I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

Join us as @jakenewsome.bsky.social & @graceshaffer.bsky.social lead a workshop on the opportunities of using digital history to restore LGBTQ+ voices to historical narratives, foster community, & combat homophobia & transphobia. 
Wed March 26 Capen Hall 305 University at Buffalo - North Campus

Join me and @graceshaffer.bsky.social in Buffalo next week for “Queer History for Queer Liberation: A Workshop on LGBTQ+ Digital History”!

Hey Bluesky! Check out this thread to get to know The Pink Triangle Legacies Project. Queer History for Queer Liberation! #pinktriangle #lgbtq #queer #trans #queerhistory #queerliberation #pinktrianglelegacies

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

We have a great AMA today on Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people today with @jakenewsome.bsky.social! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Our house was vandalized last night. I’m sure it was teenagers pulling a “prank.” But ours is the only house in the neighborhood with a pride flag 🏳️‍🌈 and it was the only house toilet papered. Could it have been worse? Yes. Am I glad it wasn’t worse? Yes. Am I going to take down our flag? Fuck no.

1. Big win for trans students in New Jersey. In a pair of rulings, an appellate court upheld preliminary injunctions banning the forced outing of trans students. The latest from contributor Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/in-major-w...

Just submitted the manuscript for my chapter “Queering Holocaust Memory” in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Memory. The editors, Frances Tanzer & Thomas Kühne, have been a pleasure to work with. Cant wait for publication. #queer #lgbtq #memory #HolocaustHistory

When looking for stories from the past to guide us in the present, Fritz Kitzing's is right up there. Fritz survived Nazi persecution with the support of family. @jakenewsome.bsky.social pieced together this history along with many others 👇 www.pinktrianglelegacies.org/kitzing

Please read this!!!! There are many great tips.

Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.

Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project has joined BkueSky! It will take us a bit to get our sea legs but we’re excited to share queer and trans history with y’all soon! #lgbtq #lgbtqhistory #queerhistory #queerliberation #queerhistorymatters #holocausteducation #pinktriangle #pinktrianglelegacies

Alright, history hive mind. I’m looking for some examples of “great men” in history (especially scientists, philosophers, philanthropists, etc) who were famously promiscuous. Any time period, but especially the Victorian era and the Gilded Age. Any recommendations?

Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.

Rainbow capitalism was always hollow but it's jarring to see two decades worth of progress pushing equality wiped away in a few weeks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I'm amazed this has to be said, but IT IS ABSOLUTELY FINE AND GOOD for people to have outlets and interests that can give them joy at times of immeasurable existential crisis, and demanding that they don't and instead fall into irremediable and permanent despair is doing the fascists' work for them.

#OtD 6 Jan 2021 supporters of Republican pres Donald Trump, including white nationalists and neo-Nazis, attacked the Capitol to overturn the results of the election. Rioters attacked police, injuring ~140, and resulting in 9 deaths. More on the far-right: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

2025 is starting off with a sucker punch. My great aunt passed away yesterday. I’m having trouble putting into words how special she was to me. I had to get out of the house, so I spent the afternoon seeking solace in nature, among the ancient mountains and eternal stream.

2024 has been hard. My MAGAt father cut ties w/ me. Feeling helpless watching the attacks on trans people. I’ve also had moments of extreme joy. Being a Papa to my 3 year old. Learning to tend my trees. Watching new sunsets. Loving my husband. Im nervous going into 2025. But trying to lean into joy

You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Please remember that President Carter appointed more minorities and women to the bench than all previous presidents combined. He was the first President to embrace the concept of bringing racial diversity to the federal bench. A key aspect of his legacy. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

This year I founded the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, a grassroots initiative that honors the Nazis’ queer & trans victims and fights homophobia & transphobia today through education, empowerment, & advocacy. I think the Project will join BlueSky next month. Learn more: pinktrianglelegacies.org

Same

I went to a Barnes & Noble here in San Diego yesterday. My flabbers were ghasted to see a copy of #PinkTriangleLegacies on the shelves! I’ve only seen it at indie book stores (bc they rock!). Then I went to the #LGBTQ section and there was another on the display. Swoon! #bookstore #BooksBooksBooks

Going to the movies by yourself is one of life’s hidden pleasures. Just you and a large popcorn and some sour patch kids and all of your big goblin energy alone in the dark where nobody can see your shame. Priceless.

My regular suggestion: At the end of the semester why not reach out to someone whose work you taught and let them know? These days we have very little idea who teaches our stuff and in what contexts. It takes almost no time and can really make their day.

A lot of academics (myself included) are activists. Studying something horrible (you know, like climate change or gender inequality) and wanting to make it less horrible doesn’t mean your work is compromised — it just means you give a shit. Empathy is a key scholarly skill. IMHO.

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

I love seeing the pink triangle used in #intersectional activism, like during this Black Lives Matter march in San Francisco in Dec 2014. #pinktriangle #blacklivesmatter

FYI: A great review for Jake Newsome in the Central European History Journal, praising his "remarkable study of queer memory politics" for addressing "how a Nazi concentration camp badge worn by male homosexual prisoners became a transnational emblem of gay pride." (1/2) tinyurl.com/bddmz6c9

Another autographed copy of PINK TRIANGLE LEGACIES is heading to the post office on the way to its new home….this time in Kansas. And my Clark Grizwald doll has blessed it.

Sarah Schulman: "Visibility was a construct that the gay movement invented to explain and excuse the cruelty we experienced...We invented the idea it was an inadvertent consequence of a lack of information. 'If they would discover how we truly are, they would not want to hurt us.'"

For my first post here on BlueSky, Im sharing a pic of the time I took my book (& myself) on a pilgrimage to Stonewall when it was published. I sat at the bar with a couple of lesbian elders from the Midwest and heard their life story. I think of them often. Queer history is powerful and affirming.

I’m stoked for this discussion with Avram Finkelstein on Tuesday evening. Dont miss your chance to chat with one of the designers of the SILENCE = DEATH poster! #pinktriangle #SilenceEqualsDeath #ACTUP #PinkTriangleLegacies