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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Rebecca L. Davis’s (@historydavis.bsky.social) review of Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans (Oxford University Press) by Karen Lystra doi.org/10.1215/1547...

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America by @historydavis.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/fierce-desires

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My dad’s last book made it to Jeopardy! tonight. Apparently these contestants are a bunch of philistines 😂. I’m sure that @kenjennings.bsky.social knew the answer.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hey! If you like what Cory Booker is doing right now, call your senators and ask them to do the same (now and in the future). Find their info at ☎️ reps.fyi!

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hey @fetterman.senate.gov, where are you? What are you doing about the assault on democracy? How come no one can get through to an actual human at your office and instead gets your voicemail?

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“Western civilization isn’t just worth preserving. It’s worth fighting for. This is a war, & natalism is our sword & shield, & we will not abandon the front line.” @kieraevebutler.bsky.social on what pronatalists really want (...& it ain't just more babies): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“This is a war, and natalism is our sword and shield”—My weekend with the pronatalists

Is it really just more babies that this movement wants?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

They were chosen because they are shameless and incompetent, and their shameless incompetence is why they will remain.

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

To all the university administrators out there: what are we doing, NOW, right this minute, to protect our international faculty, staff, and students?

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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

*OAH Panel Alert* Board member Lauren Gutterman is a panelist on a discussion of @historydavis.bsky.social's new book Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America. Join five panelists as they discuss the state of the field of the history of sexuality in the United States.

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

@historydavis.bsky.social's brilliant writing made me tear up this morning (a deathbed scene in her chapter on HIV/AIDS). If you haven't read Fierce Desires yet, step to it. I assigned it for my history of sexuality students this semester and they absolutely love it wwnorton.com/books/978163...

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Fierce Desires

One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 • A Washington Post Notable Book of 2024 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 From an esteemed scholar, a richly textu...

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Lila Corwin Berman @lilacb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I call bullshit: Jewish safety is pretext. Make no mistake, the Trump administration is using antisemitism as an excuse to obliterate Title VI, undermine civil rights and incapacitate higher education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Opinion | The Trump administration is gutting universities’ best tools to fight antisemitism

The White House has put schools in a “can’t win” situation.

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Serena Mayeri @serenamayeri.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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Rodney Wilson @rodneycwilson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

With the full report here: www.safehome.org/data-lgbtq-s...

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Each of us can help preserve LGBTQ+ history—and, by doing so, defend LGBTQ+ people. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccal...

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LGBTQ+ People and Their History Are Here to Stay

And We Need to Protect Them

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Every time I do my little resistance posting, someone always replies that the Right might not allow any resistance to fascism. TBH this is a good point, which is why I suggest we ask permission first and gracefully concede if they say no.

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In a country where access to both contraception & abortion are declining, a declaration of immutable binary biological sex “protects” women while simultaneously taking away their rights. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccal...

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We're All "Women" Now

Newly inaugurated president Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on Monday, including one, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Gover...

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 21/01/2025

In November, after the election results led to a wave of shock and despair in the trans community that overwhelmed hotlines and stunned therapists, Assigned put together the Stay With Us package. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Stay With Us — Assigned

Assigned Media wants you to live! And, what keeps us steadfast and ready to meet the moment is the example of other members of our community who refuse to let fear or hopelessness keep them from their...

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My beloved colleague Peter Kolchin has died. May his memory be a blessing. 💔📚

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Joan Price @joanprice.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“So often, sexuality is a story.” Fascinating lecture by @historydavis.bsky.social. I’m ordering her book, “Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America”!

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We need better stories. …Stories about justice and repentance. Stories about what it means to stand over the gaping pits of hell and see suffering and reach until your arms ache, until, finally, your daughter returns to you, whole, and it is spring again.

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20 Years

Readers, thank you for joining me for the first year of Carnal Knowledge!

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We need better stories. Ones in which an abuser’s story is not the narrative arc. I am exhausted by television shows that rely on rape as a way to advance female characters’ story lines, as if nothing else of substance ever happens to women.

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20 Years

Readers, thank you for joining me for the first year of Carnal Knowledge!

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Neil J. Young @neiljyoung.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"As Young’s important new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right, shows, the relationship between one’s identity & one’s interests or politics isn’t always predictable or straightforward." Grateful for this terrific review in @damagemag.bsky.social damagemag.com/2024/12/11/t...

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The History of Gay Conservatism

LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.

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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Smart new essay by @historydavis.bsky.social on the links between conservatives' lurid fantasies of what sex educators would do at school in the 1960s and those circulating today about teachers forcing kids into becoming transgender arcmag.org/schools-out/

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School’s Out | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

In late August, at a Moms for Liberty event in Washington, DC, Donald Trump falsely asserted that public schools are performing surgeries on children to force them to be transgender. “Think of it,” he...

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Target's "Hot Santa" ads cleverly play with conventional images of an older, chubbier Santa—traditionally, more cheerful grandpa than suburban thirst trap. But Americans have been writing—& singing—about Santa-lust for decades. 📚🗃️ #skystorians

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Spicing Up Santa

From "Santa Baby" to "Hot Santa," we can't seem to get enough of the big guy

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

To everyone in the midst of a divorce now sitting around the table with parents who keep asking questions like “how long were you married?” & “Is he invited to our anniversary party?” … solidarity. And wine.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/11/2024

"As a God-fearing citizen, I want the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a sexual predator in every cabinet position, and for a good man—like me, for instance—to stand sentry outside every bathroom door in America."

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I’m a Good, Normal Family Man Who Just Wants to Inspect Your Genitals Before You Pee

“G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender m...

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Taylor Cadle was 12 years old when she reported being sexually abused by her adoptive father. A detective at @polkcosheriffnw.bsky.social decided she was a liar and should be criminalized. Taylor wrote this letter of apology as a part of her probation requirements.

A 13-year-old's handwritten letter of apology that reads: "Dear dad, I'm sorry for what I did. I didn't stop and think of my consequences of these actions. This will not happen again and I'm sorry. Taylor Cadle 6-29-17"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/11/2024

Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.

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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

FIERCE DESIRES: A NEW HISTORY OF SEX & SEXUALITY IN AMERICA made the @washingtonpost.com "50 notable works of nonfiction from 2024" list! Such a meaningful honor! I hope these stories can help us understand what's at stake today. 🗃️📚 #skystorians www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

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50 notable works of nonfiction from 2024

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

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Rodney Wilson @rodneycwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Republicans love the cruelty and I love the response of Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which is quoted in this piece. www.advocate.com/politics/mik...

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BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson bans trans people from all single-sex bathrooms at U.S. House

The GOP is doubling down on bigotry instead of addressing the concerns of the American people.

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The time I was at a meal with Gary Hart and asked a question about sex scandals

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Decided to try the "Un-essay" for my intro hist sexuality course. Assignment: identify the most important thing people need to know from what you've learned in this class, & present it however you like. In the works: Alfred Kinsey's Instagram account & board game about (the history of) masturbation.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2024

and the reason this is important is that politics have not stopped happening. trump is set to squander whatever goodwill he has with the voting public and this is an opportunity

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Congrats @renfro.bsky.social on your new book! I can't wait to read it! (And if you haven't yet, be sure to check out his excellent first book too: STRANGER DANGER: FAMILY VALUES, CHILDHOOD, AND THE AMERICAN CARCERAL STATE.

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In advance of next week's release of the first Wicked movie, I'm struck by how very (wonderfully) gay the story is. Reimagine either Elphaba or Galinda as male, and you have the plot of just about every other rom-com or Disney fairy tale. 🏳️‍🌈🗃️

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

*and* I'm thinking about Tucker Carlson's rant a few weeks ago about the "spanking" that "Daddy" was going to give to his girls when he got home. Some kinky BDSM vibes mixed up with misogynistic fantasies of abusing female minors. It's almost like they get off on hurting women.

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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If anyone can explain to me how to deal with the “invalid handle” thing, I’d much appreciate it.

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Rosanne Mills @rosannemil.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If you are looking for a historical perspective on this pivotal moment, this Bluesky pack is a good starting resource. You can scan the list and follow who interests you. go.bsky.app/TAnzX2T

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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Not The Onion. Well, yes, The Onion, as in The Onion for real actually bought Infowars, which is an outcome so beautiful and perfect that I can’t stop laughing.

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