Gonna be a trenta kind of day.

“To do nothing, to put our heads down and go back to work as if everything is normal, is to capitulate, it is to accept that our universities are forever going to be the playthings of right-wing politicians and the rich”

Focusing on the life of Marton, an 18th-century enslaved woman in Louisiana who produced beer made from scavenged rice, Jessica Blake examines ways enslaved women adapted to scarcity and increased their autonomy Read free in Journal of Women's History tinyurl.com/p7wa7zev

Have just uploaded my access copies of my talk for #ASECS2025 ‘Disability and Environment’ panel 2-3pm EST this Friday. I am looking forward to hearing the other papers.

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief. Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs. What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

OMG. Zoom now sends you an AI generated summary of your meeting. It's pretty accurate except for one thing. It referred to me as "she" everywhere! #notmypronoun #they/them

The ASECS Women’s Caucus is looking for a new co-chair to serve a two-year term beginning July 2025. If you want to self-nominate or nominate someone, please message me.

I think @cignahealthcare.bsky.social automatically rejects every request my doctors make. Why can’t I get an arm monitor so my doctors can keep track of the secondary diabetes I now have thanks to metastatic breast cancer treatment? We need the data to make life altering decisions about my care.

Thanks to all of you who shared my posts. Cigna decided not to reject my doctor’s third request for a PET scan.

Works for me.

The Georgian era is the era of the pun not the Victorian #Radio4

Feel free to share my posts about Cigna and Accredo because they only respond to public shaming.

Cigna forcing me to use Accredo pharmacy has lead to me being in a situation where I can’t get my chemo. And Accredo has been gaslighting me for weeks. Today I thought about quitting my treatment and just letting the cancer kill me. Because I can’t keep begging for care.

Fuck

Cigna is denying me a PET scan bc. they state it is not medically necessary based on their clinical guidelines. I have stage 4 metastatic breast cancer spreading throughout my bones and liver. My insurance company says I don't need the only scan that can show what's going on!

I have metastatic breast cancer.

Unpopular opinion: Lainey Wilson should have won. Not Beyoncé. And yes I have listened to both albums.

What famous film haven’t you seen that everyone would think had seen? Tonight I’m watching Sister Act. How was it that I never watched it? 🤷‍♂️

Woke up with this song playing in my head. I wonder why.

I’ve been away from home for a month and coming back is weird because I still have my Christmas lights up. I just received lots of Christmas cards. I’m watching the Doctor Who xmas episode. It’s like time travel for me! Also: love Ncuti Gatwa.

Looking forward to this! www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterp...

I’m going to start using this app more now that Fb decided my profile would follow Vance. How the hell did that happen? I had to unfollow someone I never followed? Not to mention someone I detest.

The ASECS Women's Caucus has three January 15 prize deadlines. For details please read this document.

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference's list of sessions is live. Check out panel 16 (I'm co-chairing) on the Burneys and Dis/ability. Please share! asecs.org/sessions2025/

Call for abstracts for the 2025 online American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference: Burneys and Dis/ability (spons. by Burney Society North America) [ID 16] Chairs: Linda Zionkowski, Ohio Univ., [email protected]; Misty Krueger, Univ. of Maine at Farmington, [email protected]

Announcement from @ASECSWomen: The Catharine Macaulay Prize (Graduate Student Prize) submission deadline is September 15. Description can be found here: www.asecswomenscaucus.com/catherine-ma...

I've been blogging! I've got a running blog on my Disney trip and two posts on season 3 of Bridgerton. If you're interested, go to mistykrueger.com and click on my blog.

Bye bye, spring semester!

If you are a member of ASECS’s Women's Caucus, we have a new email address: [email protected]. Add us to your safe list. Not a member of the Caucus? We can add you. The caucus is open to people who do not identify as “woman” even though our panels focus on women’s issues.

At ASECS and having a blast but also working hard. Last night I performed in a readers theater version of the 1760 play Polly Honeycombe. Today I went to a couple of panels. Had a working lunch in service of the Women’s Studies Caucus. Ran the caucus’s business meeting. And got some rest in. 👍🏼👍🏼

Guess what happened next.

Another most excellent article in the new ECF special issue: Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship in "The History of Mrs Selvyn," by Abigail Zitin muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.1, U of Toronto Press January 2024, pp. 69-90 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Thanks for reading ECF at Project MUSE!

Hello hello, please help with our mentoring program at the American Society for #18thc Studies in Toronto this spring!

Hello. I’m the ASECS Women’s Caucus co-chair and I’m wondering how many of you would like to see the Caucus create an account here. We are ready to exit Twitter aka X. Also curious if you think societies like ours would get a lot of response on Instagram.

Is this the new Twitter? Cuz I can’t use a site called X. Nope. Nope. Nope. Fu, Musk!

I received these fortunes two months apart. Sheesh. Nihilistic?

If you're including /The Woman of Colour/ on your syllabus, may we suggest adding "New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808)"? Find this ECF special issue on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/49214 Editors Nicole Aljoe, Kerry Sinanan, & Mariam Wassif #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Thirsting this Thursday for some nifty eighteenth-century content? We have a feed for that! Just use at least one of these hashtags: #c18, #18c, #c18th #18thc to have posts be included Please like, add to your feeds, and spread the word!

Whew, okay. I'm putting this out there: for a variety of complex reasons that many of you would sympathize with, I'm actively job searching and am open to opportunities off the tenure track in publishing, digital humanities, and libraries. Here's more info about me: https://kateozment.com/

SoCal folks: as someone who comes from a region with hurricanes and tropical storms, please take this extremely seriously. If you are warned to evacuate, please, please, please do. Water can be just as dangerous as fire, and this state doesn’t have practice with hurricanes.

Instructional Design Librarian | Iowa State University | Ames, IA, USA 📜 📚 #LISJobs https://isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/job/Ames-IA/Instructional-Design-Librarian_R12689

My department (NYU English) is hiring in environmental lit/environmental humanities, part of a multidepartment hiring initiative. Please share! More here: https://apply.interfolio.com/129779

Historians please help us spread the word: Colgate History is hiring an Assistant Professor in History of Health, Medicine, & the Body. We will consider applicants whose research is focused on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, or South America. Full ad here, due 10/2! https://apply.interfolio.com/130212

Reminder that @catsofyore.bsky.social is the only cat pic feed that's a real person who sources all her images (and provides alt text!) and can be safely and ethically followed!

I want a movie or show about a cancer survivor who is a flattie (i.e. no breasts) living years after their surgery and ready to start dating. Like it can be a Christmas movie. Whatever. I don’t care. 😁

CFP: What is the past, present, and future of feminist and queer archival practice? I am thrilled to be editing "The Archival is Political" for @IRWRutgers -- deadline for submissions is December 15, 2023. Please be in touch with any questions!

Finally made it to Blue Sky. Here’s a pic of gray and pink sky. Old Orchard Beach approximately 5:30 am last Thursday!