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Canadian Literature @canadianlit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Issue 264 includes a forum on “Black Bibliography, Book History, and Print Culture in Canada" that is rounded out by a peer-reviewed interview by Kristin Moriah with George Elliott Clarke, as well as a continuation of issue 263's "Indigenous Literary Biography" forum.

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Canadian Literature @canadianlit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We're thrilled to announce that issue 264, Solidarity: Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogies, is now live❗ In this issue's editorial, guest editor Dr. Smaro Kamboureli writes:

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And on Day 1 of the 2026 conference of @c19americanists.bsky.social !!!

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 13.2, Fall 2025 tinyurl.com/yjddkuey CONTRIBUTORS Kristin Moriah Rafael Walker Susannah Sharpless Rachel Conrad Bracken Alexandra Burgess Matt Sandler Sabrina Evans Danielle Procope Bell Koritha Mitchell and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
13.2, Fall 2025

CONTRIBUTORS
Kristin Moriah
Rafael Walker
Susannah Sharpless
Rachel Conrad Bracken
Alexandra Burgess
Matt Sandler
Sabrina Evans
Danielle Procope Bell
Vivian Delchamps Wolf
Magdalena Zapędowska
Koritha Mitchell

HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/j19

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Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social. @dark-stars.bsky.social @c19americanists.bsky.social

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 09/02/2026

Called by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 1,360 kilometres through southern Ontario to retrace parts of the Underground Railroad. Here's what he learned about Black history in Canada, including the outdoor survival skills needed to escape enslavement. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...

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Walking 1,300 km of Black history in Ontario | The Narwhal

Ken Johnston walked from Niagara Falls to Owen Sound, following the boggy, buggy Underground Railroad path of early Black settlers in Ontario

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Kristin Moriah will be joining the Legacy editorial team as Book Review Editor! Please join us in welcoming her! 1/5

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Pleased to announce this small but mighty display at the Stauffer and W.D. Jordan libraries at Queen’s University. @queensulibrary.bsky.social

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

writing residency. kingston. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Today at 1 PM! Join us to learn more about “Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary.”

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

EVENT: Don't miss @dark-stars.bsky.social discussing her new edited volume INSENSIBLE OF BOUNDARIES in a virtual book talk hosted by @congrelib.bsky.social for their 2025 Juneteenth Lecture on Thursday 6/19 at 1 p.m. ET! Register today to reserve your spot.

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The 2025 edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar considers ways of being together while asking: what do we owe each other in this constellation of Black study? Join us for our public keynotes on June 9th, 10th and 11th. Tickets are available here: blk-s3tudies.com/events

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Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Juneteenth is two weeks away, and we hope you’re making plans to spend an hour with us at 1 pm EDT hearing Dr. Kristin Moriah speak about the life and legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Registration for this virtual talk is free and open to all at congregationallibrary.org/events/insen...

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

SUMMER READING SALE! Save 40% on all available books on pennpress.org with code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, now through Friday, June 20!

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fourth of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current Legacy, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s amazing study of Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, & Black library use & creation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Details from two photographs showing individual African American women: at left, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and, at right, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Both are head and shoulders pictures. Mossell’s body is turned slightly to her right, but she faces the camera slightly to her left. Harper’s body is turned to more to her right, but her face aims directly at us. Both are in fashionable late nineteenth-century dresses. Mossell’s hair is up, and Harper’s is pulled back.

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Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Make plans to join us for our 2025 Juneteenth Lecture, a virtual talk with Dr. Kristin Moriah about her book, “Insensible of Boundaries,” and learn more about trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893).

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the second of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, the powerful “We Need to Speak about Home” by Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

A contemporary color photograph of a three-story rowhouse in Philadelphia owned by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper during the last four decades of her life. The front façade is red brick. The first floor features a blue door (at the top of a short set of off-white stairs) and two double hung windows trimmed in white with blue shutters and blue window boxes. Two basement windows made of glass blocks can be see below the first-floor windows. The second and third floor each feature two double hung windows, again with white trim and blue shutters. Off-white lintels matching the front stairs are placed at the top of the door and basement windows and at the top and bottom of the other windows. A small cornice done in blue with yellowish accents tops the structure. This is an end unit and the photograph approaches the structure at an angle, so the end side wall of gray stone is also visible. Various utility wires interrupt the view of parts of the second and third floors. A historical marker—a sign on a tall pole—can be see to the viewer’s right, rising from the red brick sidewalk. The rowhouse immediately to the right is brown brick, separated visually from the Harper home by a white drainage pipe running from the roof to a black base in the sidewalk.

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thank you all for this forum on Frances Ellen Harper! We're so greateful! Have a look at all those great contributions teased by Eagan Dean...

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Danielle Maggio, PhD @daniellemaggio.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My publisher - Feminist Press - had their 35k NEA grant terminated. This is the highest level of government censorship attacking marginalized voices and stories. Please support FP by donoting, buying their books from your local bookstore, or from their website #NEA #neagrants www.feministpress.org

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New drop in the @legacy1984.bsky.social Frances Harper Special Issue: "We Need to Speak about Home: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Domestic Concerns" dx.doi.org/10.1353/leg....

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Tonight is the #MetGala, celebrating the upcoming opening of the new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which was inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion." buff.ly/BTlV1TY

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AK Press @akpress.org · 25/04/2025

The first event for 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 will be a pre-release @haymarketbooks.org virtual event next Wednesday, 4/30 at 5pm ET featuring Garrett Felber in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

the crisis sure isn't wasting time (if you're excited about #3, you shouldn't be)

a list of top articles:
1) The pope is dead. Long live the papacy.
2) May Pope Francis rest in peace. And may peace return to mother church.
3) why we need a pope from africa

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I can hardly believe that I was just inducted into membership in the @amantiquarian.bsky.social. But I am excited to join the ranks of colleagues like @profgardner.bsky.social @drkmttr82.bsky.social @xineyaophd.bsky.social and @benbascom.bsky.social. And I’m so excited to see what the future holds!

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting @c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19 Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the following announcement for the next C19 Virtual Event, which will be held on Wednesday, 4/9 from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time.

C19 Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Date: Wednesday, 4/9/25, 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time

Hosted by Xine Yao (Associate Professor, University College London) and Spencer Tricker (Assistant Professor, Clark University).

Featuring Julia H. Lee (Professor, UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Graduate Student, Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Professor, Maryland), and Caroline Yang (Associate Professor, UMass).

Description:

While the nineteenth century has long represented an important historical starting point for the study of Asian America, the field of Asian American studies largely remains focused on twentieth- and twenty-first century developments. In nineteenth-century American studies, analyses of the literature and experiences of people of Asian descent has similarly registered as a marginal concern, despite the fact that path-breaking works on these topics have productively complicated our understanding of the era’s racial politics and cultural production.

Addressing these patterns of neglect, this C19 virtual panel seeks to reinforce scholarly networks first established at past C19 conference seminars and spotlight research, teaching, and community-building practices among scholars of Asian America in the long nineteenth century. It also provides a forum in which scholars can underscore–among other issues–the responsibilities of Asian American studies to reckon with longstanding histories of Asian settler colonialism, anti-blackness, and the complicated inter-imperial dynamics of our present moment, in which the abuses of both US and Chinese power loom large.

While the panel will center Asian Americanist scholars at various career stages, it strives to be a welcoming space to colleagues across the spectrum of nineteenth-century studies who are interested in deepening their knowledge of Asian American studies and/or looking to diversify their teaching materials in this area. The panel, held on Zoom, will begin with questions for the panelists before opening up to Q&A with attendees.

Zoom link: https://clarku.zoom.us/j/96534831636?pwd=csRnDIa2CePExBRMNrWNv86ERST1cw.1

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 23/03/2025

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies stereotypes & tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools. www.wired.com/story/openai... Even if users expressly try to avoid stereotypical outputs, they may not be able to do so.

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OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting New York City. Despite adversity, our city showed remarkable resilience. Discover tales of ableism and disability activism in "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle into the lives reshaped by the crisis.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/03/2025

Interesting way to increase American manufacturing, by making materials ridiculously expensive

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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We’re just getting started, pls join us! Link in bio

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Support the C19 Travel Fund

Begun with the 2018 C19 conference, the Travel Fund is made possible by the generous tax-deductible contributions of our members. Travel Fund awards help defray costs for travel, lodging, and conferen...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/03/2025

Every stupid university that unleashed militarized police on legal protestors set up the foundations for the violent persecution of free speech that’s about to come.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions! www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...

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Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems

For three decades, the legacy of the revered writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent no...

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

ICYMI: The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary event is now posted on the @amantiquarian.bsky.social YouTube channel. Take a look!

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Tonight! Join me and Nneka Dennie online at 7 PM for The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. I'll be talking about Shadd Cary's queerness and my new volume, Insensible of Boundaries: bit.ly/4b8EgLA

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Insensible of Boundaries – Penn Press

The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shad...

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Tonight! Join me and Nneka Dennie online at 7 PM for The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. I'll be talking about Shadd Cary's queerness and my new volume, Insensible of Boundaries: bit.ly/4b8EgLA

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Insensible of Boundaries – Penn Press

The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shad...

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Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Tune in Weds 2/19 at 7 PM EST for The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary hosted by the American Antiquarian Society! I'm excited to talk about my book & Shadd Cary's perspectives on transnationalism, economic self-determination, & women's rights. Register at www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12919

Virtual Public Program
American Antiquarian Society
The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Nneka D. Dennie and Kristin Moriah
with Derrick R. Spires
Wednesday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m. ET

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Rick Halpern @rickhalpern.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Birthday to an inspirational radical. May his spirit stir us all to brace against the chill winds now blowing

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Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Join me and Nneka Dennie next week on Wednesday, February 19 at 7 PM ET for an @americanantiquarian.bsky.social virtual public program, “The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary” — register for the free program here: linktr.ee/americananti...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025

The lawsuit alleges that Meta “unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately advertising for-profit colleges and universities to Black users while marketing public colleges and universities to white users.”

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Civil rights group sues Meta over racially discriminatory college marketing ad claims

Civil rights organization Equal Rights Center (ERC) filed a lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday alleging that it unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately a...

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Bleakly funny that some of these legislators still know so little about what they're railing against that they write bill language that tries to ban "any programs, including academic programs or courses, or offices that promote or endorse . . . heteronormativity" and think that's what they wanted.

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

As we look ahead to C19 2026 in Cincinnati, we are excited for our next C19 virtual event, a discussion of the life, work and activism of Ohio native Charles Chesnutt! The event will be on Feb 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 1:30 PM PST Check your email inboxes for the link!

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