Trailer from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) New York Times called it “Marital Armageddon.” My spouse said yeah, armageddon tired of being married to you. youtu.be/ppeMfoKdbAY?...

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

"The watchlist is not a little sunglasses icon. It is a scope with someone’s sight that you would think of on a gun for precision. That to me is terrifying. It is threatening. You don’t have to be very far between the lines, between figuring out what a watchlist might mean."

SCOTUS will take up argument on Trump's (unconstitutional) order rescinding birthright citizenship. 3 top historians -- @katemasur.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social and Erika Lee -- joined @brennancenter.org to talk about its historical and legal dimensions... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCI...

Looking for recommendations for fiction, essays, and memoirs for a social history of health: gender and wellness seminar. (So far am decided on Audre Lorde, Cancer Journals; Eula Biss On Immunity, and Todd Haynes’ Safe).

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.

What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people? www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social There is (was) a place where students engage in difficult discussion and exploration: it is called the college classroom. “Debate Me” campaign professor watchlist undermines the thing you say we need.

Ezra Klein: There is a place where students engage in difficult discussion and exploration: it is called the college classroom. “Debate Me” style gotcha campaign and putting professors on watch lists undermines the thing you say we need.

As we consider RFK Jr’s eugenics, do not forget the Kennedy family’s treatment of his aunt Rosemary: forced lobotomy and institutionalization for depression.

It is inexcusable to overturn the DFL endorsement from Omar Fateh. A small group, a majority living outside Minneapolis, met privately to overturn the will of Minneapolis delegates who volunteered, organized, and participated in a months-long DFL process. Unacceptable www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

Remember when writers didn’t use AI and instead just stole their wife’s work and claimed it as their own?

Ad for wives from a totally Equal Opportunity Employer in 1967

Political Science Women’s Caucus, University of Chicago, 1969 Some comments by professors:

Barnes & Noble has a whole Dark Academia nook.

Faculty Wives research

Gender was not even listed on passports until 1977. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Does anyone have information on campus/policy responses to NCAA ban on trans athletes? DMs on particular institutions or sources welcome.

I am developing a course on “Wellness” for a Social History of Health in the United States class. Suggestions? (Looking at well-being and social justice, as well as wellness/eugenics/fascism. Especially interested in granola mom and essential oils to far-right pipeline)

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.

A woman invented the rape kit. A man took credit for it.

“I know, let’s play going to a meeting!” —children in Audre Lorde’s unpublished novel Deotha. “Where’s my papers, where’s my papers, where’s my papers?” daughter playing faculty mom

Can anyone recommend anthropology on academia such as Solnit’s suggestion below? (Aside from Graeber’s 🔥 2017 account of tenure)

Current book project: tentatively entitled Married to the Job: Faculty Wives, Feminism, and Academic Labor. An intellectual, social, and cultural history. +economics and erotica!