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Over the moon 🌙 that 'The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' received a starred review from Publishers Weekly! 🌟 🔭 🌃 www.publishersweekly.com/9781685892319

Very sad to learn of the death of Heather Goodall, a brilliant historian and activist. She pioneered Aboriginal history in collaboration with Indigenous communities as well as leading the way in Australian environmental history. She was warm, generous, and immensely kind @austhistassoc.bsky.social

Palantir is the company providing ICE agents with up to date street addresses. ICE buy a Palantir app, so Palantir is profiting from deportations & death right now. NHS England signed a contract with Palantir under the conservatives in 2023, but this continues under a Labour Government.

📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢 Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England 🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception 📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom 🗃️ All welcome, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...

Late to the party but finally read this the other day and found it beautifully written, engaging and useful - there are many possible answers to 'what kinds of trans history should we be writing in The Current Moment™?', but this is one of them.

In advance of King Day tomorrow, I am resharing a piece about Coretta AND MLK as a reminder that they were a team. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

can we just have a moment for how GREAT @kazcooke.bsky.social is. I loved you since I was ten and my dad's partner pressed a copy of Real Gorgeous into my nail-bitten hands which were at that time gripping Dolly Magazine with all their might. I then borrowed your corpus from Ashfield Library. 💕

These people are courageous. Way harder as a debut author to take the hit than if you are like tim winton.

Happy New Year! We have two new articles on the website. First, an article by Joanne Meyerowitz, which uses the long career of Janice Raymond to trace a genealogy of radical feminism and its longstanding associations with conservative anti-gender movements. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Abolishing ICE is a reproductive justice issue

Today I joined the @greenparty.org.uk I was optimistic about Your Party and its potential but they just failed over & over to see and meet the moment. super impressed by @zackpolanski.bsky.social, please don't fuck it up.

Daily orienting questions: What are you already doing? What else can you do? What are you doing together with others?

Thrilled that my book is included here along with so many good looking reads. Including one by Liza Minnelli my second favourite diva after Shere Hite, of course! www.thenewworld.co.uk/dale-shaw-tu...

Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Rewatched Bridget Jones! The only non-dick man in that film is Salman Rushdie.

This is an excellent article, which I highly recommend. Great to see Roberta Perkins’s beaming face too, alongside greater recognition of her significant contributions to many areas of Australian life.

‘The fact Tiresias House existed shows that trans women experienced violence … & needed somewhere to go. But the stories of violence held in this archive can also help understand how violence against women functions, demonstrating the shared experience of women, across the division of cis & trans

“The historical record presents a more expansive category of woman that we might learn from, and the archives highlight solidarities between cis and trans women. It is my hope that trans and trans-inclusive feminists find something useful for the present in this history.” 🗃️

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

total honour that 'The Book That Taught The World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' is included in the history section! 📚 👀 @melvillehouse.bsky.social

LORNA FINLAYSON IS SO SMART! I LOVED THIS in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tai...

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

I can attest that this book fuckin shreds

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... What will it take for this government to nationalise water? Rather than just spout (faulty and biased sums) about how it's too expensive? Because this is likely caused by privately owned Southern Water, who deliberately dumped raw sewage into seas for years. 💩

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

ah date night!

Got my book draft into my editor @melvillehouse.bsky.social earlier this week. My bf captured the moment perfectly 💕

HISTORIANS! do you manage to do your footnotes as you go? if so, what's the secret? I find it interrupts my flow so much...

I've been writing about Phyllis Schlafly and right-wing women vs Shere Hite and found this superb! I'm hoping for some discussion of Schlafly's self-help book, 'the power of the positive woman' in part 2. @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social

Out now! In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

“In this time of extinctions, we are going to be asked again and again to take a stand for life, and this means taking a stand for faith in life’s meaningfulness” - Deborah Bird Rose

It was so big in Melbourne that you could not physically exit the Melbourne central mall onto the street

amazing that the anti-sexist men's movement propose gender-neutral pronouns (te/tir) & attaché as alternative to husband/wife. As someone who likes a smart briefcase I could get on board!

Very exciting book news from Rosa Campbell, one-time editorial fellow at History Workshop 📖 👀

My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social! It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26! mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Sexual violence has been both endemic and normalised within many British police forces — and sexual violence against girls from working class backgrounds has long been ignored by the wider British state. Sometimes the obvious answer is, in fact, the correct answer. Nobody cared about these girls.

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

excited to read this! I love Anthea Taylor's work and this one chimes with my own project on Shere Hite, especially making sense of reader letters. 💌 Clever, clever cover too!

It’s our movements that did it. For tenants rights, for Palestine and yes, the me too movement! People left and right love to hate on #metoo but without a mass movement against sexual violence Mamdani would never have been able to call Cuomo a sexual predator & have it stick!

❤️ zohran mamdani ❤️ Sometimes in life money is not enough

Thinking of u NYC!🗽 Got my community organiser fingers crossed for Zohran Mamdani. We are all worth more than Cuomo with the pre- #MeToo politics, the bullshit flyers, the racism, the same old yakety yak.

fabulous! and thank you @sandyosullivan.bsky.social

well done @zorasimic.bsky.social, Jordy and Ben Silverstein. this is one of those articles that opens things up and makes it possible for others to say things too. So, let's say it together: Free, free Palestine. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

loved this! and lots of surprises... "Amandla initially performed American songs...replicating voices such as Barry White, performing for audiences in Angola who were fond of American music until...one of the ANC leaders instructed them to sing South African songs instead."

would LOVE to connect with other writers in London working on creative non-fiction projects! drop me a line 💌 reposts welcome!

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org