iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

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The Pink Triangle Legacies Project @ptlproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Join us as @jakenewsome.bsky.social & @graceshaffer.bsky.social lead a workshop on the opportunities of using digital history to restore LGBTQ+ voices to historical narratives, foster community, & combat homophobia & transphobia.  Wed March 26 Capen Hall 305 University at Buffalo - North Campus

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Join me and @graceshaffer.bsky.social in Buffalo next week for “Queer History for Queer Liberation: A Workshop on LGBTQ+ Digital History”!

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hey Bluesky! Check out this thread to get to know The Pink Triangle Legacies Project. Queer History for Queer Liberation! #pinktriangle #lgbtq #queer #trans #queerhistory #queerliberation #pinktrianglelegacies

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We have a great AMA today on Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people today with @jakenewsome.bsky.social! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Dr. Jake Newsome on the Nazi Persecution of LGBTQ+ People - Ask Me Anything!

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our house was vandalized last night. I’m sure it was teenagers pulling a “prank.” But ours is the only house in the neighborhood with a pride flag 🏳️‍🌈 and it was the only house toilet papered. Could it have been worse? Yes. Am I glad it wasn’t worse? Yes. Am I going to take down our flag? Fuck no.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/02/2025

1. Big win for trans students in New Jersey. In a pair of rulings, an appellate court upheld preliminary injunctions banning the forced outing of trans students. The latest from contributor Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/in-major-w...

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In Major Win For Trans Students, New Jersey Court Rules Teachers Can't Out Them

The pair of rulings came in an environment where Trump and red states are pushing anti-trans policy across the United States.

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just submitted the manuscript for my chapter “Queering Holocaust Memory” in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Memory. The editors, Frances Tanzer & Thomas Kühne, have been a pleasure to work with. Cant wait for publication. #queer #lgbtq #memory #HolocaustHistory

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Let us know if you end up finding anything! 🙏🏻

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

When looking for stories from the past to guide us in the present, Fritz Kitzing's is right up there. Fritz survived Nazi persecution with the support of family. @jakenewsome.bsky.social pieced together this history along with many others 👇 www.pinktrianglelegacies.org/kitzing

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Fritz Kitzing | LGBTQ+ Stories from Nazi Germany

Fritz Kitzing was a gender-nonconforming person who was just 27 years old when the Nazis came to power in Germany. They faced harassment, discrimination, and violence from the German police, Nazi orga...

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Please read this!!!! There are many great tips.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/01/2025

Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 25/01/2025

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project has joined BkueSky! It will take us a bit to get our sea legs but we’re excited to share queer and trans history with y’all soon! #lgbtq #lgbtqhistory #queerhistory #queerliberation #queerhistorymatters #holocausteducation #pinktriangle #pinktrianglelegacies

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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Alright, history hive mind. I’m looking for some examples of “great men” in history (especially scientists, philosophers, philanthropists, etc) who were famously promiscuous. Any time period, but especially the Victorian era and the Gilded Age. Any recommendations?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/01/2025

Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/01/2025

Rainbow capitalism was always hollow but it's jarring to see two decades worth of progress pushing equality wiped away in a few weeks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Amazon cuts mentions of DEI and LGBTQ rights from public policies

The online retailer removed commitments to supporting transgender rights and the safety of Black customers and employees from a webpage of corporate policies.

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I'm amazed this has to be said, but IT IS ABSOLUTELY FINE AND GOOD for people to have outlets and interests that can give them joy at times of immeasurable existential crisis, and demanding that they don't and instead fall into irremediable and permanent despair is doing the fascists' work for them.

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

2025 is starting off with a sucker punch. My great aunt passed away yesterday. I’m having trouble putting into words how special she was to me. I had to get out of the house, so I spent the afternoon seeking solace in nature, among the ancient mountains and eternal stream.

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2024 has been hard. My MAGAt father cut ties w/ me. Feeling helpless watching the attacks on trans people. I’ve also had moments of extreme joy. Being a Papa to my 3 year old. Learning to tend my trees. Watching new sunsets. Loving my husband. Im nervous going into 2025. But trying to lean into joy

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Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 31/12/2024

You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

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Josh Zembik @jzembik.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed

Carter targeted diseases primarily affecting the poor in remote areas — notably "Guinea worm disease." Because of his commitment, case numbers plummeted from 3.6 million a year to just 13 in 2022.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Please remember that President Carter appointed more minorities and women to the bench than all previous presidents combined. He was the first President to embrace the concept of bringing racial diversity to the federal bench. A key aspect of his legacy. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

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Carter Names Record Number of Minorities to Federal Bench

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This year I founded the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, a grassroots initiative that honors the Nazis’ queer & trans victims and fights homophobia & transphobia today through education, empowerment, & advocacy. I think the Project will join BlueSky next month. Learn more: pinktrianglelegacies.org

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Home | Pink Triangle Legacies Project

History has shown how far homophobia can go. It's up to us to decide how far we let it go today.

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I went to a Barnes & Noble here in San Diego yesterday. My flabbers were ghasted to see a copy of #PinkTriangleLegacies on the shelves! I’ve only seen it at indie book stores (bc they rock!). Then I went to the #LGBTQ section and there was another on the display. Swoon! #bookstore #BooksBooksBooks

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Going to the movies by yourself is one of life’s hidden pleasures. Just you and a large popcorn and some sour patch kids and all of your big goblin energy alone in the dark where nobody can see your shame. Priceless.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

My regular suggestion: At the end of the semester why not reach out to someone whose work you taught and let them know? These days we have very little idea who teaches our stuff and in what contexts. It takes almost no time and can really make their day.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A lot of academics (myself included) are activists. Studying something horrible (you know, like climate change or gender inequality) and wanting to make it less horrible doesn’t mean your work is compromised — it just means you give a shit. Empathy is a key scholarly skill. IMHO.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I love seeing the pink triangle used in #intersectional activism, like during this Black Lives Matter march in San Francisco in Dec 2014. #pinktriangle #blacklivesmatter

Marchers carry a large black banner with white words that read BLACK LIVES MATTER. There are two pink triangles on the banner.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

FYI: A great review for Jake Newsome in the Central European History Journal, praising his "remarkable study of queer memory politics" for addressing "how a Nazi concentration camp badge worn by male homosexual prisoners became a transnational emblem of gay pride." (1/2) tinyurl.com/bddmz6c9

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Another autographed copy of PINK TRIANGLE LEGACIES is heading to the post office on the way to its new home….this time in Kansas. And my Clark Grizwald doll has blessed it.

A purple bubble mailing envelope sits in front of a book with the title “Pink Triangle Legacies: coming out in the shadow of the Holocaust.” Next to the book is a small doll of the character Clark Griswald from the movie “Christmas Vacation”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Sarah Schulman: "Visibility was a construct that the gay movement invented to explain and excuse the cruelty we experienced...We invented the idea it was an inadvertent consequence of a lack of information. 'If they would discover how we truly are, they would not want to hurt us.'"

Now, many natural and unavoidable mistakes have been made as the gay liberation movement tried to first grasp, then understand, and then convey the system of cruelty by heterosexuals toward homosexuals. The nature of this cruelty is hard to initially conceptualize because it is simultaneously pervasive, invisible, and deeply painful. The people who are doing it often don't know that they are doing it or pretend that they do not. The repetition and the dailiness make it seem normal. It is very difficult to try to imagine a life without this constant diminishment. And the depths ofits consequences coupled with its total lack ofjustification are alienating to fully realize. The reinscription of these cruelties within our own trusting, loving relationships is difficult to articulate, because there is no place to do so. When review- ing our errors of understatement, they seem innocent, childlike. How sad that so many of our oversimplifications were caused by our love and trust of other human beings, and our consequent inability to understand how they could be so ruthless in exploiting their advantages over us. All of this converges on the question of visibilityl Visibility was a construct that the gay and lesbian movement invented to explain and excuse the cruelty we were experiencing. We denied that it was intentional. Instead, we invented the idea that it was an inadvertent consequence of heterosexuals having a lack of information about what we are really like. "If they would discover how We truly are, they would not want to hurt uS. And since they were doing everything imaginable, using every social institution to make it impossi- ble for us to be truly seen, We would have to subject ourselves to extreme

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Oh hey 👋🏼 I finally made it to BlueSky, and I’d love to be added 🏳️‍🌈😊

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Jake Desai-Newsome @jakenewsome.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Happy to see SPIRITUALISM’S PLACE by @aearls.bsky.social, @sarahbelle721.bsky.social, and the gang on the list!

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