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1 This rasanblaj combines definitions from The Oxford English Dictionary, The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

2 As an avid fan of Inside the Actor’s Studio (1994–2018)—an American television talk show hosted by James Lipton as a seminar for the Actors Studio Drama School in NYC—my favorite segment of the interviews was the questionnaire that each guest answered, much to the delight of the audience. Lipton has written that he was inspired by French journalist and interviewer Bernard Pivot, who hosted Apostrophes (1975–1990), a weekly literary talk show on French television. At the end of each show, each answered a set of questions similar to those answered by Marcel Proust in Confessions. An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, &c. More info in James Lipton, Inside Inside (New York: Dutton Press, 2007).

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Gina Athena Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse is professor of feminist studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her latest publication, A Call to Rasanblaj: Black Feminist Futures and Ethnographic Aesthetics (2023), includes an introduction interview with editor Penelope Papailias translated by Vangelis Poulios (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Athens, Greece). She has been the “Rasanblaj” editor since 2017.