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It’s a gloomy Tuesday, and I’m back writing about genocide again (as I always seem to be doing). This time, it’s an essay about the former Yugoslavia. I was born in northern Italy but spent the first two years of my life in Zagreb, where my father worked at the U.S. Cultural Center. This was our family’s first tour overseas; my father was a very junior Foreign Service Officer with the United States Information Agency (USIA), and my mother hadn’t yet joined the State Department (the first time she applied to the Foreign Service, the interviewers gestured at her very pregnant body and told her, “clearly you’re now very serious about this job”). I spent my childhood living in countries that were either on the verge of collapse or the edge of revolution. For a long time, I could see the ways in which I had been shaped by the languages and cultures of these places but not by their traumas. It was only in graduate school, after taking a course about “issues of representation” in Holocaust literature, that I began to acknowledge how my thinking, my sense of what it means to be human, had been impacted by living in areas that were sites of genocide. The ground has history, and it seeps into us. Or, it should. Over the summer, I read Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, in which scholar Lauret Savoy writes about the ways that the American landscape contains overlapping and intersecting histories, which have often been erased. It’s a beautifully written book that urges the reader to be more attentive, to look for those silenced narratives in the names of our cities, rivers, valleys, to watch for what the past is trying to tell us. ~
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Outfit info:
aceandjig - Rara midi in fern/posie (M)
babaaknitwear - No. 18 sweater (OS)
heritageboot - brown leather cowboy boots
Trying not to dwell on the fact that my pants are way too short—really wishing there was a good extra 2 inches of length. 💔 I tried the tall length instead, but the rise was ridiculously long, it was so drop crotch and ill-fitting. Trying my best to channel my inner melissaanderson and embrace the short pants look, thick calves and cankles be damned!
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- babaa Jumper Woman No18 in clay pot, size OS
- oatmeal.shop Gold Union Knot necklace
- elizsuzann Andy Trouser in olive midweight linen, size XL-Regular
- bryrclogs Clementine Closed Toe Clog, Mid Heel in cement, size 40 (gifted)
Cannot wait for consistent sweater weather ☀️ #livinginbabaa #dayslikethese #springtime #thehappynow #brighterdays #babaajumperno18 #liveinit
Oversized everything #babaajumperno18
Suitcase Capsule day 18: 6/11/2019 - I did better today. Put some make up on and got dressed, sort of. But mainly because I went to my son’s 1st grade Meet and Greet this morning. 1st grade? 😲 .
#babaajumperno18 Bay Laurel; #levis Wedge Jeans; #hanselfrombasel socks; #stagni Bunto.
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#30wears #minimaliststyle
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I don't know why now that it's getting cool, I just want to wear more colors. These #babaaknitwear sweaters give me major art teacher vibes. .
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