Category Archives: alternative facts

Postcards of the Resistance

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

2 October 2025 Earlier this week I wrote about ouright lies and censorship advanced by leaders of the US government. Some are breathtakingly absurd (such as the vice president’s claim that residents in his homestate of Ohio were eating the … Continue reading →

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New Documentary Asks What Happens When American Universities Respond to the Conflict in Israel and Palestine

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

8 September 2024 My friend Jan Haaken—a professor of psychology and a filmmaker—is steeped in a fund-raising campaign to clear $25,000 and finish a documentary about how faculty, students, staff and college communities in the US cope with speech freedoms, … Continue reading →

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November Welcomes Native American Heritage Month

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

But Can We Really Celebrate? Native American Heritage Month has been officially celebrated—at least as an idea–for nearly 30 years. The first official announcement occurred when President George Herbert Walker Bush declared November as National Native American Heritage Month in … Continue reading →

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How do you translate power?

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Look at those who cause harm My university students love to talk about power. It comes with being youthful and curious. But the key is to dig deeper, and ask, how power is fueled and what forms does it take? … Continue reading →

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