Beyond thrilled to be in conversation with dear friend and colleague Kelly Marie Ward! @uncpress.bsky.social

Another amazing conversation with @SaadiaKhan for Immigrantly podcast about my book Fighting for Control! Check out out the episode in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social

Thanks to the wonderful folks @scholars.org and the #NoJargon podcast for this amazing interview about my book Fighting for Control! @uncpress.bsky.social

It was an absolute delight speaking to Lisa Hernandez for this No Jargon episode! Thank you for supporting my research and for talking about my book: Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands @uncpress.bsky.social

The discourse is 🫩 . But let's say we are "under-babied," an absolutely ridiculous phrase. But let's just say everyone starts making more babies. Does that mean they'll provide...

Had a fantastic conversation with @juliekohler.bsky.social host of White Picket Fence about the history of pronatalism, white demographic decline, nativism, and eugenics. Check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Manufacturing a crisis so they can label "protests as terrorism" is as Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social explains it "directly out of an authoritarian playbook." In solidarity with my historian colleague and comrade, Mark Bray.

@iowapublicradio.org @iowastartingline.com @iowacityoflit.bsky.social @iowacity.bsky.social

Xenophobia is not new. We've fought it before, and we'll fight it again. I'll be in conversation with Adam Goodman, historian and author of The Deportation Machine. We'll be in Iowa City on Friday, October 3. Check out the flyer for more details.

Tell me again how Turning Points USA was simply engaging in honest debates and NOT fomenting violence. www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Thank you @marisakabas.bsky.social for sending the email I could not muster because of rage. Klein wrote the most tone deaf and potentially dangerous white washing OpEd exalting CK's career as more than being a just a right-wing troll.

If you're in or near Durham next week, join me and the marvelous western women's historian Sarah Deutsch for a conversation about my book! Details are in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social

What a thrill to be a part of this new cohort of @prri.org Public Fellows! 🥳

If you're still wondering how to help #Palestinians in #Gaza, there are trusted mutual aid folks doing great work. A dear friend is helping with this family... www.gofundme.com/f/feed-marwa...

Frmr UI prof @drlmmurillo.bsky.social writes Iowa anti-DEI crusade isn’t preventing division, but rather preventing thinking that might expose uncomfortable truths. “They don’t have any real solutions, which is why they don’t want you asking questions in the first place.”

Hi friends! I wrote a long-ish piece about DEI, history, and higher education in Iowa. Read & share. Thank you! www.linammurillo.com/_files/ugd/0...

At the intersections of immigration and religion, this fantastic essay by Carlos Ruiz Martinez, doctoral candidate in religious studies at UI. arcmag.org/mass-deporta...

IOWA!!! CALL HER OFFICE!202-225-6576 She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!

I'm elated to have accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin beginning this fall!!!

Friends! If you know of books who may qualify for this prize, SIGN THEM UP!!! deadline is July 1! #womenalsoknowhistory

Friends! If you're in Hanover or nearby, I'll be at Dartmouth giving a book talk this afternoon! @uncpress.bsky.social

Trying to fight for my job.

#JPPseries @uncpress.bsky.social publish some of the most outstanding, cutting-edge history in the field right now. Honored and proud to be among so many distinguished scholars. Thank you, @dawnd.bsky.social, for the love this morning! 🥰

The folks in Fort Madison, Iowa were big mad today. Turns out fascism IS fucking scary FOR EVERYONE.

If you're going to #OAH2025 in Chicago this week, check out our panel on Thursday celebrating new books by historians of color.

Just as forced birth is becoming the norm in many states across the country. With the developed worlds highest maternal mortality rates, what could go wrong? 🫠

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

I love him. 👇🏼

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments aren’t deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?

Hey Friends! My new article, "Fears of White Population Decline," with the Journal of Gender Studies is out today! In it, I examine connections between white population decline, misogyny, and gender-based violence, such as the denial of gender-based healthcare in the US. Link below! 👇🏼

“The previous administration’s policy was focused myopically on climate change, with people simply as collateral damage." Chris Wright, US energy secretary. 💔

Thank you to my friend David-James Gonzales, host of New Books in Latino Studies, for this amazing conversation about my book! Check out the link: newbooksnetwork.com/fighting-for...

Thrilled to be heading back to the borderlands next week for this wonderful event!!! Thank you @kmassotphd.bsky.social for this generous invitation!

ABQ: On Thursday, March 13 @drlmmurillo.bsky.social will be delivering the Women's History month talk for UNM History Department @4pm in the Frank Waters Room. So excited. See you there.

Hey Gavin Newsom, who used to be the mayor of San Francisco, go fuck yourself. I hope you dumb podcasts tanks.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

Iowa is gunning to be the first state to take civil rights away from trans and nonbinary people. This will affect folxs' protections for housing, work, education, and healthcare. This is a devastating rollback of hard won gains. www.iowapublicradio.org/state-govern...

My colleague @victorerikray.bsky.social is smashing this shit out of the park!!! I'm going to keep teaching until they rip me out of the classroom. Let's fuckin Go! newrepublic.com/article/1917...

HARD NO. "Sherman, a resident of Williamsburg, is the founder and pastor of the Solid Rock Christian Church in Coralville. He is also a co-founder of Informed Choice of Iowa, which operates so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” in Iowa City and Burlington." littlevillagemag.com/brad-sherman...

Our amazing UI students are bringing the critically acclaimed film Preconceived to campus! For FREE on March 1 at 6 pm! It's an excellent way to kick off Women's History Month!

My dear RJ peeps: who could have predicted this? 😔 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/h...

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social: Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands by @drlmmurillo.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469...

✊🏼 Thank you for the shout-out, @msmagazine.com!!!!

@uncpress.bsky.social showcasing their newly published books on the back cover of the NYRB! Is that Fighting for Control? 👀

Teen Vogue delivering news that matters for many years now! Keep on it! ✊🏼

we must remember anita bryant as she lived