Thanks for the great story and helping to spread the word about the CMSOL project! @stocktonuniversity.bsky.social and @markmelhorn.bsky.social !

We are thrilled to announce that the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters has been awarded a grant from @nehgov.bsky.social to continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

NEH Lawsuit Update: On Friday, Judge Colleen McMahon issued a temporary injunction regarding the grant terminations. "But agency discretion does not include discretion to violate the First Amendment. Nor does not give the Government the right to edit history.“ (1/2)

Important piece from @marthasjones.bsky.social on the history of our Constitution’s broad birthright citizenship guarantee — and the long advocacy of free Black Americans in antebellum America to make it so. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

I'm attending Cooper River Indivisible's event, “No Kings South Jersey” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

No kings, no fascists, no idiots. See you at the march.

A Muzak version of Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing in my doctor’s office. Is this the soundtrack from heaven or hell? Not sure.

💚🦅💚🦅💚🦅💚

Trump has rescinded refugee status of Black and Brown people fleeing violence in their home countries and extended it to...white South Africans, who previously exercised total, brutal, control of that country. My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

More arrests and deportations coming. Keep calling and protesting. Keep the pressure on.

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Some images from #50501 protest against in Philly. Early days - I hope the movement and momentum will keep growing! #resist #protectdemocracy #stopproject2025

Thank you, @kim.senate.gov from a grateful NJ constituent! #resist

Hi, friends. Here's what I want you to do: four simple things. It's not going to take long. Let's go. werd.io/2025/i-want-...

Orbital is a beautiful, awe-inspiring book. I read most of it on a plane — as close as I’ll get to orbiting the Earth — hurtling in a metal tube through the sky. I loved the book’s insistence on the global: one earth – one humanity. That planetary view seems more. essential now than ever. #booksky

God granted you a fully formed conscience so you can make decisions that are right for your body and life.

Waiting for House or Senate Republicans to introduce a bill to lower the cost of groceries now that they have a majority in both houses.

I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.

Love this! Wishing a good morning and really good coffee to my fellow humanities professors (and of all the other empathy-teachers). And maybe a cookie too! ❤️ ☕️ 🍪

“I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive,” he said. Zuck has three daughters with his wife, Priscilla Chan, so, my thoughts and prayers to them at this time.” 🏆🏆🏆

my favorite game to play when determining the root cause of any global or political strife is “ronald reagan or 9/11?”

My one New Year’s resolution: to pay attention. #happynewyear #resolutions #2025

Hanukkah dog is in the house - happy third night! May the candles remind us that we can find light even in the darkest times. Chag Sameach! #Hanukkah

Posting to share and to savor. #poetry

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social as always. This, this, this: "Until men engage earnestly & honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change." Assault. Abuse. Harassment. Objectification. All of it.

Beautiful and inspiring! Thank you.

Clemency for Leonard Peltier is long overdue. President Biden should do the right thing and #freeleonardpeltier now.

This is what leaving women’s medical care up to the states looks like. TLDR; women and doctors get punished. #abortion #reproductivejustice

I just preordered “Abortion Stories” edited by @kweingarten.bsky.social and I’m excited to read it!

Mona Eltahawy: “I want every revolution to topple not just the statues of the tyrant, but what I call the trifecta of patriarchy – the tyrant who lives in the state, the street and the home. And the hardest revolution of them all is the one at home, because all dictators go home.” 🎯

Bravo.

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

The clock is ticking. Given the pardon of his son, he should now use the powers of the presidency for everyone — and so many people need this relief.

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

That describes just about every course I teach. 🤯 “UNT …. administrators demanding an instructor make changes in course content based on the administrative review of a course syllabus or course catalog description, including removal of words such as “race,” “gender,” “class” and “equity”.”

Instead of obsessing, I wrote a long essay on Medium about the election, “Daddy Don,” paternalism, misogyny, and compassion. This is a personal response, but I hope it resonates for some of you as well.

Evergreen, sadly. TLDR; this is an excellent primer on antisemitism that is too long for a post but still shorter than a Seder.

With college students suddenly researching study abroad… Accessibility to study away for all college students, regardless of resources or documentation, levels the playing field. #highered #academicsky www.insidehighered.com/news/student... www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

New here, will probably take some time to poke around before posting much. Here’s my dog until I have something more interesting to share. She’s sad too.