If you rolled your eyes at the New York Times’s reporting on the GOP gays of Washington, DC, you’ll love my take in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

We took a DEEP dive into fascism yesterday on the show with @schuneke.bsky.social. How do we even describe MAGA? And given US LGBTQ history, is it accurate to describe MAGA as a *return* to a fascism? I could talk to Sam for days. podfollow.com/the-gaily-show www.youtube.com/live/Qe_ffkv...

It’s worth pointing out that the (grand) jury system was enshrined in our constitution precisely so that citizens could serve as a check on prosecutorial overreach

My university is shutting down our humanities center, but at least we hired a chief AI officer smdh

What is he talking about? Both WWI and WWII ended with unconditional surrenders. Germany’s government was presented with a peace treaty it had no hand in negotiating in 1919 and there wasn’t even a German government left with which to negotiate in 1945.

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

Yes!!

Liberalism be liberaling tbh

Zu Susan Neiman übrigens sehr lesenswert: @schuneke.bsky.social's Review ihres Buches “Left Is Not Woke: lareviewofbooks.org/article/crit...

Classic NYT

If we found anyone submitting a piece to POMEPS that used ChatGPT or other AI it would be rejected and the author would go on our do not publish redlist. It’s not something that any serious academic or intellectual should do. It shouldn’t be legitimated or normalized.

Proofs are here!!! Watch out for this chunky review essay in this year’s Archiv für Sozialgeschichte

If you think that humanities degrees are useless, you've adopted a falsehood: "It is a well-kept secret of US higher education that undergraduate students who have earned a degree in the humanities fare quite well on the job market." #Edusky #HigherEducation www.mellon.org/voices/human...

In case anyone is wondering how things are going, we in the Mason Faculty Senate passed a non-binding resolution expressing support for our President and the DOJ announced they’re investigating us. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

I’ve not been teaching nearly as long but have noticed the same thing. Getting students to consistently read even page-long texts every week can be a struggle.

So crazy proud of my mom for being awarded ASEES’s Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award for a remarkable career including 16 books, edited volumes, and special issues; directing a major area studies center; and mentoring countless students.

At least Carnegie had the good grace to build libraries

Going through copy edits of my history of lesbians in Nazi Germany, and this sentence that I first wrote years ago hits hard today.

Historian friends, be sure to vote in the AHA elections! There’s a great slate of candidates running against the establishment picks.

This is unfortunately reminiscent of early camps in Nazi Germany, which were also widely lauded by politicians (they were by no means a secret), treated as tourist curiosities, and featured in glossy magazine spreads. It’s unfathomable to me how so many people can take such joy in human suffering.

Also insane to see a historian of technology describe a new technology as a natural inevitability to which me must adapt ourselves rather than what it is — an imperfect human invention that is being force on us for profit and politics

Which headshot should I go with?

I don’t think I know a single person who doesn’t live in this area 😅 isn’t the rest just occupied with hospitals, lobbying firms, and government offices?

I feel like I’m just screaming into an echo chamber, but we shouldn’t be outsourcing thought to so-called AI!!!

would you like to see the New York publishing scene explained and demolished in a single paragraph?

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book! You can find our conversation here: newbooksnetwork.com/teaching-gen... and, as I believe the kids say, 'wherever you get your podcasts'.

Ew

So proud (get it?!) to announce that on the second Monday of every month @schuneke.bsky.social will join us on The Gaily Show to discuss politics and queer history. Sam will join us today to discuss his recent essay for the Baffler as well as World Pride. thebaffler.com/latest/hope-...

French Culinary School Announces Every Student Will Use Microwave to Make Every Dish www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Receiving fresh copies of a book you’ve worked on – it never gets tired. Berlin‘s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social

I do love serving on book prize committees 📚

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Ethics, according to NYU

Since the start of the year, more than eight hundred anti-trans bills have been introduced across the country. @schuneke.bsky.social describes the state-sanctioned crackdown on queer rights under Trump 2.0.

We’re not doing great! My latest for @thebaffler.com in which I catalog the assault on LGBTQ rights, how we got here, and where we might be going

What a collection of ghouls

I’ll be giving a public lecture *Being Queer in Times of Trouble* at the Goethe Institute in DC on June 4 in conversation with activists Mai Manion and Andrew Tisell. You can RSVP here! www.eventbrite.com/e/being-quee...

What the fuck, people. Do not do this.

Big thanks to everyone who participated in the workshop “New Directions in Modern German History” I hosted this past weekend at @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center, especially keynotes @schuneke.bsky.social and Anne Berg. The program is immortalized here: www.academia.edu/129078541/Ne...

For more, you can preorder my book "People without History are Dust" from @uoftpress.bsky.social utorontopress.com/978148755711...

Excited to be hosting this soon at U Rochester's Humanities Center! Ft. keynotes by Anne Berg and @schuneke.bsky.social and papers by Paul Hanebrink, Kobi Kabalek, John Abromeit, Lauren Crawford, @jonasknatz.bsky.social, @ryanheyden.bsky.social, and Scott Moranda events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...

If you're not reading @schuneke.bsky.social, why? how? At 2pm CST: we're talking w/him about A Queer Theory of the State. On 2/13, we talked about States of Liberation. If you want to understand the intersections of fascism, LGBTQ rights movements, and queer democracy add him to your list!

Today @schuneke.bsky.social returns to discuss his book A Queer Theory of the State. We're fighting against a government attacking us on all levels. But what kind of government do we need/want when we win? What is our collective vision for the "State"? Tune in at 2p! bookshop.org/a/82376/9783...

*pinches my nose so hard it falls off*

The democrats should be trying to flip every house seat wtf is this clownery

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school