Joy Neumeyer
Writer at Freelance
Writer/historian of Russia and Eastern Europe, author of A SURVIVOR'S EDUCATION: WOMEN, VIOLENCE, AND THE STORIES WE DON'T TELL (out now!)
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1 month ago |
nybooks.com | Dahlia Krutkovich |Joy Neumeyer
Russian human rights organizations estimate that there may be as many as 10,000 political prisoners scattered across the country’s penal colonies. Last summer, Joy Neumeyer wrote to fourteen of these imprisoned dissidents, unsure whether anyone would even receive her messages. To her surprise, some of them wrote back, enclosing heartfelt, roving reflections on their childhoods, their political awakenings, their last moments of freedom, and how they feel about their antiwar activities now.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Joy Neumeyer |Dahlia Krutkovich
4 hours agoEuropean leaders rally behind Zelensky after Trump clashEuropean leaders have rallied behind Volodymyr Zelensky after Donald Trump's furious exchange with the Ukrainian president in the White House.
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2 months ago |
nybooks.com | Joy Neumeyer
Political repression is a matter of the Soviet past, according to Vladimir Putin. The human rights group Memorial disagrees. Although the Russian government disbanded Memorial’s Moscow-based Human Rights Center four years ago, the group’s project supporting political prisoners lives on, with almost all its staff now abroad.1 As of February 11, Memorial has officially recognized 837 political prisoners.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
lithub.com | Joy Neumeyer
I encounter Liza for the first time while researching her husband, Oleg Dal, an actor who specialized in playing misanthropic men. Article continues after advertisementOleg met Liza Apraksina in 1969, on the set of a King Lear adaptation. He was playing the Fool, and she was a film editor who cut the celluloid and assembled it into scenes. Actors wandered in and out of the editing room to watch the footage that had been shot that day.
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Aug 20, 2024 |
kirkusreviews.com | Joy Neumeyer |David Grann |Truman Capote
A smart, powerful memoir gives a fresh perspective on what it means to be a survivor. A historian recounts her experience with domestic violence and academia, exploring how larger patterns of abuse and misogyny affect whose stories are heard. Neumeyer moved to Berkeley in 2016 to complete her doctorate in history, but when her romantic relationship with a fellow student turned violent, her education expanded to include learning how to navigate Title IX and what it means to be a survivor of abuse.
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