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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is all I’ve got. And WTF.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

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The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project @sedgwickletters.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Exciting news: the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters was awarded the 2025 Recovery Hub’s Digital Edition Prize by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers! We (Deb Gussman, Pat Kalayjian & Lucinda Damon Bach) are thrilled and honored.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are holding joint symposium, June 24-27, 2026, at the College of William & Mary! Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely! cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...

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2026 Joint Symposium

Call for Papers for a joint symposium to be hosted by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society Williamsburg, Virginia June 24-27, 2026 The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society…

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thanks for the great story and helping to spread the word about the CMSOL project! @stocktonuniversity.bsky.social and @markmelhorn.bsky.social !

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The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project @sedgwickletters.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are thrilled to announce that the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters has been awarded a grant from @nehgov.bsky.social to continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

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Sam Breidbart @sam-breidbart.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Important piece from @marthasjones.bsky.social on the history of our Constitution’s broad birthright citizenship guarantee — and the long advocacy of free Black Americans in antebellum America to make it so. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | The fight for birthright citizenship started with these Black Americans

We have endured years, decades, even centuries of confusion about citizenship.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/06/2025

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

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Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs

They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

4 side by side posters on a graffiti'd cement wall, reading from left to right
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for 700 air traffic controllers
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for Healthcare for 7000 veterans
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for insulin for 238,000 americans
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for 1400 new teachers

6/14/25 nokings.org

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

No kings, no fascists, no idiots. See you at the march.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A Muzak version of Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing in my doctor’s office. Is this the soundtrack from heaven or hell? Not sure.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Trump has rescinded refugee status of Black and Brown people fleeing violence in their home countries and extended it to...white South Africans, who previously exercised total, brutal, control of that country. My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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The refugees who lived with me did more for America than the Trumps ever will

And so did my mom.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

More arrests and deportations coming. Keep calling and protesting. Keep the pressure on.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Some images from #50501 protest against in Philly. Early days - I hope the movement and momentum will keep growing! #resist #protectdemocracy #stopproject2025

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 01/02/2025

Hi, friends. Here's what I want you to do: four simple things. It's not going to take long. Let's go. werd.io/2025/i-want-...

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I want you to do these four things right now

Four simple steps to keep yourself safe online.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Orbital is a beautiful, awe-inspiring book. I read most of it on a plane — as close as I’ll get to orbiting the Earth — hurtling in a metal tube through the sky. I loved the book’s insistence on the global: one earth – one humanity. That planetary view seems more. essential now than ever. #booksky

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Catholics for Choice @catholic4choice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

God granted you a fully formed conscience so you can make decisions that are right for your body and life.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Love this! Wishing a good morning and really good coffee to my fellow humanities professors (and of all the other empathy-teachers). And maybe a cookie too! ❤️ ☕️ 🍪

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

“I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive,” he said. Zuck has three daughters with his wife, Priscilla Chan, so, my thoughts and prayers to them at this time.” 🏆🏆🏆

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/01/2025

my favorite game to play when determining the root cause of any global or political strife is “ronald reagan or 9/11?”

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My one New Year’s resolution: to pay attention. #happynewyear #resolutions #2025

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Hanukkah dog is in the house - happy third night! May the candles remind us that we can find light even in the darkest times. Chag Sameach! #Hanukkah

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social as always. This, this, this: "Until men engage earnestly & honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change." Assault. Abuse. Harassment. Objectification. All of it.

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Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit

This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Beautiful and inspiring! Thank you.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Clemency for Leonard Peltier is long overdue. President Biden should do the right thing and #freeleonardpeltier now.

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is what leaving women’s medical care up to the states looks like. TLDR; women and doctors get punished. #abortion #reproductivejustice

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I just preordered “Abortion Stories” edited by @kweingarten.bsky.social and I’m excited to read it!

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Mona Eltahawy: “I want every revolution to topple not just the statues of the tyrant, but what I call the trifecta of patriarchy – the tyrant who lives in the state, the street and the home. And the hardest revolution of them all is the one at home, because all dictators go home.” 🎯

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Essay: Assad is gone, but a revolution that doesn’t free women is no revolution at all

The women celebrating the destruction of jails and dungeons will now be wondering why their own oppression cannot also be dismantled

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The clock is ticking. Given the pardon of his son, he should now use the powers of the presidency for everyone — and so many people need this relief.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Biden Needs to Work on His Clemency Legacy

It is more important than ever in an era of grossly excessive punishments and mass incarceration.

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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

That describes just about every course I teach. 🤯 “UNT …. administrators demanding an instructor make changes in course content based on the administrative review of a course syllabus or course catalog description, including removal of words such as “race,” “gender,” “class” and “equity”.”

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Instead of obsessing, I wrote a long essay on Medium about the election, “Daddy Don,” paternalism, misogyny, and compassion. This is a personal response, but I hope it resonates for some of you as well.

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“Daddy’s Home”: Reflections on the 2024 Election

“The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters. It does.” ~ Mona Eltahawy

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Deb Gussman @debgussman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Evergreen, sadly. TLDR; this is an excellent primer on antisemitism that is too long for a post but still shorter than a Seder.

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Debra Sanborn @debrasanborn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

With college students suddenly researching study abroad… Accessibility to study away for all college students, regardless of resources or documentation, levels the playing field. #highered #academicsky www.insidehighered.com/news/student... www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

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Domestic study away benefits college student success

Study abroad offers students important life and career skill development opportunities, but not every learner is able to take advantage of these programs. Domestic learning experiences give students s...

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