Aanchal Saraf

assistant prof in cultural studies @PrattInstitute | researching entangled geographies & cultures of war, empire, environment, & knowledge | htx bb 🌈

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

me and colin farrel’s matching triangle eyebrows here to announce that I’m a doctor now!! big love to the community that made it all possible/u r immortalized in my acknowledgments 💕🌸

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@nigritie I love moo deng

[Yousef Aljamal 🪁 @YousefAljamal]

Read my latest article on traveling as a Palestinian from #Gaza
“What It Means to Travel as a Gazan.”
https://t.co/9rHiffVMib @CNTraveler

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

I won’t forget the heartless cowards who remain silent & unbroken as Israel commits genocide. I pray that you’re just speaking in other spaces, but many of you hide behind the comforts of empire and flake on doing the bare minimum. You are responsible for this. We all are.

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

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[Dr. Athia N. Choudhury @Athia_Choudhury]

Maybe had too much fun on @CuriouswithJVN talking about the cultural history of the calorie, US empire, and wellness culture. Hope folks will tune in and share their thoughts!

@jvn and I are waiting for our modeling contracts btws!!!

https://t.co/xZkMKRm6rT

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@nigritie I will always remember seeing the incredibles 2 here w/ u

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@mfulysses This was naomi and I’s SPOT 😭

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@FelixChopra @Ingar30 These are not qualitative interviews, much less semi structured omg. Nor are your conclusions born of qualitative analysis. This is just fancy Qualtrics, ie quantitative surveys that you are analyzing quantitatively! Words mean things!!

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@mfulysses There’s a great ch about her in the Archive and the Repertoire! Not quite what you’re looking for but ~in conversation

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@mfulysses I felt absolutely nuts reading this

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@strangeharbors I’m perplexed by your media illiteracy tbh. Our piece isn’t saying that Nolan’s movie thinks “bombs are good,” lol. we give historical context for the relationship b/n gender and nuclear weapons to illuminate how the movie fails in ways that undercut its “bombs are bad” message.

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

I ended up deeply disliking red white and royal blue instead of thinking it would mid like I expected :( it felt like watching a lifetime movie and/or a campaign ad :(((

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

Being rampantly misogynist and anti-communist undercuts your movie’s “bombs are bad” message actually! I already knew USians’ knowledge of pacific history was abysmal but I’m astounded at how many people cannot analyze beyond plot :)

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@ChrisJHLambert Sigh. Our piece isn’t saying that Nolan’s movie thinks “bombs are good,” lol. we are giving historical context for the relationship b/n gender and nuclear weapons to illuminate how the movie fails in ways that undercut its “bombs are bad” message. Who’s media illiterate now?

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

a quick read to bring in the weekend: @RebeccaHogue and I wrote about how the “atomic age” was full of actual barbenheimers and why nolan’s film is formally and aesthetically gross!

[CNN Opinion @CNNOpinion]

Aanchal Saraf & Rebecca Hogue: “Barbenheimer has crucial predecessors, cultural moments that combined sex and nuclear weapons to convince the world that we should ‘learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.’” https://t.co/xHDgch8y07

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@miaadrikang @its_aly_tho_

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@larvapie gl!! 💐

[Aanchal Saraf @aanch__]

@larvapie With me!!