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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What a (deliberate) distraction the term AI "agent" has been from the real human agents of his current mess. Humanists & storytelling experts are so well equipped to understand this moment in the terms @tressiemcphd.bsky.social lays out immaculately here. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you @ghostingdani.bsky.social for being infinitely savvier than I and helping this old lady access her, er, my archived essay. 🖤🖤🖤 web.archive.org/web/20250420...

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Rebecca Colesworthy | Hyped on Melancholy

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

crowdsourcing: does anyone know of an article or timeline that chronicles or summarizes all the varied horrible things Elon Musk has done over the years? I'm sure somebody somewhere has generated such a document... please let me know, thanks in advance!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sept 25, come hang out w/ me in Madison, CT, to celebrate the PB launch of Victorian Gaslighting & see @dbellonby.bsky.social, @sunsetandecho.bsky.social & @zibrak.bsky.social in convo about all their great books—Tangled! 12 Stories by American Women! & more! www.dianaebellonby.com/victorian-ga...

How do stories from the nineteenth century help us understand women’s lives today? Join three writers as they discuss their new books, feminism, the stories we tell, and the stories that hide. We’ll take a closer look at Diana Bellonby’s new co-edited collection of women’s gaslighting stories, then share a lively conversation about her work, Sarah Mesle’s new Tangled: Seven Iconic Moments in White Women’s Hair and What They Tell Us About Power, Pleasure, and Complicity, and Arielle Zibrak’s recent Twelve Stories by American Women and Guilty Pleasures. Bellonby, Mesle, and Zibrak will be introduced by Rebecca Colesworthy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, SUNY Press.

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy paperback book birthday (one day late) to us, @tara-macdonald.bsky.social and @noragilbert.bsky.social! If you're near New Haven on 9/25, come celebrate by the beach. I'll be in convo with Arielle Zibrak and Sarah Mesle, whose book TANGLED just hit shelves! @sunypress.bsky.social #booklaunch

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Charlie's Angels turned 50 this year, and @noragilbert.bsky.social has given us an eye-opening look at how this "jiggle tv" series influenced her feminism, her sense of self, and her views on work, sex, and sisterhood.

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The Feminist Case for Loving ‘Charlie’s Angels’

"Jiggle TV," examined through the lens of 1970s shows, all starring women who wore excessively revealing clothing, including Charlie's Angels.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Now more than ever, as fascism takes hold around us…We need stories that explore what it takes to resist gaslighting.” The ever-sharp @dbellonby.bsky.social on the political resonance of Vernon Lee’s ghost stories in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. lareviewofbooks.org/article/vern...

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A Queer Icon for the Authoritarian Ages | Los Angeles Review of Books

Vernon Lee’s ghost stories explore what it takes to resist male gaslighting and what it means to believe women.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Behind 'Hauntings' lies a forgotten scandal that upends our understanding of the author and what her fearlessly candid queerness means for readers in Trump’s America." Diana Bellonby on "Hauntings": lareviewofbooks.org/article/vernon-…

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I keep writing "Metaphor Queen" in the margins of @tayari.bsky.social's KIN. No one, dead or alive, wields a metaphor better than she does. I will die on this hill.

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You can now pre-order the paperback version of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING! Go get yourself a copy and become an expert on this pervasive form of abuse and its 19th c. origins. #gaslighting @sunypress.bsky.social @noragilbert.bsky.social @tara-macdonald.bsky.social

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Gaslighting can be many diff things...But in any manifestation, it is a form & function of narrative. [It] depends on the power to propagate a false story that negates another person’s reality." Get a taste of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING on the @sunypress.bsky.social blog sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Ga...

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Gaslighting Eras, Past and Present

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My author's copy is here! Please go get your hands on this fantastic book. Took me 10 years to research my chapter, "Rape Culture: A Literary History from Ovid to Shakespeare," and I'm so very proud of it. Thank you, Doreen, Erin, Michael, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, and @sunypress.bsky.social!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Update: @allgrim.bsky.social’s students are incredible. Such good Qs that left me like dang! I need to think abt that for a minute. I’d tweak some things in my essay now but I stand by my core claim: terves suck. So grateful to @debraraecohen.bsky.social for the opp to make it via modernist studies.

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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

What if gaslighting didn’t start in modern psychology, but in the Victorian Empire? VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING traces how power, “madness,” and false narratives were used to control women and colonized subjects, and why it still matters. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/26pr7kyn

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is really extraordinary. I've never seen anything like this from a government official.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My favorite thing I learned this week is that “Bozo” actually used to be a regular old proper name, and even a slang term like “dude” or “guy” before Bozo the clown became super famous and ruined it forever. He was truly the Karen of his day, and that’s my favorite thing I learned this week.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Too often I think we view misogyny through the lens of women’s responsibility—do women cause misogyny, how can women avoid misogyny, how can we blame women, always—instead of recognizing that there is literally no way to opt out of or avoid misogyny entirely, because our whole society is built on it

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's officially OUT! Please ask your library to order #VictorianGaslighting. In honor of Women's History Month, you can purchase the hardcover at a 30% discount using the code SWHM26. Happy (belated) Book Birthday, @noragilbert.bsky.social and @tara-macdonald.bsky.social! @sunypress.bsky.social

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

American publishing regularly punishes women in their 50s by simply not interviewing them for new jobs in the way @saribotton.bsky.social describes here. So it’s great revenge that she launched Oldster magazine on her own, now with 70k subscribers.

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Remember when the only cup of healthy masculinity we had to drink from was Ted Lasso? And it was just Ted, not Jason. Well now that we have Bad Bunny, Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov AND Benito Ocasio, Hudson Williams, and Connor Storrie, I'm drunk and never quitting these overflowing goblets of joy.

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Quotations by this badass professor appear on the back of my co-edited book #VictorianGaslighting AND in Variety mag! Yes, you should read both

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2026

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

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Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files

Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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Nora Gilbert @noragilbert.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's alive! Editor copies of "Victorian Gaslighting" arrived yesterday, and the book is now available for order at sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... Go get (or go ask your library to get) yours! #gaslighting #Gaslight @dbellonby.bsky.social @tara-macdonald.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

God bless Bad Bunny. To be clear, I'm not a believer, but if God is real, I'd like her to know how fucking grateful I am for this beautiful man during this ugly time.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Reading a lot lately about the early women's rights activists who emerged out of the abolition movement in the 1840s and 1850s, and these women seem so modern and familiar in so many ways that it's really galling to then learn how dramatically constrained their legal rights were.

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"Feminist theorizing feels both as urgent and as under threat as it was during the dawning of women’s studies as an academic enterprise." Yep. Aptly themed special issue CFP from Signs.

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Calls for Papers

2027 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship The University of Chicago Press and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society are pleased to announce the competition for the…

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

He’s really putting the rest into resting dick face.

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Socialism starts with me curled up under a blanket on my couch feeling joy for half a second

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public. ✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨ Use CUP20 for a discount from the press cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

A toddler, adult, and child holding copies of POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary Form Became Public

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

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Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

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Seo-Young J. Chu (she/they) @seoyoungjchu.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I couldn’t listen to the survivors of Epstein’s abuse without thinking about my own rape - questions unanswered by his enablers, reports unreleased by Stanford. But I’m glad I did listen, and I’m grateful for their astounding courage, eloquence, and generosity. Solidarity and #MeToo

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