Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Yes we are www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Ravie de partager mon article en open access: “Les jambes de l’orientaliste: photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy” - première publication en français de mes recherches sur la transitude avant la lettre #FRHistory 🌈🗃️ publications-prairial.fr/theia/index....

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Upside of being dept chair is that you can plant an idea like this in your Spanish colleagues’ heads and then it happens!

@parisnoire.bsky.social @drsepinwall.bsky.social !?

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Fellow chairs, what are your practical tips for not spending all day everyday batting away emails? I need some strategies to get my actual work done

NCFS Unbound returns 1/23 with @srocher.bsky.social Susan Hiner in convo with @addressingart.bsky.social Justine De Young about her fab new book The Art of Parisian Chic 🔥 Register here! southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

Moral dilemma alert: I want to cancel my subscription but getting the paper version of the Sunday times on Saturday is how I know I’m a real New Yorker. Pls advise! #NYTimes

#FrHistory #LGBTQ🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

I’m not on the social much these days but just need everyone to appreciate the skills of @kelliegiordano.bsky.social phd student and influenceuse ❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DN3EwoN2mF...

Just a reminder, for any of you kids who need to see it, good writing does not emerge seamlessly in the first draft. Feedback is the best and moving everything around is often part of the process. File under things you can’t learn from chat GPT

Fascism so small it fits in your pocket?? When T-Mobile launches "T-Satellite" to the public in July, Musk could rake in billions. They don't expect anyone to make it a big deal. Oops. Sign our petition and tell them to drop Starlink #Starlinktakedown #teslatakedown actionnetwork.org/petitions/t-...

Wrapping up our fifth season of NCFS Unbound with a conversation you don’t want to miss between Marlene Daut and Gregory Pierrot about MD’s new book, The First & Last King of Haiti. This Friday 2:30 EST 🗃️🎓#FrHistory southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Question from a Fr editor : En quoi le port du vêtement masculin par Dieulafoy est-il dans ce cas précis l’expression d’une identification trans avant l’heure, quand cela n’est pas le cas d’autres individus portant le vêtement masculin à la fin du XIXe? Ummmm where do I start

The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown. Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.

Happy to be at Harvard (our new hero??) on a beautiful spring day Intellectual community is so precious- trying to just appreciate it and take advantage of it whenever I can #FrHistory 🗃️

Is social media part of the problem? I’m sick of electeds & leaders saying “we must stand up to this” as if by posting about it they are doing something. besties, show, don’t tell! Like, we know it’s fascism, now lead us the way out!!

Boston area folks, I will be speaking on Thurs 4/24 on what I call “trans orientalisms” at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/trans-...

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

Please do this.

Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

You guys! This Friday will be an epic episode of NCFS Unbound! Ruth Iskin in conversation with Vanessa Schwartz! Register here southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

WTF @nytimes.com I had to search for coverage of @booker.senate.gov ‘s historic speech How is this not a lead story, like it was when you covered Storm Thurmond’s now broken record trying to prevent people like Sen Booker from succeeding?

Btwn Cory & WI, seems like I might actually be able to sleep tonight… if I can avoid thinking about NIH, NEH, deportations, higher ed, law firms—-

My god, Cory Booker. More of this please

These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis. I am enraged.

Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI? Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?

Unfortunately this event is being rescheduled.

Holy crap

Please join us this Friday!

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Looking for a panel for NCFS 2025? @kelliegiordano.bsky.social is putting together a great one on Zola’s Au Bonheur!

Amazing thread

You can’t gender and you can’t say sex and you can’t say female and you can’t say women

Pollution! Trauma! Bias! I guess it makes it harder to be transphobic if you can’t even say trans? Or gender?

All this semantic ballooning: you take the unflattering bits of culture you’d rather not think abt + stuff them into CRT, take the ppl you regard as undeserving + stuff them into DEI, take the policies + practices that don’t serve your immediate interests + stuff them into “waste, fraud + abuse”

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

Btw, I hated Anora. Eroticized male gaze pretending to be empowering for women. Nope.

The purge continues: NIH canceling funding for research on trans people. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-trump-...?

Just realized that in this excerpt from Colette’s Le pur et l’impur, she is claiming- in coded language- that trans art critic Marc de Montifaud was copying Colette’s ex lover Missy (referred to here as the Chevalière), whose name was Mathilde de Morny. M de M. 🌈🎓