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Meytal Radzinski @Biblibio

Blabs about books. Half of @NotTwins Band. #womenintranslation, #WITMonth founder, and @read_wit. Biochemistry PhD student @HujiBiochem. Lab life is rad life.

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Meytal Radzinski@Biblibio
1 Aug 2017
And here is a thread with ideas and tips for how to participate in #WITMonth. You should read and share it. x.com/Read_WIT/status/892077…

#womenintranslation@Read_WIT
31 Jul 2017
1/ #WITMonth starts tomorrow! Here are some things you (and your friends and your neighbors and your pets) can do to take part:
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Jess Andoh-Thayre@JessAndohThayre
28 Jun 2024
I can now say I've read a work by a woman from EVERY country! 5 years, 9 months, 200 books, and my book project is complete! Huge thanks to the WIT community, @GlobalLitin & @Biblibio. Read about the journey's end: aroundtheworldonefemalenovel… #bookproject #ReadWiT

How the Journey Ended

Earlier this year, sharing my global literature project with my grade 4 class sparked their curiosity about the power of reading. Their questions – “Did you really do this all yourself?”…

aroundtheworldonefemalenovelistatatime.wordpress.com
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#womenintranslation@Read_WIT
19 Feb 2024
Despite not being on here much these days, I'm still planning for #WITMonth 2024 - the 10 year anniversary!! Translators, publishers, and writers: Please start sending me your works by #womenintranslation published Sep 2023 - Aug 2024. TEN YEARS!
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I am very, very happy to share that my PhD dissertation was officially approved! The past few months since submission have been an emotional rollercoaster for *all* of the reasons, but I'm just so thrilled right now to be able to say: Dr. Meytal Radzinski!
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Thanks all for the lovely and supportive responses!!! I'm not on here so much anymore and my exciting new postdoc life is also quite its own story (that I should probably share separately!), but your congratulations really made my day and I feel so lucky in your kindness 💜
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Feeling the weight of grief today. From here and from there and from everywhere. I'm tired of seeing all of this pain and suffering and the very many sources to it.
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I don't need to imagine what sort of fear others feel when there are bombs overhead. Because it happened an hour ago. This morning. Yesterday, all week. I don't wish this on anyone else. But let's not pretend that it's not happening *to me* - an innocent civilian - as well.
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And to be clear: My situation is infinitely better than many others. I'm very lucky. But I want to clarify that violence is still happening. It doesn't justify *other* violence, but let's be clear: It's still happening.
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Dana Reichmann@dana_reichmann
10 Oct 2023
Thankful to all my friends and colleagues abroad for sending kind words. Your support and solidarity give strengths and hope. Here is a statement by the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Science at Ulm, Germany. Thank you! uni-ulm.de/nawi/naturwissens…
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Screenshot of a long text post from facebook, detailing grief. One snippet below: "A siren caught me today as I was out of the house, in a car. The protocol is clear: Stop the car, step away from it, lie down flat against the ground, cover your head and neck, and then wait for ten minutes. I found myself shaking, crying involuntarily. I thought of loved ones and friends who are still in harm's way. My friends who are still in their safe rooms/bomb shelters with their kids or families. I thought of how lucky I am, to only occasionally have to face this fear. How lucky I am to only grieve friends of friends, family of family, and names in the news." If someone wants the rest of the text, please contact separately.

ALT Screenshot of a long text post from facebook, detailing grief. One snippet below: "A siren caught me today as I was out of the house, in a car. The protocol is clear: Stop the car, step away from it, lie down flat against the ground, cover your head and neck, and then wait for ten minutes. I found myself shaking, crying involuntarily. I thought of loved ones and friends who are still in harm's way. My friends who are still in their safe rooms/bomb shelters with their kids or families. I thought of how lucky I am, to only occasionally have to face this fear. How lucky I am to only grieve friends of friends, family of family, and names in the news." If someone wants the rest of the text, please contact separately.
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I know I can't be on international social media right now. I can't see the images. I can't see the amount of people gleefully waiting for my supposedly deserved death. I can't accept just how much death there is and how much more there will. I won't look at it. I'm safe for now.
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I'm safe.
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Meytal Radzinski retweeted
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation@WarwickPrizeWiT
30 Sep 2023
We will announce the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation on 20th October. On this #InternationalTranslationDay, we would love to hear your recommendations from the 153 titles submitted in 2023. What #womenintranslation have you been reading and enjoying?
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation@WarwickPrizeWiT
27 Jun 2023
We are pleased to publish the list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023 tinyurl.com/3bpxj9eb It includes a record 153 entries from 32 languages. Ancient Greek, Bosnian, Gun, Romansh & Vietnamese are represented for 1st time in our 7-year history.
A photograph of copies of the 153 titles submitted to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023.

ALT A photograph of copies of the 153 titles submitted to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023.

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WordsWithoutBorders@wwborders
22 Sep 2023
Women in Translation month never ends—so it’s a good thing we’ve got this @scroll_in list of books by women, translated from 10 Asian languages and ft. no less than…10 WWB-ers. buff.ly/3PpEQdn

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Anyone else ever feel like the plethora of online reviews actually makes it that much harder to buy anything?
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*buying and reading hardcovers*: Wow, these are fantastic, so heavy and solid! 😍 *packing and moving hardcovers*: 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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I think I've said this before, but am I missing something in feeling that social media used to be a lot more *social*? More replying, more sharing/retweeting, more conversations, more getting to know people and forming relationships... versus announcements and performances?
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Like ironically the places where I now have the most in-depth conversations are those social media spaces where it used to be JUST performances and show. I feel like I've lost a lovely part of my internet self!
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Still trying to find the right fit for this, just replace "hardwood" with "not hardwood but looks kind of like it?", I suppose. Vacuum help?
Meytal Radzinski@Biblibio
13 Aug 2023
US folks: Recommendations for good vacuums for carpets and hardwood? Robot vacuums are lovely, so long as they don't have to creepily map everything out and record sound and then try to sell me things.......
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The new daily question (after "when are you moving?") is "you're taking all of your books?!", and the answer is, alas, no...
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Just sat down to write a particular part of my thesis, only to discover that I've already written it. So uh. Thanks past me, but also... when exactly did you do that??? 😵‍💫
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Me: Wait, this should be its own section and not linked to the previous! It's a separate figure! *scrolls up* Me: Oh... oh... I already... uh... did... that. I think I need to go to sleep.
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