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Catherine

@caevans.bsky.social
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Queer Media Histories & Activist Print Cultures • Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow @Kenyon • PhD Candidate in Literary & Cultural Studies @CarnegieMellon • views my own, duh 💅 catherineaevans.com

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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Bridge’s largely overlooked performance series and labor history enrich (and challenge) how we teach, cite, and discuss this foundational feminist literary work. Sneak peek image from the Boston performance program. You’ll have to read the article for the performance images!
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“A Lesbian Media Strategy: This Bridge Called My Back and Persephone Press” is out now in the September issue of American Literature. Read it here: doi.org/10.1215/0002...
Orange cover of volume 98 issue number 3 of the journal American Literature
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Don’t mind me. Just smiling thinking about Kipp, her daughter, and the joy of last week while preparing to teach my first course of the semester.
Kipp, an 81 year old woman in a floral button up, wears her old coal mining hard 
hat with her eyes closed. A display of Tshirts and documents are visible in the backdrop
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It really is! One of my favorite photos in the whole thing is on this table.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Curating “Solidarity Forever: A Radical Pop-Up” @haymarkethouse.bsky.social has been an absolute pleasure. Go see it, Chicago, tonight and tomorrow only! Kipp and her daughter will meet you there :)
A hard hat, lunch bucket, pieces of coal, and jack rock on a black table cloth A white tshirt on a standing hanger that reads “A woman’s place is in her union” with an image of a woman wearing a hat. A red bandanna is tied around the neck A purple tshirt that reads “if I can’t dance I don’t want to be a part of your revolution Emma Goldman.” There is an mage of Emma Goldman in the center
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Shout out to the Walmart-brand frog legs in what I wrongfully thought to be the vegetarian section.
Great value box of frog legs “tender and slightly sweet” in a Walmart fridge section
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ah yes. A nice summer walk through the Carnegie Mellon library stacks 🫠
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New piece out on feminist anthologies, editorial care, and tender(ness) in Pittsburgh in @asapjournal.bsky.social. Read it, open access, here. dx.doi.org/10.1353/asa....
Hand holding copy of ASAP/journal’s 10.5 September 2025 edition in front of a sunny window
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Sometimes it’s the small things. Like when your office window, the only PhD office with a window of course, becomes the chosen death window for the campus birds.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A couple of days ago, Momo decided to self-medicate, breaking into a bag of “calming treats.” The outcome:
Momo, a grey and white tuxedo cat, lays on his side in a box, staring up with vacant eyes an his mouth open.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Some things never change… do they? Found on the back of a Kipp Dawson letter circa 1985.
White flyer with image of helicopter’s for an event by the militant labor forum in Pittsburgh PA
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I don’t remember this part of the novel.
Smashed whale skeleton lays on concrete with bones breaking off.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Devin Wilson’s “Whale Oil” has a lot to say about Moby Dick. Cerritos College Art Gallery Closes April 4
Front window of Devin Wilson’s Whale Oil exhibition. A whale skeleton dangles from a chain in front of a red and black scanA part of a whale skeleton suspended by a metal chain with a shadow on concrete floor in view
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was reading aloud an essay to myself (as one does) and caught Zuko listening. Clearly, he is not convinced by my claims.
Zuko, a black and white tuxedo cat, gives a side eye to the camera while laying on his back with paws in diva position.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Even Momo is disturbed by the state of my graduate school budget Christmas tree 🫣
Momo, a grey and white cat, looks horrified by the lack of branches on a mangled fake tree.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
When I leave for campus, Momo sits on his bread toy like this and blocks the door. Let the semester end so he can live in peace and I can stop answering to these big eyes!
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Don’t mind me. Just thinking about @kippdawson.bsky.social seeing her shirts on display for the first time 🥹
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Oh hey. I curated this show all about feminist tshirts at Chatham University. Please come through! Opening reception (Oct 15) will feature a talk by Dawson which will also be live-streamed. Register for the opening here: chatham.edu/events/detai... Design by the very talented Megan Urban
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Everytime I travel for work, this exact image of Zuko greeting me after a trip pops into my head and I suddenly feel immense guilt. Shout out to @rachaelvm454.bsky.social for giving him all the pets while I’m gone. 🫶
Zuko, a black and white tuxedo cat, staring at the camera with big sad eyes
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“Scab Terminator” mutt circa 1980s picket line from @kippdawson.bsky.social’s Solidarity Scrapbooks.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
1967. “The Medium is the Message.” Carnegie Mellon’s Fence
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
1991. And, last but not least, students protest the Gulf War, taking to the streets around campus and Squirrel Hill alongside Pitt and Duquesne students. In short, anyone who says protest at CMU has only looked one way or never happened at all, is a liar. 7/7
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
1991. Students link hands protesting SEI and department of defense contracts anticipating arrests.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
1988. Students demand divestment from South Africa apartheid, covering Warner Hall in banners and leading “unapproved” protests across campus. 5/7
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
1970. Strom Thurmond, notorious racist, was pelted with marshmallows during his visit. The student paper made this iconic series of images the cover of the newspaper mocking him. (Personal favorite) 4/7
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
1969. Black Construction Coalition protests shut down construction on campus over unfair union policy that kept Black workers from joining. The cover of the Tartan (student paper) read “And they said it couldn’t happen at tech,” referring to administration claiming protest couldn’t happen at CMU. 3
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
1968. Students raid the ROTC office on campus in protest of the Vietnam war and recruitment on campus. 2/7
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In action on the PATCO picket line too!
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Coal Employment Project “Women Miners Can Dig It Too” 1981
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
United Farm Workers in Washington State circa 1970.
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It’s a @kippdawson.bsky.social t-shirt sorting day in the Evans household. Tune in for some highlights!
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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Momo’s having a “That’s So Raven” moment and processing the full horrors of 2025 yet to come.
Momo, a grey and white cat, laying upside down with his tongue out under a cat bed.
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