Jacqueline Mansky

@jasmansky

writer. now . she/her. 📬 manskyj[at]si[dot]edu. "bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay'"

still crying over yuri!!! on ice
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    Jan 11

    👋🏻 i'm starting up a weekly column that explores historical context around our pop culture. get in touch here or at manskyj[at]si[dot]edu if you watch/read/hear anything you want backstory on, especially if said backstory is cher related

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  2. Jan 9

    Such a fan of the work is doing, and 😍 to have her write a piece for us

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  3. Jan 7

    How do you preserve the memory of a race riot? In her first byline for the site, does a great job reporting on a recent excavation compelling Springfield to reckon with its history

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  4. 13 Dec 2018

    the archaeological record of our times, as writes on a study that kicked my brain out of the present for a moment, will be "lots and lots of chicken bones"

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  5. 6 Dec 2018

    why are latkes not more gentrified, a real question i want an answer to

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  6. 4 Dec 2018

    a news cycle

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  7. 3 Dec 2018

    somewhere past the absurdity of this is a gorgeous think piece waiting to be written on age and limitations and societal definitions

    Emile Ratelband wanted to declare himself 49 in order to improve his chances on Tinder.
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    3 Dec 2018

    Someone just pointed out to me that what we lost with the LJ purge and now we'll see with Tumblr are the loss of artists who explore identities and things we don't get to see onscreen. That's really upsetting.

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  9. 30 Nov 2018

    I was expecting this (gorgeous, gorgeous) musical to dig into the themes of anxiety, depression, isolation, belonging... but I hadn't been thinking about the nature of that very American kind of lie. And how we understand it so readily, and are so able to digest it

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  10. 30 Nov 2018

    Evan is part of that larger tradition of Harold Hill striving that reads in the U.S. as an understandable choice to reinvent by shedding the past in hopes of glomming onto a better future

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  11. 30 Nov 2018

    OK, still thinking about Dear Evan Hansen, because it was my first viewing, so forgive me. 2018 is the year of the grifter, or whatever, and watching the musical, it just made me think about how American culture in particular is, on some level, so sympathetic to that kind of con

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  12. 28 Nov 2018

    This was fun

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  13. 15 Nov 2018

    Britt Rusert is part of the fascinating ongoing scholarship into Du Bois' legacy, and also an incredibly generous interview. Read our conversation up now:

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    29 Oct 2018

    Friends, sister survivors and : If you've read or know about the history in "At the Dark End of the Street" please help me out: In 1959 Betty Jean Owens was kidnapped and brutally raped by four white men in Tallahassee, Florida. She testified in a Jim Crow court..

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  15. 26 Oct 2018

    Asked to break down the issues surrounding the much ballyhooed "first piece of AI-generated art to come to auction" for me and she was like 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻

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  16. 26 Oct 2018

    I've never had a green bean casserole, but this piece remembering the woman behind the recipe makes me want to finally give it a try

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  17. 19 Oct 2018

    My inner horse girl was sated working on this lovely feature for the site about how everyone's favorite novelized horse (aside from Black Beauty) survived the real perils of the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962

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  18. 15 Oct 2018

    I learned so much about monsters—and questionable monster anatomy?—editing this story that may well be the "Our Monsters, Ourselves" of our times

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  19. 15 Oct 2018

    Here's a quote that didn't go into the piece, but precisely sums up why the stories of the Broadcast 41 matter

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  20. 15 Oct 2018

    We're lucky to have people like doing the work. After our interview, she told me she was headed out to New York to continue investigating the lives of these women at the NYPL. Research never rests

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