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Missourian, he/him, urban gardener, @FieldMuseum exhibits, @belt_publishing STL & LGBTQ anthologies. Writing/tweeting about many miscellaneous interests.
Sep 4, 2018 51 tweets 24 min read
This weekend I'm flying to Poland to meet a group of Americans who are visiting their ancestral homelands for the first time. They are among the oldest Muslim communities in Europe. Some background: rferl.org/a/lipka-tatar-… It'll be incredible: A reunion generations in the making, as these folks grapple with Europe's and the US' shift to far right Christian nationalism, amid a post-Soviet pan-Tatar cultural/religious renaissance in Eurasia, set to 600 years of Baltic-Islamic cultural syncretism