they hosted a visible shabbat? Are they not also Jews, and are they not demonstrating a very different narrative of what safety means to them?.
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
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Ta-Nahisi Coates was the speaker at NU's prison education program graduation last year. He was very clearly there for the students and no one else; he stated clearly, about their graduation in prison: "The fact of the matter is this is your success. But it’s our failure.".
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I don't mean to dismiss the reality of historical trauma associated with the Holocaust & anti-semitic violence, something that profoundly shaped my own family's history. But I find it troubling how Jewish support for Israel is treated as a natural or expected "trauma" response. .
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curb your enthusiasm theme song starts playing
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more of us on the left need to get comfortable organizing with people we find interpersonally annoying or corny but with whom we share like 90% of the same goals and objectives.
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cool that the dem candidate can't just say "immigrants are people and we should treat them with humanity, dignity, and respect".
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Was really lucky to have had a chance to know, learn from & laugh with Michael. Devastated and angered by this loss; at graduation last year he got to see his mother for the first time in 20 years. Everyone cried. He should not have died in a cage.
Michael Broadway, a Black man incarcerated at Stateville prison in Illinois, died last Wednesday, partly due to extreme heat. While incarcerated, he earned a degree from Northwestern. A reminder that the climate crisis is here. Even if you don’t feel it, the most vulnerable do.
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getting to a point where it's actually just really funny my husband left me one day out of the blue a month ago. like what lmao.
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can't stress enough how scary and evil this is.
House votes 320-91 to urge the Department of Education to codify criticism of Israel as unlawful antisemitism.
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this is seriously so enraging & disgusting. Jalil Muntaqim was *just* released after 49 years and the state is already trying to throw him back in a cage. You cannot reform this system; please sign:.
Jalil Muntaqim, recently paroled after 49 years, was arrested Friday & is facing re-imprisonment for completing a voter registration form. Sign this petition to oppose any efforts to remove him from community and/or place him back in prison! .
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What was the New Deal, if not racial capitalism persevering?.
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It’s actually not a biological or historical inevitability that a group of people who experience fascist violence will in turn embrace an ethnostate premised on a similar form of fascistic colonial terror.
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all of this makes me even more passionate about emphasizing to people that most people are arrested, prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned at the state and local level.
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not profound but as I continue to read through docs related to prisons in late 20th c I'm regularly overcome w the heaviness of how much of what goes on in prisons & jails - just in their daily operations, not simply particular moments of brutality - is literal torture.
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Half of writing a dissertation is convincing yourself, against all evidence presented to you by your broken brain, that you are not, in fact, a dumb bitch.
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tfw your university presses the red scare button in response to grad unionization the day after they announce an 800 mil stadium project the jokes just write themselves.
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naomi murakawa recently talked about how pretrial detention is basically state-sanctioned kidnapping and I think we cannot stress that enough.
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"It is a massacre of the injured"--another phrase that will haunt me for years.
Israeli warplanes just bombed the gates of Al Shifa hospital -it is a massacre of the injured. A convoy of sick was headed to Rafah struck w precision weapons. Their bodies are strewn, blood flows, survivors panic and pray that life is possible. & the US sends “aid” 2Israel #Gaza.
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repelled by both the left doom-posting and the corny-lib posting. we exist!.
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Normalize being a historian who also immediately blacks out dates and details and needs to repeatedly Wikipedia basic historical pivot points 😌.
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The suggestion -- even if couched in a well-meaning project of contextualizing Jewish "feelings" -- actually occludes the political work (undertaken with substantial assistance from a literally anti-semitic West) involved in translating this historical experience into Zionism.
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almost too on the nose: learned today that COPS was green-lit in response to the 1988 twenty-two-week TV writer's strike.
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retweet if you were previously going to write a bad dissertation but now, due the pandemic, have reconsidered and will be now be "buckling down" to write an "outstanding" one.
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can't imagine feeling anything but immense respect towards student protesters and organizers who are leading the way in their moral clarity, innovative tactics, and ground breaking coalition building.
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is this the best the "jewish left" has on offer
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no like the university is going to LOSE so badly !!!!.
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she hates him omg.
Wow — Nancy Pelosi puts Biden on blast, telling NYT: "Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.". "The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary."
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historian affirmations: I will not take a picture of every single document "in case it might be useful" while in the archives.
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my only thought on don't look up it is it's hilarious the writers thought a professor would so readily give credit to a graduate student for a major discovery lmao.
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what no one tells you about doing historical research is somedays you really are just scrolling through newspapers dot com, going year by year, with the same two search words, for days on end.
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why did they make bernie as a hot got e-girl costume I'm wheezing
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I will surely not face consequences for this action in 3-5 months
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[being that guy] just had my first peer reviewed academic journal article accepted 🥲.
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the way @rwgilmoregirls just effortlessly makes the clearest case for abolition as the way forward for any meaningful left project
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akin to mandating pro-Boer propaganda during apartheid South Africa:.
Columbia University will now mandate that all new students and faculty go through an orientation that states anti-Zionism is antisemitism. The plan, which was not announced in any direct communications by Columbia, was revealed by an Israeli newspaper article. - @theintercept.
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I really don't think many of us (myself very much included) can imagine what it is like to lose your partner and dozens of family members overnight. To say this is a crime against humanity doesn't begin to capture the horror.
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I don't want my "Jewish fear" to be "recognized" by the "movement," I want the genocide and colonization of Palestinians in my name to end, which, incidentally, is also the only true pathway for any semblance of meaningful safety for Jews.
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I hate how all of the villains in batman (the riddler in the latest film) often have genuine critiques of capitalism, corruption, & state violence, but because they are psycho killers the implied takeaway is people who hold these views are all crazy & dangerous.
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today's rabbit hole brought me to learn about Frank Tannenbaum, a Jewish historian/criminologist and former IWW member once arrested for taking industrial action with other unemployed workers in 1914. who also had this to say about prisons in 1922
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feel super psyched to finally share this piece I wrote for @nplusonemag on the history of prisoner resistance and prison conditions litigation: .
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his only statement should be "they got me girls".
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I'm an historian so obviously I agree that terms matter and are not transhistorical but there is also a disturbing tendency in academia to engage in pedantic debates over terminology in ways that actually minimize expressions of concrete fascist/white supremacist violence.
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me in various group chats today saying "patriotism. in this economy?" and no one reacting : /
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I miss going to the archives, getting immediately ravenous and dehydrated, and photocopying 4 200 page reports in a row in a borderline fugue state!!!.
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hearing RWG tell ppl who refuse to understand race and class as mutually constitutive to “shut the fuck up” was so healing.
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Remembering @prisonculture's words from last week's MLK Keynote, on King as a proto-abolitionist:.
.@prisonculture talks about MLK's fear of jail, esp solitary confinement. Notes that King was jailed 29 times. "If King were alive today, at 91 - I have no doubt that what he would be addressing is the violence and destruction of the prison industrial complex."
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Checking in on this.
CHICAGO POLICE UNION PRESIDENT SAYS 800-1000 OFFICERS MAY RESIGN IF BRANDON JOHNSON WINS MAYORAL RACE.
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I do it too and this is not a critique of anyone in particular but there is something uncomfortable (to me) about the impulse to parade one's Jewish credentials in order to speak in support of Palestine.
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amazing one-two swipe at pro-Palestine protesters and academic worker unionization from c*aire p*tter
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the move to individualize and strip of historical and political context is always a technique of state violence.
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apropos of nothing “putting women back into history” is not inherently the radical project you think it is.
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beyond chilling.
BREAKING: Harvard is evicting a Black @hgsuuaw student from campus housing today for serving as a student safety marshal during a recent campus protest organized by @HarvardPSC.
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As good a time as any to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Editor at @PublicBooks this Fall, as part of @HistStudiesNU Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public Service. Beyond excited to join this rad team & grow as an editor, writer, and publisher ‼️.
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I know these people don't actually care about any of this but just such a maddening and violent attempt to discursively stake out that Jewish safety = genocidal settler colonialism.
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rip Mike Davis. hard to overstate the gifts he gave the movement; will always be forever grateful for his incisive, no bullshit, and planetary analyses, his incomparable humor, and principled commitment to struggle.
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super solid review that also validates my feeling that the show had fleeting abolitionist tendencies but they got muddled and crushed by the always overpowering copaganda inherent to the genre.
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a lot of white women were & are fascists! that history should be interrogated & confronted head on & not couched in some weird liberal attachment to seeing someone’s seemingly marginalized identity as reason for uncritical, apolitical reinsertion into the historical narrative.
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troubling that people continue to suggest that an affective connection to Israel (whether it be through spiritual feeling or via family ties) therefore justifies it as a politically virtuous or salvageable political project.
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No discourse but if you’re a “socialist” and are citing polling numbers (⁉️) to dunk on abolition that’s embarrassing 😪.
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sorry but! I'm hugely unsettled by the mass mourning / idolatry of RBG! now feels like precisely a time when we should be highly critical of her decision to stay on, her largely terrible record (esp. re Native rights + criminal legal system), her paling around w Scalia?!.
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Good evening, "twitterstorians" was a 10 year sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CORRECTLY, on ya'lls fav: "The New Deal was also capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism".
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OK litrally what main line abolitionist teen did this.
A Philadelphia woman was stunned when she received this cake from The Bakery House in Bryn Mawr. She got the cake for her friend’s 25th anniversary @PhillyPolice. Bakery shop says they are mortified and it was an honest mistake and have nothing but respect for our officers @6abc
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if your historical approach is rooted in merely pointing out that Women Did Things and not critically appraising their politics and actions (or for that matter interrogating the very historical construction of the category of “womanhood”!) then it’s empty and dangerous.
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Thinking about how abolitionist praxis is fundamentally historical.
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the book very much reads like an attempt to absolve and humanize this fundamentally unethical turn to Israeli settler-dom.
And there you have it. Joshua Leifer, after releasing this book and getting the one instance of what he sees as discrimination for his views, now has the casus belli to announce that, *surprise*, he's moving to Israel. Who could have seen this coming.
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Really cool initiative -- if you just got a stimulus check and can spare some or all of it, here are some places to redistribute put together by abolitionist organizers in Philly + NYC
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some of you are guilty of libbing out in the group chats.
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they yassified sartre.
First pics of Brad Pritt as Jean Paul Sartre and Eva Green as Simone Beauvoir in upcoming biopic
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for more information on the horrific conditions at PA's SCI-Huntingdon, the PA Human Rights Coalition release this disturbing report in 2011:
Luigi Mangione’s fellow Pennsylvanian prison mates have been heard yelling “Luigi’s conditions suck” & “Free Luigi” in new interview with NewsNation.
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not very deep to throw out there but: that police lie isn't merely a political position but an historical fact, based on clearcut evidence.
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"I'm stupid".
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average historian work day.
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reading mid-twentieth century US labor history is very much giving this
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Identifying a little too strongly with Steve Kornacki
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becoming obsessed with this small window of time (roughly 1978-1983ish?) where the idea of building more prisons was genuinely considered unwise/too costly by many state legislators, correctional bureaucrats, and voters across the political spectrum.
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not that fed gov doesn’t matter, but it’s also not really where the discretionary power lies when it comes to much of the carceral state.
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"it is simply bombing entire neighborhoods".
explain it to me @NickKristof - what meaningful difference is there between *deliberately* killing someone with a gun and bombing with little attention. what makes the latter not deliberate? what is the "moral difference" here
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oh you're an abolitionist? name the four surpluses that generated the "prison fix" 😤.
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I reviewed @KayJWhitlock + @naheitzeg Carceral Con for @thenation -- a vital resource for abolitionists that clarifies how criminal justice reform™️ proliferates rather than mitigates punishment + harm.
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ransacking democracy is actually OK for AHA when they want to align with genocidaires, apparently!
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being Jewish does not make me a moral authority on genocide, everyone should be against settler colonial fascism, and on a strategic level, zionists (at this point) don't really give a shit whether we're Jewish or not and basically consider us fake anyway.
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and i think what feels so difficult to hold is that the often state-produced documents re: these conditions, even the ones that are allegedly liberal/progressive, ultimately frame these genocidal conditions as aberrations rather than functions of these institutions.
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one of my favorite little notices from the 70s era Angolite, the prisoner publication at Angola Prison:
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