Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelFCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026As a Quaker organization, our opposition to the death penalty is rooted in our belief in the inherent dignity of all people. We call on members of Congress to strongly denounce this execution and to act to abolish the death penalty for good. 0185
Reposted by Becca Howes-Mischelanthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Not often in agreement the @wsj.com but am here: "Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...wsj.comWant to Succeed in an AI World? Study AnthropologyCollege students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace. 22912
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelSnitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Reposting an old thread of mine to say as a former college athlete, I want trans girls and trans women to be able to participate in sports. Let them run, let them swim, let them play. 019947
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelBecca Rea-Tucker @beccareatucker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026A federal court has temporarily blocked providers from prescribing mife (one of the two meds typically used in a medication abortion) via telehealth. It’s important to know: - Miso can be used alone. - So many people are here to help. - We will win, eventually. 0144
Reposted by Becca Howes-Mischeljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things 157211922496
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelA Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The goal here: recognize the untenable double-bind of women's lives under neoliberalism while opposing women's engagement in civic and economic life outside the household. It almost doesn't matter that these claims are false - they still achieve their purpose. 163
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelHarrisonburg Democrats -Virginia @hburgdems.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Rural Harrisonburg Rockingham VA #nokings 201858485
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Harrisonburg, March of Lament for our Disappeared Neighbors #NoKings 1207
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 13/10/2025JMU’s Soc/Anth department is searching for a new Academic Unit Head. Anthropologists and Sociologists, please share (and consider joining us). We’re a collegial and productive undergraduate focused department and in a lovely area. Applications due by 11/17 jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/academi...jobs.jmu.eduAcademic Unit Head, Sociology & Anthropology - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United StatesWorking Title: Academic Unit Head, Sociology & Anthropology State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for O... 000
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...bostonreview.netA General Air of Anxiety - Boston ReviewThe Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance. 4457175
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Thinking of this article from 2006: escholarship.org/uc/item/94v3...escholarship.org“Oaxacans Like to Work Bent Over”: The Naturalization of Social Suffering among Berry Farm WorkersAuthor(s): Holmes, Seth M 01910
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelIsaac Maddow-Zimet @imaddowzimet.bsky.social · 24/06/2025More than ten times more people traveled from Florida to Virginia to access abortion care in 2024 as compared to 2023, for example - despite it being hundreds of miles away. 121
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Ideally, a country should be led by a person that understands that other people are real. 61968386
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them. 1461761302
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 15/06/2025There were millions today. In part bc there were a dozen of you at that intersection that time, or every Tues, or after soccer. Or you stood alone with a sign at an overpass. Or your tiny town rallied around a detained woman, or 17 yo, or family. Your courage was contagious. Look what you did. 5530103
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelThe Notorious AFP @augustafreepress.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The turnout at Saturday’s No Kings Day protest in Staunton was double what we saw locally in April, and I’m guesstimating may have been closer to 1,500, with people packed elbow to elbow on the courthouse lawn and lining the sidewalks on two surrounding streets. augustafreepress.com/news/massive...augustafreepress.comMassive crowd turns out for Staunton No Kings Day protestAn estimated 1,500 people gathered for an anti-Trump protest at the Augusta County Courthouse in Staunton on No Kings Day. 09519
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 09/06/2025💗LAyoutube.comCity Of AngelsYouTube video by Ozomatli - Topic 011
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/04/2025If two presidents colluding on TV to resurrect and profit from kidnapping and slavery in the middle of Passover isn't antisemitic I don't know what is. After a Pesach arson. We are in hell. 8959621251
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Yes! An entire article which challenges the “population collapse” narrative! 👏👏 “reproductive freedom is often treated as an obstacle to government ambitions” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...washingtonpost.comGovernments want more babies. Are reproductive freedoms at risk?Low fertility rates have sparked panic and pronatalist initiatives around the world. But some experts are more concerned about the ethics of pushing for more births. 23210
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelDanya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Black feminists do have a framework for this: reproductive justice. It's premised on autonomy, medical ethics, anti-racism, environmental justice, and redistributive politics. Instead of the extremely facile and co-optable "more babies." Dorothy Roberts and Dana-Ain Davis are great starting points 118431
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelDr. Sallie Han @salliehananthro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Why we wrote this book (2/2): “Anthropologists of reproduction undertake the project of documenting and describing what people do and explaining how and why.” From Chapter 1 - Why reproduction matters and what the anthropology of reproduction offers (Han and Tomori 2025, 1). 053
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelIgivearod Fundraising Drive @igivearod.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Hello #Iditarod fans, the mushers are off on the Fairbanks route and we’ve been busily prepping for #Igivearod to support the communities along the way! We’re posting here on Bluesky this year! 39922
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access. 9750652041
Reposted by Becca Howes-Mischel19thnews @19thnews.org · 06/02/2025The order only acknowledges children born to man and woman “biological progenitors.” How it would affect LGBTQ+ families is one of many questions causing worry and confusion.19thnews.orgTrump executive order on birthright citizenship casts a narrow view of familyThe order only acknowledges children born to man and woman “biological progenitors.” How it would affect LGBTQ+ families is one of many questions causing worry and confusion. 14813
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:motherjones.comTrump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?" 5388199
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 20/01/2025What magic is this, accepted without further revision. Stay tuned for our take on Fem Tech, the affordances of the gendered microbiome, and interembodiment that takes us back to Strathernmedia.tenor.coma little girl wearing sunglasses is dancing in a hallway and says `` yay happy dance '' .ALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses is dancing in a hallway and says `` yay happy dance '' . 000
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 19/01/2025His world should always be thus, as far as he’s concerned. 2471
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Home soundscapenpr.orgA moment for Los Angeles : Alt.LatinoLos Angeles is home for me and always in my heart. Watching the fires from afar in my current city, New York, has me thinking a lot about what makes my hometown great: breathtaking mountains, stunnin... 020
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 14/01/2025When you’re navigating the already labyrinthine manuscript portal for a resubmission and the journal now requires new documents for which they provide no guidancemedia.tenor.coma woman is doing a yoga pose on a pink mat with the words awesome behind herAlt: a woman is doing a contorting yoga pose on a pink mat with the words awesome behind her 110
Reposted by Becca Howes-MischelRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Thanks to everyone who pointed to the crucial sentences: Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. 423848
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 09/01/2025As someone who built my adult life on the East Coast but still calls LA "home," this captures a push/pull yearning while my heart breaks at the fires' devastation www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...nytimes.comOpinion | It Is Tearing Me Up Not to Be in L.A. Right NowLos Angeles may have a reputation for being superficial, but it is in fact a territory that might, at any moment, upend (or even end) your life. 151
Reposted by Becca Howes-Mischelderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla 80121739868
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 19/12/2024One of our former students did her ethnography project on the community there, including a visual analysis of that mural 0371
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 12/12/2024It’s a lovely turn of phrase there! A student this semester asked me to define “ephemeral” so I offered “diaphanous” and then “ethereal” … to peeved faces. 000
Reposted by Becca Howes-Mischeljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2024the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans 464160933252
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I finished my dissertation by creating a pie for each chapter and somewhere buried in FB is a record of all the flavors I played with. 000
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 28/11/2024My yearly celebration of abundant pie (as opposed to my usual celebration of solo pies) and questionable decision to never make the same pie for Thanksgiving, this year only two: Pumpkin Sesame and Maple Honey Pecan 140
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Colibri still considers time change nonsense and not his problem to adjust to 180
Becca Howes-Mischel @beccaella.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Noooo, I was hoping to see you and Lizzy!! 110