All my CUNY colleagues should check out this thread, and the report @zachsamalin.bsky.social links to below. It's CUNY history worth remembering. @cadhe.bsky.social This will be of interest especially!

Abortion Stories is included in Ms. Magazine’s Top Feminist Books of 2025. An honor to be part of this incredible list! I can't think of a better new year's resolution than a promise to read more feminist books in 2026.

Excited to listen to this conversation about the Nursing Clio Reader. I have no doubt that it will be good!

This is fascinating research!

This was such a good conversation! Knowing the history of the pregnancy test--and pregnancy testing more generally-- is more important than ever in today's reproductive climate. The pregnancy test continues to be overlooked as an important technology when it comes to individual AND state control.

CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

I shared my essay with Lader's widow, and she wistfully responded that if her husband were still alive we'd have an organized fight against Dobbs today.

I wrote about a 1966 book that radically transformed the American abortion rights movement. I wish it wasn't out of print, but I've also discovered that you can find copies at most libraries. It's hard to exaggerate its importance at the time; for example, Roe v. Wade cited it 9 times.

The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).

BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE! That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted. Stay tuned! 🍿 #DefendHigherEd #StandUpFightBack

Here’s the simple resolution UFS passed that undergirds the Executive Committee statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact for higher education in/and America. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

I hope faculty, students, and alumni at these nine universities do everything they can to make sure their administrations don't agree to these so-called compacts. Otherwise, those of us at poorer university systems will be fighting an uphill battle.

The Trumpist higher ed agenda is to shut down most institutions and control the rest.

Can't decide what's more contemptible: trading the university's most precious assets, its institutional integrity and intellectual freedom, for cash, or selling out the rest of higher education by rewarding the divide-and-rule tactics of a corrupt government

We should all be watching what's happening in Texas very closely (and supporting our colleagues there).

And we also hope that other states don't fall in line, one after another, esp. since the Trump administration has threatened to pull federal funding from any university that follows decades of research and scholarship acknowledging that sex is not a binary. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

The next NYC mayor stands for reproductive justice! (And knows his history.) Believing that every person should get to choose whether or not they want to be a parent and have access to free healthcare if they proceed with their pregnancy shouldn't be controversial. And yet, sadly, in 2025, it is.

This workshop should not be missed!

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south #MADC #CADHE #HigherEd

CUNY friends (and allies!), please follow the new CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education account. Our mission statement and a link to get involved is here: cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Inside Higher Ed offers these tips to "stay safe online," including the tip not to include your university's name in your bio. I just removed mine with a very heavy heart and mixed feelings. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I love the questions I'm getting from the AskHistorians community on Reddit! It's been so much fun that I have to drag myself away to get other things done.

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

The Nursing Clio Reader is out now! This book is so good, so accessible, so smart. It's perfect for teaching, bedtime reading, and gifting. (My cat also likes the color coordination.)

Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!

By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social

The best part of coming home after some time away was seeing this waiting for me. You can pre-order it now!

This is happening tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us! We have a few prepared thoughts, but mostly it's a chance for contingent/independent scholars to pool ideas and strategies for research funding!

The MSA Committee of Contingent/Independent Scholars is holding a Zoom roundtable on Tues., Aug. 26, 4pm EST on “Funding and Support Off the Tenure Track and in the Face of Increasing Precarity” w/ @nissaren.bsky.social, Emily Bloom, and @chollis.bsky.social Email [email protected] for Zoom link!

Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖 against-a-i.com #highereducation #pedagogy

It's so exciting to see the Nursing Clio Reader in someone's hands! I can't wait to get my copy in September!

Important correction! Early registration rates for the MSA 2025 Conference in Boston will be available until August 31. Please make a note of this! We'll send reminders too.

This graduate mentoring program designed by @jessmasters.bsky.social is a new MSA initiative, and I wish existed when I was a grad student. Pass it along to any graduate students working in modernism or modernist-adjacent fields, like the Harlem Renaissance, 20th-century studies, etc.

Registration for MSA 2025 in Boston is now open! Register here before Sept. 20 for the reduced rate: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

This "hearing" on higher ed today that called the CUNY Chancellor to testify on "antisemitism" was appalling, and Stefanik's questions clearly had it in for my faculty and staff union, the PSC. I'm grateful for PSC President James Davis's thoughtful responses, quoted in this article.

There's so much bad news recently that new anti-abortion laws and their consequences often don't get much attention. Follow @jessicavalenti.bsky.social and the important work she's doing to keep track of abortion legislation.

I feel like if you are genuinely concerned about Mamdani being an antisemite you should read what his current Jewish constituents think of him. Many of them — including some Zionists! — like him! forward.com/news/733324/...

Everyone should note that the deadline has passed. Fortunately, fines go to a good NYC cause.

I am humbled by the support of more than 545,000 New Yorkers in last week's primary. This is just the beginning of our expanding coalition to make New York City affordable. And we will do it together.

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

Finally, some good news to share!

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Now is a great time to become a @jfrejnyc.bsky.social member. We have a member assembly coming up! Joining a community based org is one of the best things you can do

I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

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