This one should actually have been labeled #kinkhistory reading note # 6

#kinkhistory reading note # 7 in chap 3, Tupper argues that 18th-c sensibility gave meaning to secular flagellation because, as Burke argued, "extreme physical experiences awakens the strongest emotions which are a source of the experience of the sublime, a higher emotional truth beyond reason"

#kinkhistory reading note # 5 It's de Sade week. In "Sex, Pain and the Marquis de Sade," David Morris argues that Sade is a turning point in the reinvention of pain from God-centered to physiological & "the moment when pain openly, violent, and irreversibly breaks into the arena of sexual pleasure"

Why do Turkmenistan and Tajikistan get a pass?

#kinkhistory reading note # 5 Erika Carbonara "Cuckold Communities in the Kinky Early Modern" reframes the cuckold as "engaging in a kink that brings them pleasure" and eagerly anticipating his own derision. True today, is it a stretch to see evidence of the same in the past?

#kinkhistory reading note # 4: Our textbook for the semester is @historyofbdsm.bsky.social's A Lover's Pinch (2018). Chapters 1-2 explore early Christian mortification, flagellation etc. Why in the early 16th c. did it become impossible to not see sexuality in what had been religious ecstasy?

Unexpected signage

#kinkhistory reading note #3 🗃️ Staci Newmahr, Playing on the Edge (2011) on the first day of class we tackled definitions. lots of debate about the usefulness (or not) of definitions, the queerness or not of kink, the role of community. This definition of SM by Newmahr is one of the more concrete

#kinkhistory reading note #2 🗃️

#kinkhistory reading note # 1 🗃️

I've been advised to tag these reading notes with a 🗃️ for #skystorians to find, and with their very own hashtag, #kinkhistory

History of Kink Reading Notes # 2 Week 2, Reading 2: James Bromley, Rimming the Renaissance argues that the rim job is uniquely independent of position-dependent pleasure (neither giver or receiver has primary claim to be pleasured) and thus destabilizes hierarchies of bodies Also this rules:

technical question: what's the best way to share my history-of-kink reading notes? should I hit reply to my own posts or should I do each reading note as a fresh post? And then number my posts to keep track?

Here is a *teaser* Week 2: Did kink exist before modernity? Reading: Liza Blake, "Dildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons" Question: was the strap-on a prosthesis or accessory? did it retain its thinghood or serve a signifying role to the body/identity?

I am teaching a new seminar on the history of kink. As far as I know, this is the first university history course that's ever been devoted to the topic (please correct me if I'm wrong). Should I post reading notes as we work our way through the syllabus? This week is devoted to early modern kink.

Blue shadow

Looking for an Atlantic World map that uses the Winkel projection or another alternative projection that doesn't inflate the north like the Mercator projection. Anyone ever seen or have one in their possession?

Completing a reader report and for the first time there is a question from the publisher about whether I have any reason to suspect the author used AI in the preparation of the manuscript (I don't suspect that). I expect more such questions in the future.

Has NPR coverage gotten less mealy mouthed since the end of public funding? Reporting this morning on the president’s “racist tirade,” quote unquote. No “racial overtones” or whatever BS of yore.

Best editor/title nominative determinism I’ve ever encountered

worth reading to the final paragraph

My Discover Weekly on spotify begins with Olivia Dean and continues to Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat. Is there a Venn diagram of people who like both Olivia Dean and Harry Belafonte? And why does Spotify think I'm in it?????

Listening to the new Lily Allen album makes me *never* want to get married again. Crone life for me.

when reading the newspaper used to be fun

very tempting ... I stopped sucking my thumb for the Fonz. My older brother @aramsinn.bsky.social told me that the Fonz wouldn't dance with me if I sucked my thumb (ca 1979)

young Jay Gould was pretty hot (on the right). I'd buy railroad shares from him

in conversation with a German friend, learned that the German version of "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," is "a sparrow in the hand is worth a dove on the roof." what do you do with the sparrow in your hand, though?

The U.S. Mint hired two women in 1795 as adjusters. Were these the first female employees of the federal government? www.usmint.gov/learn/histor...

Professional thieves, members of the Killers gang in Philadelphia, 1848. Curious about the hand gesture-- antebellum gang sign?

[South Philadelphian Kool-Aids into the room shouting "Got your Moyamensing Balls --"] But seriously anyone able to help Rachel out?

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

Check out the CHA’s latest Teaching | Learning Blog post! Do you have other suggestions for works that could be included on this list? Let us know using the hashtag #CHATeachingResourcesChat. #NDTR #cdnhist #skystorians @jomac-613.bsky.social

It's so hard to resist rabbit holes when reading old newspapers!

life imitating art

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

This is a sweet silly book that I hope will make readers laugh and feel the feels. It provided some much needed respite in the writing, as I hope it will in the reading.

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Sure, the world is in chaos, but @rachelcleves.bsky.social and I just sent our new manuscript, a fantasy novel, off to our agent @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social, so I’m gonna celebrate. 🎉📚

THE WATER OUTLAWS by @slhuang.com LADY EVE'S LAST CON by @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social SNOWBLOODED by @emmasternerradley.bsky.social A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY @aramsinn.bsky.social @rachelcleves.bsky.social METAL FROM HEAVEN by @sapphomancer.bsky.social REDSIGHT by @meredithmooring.bsky.social 3/3

Fancy some #FridayFun? Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all! Ft authors below👇 1/3

Is there anyone who would buy this dish soap because it promises “50% less scrubbing”? Genuine question of a compulsive reader who can’t stop reading even while washing dishes. (Confession: the bf bought this dish soap for me at the dollar store, based, I think, on price and its upside-down design)

is no one going to mention that his signature is clearly meant to represent pubes?

Historians know not to make predictions for the future. AI boosters could learn something from us. wapo.st/4mX1QQ1

I might have to go back to work next week, but at least I live in vacation land. View from my walk home last night (this view is 3 minutes by foot from my front door). #yyj

are ten dollar words still worth ten dollars? at the current rate of inflation, I think we should be talking about hundred dollar words

afternoon's reading material, from 1888 heroic nihilists! deadly bombs! beautiful demi-mondaines! dashing newspaper owners!

take my husband, please!

instead of posting #breakingnews, I prefer posting #oldnewspapertattooideas

One of the strangest things about writing near future #scifi is that stuff you invented keeps actually happening. This latest one was a throwaway joke in @rachelcleves.bsky.social's & my book A Second Chance for Yesterday. www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Seco...

oysters will do that to you