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Jo Paoletti

@jbpaoletti.bsky.social
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I write about fashion and gender at gendermystique.substack.com I write about other things at substack.com/@jopaoletti I also knit. alot. blog.umd.edu/jopaoletti I block randos.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just sitting at the bar, finishing one mitt and ready to cast on the other.
Simple fingerless mitt in pastel variegated baby alpaca with an off-white ribbed cuff. Pattern is a broken rib with no thumb.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Nebraska Homecoming, Part 2
Preparing for the journey
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Done and ready to block. Buckthorn cowl by Jen Lucas. The yarn is an unlabeled mystery ball from a friend. A favorite to make and wear! #knitsky
Rectangular project pinned for blocking. Top part is a simple lace pattern, lower part is stockinet. Tweedy shapes of red, blue, and green.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Monetizing the Apocalypse, Plan #1
“If we aren’t dead, we’ll be billionaires.”
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is it true you can’t go home again? jopaoletti.substack.com/p/nebraska-h...
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Nebraska Homecoming
Who would I be if we’d stayed?
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Using up some bits and pieces. Thumbs coming tomorrow. #knitsky #wipwednesday
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#WIPWednesday The phone camera doesn’t do it justice.
Cherry twist scarf in a delicious milk chocolate-colored cotton and alpaca blend from Miss Babs. (Aptly named “Billow”. It is heaven to the fingers!)
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#knitsky 15 weeks to go until our community craft bazaar. So far, I have made 13 earwarmers, 10 pairs of mitts/mittens, 6 hats and just 3 items of neckwear. This year I focused on things to mix and match.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
15 weeks to go until our community craft bazaar. So far, I have made 13 earwarmers, 10 pairs of mitts/mittens, 6 hats and just 3 items of neckwear. This year I focused on things to mix and match.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I finished this today and am in love with it.
Hand embroidered yellow jacket patch roughly 2 by 3 inches.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#showmeyourknits Shawls! I love to make ‘em, love to wear’em!
Beige triangle shawl in cables and garter stitch.Lace shawl in rose and blue.Sock yarn triangle in shades of blue and purple.Smiling woman with short white hair and dangling earrings wearing a garter stitch shawl in shades of blue and warm brown.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#knitting #knitsky I love how people are sharing patterns they’ve used more than once. I love this Ann Norling pattern, and have lost count of the hats it’s inspired.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mitt #2 on the needles, taking breaks to switch to a little patch I am embroidering. #Knitting #needlework #embroidery
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I got some Ewetopia variegated yarn to go with a skein of an odd green and decided to do a bunch of mix and match items. Voilà! #showmeyourknitting #knitting
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Look, Mom! I’m a trendsetter! open.substack.com/pub/jopaolet...
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Look, Mom! I’m a trendsetter!
Whats the word for the feeling you have when the cool kids discover something you’ve been doing for decades?
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just sitting here in a coffee shop eavesdropping on two people talking excitedly about textiles and art. Resisting the urge to chime in. I have such great self-control.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Someone else's dissertation
On realizing just how retired I am
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/sterling... An essential reading list
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Trans History
A reading list
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have 27 minutes before my drawing class starts. Should I spend it reading about the looming apocalypse or take a walk in the sunshine? Never mind, I think I figured it out.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Revolution will be Litigated - Part 3 open.substack.com/pub/gendermy...
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The Revolution will be Litigated - Part 3
Dress codes and civil rights
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Waistcoat botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Purchase, Polaire Weissman Fund and funds from various donors, 1991
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Secrets to tell
I have the weirdest dreams right before sunrise. #poetry
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Revolution will be Litigated - Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/gendermy... #fashionhistory #gender
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The Revolution will be Litigated - Part 2
Who wears the pants? The horror of women in trousers.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
open.substack.com/pub/gendermy... #fashionhistory #gender
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Just a reminder
'twasn’t always so
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/susanstr... An absolutely beautiful read. Knitting knowledge not necessary. But if you knit, you will love it.
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The Knitting Tote Bag
Part three of why knitting mattered in my university teaching life.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hans Mansson Goes to a Bar Mitzvah open.substack.com/pub/jopaolet... A little fun thing I wrote.
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Hans Mansson Goes to a Bar Mitzvah
A tale with a dash of truth
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I forgot the tag. 😢 #fashionhistory #gender
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The Revolution Will Be Litigated, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/gendermy...
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The Revolution Will Be Litigated, Part 1
Longhairs in American courts
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41... “A lot of people have long regarded same-sex behaviour as an accident, or rare, or only in zoo animals,” says co-author Vincent Savolainen, an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. But “it’s part of the normal social life of primates”.
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Client Challenge
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’ll take it.
My word is “slapdash”.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Maybe it’s time for me to pull together an FAQ about pink and blue on my Substack. Post or DM me your questions and I’ll get started. Can we set a deadline of January 4? #FashionHistory
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Future plans for my Substack “notebook".
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Now what, you may well ask
Knitting, tinking and what comes after
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Today, this version of Spiral Notebook slips into the Substack Archives. You still can find the entries for every day there, by searching on the Month and Day. Beginning January 1, Spiral Notebook will be my portfolio of storytelling (prose, poetry) and art. Happy New Year, whatever comes.
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December 23 - 31
The shortest days, the longest nights. And so this project ends.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Work in progress open.substack.com/pub/jopaolet...
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Work in progress
My week in the playground
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Just like starfish
Just like starfish
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
On the other hand, the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice is on Kanopy for free. Next up: the wet shirt scene.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
What doesn’t make it into our diaries, again open.substack.com/pub/jopaolet...
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What doesn’t make it into our diaries, again
Untold stories of December 13ths past
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/gendermy... The girl rules and boy rules, that is.
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Learning the Rules
Manners, etiquette and gender
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Apparently there is a Fog of War cocktail, which involves a raw egg. I am more interested in Artillery Brewing’s Fog of War hazy IPA.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Dear Mick open.substack.com/pub/jopaolet... Today’s visitor from poetryland. I don’t write them, I just write them down.
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Dear Mick
A poetic query
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Today's chuckle. Lane Bryant maternity clothes, 1936.
Sears catalog page with six slim frocks described as “adjustable to your changing figure “.
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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My story today on a pink Fair Isle knit from J. Crew that’s getting under some people’s skin. I interviewed fashion historians about pink’s history and how class influences our expressions of masculinity. TW: Tucker Carlson's bow tie period is referenced www.huffpost.com/entry/j-crew...
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Can A Sweater Style Be Liberal? Some Conservatives Think So.
“Is that part of the Gavin Newsom collection?” one user joked of the California governor.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A wet chilly morning. Here’s a warm winter blessing for spinners, weavers, knitters and crocheters - - and all the wearers, too! youtu.be/8Gh8Xye_ZX0
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Winter Charm of Lasting Life, a traditional Scottish folk song performed by Zambra
YouTube video by Zambra
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"Although science faculty can return to their labs , others will be subjected to increased scrutiny of their teaching & scholarship. The real danger-- the threat it poses to the core purpose of higher education—preparing future generations for the public good.." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The Columbia deal is a tragic wake-up call
Last month, Columbia University entered an agreement with the US government to restore federal funding for research in exchange for actions by the university to address complaints by the Trump adminis...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
4/4 AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it www.kpbs.org/news/science...
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AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Behold, our Thanksgiving leftovers. Yes, brisket beans and fried plantains.
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/parkerjp... From one of my never-met mentors.
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With Gratitude
A deep bow to those who reach into the darkness to rekindle other people's lights...
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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
30 years to write it, 12 years in print! iupress.org/978025300985...
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Pink and Blue
Jo B. Paoletti's journey through the history of children's clothing began when she posed the question, "When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in ...
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