Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the rootin, tootin terrific @holliem.bsky.social about her research into sex work on the American frontier. Listen whenever you get your podcasts.

Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

A student told me today that his favorite historical time period to study is the 1990s -2000s. I have never felt so old.

My newest article is out now- “The Foundation of a Movement: Kansas City's Role in Homophile Activism, 1966–1971" is in the Middle West Review’s special edition on the Midwest since 1965. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54929 @univnebpress.bsky.social

Happy #caturday from Sophie, Queen of our house, long may she reign. #catsofbluesky

Infuriating. @wendylrouse.bsky.social is spot on- this is abhorrent and utterly unacceptable indeed.

Last weekend, we honored anti-gay preacher Anita Bryant on National Pie Day by canonizing Tom Higgins, the gay activist who pied her face in 77. We made it official, and now Tom shall forever be known as Saint Banana Cream Comeuppance, Patron Saint of Slapstick Justice. Then, we ate pie.

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I’d like to share @annickell.bsky.social ‘s and my #DH project that mapped Holocaust survivors who settled in the Kansas City area using oral histories from Fortunoff. www.mwholocaustmap.com

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

To all trans people: Your lives matter. Every step you take toward living as your true self is a testament to the strength & resilience within you. You are deserving of love, respect, & kindness. Never forget that you are valid, worthy, & more than enough, just as you are. Keep shining! ♥️🙏🏻♥️

we must remember anita bryant as she lived

May she bathe for eternity in the gayest hot tub in Hell.

Happy Christmas from Sophie and her new Stanley.

The floofiest of floofs.

Final grades are posted! Here’s hoping I never have another semester where I teach 7 classes because this one was…a lot.

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article: “The Phoenix Society’s publishing efforts and the attempts to collaborate amongst organizations at NACHO meetings, like those in Kansas City, made the national efforts to respond to events like Stonewall possible.”

My kid just casually making a half-court shot like it is no big deal.

The history program at FHSU is hiring- come work with me! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

My mother, who claims to hate cats, made my cat her own couch complete with a hand-made pillow and a throw blanket she specifically crocheted for the cat couch.

My sister just pulled a ham out of the oven only to realize she wrapped it in plastic instead of foil.

YOU: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: in WW2 Britain gave tea higher shipping priority than ammo. In the Blitz, the ENTIRE London tea industry was relocated to secret emergency blending hubs in Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Dundee & Leith

This was a fun episode to record-https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-e-history/id1604442564?i=1000632320254

Bluesky, meet Sophie!