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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.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original Theatrical Trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Rewind
https://youtu.be/ppeMfoKdbAY?si=tWL6mMVJdo1ciiCx
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Caitlin Gilbert
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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:
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
https://wapo.st/49zDc43
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Popular Science
16 days ago
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...
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
https://www.popsci.com/science/transgender-children-gender-identity/
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Merriam-Webster
19 days ago
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
24 days ago
"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."
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A conversation with Wellesley’s only professor on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist
Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist” drew a surge of attention following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, on Sept. 10, prompting professors on the list to brac...
https://thewellesleynews.com/22386/news-investigation/a-conversation-with-wellesleys-only-professor-on-turning-point-usas-professor-watchlist/
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf
29 days ago
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...
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The Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship
YouTube video by Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCIt0lT4jk&t=4s
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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).
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Street Roots
about 1 month ago
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.
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Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11/18/oregon-experiments-direct-cash-payments-assist-homeless-youths
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル
about 2 months ago
Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 2 months ago
What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people?
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jenn m. jackson
2 months ago
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.
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Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment
“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/naked-bike-riders-cycle-through-the-rain-in-a-day-of-portland-protests.html
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24 Hours Outside ICE | 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. - Live look at Portland, Oregon ICE Facility for full day
YouTube video by KATU News
https://www.youtube.com/live/zNASPLjFocQ?si=5va2jmXcRSATPaCF
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Melissa Gira Grant
3 months ago
Incredible (via
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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Ilhan Omar
5 months ago
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
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Exclusive: Ilhan Omar condemns party's reversal of Minneapolis mayoral endorsement
The reversal sent shockwaves through the Democratic party on Thursday.
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/22/omar-democrats-minneapolis-mayor-race-fateh-frey
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Michelle Wu 吳弭
5 months ago
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.
add a skeleton here at some point
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泣鬼虫A R T🌻🎸
5 months ago
Remember when writers didn’t use AI and instead just stole their wife’s work and claimed it as their own?
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Ad for wives from a totally Equal Opportunity Employer in 1967
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Political Science Women’s Caucus, University of Chicago, 1969 Some comments by professors:
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Barnes & Noble has a whole Dark Academia nook.
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Faculty Wives research
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Gender was not even listed on passports until 1977.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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A Clippings Scrapbook: Passports — Assigned
In 1925, the first passport ever issued to a woman without her husband's last name on it was sent to Doris Fleischman. One hundred years later, hundreds of trans folk lost theirs.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/clippings-scrapbook-passports
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Does anyone have information on campus/policy responses to NCAA ban on trans athletes? DMs on particular institutions or sources welcome.
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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)
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Sarah J. Jackson
10 months ago
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.
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Amy Stanley
10 months ago
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.
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A woman invented the rape kit. A man took credit for it.
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“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
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Can anyone recommend anthropology on academia such as Solnit’s suggestion below? (Aside from Graeber’s 🔥 2017 account of tenure)
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Current book project: tentatively entitled Married to the Job: Faculty Wives, Feminism, and Academic Labor. An intellectual, social, and cultural history. +economics and erotica!
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