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Katherine Turk

@katherineturk.bsky.social
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Writer (Equality on Trial, The Women of NOW), Historian, Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Words in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, LARB, Jacobin, etc. Carrboro NC

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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
jacobin.com/2024/12/whis... @allofmilov.bsky.social and I wrote for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on labor activist and feminist icon Karen Silkwood and how her story can prepare us for what's likely to come. Our book on Silkwood is forthcoming from @simonandschuster.bsky.social (One Signal).
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Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects ...
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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“Do you think that Karen may have been what medical science classifies as a nymphomaniac?” What the misogynistic smear of a dead whistleblower can teach us today. My latest with @katherineturk.bsky.social
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
jacobin.com/2024/12/whis... @allofmilov.bsky.social and I wrote for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on labor activist and feminist icon Karen Silkwood and how her story can prepare us for what's likely to come. Our book on Silkwood is forthcoming from @simonandschuster.bsky.social (One Signal).
jacobin.com
Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects ...
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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
jacobin.com/2024/12/whis... My latest with @katherineturk.bsky.social on what the debate over Karen Silkwood’s legacy can offer in our own era of misogyny, retaliation and whistleblowing.
jacobin.com
Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects ...
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'd only add that those 1970s-era feminist gains now revoked or under threat were won through hard-fought organizing from the premise that women could and had to try to organize together, across their differences, as vast as those differences were and are.
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/u... I was glad to be interviewed for this story about what the election results reveal about women's history and politics.
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Was the Trump Election a Setback for Women? Even Women Do Not Agree.
Kamala Harris would have been the first female president in the nation’s nearly 250-year history. But many women chose Donald Trump, despite his history of sexism and his support for the end of Roe v....
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/u... I was glad to be interviewed for this story about what the election results reveal about women's history and politics.
nytimes.com
Was the Trump Election a Setback for Women? Even Women Do Not Agree.
Kamala Harris would have been the first female president in the nation’s nearly 250-year history. But many women chose Donald Trump, despite his history of sexism and his support for the end of Roe v....
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Looking forward to this conversation with my dear friend and esteemed colleague about his terrific book!
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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
🚨JOB! Well look at that, the link is available earlier than I had thought! UNC Chapel Hill History Dept is now officially advertising a position for Assistant Professor of U.S. Military History, with a preference for specialization in the 20th century. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288586
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Assistant Professor
Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Modern US Military history. Faculty member will be responsible for teaching a 2:2 load while continuing their own research, part...
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I'm thrilled to announce this collaboration with @allofmilov.bsky.social : we are writing SILKWOOD, a new history of Karen Silkwood's life and afterlives, for One Signal/Simon and Schuster.
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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Katherine Turk @katherineturk.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
My first piece for The Atlantic, on the perils of donation-based activism:
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How Big Money Hurt American Feminism
The history of NOW reveals the costs of donation-driven activism.
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