Christine Weeber

Jan 13, 2025 | sapiens.org | Grace Zhou |Christine Weeber |Alma Simba

✽A detainee prays in a prison cell at Guantánamo. Rural women in Brazil tend to a bounty of crops, despite threats of expanding agribusinesses. A poet unravels an 1846 British treaty “selling” Kashmir, weaving it into a new form. The poems in this collection attest to the fact that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. Wherever there is injustice, there is refusal. Wherever power seeks to constrain and dominate, there are ways of forging other paths forward and through.

Aug 5, 2024 | sapiens.org | Christine Weeber

In two poems, an anthropologist speaks to the timelessness and constant change of the minority language Griko in the Italian landscape.

Mar 28, 2024 | sapiens.org | Jennifer Kelly |Christine Weeber |Sophia Goodfriend |M. Cruz

✽What can you not unsee? I cannot unsee the reporting and images from Gaza that show a mother cradling her lifeless miracle baby who took her 580 injections to meet. Or Rania Abu Anza, another mother, holding her murdered twins that took her 10 years of in vitro fertilization to conceive. Or the children orphaned, injured, and shaking. Or the decomposing infants who had been left attached to hospital machines after their intensive care unit medical staff were forced out at Israeli gunpoint.

Feb 19, 2024 | sapiens.org | Whitney Duncan |Christine Weeber |Josh Yarden |Michael Haslam

Don’t miss out on anthropology’s insights about our world. A poet-anthropologist who has been an expert witness in asylum proceedings for Mexican nationals resists dehumanizing legal and political language to make space for the humanity of asylum-seekers.

Jan 31, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Helen De Cruz |Cassandra Willyard |Christine Weeber |Ather Zia

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human. LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Helen De Cruz, Wondering Freely“The argument is ‘At least it gets us to talk about climate change,’ but we are already talking. Awareness is not the issue. In many countries, the public is aware climate change is happening, and worry about it.