Big day for a historian of Christianity in Algeria: the pope is visiting Algeria!

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE PIZZA TREE (thanks to @dfontaine.bsky.social and @sturgidson.bsky.social for the inspo lol) 🌴🍕

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Having lived in northern Florida, FL01 is not a moderate district. It’s just not. It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are. A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

Procès du RN: Marine Le Pen et les autres élus condamnés à une peine d'inéligibilité

This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

They start with trans folks and Free Palestine campus protestors and move on to anyone else they don’t like to make it so that everyone is too afraid to speak out. We can’t let this happen to anyone.

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

Read the full Amnesty International report on genocide in Gaza: www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court

Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

fascism in Florida

Newborn twins killed in Gaza as father went to register birth

I’m basically living for the return of Slow Horses now that the Olympics are over

A great day has come, #BlueSkyStorians & #Battlegrounds #MilitaryHistory series fans! @tgpeterson.bsky.social's superb "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" is ready to order at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”

Writer friends (and Mom), I'm truly excited to start my freelance editing/writing business. While it's been a lot of fun binge-watching Netflix these past 2 months, I'm ready to work on stories and connect with writers. You can find details below: romanceismydayjob.wordpress.com/editorial-se...

"'The Future is Feminist' offers a historical example of a powerful moment in which Algerians theorized their own transnational feminism, in response to French colonial stereotypes about Islam and gender, many of which persist today." - Sara Rahnama, via www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/sara-rahnama...

When the question is "what's wrong with men" the answer is always that society is failing them; when the question is "what's wrong with women" the answer is always that they're failing society.

Very pleased to share this set of articles by Algerian historian Noureddine Amara on the memory of the Algerian War in France in the new issue of Naqd, for which I did the English translation www.cairn.info/revue-naqd.htm

What a glorious, powerful, beautiful letter of resignation: "So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies."

I’m running my most popular webinar once again! It’s free & open to anyone who has questions about publishing a book from your dissertation. Sign up at my new course site (and let me know if you encounter any bugs bc this is my first launch over there) manuscriptworks.thinkific.com/courses/webi...

Beyond elated to share the publication of *Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century* from @uncpress.bsky.social !

I’ll be presenting some thoughts on gender in post-1945 divided Germany at the @ihr.bsky.social Modern German History next Wednesday. Join in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/events/gende...

Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera: Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire” It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”

New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...

Here is a nice chat I had with my friend Emily Flake about creativity and community and annoying things men say to us that make us try even harder than before 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/all-we-can...

Happy to share that my new book, Catastrophic Diplomacy, is now available for preorder! If you order from @uncpress.bsky.social, there is a 30% discount with the promo code 01SOCIAL30. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of successive generations of scholars her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students, colleagues, and comrades RIP

“Danaya Wright, chairperson of the University of Florida’s faculty senate, questioned whether research on breast cancer or gynecological treatments would be allowed based on the language of the draft, because it involves spending in a way that classifies individuals by sex.”

I will always be grateful to What We do in the Shadows for giving me the vocabulary to understand the various types of vampires in my life. For instance, I am married to a Colin Robinson ☠️

92NY cancelled the appearance of Viet Thanh Nguyen because of his support for Palestinians. In response: “As writers of conscience, as anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial thinkers, we have cancelled our appearance at the 92nd Street Y.” Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe

hard to disagree with a word of this https:/www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n20/adam-shatz/vengeful-pathologies

Palestinians fear ‘second Nakba’ if human corridor is opened with Egypt: ‘Nobody in Gaza wants to live as a refugee in tents in the Sinai Desert. That’s basically the plan of the Israeli far-right.’

Simcha Rotman, architect of Israel's Judicial coup: the war will end when "a Jewish child can walk safely in the main street of Gaza". He's talking about permanent reoccupation, annexation, and depopulation of Gaza.

It is shattering to watch hundreds of years of Jewish longing for liberation result in a situation in which we inflict upon other peoples the terrors and crimes which were inflicted upon us. There aren’t words.

BREAKING: Israel has used white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, putting civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries. White phosphorus causes excruciating burns and can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful.

Thus is an extraordinary piece of writing. "We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history’s wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."

If anyone is wondering what it has been like to live and work at a public university in Florida for the last few years (and why I quit my job), here’s a piece I wrote for the LRB about the DeSantis admin’s war on education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is my dog Tegan. She is the best.

I just finished translating an entire academic book from French to English and somehow this feels like way more of an accomplishment than finishing my own books. I guess that’s good? 🤷‍♀️