"Project 2026 lays out a government redesigned to control women’s bodies, erase LGBTQ+ lives, dismantle civil rights protections and roll back decades of hard-won progress."

Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.

Join us in celebrating fifty years...and strategizing feminist scholarship & activism in the south for the next fifty. Proposals Due Tomorrow! #highered #edusky #academicsky #gradstudent #academia #community #activism #southern #scholarship #feminism #intersectionality #disability #accessibilty

It's getting to be that time! Have you written (and actually submitted) your WGS South 2026 conference proposal yet? Submissions are Due Monday, Dec 15th! wgssouth.org/2026cfps #AcademicSky #edusky #highered #feminist #wgs #crt #queerstudies #disability #undergraduate #gradstudents #trans #lgbtq

The SPLC and Read Freely Alabama recently partnered to host educational events across the state, offering guidance and tools for protecting libraries and resisting censorship. 📚 Here are 10 actions you can take in your own community to oppose book bans: https://bit.ly/4q5JVZd

Ditch those winter blues and plan to meet us at Wake Forest in spring! wgssouth.org/2026cfps #wgs #genderstudies #queerstudies #crt #disability #humanities #isd #socialsciences #AcademicSky #highered #gradstudent #healthandmedicine #medicalprofessionals #stemstudents #winterblues #intersectionality

Tenure-Track Job Alert! Maryville College (TN) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Review of applications will begin on December 10th. tinyurl.com/MCSociology #highered #sociology #sociologymajor #race #gender #inequality #Academicsky #edusky #gradstudents #academicjobs #higheredjobs

WGS South 2026 "Feminist Futurities" CFP Deadline Extended to December 15th! Now you have time to get that proposal together so you can join us at Wake Forest University! wgssouth.org/2026conference #wgs #feminism #intersectionality #highered #academicsky #disability #lgbtq #bipoc #education

I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Today's the last day to submit for our end-of-year publication lists. We're soliciting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters by contingent historians with a 2025 pub date! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

"Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South" This is your friendly reminder that submissions for WGS South 2026 are due Dec. 1st! Check out our caucus cfps on our website! wgssouth.org/2026conference #AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents #highered #wgs

Students, hark! This cfp is for you! "Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists" Join us at Wake Forest University in March! wgssouth.org/2026conference #academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope

We all must work to create safer spaces in schools and communities for trans and nonbinary youth. 🏳️‍⚧️ Understanding gender-affirming care is an essential step, and the willingness to learn will help counter disinformation that endangers LGBTQ+ youth. #LGBTQRights

"Dreaming Beyond Survival: Radical Imagination and Futures of Liberation for Southern BIPOC Persons and Communities" Now that's a title! Our BIPOC Caucus invites you to tell us what dreaming beyond survival looks like! Join us in March for our 2026 conference, Feminist Futurities! #academicsky #wgs

Raise a glass to freedom! Today, the Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. #lgbtq #gaymarriage #lovei̇slove #queerpride #lovewins🌈

CFP: The daily attacks on disabled lives we experience/witness are exhausting, yet we trudge on, collectively, dreaming and actively creating different futures for ourselves and for those we love. Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025. wgssouth.org/2026conference #disability #accessibility #academicsky

Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities" If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March! Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference #lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky

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

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

Thank goodness for storytellers.

Today is International Museum Day, organized by the International Council of Museums. This year's theme is "The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities" which invites people to reimagine the role of museums in a time of constant change.

In Georgia, women’s bodies are merely human incubators. Just ask Adriana Smith’s family. My latest piece on Substack katiephang.substack.com/p/just-a-ves...

Much love and thanks to all the wonderful scholars, administrators, students, and community organizers and activists who made #wgssouth2025 a conference to remember! #wgs #queerstudies #disabilitystudies #bipoc #womenshealth #lgbtq #translivesmatter #dei #highered #academicsky #edusky

I'm on the organizing committee for next year's @c19americanists.bsky.social conference in Cincinnati & what I can tell you about this year's theme is that it was the first thing anybody pitched & we were all, like, "Yep that's it." The fastest I've ever seen five professors agree about anything.

Want to learn more about Sarah Loguen Fraser and the pharmacy she ran as the first woman doctor in the Dominican Republic? Check out our exhibit on Black Wealth! coloredconventions.org/black-wealth...

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I worked on this piece with Erin when I was jobless, and it was one of the first things @contingent-mag.bsky.social published. Today, I had the chance to use this piece in a discussion group with my coworkers as part of a three-year grant in our museum. And it was so helpful!!

#wgssouth2025 is just days away! And while we can't wait to share ideas and learn from all our participants and attendees, we also can't wait to dance to 50 years serving our #wgs community! #southernstudies #womensstudies #intersectionality #lgbtq #bipoc #disabilitystudies #academicsky #edusky

Well this print is just lovely. Here’s to all my fellow March hares!

Friends are family. Here’s to all of us seeking people and community who love us for ALL that we are. #women #lgbtq #trans #disabilty #indigenous #asian #latinx #queer #Black #intersectional #community

Claudette Colvin was 15 when she defied segregation #OTD in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus — 9 months before Rosa Parks did the same. A court put her on probation & she was branded a troublemaker for her activism. #TheMarchContinues

WGS South wants to help you find your people! For those of you attending our 50th annual meeting in Atlanta next week, please send us your flyers with QR codes linking to your preferred social media site! #wgssouth2025 #academicsky #highered #womensstudies #disability #bipoc #queerstudies

#wgssouth2025 is less than a week away! The full program will be on our website soon, but go ahead and mark your calendars for what's sure to be one helluva poetry reading! #womensstudies #southernstudies #queerstudies #academicsky #poetry #disability #disabilitystudies #bipoc #blackstudies #resist

WGS South is proud to announce we're now accepting applications for the 2025 Alison Piepmeier Outstanding Student Award! Learn more at wgssouth.org/grants-awards Deadline: March 17th. #genderstudies #womensstudies #disabilitystudies #academicsky #edusky #wgs

Dear Manager, What I did this week 1. DEI 2. Critical race theory 3. Feminism 4. Gay stuff 5. Woke

LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥 by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D. Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:

Black history is U.S. history – and we must safeguard it for our children. #BlackHistoryMonth Starting with the U.S.'s history of slavery, this #LearningForJustice resource can help you teach this complex history in honest, age-appropriate ways: www.learningforjustice.org/talking-to-c...

One of the all-time great singer songwriters.

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

From #myneighborsarchive: motive magazine from 1969. Founded by the Methodist Student Movement, their "stands on civil rights, Vietnam, and emerging gender issues became more than the Methodist Church officials could take, [...] it ceased publication in 1972." sites.bu.edu/motive/ #wgs #history

Calling all #activists #artists & #organizers in Atlanta & across the South! WGS South is celebrating our 50th annual meeting in Atlanta, March 6-8. To learn about sponsorship or registering for a vendor table to promote your work, visit wgssouth.org/sponsorship #edusky #AcademicSky #communityorg

When your conference keynote speaker is as accomplished as Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, there's nothing to be done but to include a second image listing just a fraction of her pioneering work(s)! #AcademicSky #edusky #highered #womensstudies #blackwriters #skystorians #blackhistory #genderstudies

A reminder from #myneighborsarchive that we have always had to fight. We cannot stop fighting. On the day Newsweek published this cover highlighting Women's Rights, 46 women working for the mag sued for gender discrimination: www.newsweek.com/women-revolt... #womensstudies #AcademicSky #history

Crafting Resistance Through Masquerade Jonkonnu is not just a festival, but a living archive of intersectional Black life that can only be brought to life through those willing to preserve it. hyperallergic.com/985527/craft...

"We must resist policies that risk erasing the representation of diverse families, which would put in jeopardy all students’ freedom to read & learn" PEN America Responds to SCOTUS' Decision to Hear Case Involving Parents' Objections to LGBTQ+ Children’s Books: pen.org/press-releas...

National Historic Marker Day is taking place on April 25. This day was created by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation as an event to bring communities together to clean historical markers. If interested in participating you can download their volunteer kit to help you prepare: tinyurl.com/mu34rckm.