question (cuz I bought a book on the intellectual history of slavery in early modern england): is there any good stuff on marxism and intellectual history? I'm curious what marxists think of the field, if there is anyone doing marxist intellectual history, etc.

Stoked to announce the next release from Other Spaces is a collab with Philly art pop afrofuturist Ishtar Sr. on the release of her new EP: wifef*cker ultraDELUXE. We'll be dropping a deluxe tour + lyrics zine alongside the album on 3/6. otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ishtar...

Did you know that zero Therapeutic Use Exemptions for trans men on testosterone have been issued in the last five years in the UK? From January 2020 - June 2025, according to UK Anti Doping. Some food for thought for you all, there.

Oreo cake timeeeee

SHOULD I eat the oreo cake my mom bought for me for dinner tonight question mark

“Why aren’t they banning trans men from sport” They were before, and they are now, I’ve watched my mutual (@geekyjules.julessherred.com) go through this for months whilst people chat shit about shit they don’t know about

does anyone have recommended places to look for information about various rules re: trans men *on testosterone* in women's and men's sports? I saw a thread a while back about how it's not well-known but in many cases trans men on T have restrictions in men's leagues due to "no-doping" rules

just survived locking my car, house, and work keys inside my campus office at 3:30pm on the Friday before a three day weekend before the start of the semester. After calling a colleague who called the building manager who contacted the one guy in the building, I have successfully retrieved them!

you know what. it's honestly like white people are literally incapable of any critical thought about Indigenous people ever and I'm so sick of it. they just hear a vague rumor of a rumor about some shit that sounds cool and then they repeat it endlessly and never actually try to find out more.

if youre an asshole then give me money

lrt internally agonizing over the ethics of thirsting over an early modern colonial depiction of the concept of the americas

The ambassador from the nations of North America by Charles Le Brun, circa 1670s: shades of Kent Monkman’s art, the Native dude is shirtless and buff and standing proudly. musée du Louvre

there is a suburb around here called Verona and every time I drive past or through it I'm like, ahhh, fair Verona.... [strip malls]

the book I want from the library is currently being held hostage by technology because the new electric system used to move the stacks (instead of the old spinny mechanical wheels) is "temperamental" and only works some of the time

I accomplished two things today already and it's only 12:37pm. Vyvanse is too powerful

Molly Spotted Elk feature film whennnnnn

ahhhhh me encanta la poesía de Daniel Nizcub!!! If you know Spanish check out this interview and download the free copy of his poetry book

Nisrin Elamin and Laleh Khalili discuss the intricate relations between capitalism and imperialism from Sudan outward. They examine together how “empire-making” projects bring together new imperial actors like the United Arab Emirates with Western imperialism. They locate how, by following the money

This could be my motto in life tbh

Full list here.

There isn’t a date for the vote yet, but Fair Wisconsin has a bill tracker on our website you can use to follow all pro- and anti-LGBTQ bills this session as they go through the legislative process: fairwisconsin.com/bills-to-wat...

So with Trump threatening Kalaallit Nunaat, ICE detaining unhoused Oglala Lakota men near the site of the Fort Snelling concentration camp by Bdote, and the overall US targeting of Indigenous and Indigenous-descendant people from Abya Yala…are we going to start talking about Indigeneity yet?

I had to finish figuring out details on some readings for the semester. And also I woke up this morning thinking "maybe I should post the reading schedule for my substack." Which worked great bc I tricked myself into doing the work for the syllabus by pretending it's for substack friends hahaha

Need to find a good history of rhetoric around slavery in early modern Iberia. Ages ago I did a deep dive into late medieval and early modern Iberian slavery itself, but I have little sense of how it was discussed or how Iberian influences traveled across Europe

FORT FUCKING SNELLING????

I swear to god every serious book I pick up on a period before the 1800s starts off like “before we dive in, first I need to explain to you why everything you think about this period is wrong, and moreover, it’s the fucking Victorians’ fault” we are never getting out of the nineteenth century aagh

this is really the vilest part. the way these people, caught trampling your rights, will hound you to the ends of the earth and beyond the grave. this womans crime was being married to someone the regime murdered. abrego garcia had the temerity to be mistakenly deported to a gulag. unforgivable sins

The relentless targeting of the Somali community is not an accident - it is because of Islamophobia and anti-Blackness, and it is all interconnected with white Christian nationalism. My prayers are with all those losing TPS protection.

Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop, which regularly becomes a community hub when Minneapolis is in need, are still in need. People doing ICE watch/rapid response are using it to organize, rest, and refuel. Often for free when people donate food and coffee, for those who can't afford to buy from the shop

so true but it is also tragic because I can only listen to one music at a time and I only have 24 hours in a day

this one is my favoriteeeeee

hey thanks check out my dungeon synth project

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I'm not sure if this is just placebo effect but today is the first day I took my adhd meds and I've been super productive. Like I actually tried to take a nap but I was like "man I can't think of anything else to do but go work on my syllabus." I feel like there's no way it can be working this fast

My mom just sent this amazing “selfie” of our cat lmfaooo

Photo of me in my favorite shirt post-surgery with no compression vest on (I’m waiting for it to dry after washing it) (the feeling of the cloth on my still-unnumbing skin is really funny yet but exciting)

I believe there is an audience for meditative conceptual gorge music recorded on the Appalachian trail using only a niche Japanese portable FM synth that's been painstakingly programmed to emulate the natural soundscape, and I will find that audience. isobelbess.bandcamp.com/album/even-t...

Out from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social this August: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-... #SFinTranslation

does anyone know of any books that might be described as a history of armies, as a concept? ideally an audiobook. I'm interested both in older forms of military organization — especially soldiers as corvée laborers — and the development of standing armies, both in antiquity and in the modern period.

They also killed someone in Camarillo in July. The way that the invasion of LA has been memory holed even as it continues to this day, makes me insane

Philando Castile was murdered the month after I moved to Minneapolis. I learned later that he worked in the cafeteria where my new colleague’s kid went to school. That was my introduction to Minneapolis. I moved away two months before George Floyd was murdered. Minneapolis is in my heart rn

People want 2 hear feel-good stories abt #LandBack, not the barriers tribes face. Often, local communities fight it NIMBY-style. A new lawsuit alleges state officials in Utah conspired 2 block the Ute tribe from buying back some ancestral homeland. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/18/u...

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Just saw a billboard that said “War - Divorce - Wealth: What does Jesus say?” like what exactly is the message here???? One of these things is not like the other…

This is such a good description of what happens. Stop signing up for tomorrow’s shift in the harassment factory!!!

20 New Open Access Books Medieval History Fans Can Read for Free. www.medievalists.net/2025/12/20-n...

Trying to decide if I have the energy to delicately ask the self-declared “trans ally” historian on Substack why she wrote a whole post about the first known person prosecuted for “female sodomy” as a lesbian with only a brief mention of the fact that the person also apparently lived as a man…

there are so many types of things in history. I only learned recently about two types of documents I had no clue existed: the costume books of early modern Europe, and the Books of Roads and Kingdoms in medieval Arabic

The Inuit of Greenland: A Brief History, by Malik, published in Akwesasne Notes (1975)

For Christmas we bought a cat toy that’s like a box that does a whack-a-mole type of thing with feathers, and we were worried the cats wouldn’t care but they are OBSESSED. They will just sit by it in a trance watching the feathers, sometimes they catch a feather and start dragging the box around