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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

poets apply!!!!

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Interested in adding some trans studies to your C19 syllabus? Want to teach something new with _Hope Leslie_? Looking to add more historical depth to your trans studies class? Consider assigning my most recent article on trans figures in colonial historical fantasy! doi.org/10.1215/2328...

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Instrumentalizing the “Fag End” of Gender: The Countersovereign Work of Settler Transness

Abstract. This article argues that Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 1827 historical novel Hope Leslie participates in the settler discourse of the “vanishing Indian” through instrumentalizing a trans settle...

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Whose birthday is it today?... Margaret Fuller! 🎂🎈 Here's a selection of readings on one of the great transcendentalists... (there are so many articles on Fuller in our archives that I could not include them all, so do not hesitate to drop your other favorite pieces in the comments!) 1/4

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We are looking for contributions to our next digital Salon on "Women and Animals." We invite short, reflective, or creative pieces of no more than 1,000 words on the past and future of the political alliance between women and animals. 1/3

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I have a new article out with TSQ today that thinks about gender nonconforming figures inside colonial romances like /Hope Leslie/. I'm asking, why do these stories imagine trans figures? What are they for, and who benefits? How do trans literary historians grapple with our colonial inheritances?

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Instrumentalizing the “Fag End” of Gender: The Countersovereign Work of Settler Transness

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is where I’ll be tomorrow evening! Grab a friend and join me! Free & open to the public! No ticket, registration, or rsvp required!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

COVER REVEAL!!!! PROJECT 1933: FASCISM THEN AND NOW is coming on October 20, 2026. You can preorder it now: www.amazon.com/Project-1933...

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Something I love about working at a college with a strong teacher education program is realizing my students are using teacher language on me. I recently received a compliment sandwich from a student who did not like a reading, and a "thanks for participating" for going to another student's event

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ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

teaching Whitman tomorrow, thinking about

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the
rivers of America, and along the shores of the
great lakes, and all over the prairies;
I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about
each other's necks;
By the love of comrades,
By the manly love of comrades.

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Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47... 2/2

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

www.dukeupress.edu/reparations-... @dukepress.bsky.social is currently offering a 30% discount on David Eng's "Reparations and the Human" Use this code: E25DLENG

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Reparations and the Human

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I was very pleased to review @riislover667.bsky.social's gorgeous volume _Feminism Against Cisness_ for @legacy1984.bsky.social . A great step toward trans studies as method and highly accessible for C19 practitioners!

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Alice de Galzain @alicedegalzain.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/ (desktop version recommended)

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Art Exhibit

Mirror, mirror by Auriane Kolodziej Auriane Kolodziej’s artwork will be on display at Le Club de la Sorbonne (galerie Gerson) on Friday 17 October, from 5:30 til 7:00 pm Auriane Kolodziej (bo…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

In a scary, chaotic week, I'm feeling grateful for teaching. It's a rare privilege to walk alongside young folks willing to plant their feet and wrestle with hard ideas. The questions my senior thesis/I.S. students want to ask all have to do with justice, community, and connection.

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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Getting a library card!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Recovery Hub for American Women Writers @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A big WHOOPS—and congratulations—to Elizabeth James, who co-wrote "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives." Our social media coordinator missed the fact that James was the Recovery Hub consultant for the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Digital Archive. Great work, Elizabeth! #academicsky

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What happens to the archives of our feminist elders? Walk alongside scholar Mich Ling as they work with Merle Woo--a contributor to /This Bridge Called My Back/ and an Ethnic Studies vanguard--to organize, analyze, and preserve her records.

A screenshot of the first part of an article on Scholarly Editing's website. The text reads, Looking for Merle: Participatory Archiving as Bridge Work. Mich Ling, Rutgers University.
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After all, the subversive intellectual came under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love. Her labor is as necessary as it is unwelcome. The university needs what she bears but cannot bear what she brings.

—Stefano Harvey and Fred Moten

I have studied the history of our people in this country . . . I want to tell everyone about that, all the particulars that are left out of our schools . . . I feel now that I can begin to put our lives in a larger framework. Ma, a larger framework! The outlines for us are time and blood, but today there is breadth possible through making connections with others involved in community struggle.

—Merle Woo

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Vassar @vassar.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Congratulations to Vassar Historian and head of Vassar Archives and Special Collections, Prof. Ron Patkus, who just received the AAVC's Outstanding Faculty Award.

People gathered in a large well-appointed lobby behind an easel with a placard featuring a photo and words that are too small to be deciphered.

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

In addition to our reading groups, MTC will host a writing workshop on job market materials this summer. First meeting will be June 27th @ 2pm ET. Second meeting first week of August, date TBD. More information: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 03/06/2025

NEW: Laws banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the United States are inflicting severe harm on young people and their families as well as health care systems and civil society. 🧵⬇️ www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”
Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US

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Sabrina Evans-Rangel @drsabevans.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'm a little late, but excited to announce that my article, "'Undisputed Dignity': Anna Julia Cooper, Black Publishing, and Late-Nineteenth Century Discourses of Dignity," published in Legacy Journal is now available: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Project MUSE - "Undisputed Dignity": Anna Julia Cooper, Black Publishing, and Late-Twentieth-Century Discourses of Dignity

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Really looking forward to talking about Plath and her analyst in Cambridge next week; nab yourself a free ticket to Aesthetics of the Clinic if you're around? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-aesthe...

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The Aesthetics of the Clinic

A one-day symposium, at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, on the intersection of literature, aesthetics and mental health.

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Maxwell Smith, PhD @maxwellsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year." A reminder that these outcomes are a matter of choice.

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Next up in our Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser is the #letterpress work of @transbookhistory.bsky.social whose work through @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social is committed to resisting trans and queer erasure through the power of print.

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Michelle @chelles116.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Can I pet that dawg

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

On the latest episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, our guest is Koritha Mitchell, who introduced the notion of "know-your-place aggression" into discourse in a popular African American Review article in 2018 tinyurl.com/yftvx5zb

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside. Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This has been a long coming, but I am beyond thrilled & ecstatic to announce that TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY is now out with TSQ 🥹 Our intro is open access and we can’t wait for you to read and engage with us. @jlsmilges.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

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Toward a Trans[]crip Theory | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm over the moon to get back to my liberal arts roots this fall, when I'll start as assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster in OH. The list of people & systems that helped me get where I am grows every year, incl the Clayman Institute. My husband's support is my favorite constant.

Eagan is standing outdoors in a blue shirt, smiling and holding a yellow and black pennant that says "The College of Wooster."

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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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Margaret Fuller Society @fullersociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Let’s celebrate Margaret Fuller’s 215th birthday (May 23) together! Please click on the link below ⬇️ for more information about our annual Fundraiser. Donations will be used to fulfill the mission of the Society and 25% of the fundraiser will also be donated to the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Here is a flowchart of my 2023-2024 year on the job market, when I was ABD. The process landed me at a wonderful, supportive, exciting postdoc at Stanford's Clayman Institute. It was also grueling and demoralizing. Job seekers, please remember that in a sea of "no," you only need one "yes."

A flowchart of job applications. Applications: 19 English, 16 WGS, 25 Postdoc/VAP, 7 Other Instructor, 45 Writing Instruction. 103 Rejected, 1 Added to adjunct pool, 2 search canceled, 5 Additional materials request, 14 zoom interviews, 8 campus visits, 4 offers, 1 accepted, 2 withdrew after offer.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I often will look at the stupid AI summary that pops up on google and follow the sources it gives to see if it’s actually right. Most of the time? It isn’t. And even if it’s technically correct, it’s totally missing context clues that are crucial to subject matter understanding and expertise

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Max Chapnick & I are proud of this forum commemorating the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's novel _Work_. Six innovative authors offer insights on C19 gender & labor in literature, very needed as we stand on the precipice of a new Gilded Age & a nadir of modern gender justice. Open Access! 🧵

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Fave takeaways from this conversation with @susanstryker.bsky.social, Ava Kim, and @adriandaub.bsky.social * to police gender is also to police race * there's no such thing as a temporary political sacrifice * trans persistence is about much more than rights

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Trans persistence under attack

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/05/2025

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Feminism Against Cisness in a German leftist magazine. From the email from the author “ it gives me hope, inspiration and makes me feel more excited and hopeful for future and present possibilities than anything I’ve been reading in a while.“ urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

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Das Ende von Cis

Warum die analytische Trennung von sexueller Differenz und Cisness nötig ist, um die wahre Funktionsweise patriarchaler Macht zu verstehen

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