hello from baker nevada

warmed my heart to see this pic of the uva community lined up to make their voices heard at the BOV meeting on Friday 🥲 www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.” www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

When I think about the fact that universities are ALSO supposed to be repositories of knowledge and expertise you can't get elsewhere (and not just job training or even educational enterprises) I immediately go to ancient languages. I don't think ppl realize you can just lose them

Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811 The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

for mixed feelings, I had a blast writing about medieval fan culture! feat. interviews with a couple of my fav colleagues Maggie Solberg and @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social snag a print issue if you can the entire zine is glorious!! www.mixedfeelings.earth/p/the-mediev...

packing up to leave Charlottesville today and it’s the small goodbyes that are getting me—the bakers at coucou rachou, my yoga teacher, the neighbors I wave to on dog walks. This place never felt big enough in my 20s but now its smallness feels so precious!

For locals still pissed about this - there's a 3pm protest planned at the Rotunda on federal overreach and university autonomy.

absolutely fucked up and disasterous

rock on!!!!!!

For @defector.com I wrote about a men’s-only rare book club in Cleveland with lots of groundhog decor defector.com/the-exclusiv...

Back in February I wrote about 1950s women’s magazines, the polio vaccine rollout, and my phobia of jello salads for @myhnn.bsky.social !

This is a major and potentially devastating escalation that surely will not survive a court challenge. In the meantime, though, that's 6,700 students thrown into chaos, fear, and uncertainty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...