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Ani Chen

@anichen.bsky.social
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Mitchell Center/SNF Paideia Postdoctoral Fellow @ Penn | PhD from Cornell Gov | read, write, teach political theory

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Ani Chen @anichen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Household voting" sure is an interesting euphemism for COVERTURE. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
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The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Next time some AI executive says he will control all knowledge and sell it back to people you tap the sign Wollstonecraft wrote: WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE THERE CAN BE NO MORALITY! -vindication of the rights of woman (1792)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
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‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists
When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Shameful on the part of my alma mater. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
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Cheyfitz Retires Amid Discrimination Investigation Over Confrontation With Israeli Student in Gaza Class
Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, literatures in English, who in his course on “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance," reportedly asked an Israeli student to unenroll, is now set to retire.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
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Ani Chen @anichen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ
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Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hi Bluesky, The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now. a.co/d/a0qeZeh I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:
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Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial
Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial [Garcia, Manon, Kronic, Maya B.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
just saying: if you didn't grow up crafting a default answer to "what are you/where are you from?" with some version of "what do you mean?" you may want to consult people who did about what's going on here
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
mood
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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
1) Very pleased with this new piece co-authored with @arturochang.bsky.social in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. In one respect, it's an exercise in the academic esoteric: an essay on a single footnote in Rousseau's Social Contract. But in another respect . . . www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity
Rousseau’s reference to Tlaxcala, an Indigenous nation located in current-day central Mexico, appears in a footnote to Book 2, chapter 10 of The Social Contract as proof that virtuous republics could ...
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