Read our latest essay by Ariel Mae Lambe (University of Connecticut) @arielmaelambe.bsky.social ”Maternal Identity in Antifascism: The Case of Cuban Activist Teté Casuso” - a touching history of tragic motherhood and solidarity during the Spanish Civil War helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/06/18/m...

Just saw my first online article headline about “Gen Alpha Girls,” i.e. my children. Shudder.

I am pleased to share two (short!) articles I have published recently on Cuban women antifascists and the Spanish Civil War. Links in comments. Many thanks to colleagues @annaduensing.bsky.social, Luther Adams - Free Man of Color, @kasperbrasken.bsky.social, and Moshumee Dewoo.

This made me giggle.

I am pleased to share two (short!) articles I have published recently on Cuban women antifascists and the Spanish Civil War. Links in comments. Many thanks to colleagues @annaduensing.bsky.social, Luther Adams - Free Man of Color, @kasperbrasken.bsky.social, and Moshumee Dewoo.

It was never about tents.

UCONN is so afraid of amplified sound (free speech) they forced a US Senator to shout at a crowd of 250+ people #adminsofragile

UConn! protect academic freedom as a contractual right. #adminsofragile

Hey UConn, protect academic freedom now! @aaup.org #adminsofragile

UCONN is so scared of free speech they denied grad workers request to use an acoustic guitar at an outdoor event. #adminsofragile

Academic Freedom is Free Speech on campus @aaup.org

Despite many people there throwing around the term ‘fascism’ to mean a whole bunch of different things, there was one (1) panel (mine) at ASA on antifascism. I’m wondering why this disconnect?

I don’t drink the stuff anyway, but if you do, don’t. Dont cross the line, literally or figuratively.

I really really really don’t like what AI usage is doing to the word ‘hallucinate.’

Is there a term equivalent to “elite capture” for when the graduate degrees class bestows nonsense on the masses? Formula hysteria is *old news* amongst a certain set. Exclusive breastfeeding, European imports, even homemade… Elite leakage?

42 MILLION people going hungry on 11/1 should absolutely trigger an unprecedentedly massive outpouring of direct aid and charity, but I fear reinforcing the malevolent claim that this is the private sector’s job and its alone.

I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible. “This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors” ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...

That magic moment in the mornings when you put your kids on the school bus, wave goodbye, take a nice deep breath, and…turn off Huntr/x on your phone

Today @uconnaaup.bsky.social turned out 200+ members and supporters to our contract action in Storrs. The part of the day that I am most proud of is teaching dozens of students about unions, solidarity, and the meaning of academic freedom. #unionyes #unionstrong

It was our students who took turns holding signs and remaining visible to management through a sliver of window for over 3 hours. They stood watch outside the room until the very end. One shared,“If professors don’t have their rights and freedoms then neither do any of us.”

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

@mark-bray.bsky.social lleva semanas siendo señalado por los principales propagandistas de la extrema derecha estadounidense y recibiendo amenazas de muerte. Han publicado su dirección y se ha visto obligado a abandonar el país junto a su familia. www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’ I have been forced to move my classes online. If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

First teaching day of the semester! (12 y.o. made me take the pic diagonally—then she complained I “didn’t smile”)

Periodic reminder that if someone is hateful and mentally ill, it is not their mental illness that makes them hateful. And calling hateful people “insane” and “psychotic” because they are hateful is ignorant behavior on your part.

I went to Cuba yesterday.

Just read, re: Iran, that intelligence agencies assumed that an act of war combined with domestic challenges and protest movements would provoke civil unrest and lead to regime change. Golly gee whiz where have I heard that before? Oh right. The Bay of Pigs.

Mi querida hermana from another mama has arrived at Bluesky! You want to follow her, trust me! Latin American history! African diaspora! Emancipation! Colombia! Lots of other great interesting stuff! bsky.app/profile/yese...

Happy 85th birthday, Daddy! 💙

Such an excellent thread. Organizing absolutely requires nuanced conversation and open criticism. What it does NOT need is dismissive derision and aloof mocking of earnest if imperfect efforts.

“[Family caregiving can] turn you into someone you don't even recognize. Caregivers say it scrambles old habits and patterns, rearranges intimate relationships, and forces you to confront your limits. It can excavate and reorganize the soul...” www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...

It feels wrong to post about personal matters these days, but this is just too much a tiny little token of how *everything* is completely fucked right now: I ordered a mint tea in the Dunkin drive thru and I got a cup of black coffee with a mint tea bag floating in it.

I wish all that money and energy around corporate DEI had been funneled into labor organizing, strike funds, and worker education instead; that’s how you actually change a workplace

They’re going to “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants...” If RFK and his woo ghouls take away our psych meds I’m raising an army of the mad and we’re gonna eat them.

Who is blending memoir and/or their genealogy with “traditional”historical scholarship in exciting ways right now? (Saw an amazing talk by Tomiko Brown-Nagin recently…)

I have three uncles. One is a proud NRA member who worked gas wells in New Mexico. One is impossibly handsome and fabulously rich—his firm developed Scottsdale Arizona. One is a missionary who raised his 5 children in Diyarbakir Turkey.

Using a mutual’s following list to find my other friends

I hear it’s a party over here now, so I changed my profile pic self into a party dress 🥂

Reconnecting with feared-lost Twitter mutuals on here is such an unexpected delight.