The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.

We look forward to seeing everyone in St. Pete Beach later this week at #2025SHA. please excuse our typo in the flyer - the Friday Annual Address and reception is at 4:30 pm!

We're proud to announce the CFP for our 50th Anniversary & 2026 conference: "Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South" Check out the details on our website! Submissions due Dec. 1st! wgssouth.org/2026conference #AcademicSky #edusky #highered #wgs

Our historian colleague Tom Alter has now officially been fired as of yesterday 10/13 for making a speech on his own time at home on a sunday morning. Donate. Stand up for free speech. Stand up for Tom. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...

SHGAPE needs your help! Please check out the following announcement and consider applying. And while you're at it, check out the SHGAPE Blog. Some really great scholarship is published there. share.google/J5ZcMLYwWro5...

The Countdown to #2025SHA has officially begun! Mark your calendars for the @sawh1970.bsky.social member/grad student breakfast & the annual address/reception by Crystal Sanders, Associate Professor of Af-Am Studies/History @ Emory University! Find breakfast tix at (thesawh.org/sawh-confere...)

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact." President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

🧵🧵🧵 As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Sharing my USG colleague's important new book. Thank you @matthewboedy.bsky.social for this.

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

If you in any way suggest that we "earned" this upon ourselves you will be blocked faster than you can blink. Profs are being fired, threatened, doxxed, harassed as a years long pattern now but we have reached a new phase with what has happened with Dr Bray, a fellow historian.

I just want to think up cool new courses about all kinds of things and offer students snacks from my snack drawer and tell them they can do a group quiz on quiz day and write my book and be left alone by fascists. Why is this becoming difficult?

There is a GoFundMe for Mark Bray and his family. I've confirmed with a friend who knows them that this is legit. Please donate if you can.

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now. We do not deserve this.

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

What's happening to my colleague Mark Bray is disgusting. Him and his family are being doxed and getting death threats by right wing supposed "free speech" advocates bc wrote a book about anti fascism. You can't make this shit up! Our universities must fight back.

Hope folks can chip in a bit to help with this child's therapy and healing. www.newsnationnow.com/missing/miss...

I am so sorry for what this Atlanta family has gone through. So happy she is home. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-br...

Ya'll should definitely sign up for this!

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

Yup. And as my forthcoming book Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights: The Politics of Birth Control in America argues: contraception was always much bigger than Sanger and to constantly use her as the only lens denies that complexity

The October 1st deadline is approaching! Remember to submit your proposals for SHGAPE's first stand-alone conference! www.shgape.org/shgape-confe... #Skystorians #History #CFP #HistorySky #GildedAge #ProgressiveEra

I'll be talking Progressive Era Federal Regulations!

Make no mistake - the firestorm over Tylenol and autism is deeply related to the abortion debate and the larger conversation about the "responsibilities" of American motherhood and women's status.

Ok but is the rapture here yet?

Stacie Kershner of GSU Law and I wrote this because we just couldn't let the Florida surgeon general's comments about vaccine mandates go without a public correction. theconversation.com/vaccine-mand...

After a nutty week, it's nice to have just gotten up and be having coffee at 8:30 on a Saturday. Everything's exhausting and awful in the U.S. so it's the small things that we have to focus on now.

I wrote both an op-ed and a full draft of an article this week. Current brain status at 3:22 on a Friday:

Just joined the AAUP. I've meant to do it for years, but just never got around to it. I know, I know. I know they just sent out a weird social media advice thing, but it's what we've got. And things are deteriorating too quickly to take any chances now.

Gonna have an op-ed out this week on vaccines A bit nervous about it, I will not lie.

Hi!

Interested in the history of pharmacy? Or just hanging out with me and some cool scholars periodically on Zoom? You are cordially invited to join the Pharmacy History working group that I am co-convening at the Consortium for History of Sci/Med/Tech: www.chstm.org/group/pharma...

Utterly gobsmacked to be included on this list of scholars whose work I admire so much. Thank you to the @oah.org for nominating me. www.oah.org/2025/09/12/t...

Paging @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @disabilitystor1.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social and other #HistMed folks...for someone in your networks? (I did teach one of her articles in my Comparative Medicine class the past two years, but don't think I'm fit to review the book)

Another good day to keep it in your group chat, probably.

I think everyone needs to have my little dude Charlie look at them like this today, so here he is.

I need to submit something this year, but no idea what. If anyone has panel or roundtable ideas, please DM me :)

This report isn't about making kids healthier. It's about guilt-tripping mothers for having a job, or even a life, outside of the home. For instance, the "toxins" section is about making it your full-time job to shop "organically," not about regulating pollution. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

This.

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

I need to answer more emails but I am Monday-ed out

This is abhorrent. America should not tolerate a president relishing in Pinochet-style rule over our own citizens.

Hoo boy this was the longest shortest week ever.

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine. Please share widely!

The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader comes out next week. It has been the honor of my academic life to be involved with this brilliant public history project. The personal is always historical. Check out the essays on birth control!

Also, i found my book cover image today!!! I'm gonna keep that one close for now. But just know it is "chef's kiss* for a book called Women's Bodies, Doctor's Rights.