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Kim Kankiewicz

@kimkankiewicz.bsky.social
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Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square March 2027). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her

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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm honored to have a guest post in the newsletter "I Grow Strong Again," about an encounter at the @nateaglecenter.bsky.social and the struggle to birth a book with trauma alive in my body. jeannieewing.substack.com/p/he-squawks...
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"The eagle squawks for food because his nervous system remembers starvation."
Author Kim Kankiewicz writes about her connection to a partially blind bald eagle.
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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a fabulous pack, if I do say so myself go.bsky.app/J5kV6xE
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I’m not sure how to describe the feeling of submitting the fully revised manuscript of my book to my editor, but here’s a picture of a rainbow around the sun. #amwriting
Blue-gray sky with sun peeking above top deck of a boat, encircled by a rainbow.
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National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Reminder! Mens rights don’t vary by state by women’s rights do.
Reminder! Mens rights don’t vary by state by women’s rights do.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Reading Kristine Langley Mahler's new book of erasure essays, Teen Queen Training, feels at first like a game but soon becomes an excavation revealing pernicious messages that shape young womanhood. Here's my review for @coloradoreview.bsky.social. @suburbanprairie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/24xek3pr
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Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963 - Center for Literary Publishing
$18.00 Buy Book About the Book Author: Kristine Langley MahlerReviewed By: Kim KankiewiczGenre: NonfictionPublisher: AutofocusPublished: 2026Pages: 160 Book ReviewThe experience of reading Kristine La...
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Please help me identify the critter in our air ducts while I ponder how I’ll sleep pending tomorrow’s visit from the animal removal pro.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Well now I guess I have to read everything Sarah Carson has ever written. @short-reads.org @rhinopoetry.bsky.social www.short-reads.org/no-one-in-th...
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No One in This Dumb Bar Will Acknowledge How Famous We Are
by Sarah Carson | Waiting to be seen.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Such excellent reporting on such a tragically cruel story.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/03/2026
Cliché & basic point, i know, but it's really fucked up how many people refuse to ask "but how will we pay for that" about war & jail shit. Like they fully & fundamentally accept & believe in endless money taps for killing & jailing & hurting other people, but not like… food or medicine or housing.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Out now from @umasspress.bsky.social: Woman House, a probing memoir in essays by Lauren Westerfield. @lwwesterfield.bsky.social Thank you @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for the opportunity to review this necessary book. bit.ly/4csLFrL
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REVIEW: Woman House: Essays and Assemblages by Lauren Westerfield | Hippocampus Magazine
The memoir in essays, Woman House: Essays and Assemblages by Lauren Westerfield is, among other things, a book about secrets.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
At 3rd Place Books, in my former home of Seattle. In this spot in 2015, I recognized a fellow browser and blurted, "Are you Ken Jennings?" 30 seconds later, thinking celeb gawking must feel dehumanizing, I said, "I'm Kim Kankiewicz." 10 yrs later I'm fangirling over @kenjennings.bsky.social again.
Carpeted walkway in bookstore. On the left, a 4-tiered shelf of books beneath a sign reading "U.S. History."
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This year, I resolve to be more Rosa Lyster excavating profundity from absurdity and less a reactive bundle of nerves.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Liberals Get So Upset About Every Little Jeans Ad and Blatant Corruption Scandal
Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the polic...
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This was an especially satisfying and disheartening episode of an always satisfying and disheartening podcast.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/ A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN. And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Eager to read this.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I nodded at every sentence of this essay while an automated voice read it to me from my phone.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wow, this essay. I drove past that Confederate flag before filling my gas tank in Paducah last week, and I'm finding comfort in sharing the road with @jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social and her witness of resistant beauty.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I have drunk the third Coke Zero that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for after school Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold
Two Coke Zero bottles with “Share a Coke with…” labels, the first labeled “William” and the second “Carlos.”
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is the reminder I needed after a family member’s screed about LPJ. Apparently her ownership reveals “Operation Signalgate” as a deep state plot because she’s been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell and The Atlantic ran a story debunking child pedophile conspiracies.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Usually when I hear someone loudly explain something to their table mate at any local coffee shop, it's the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Today, it's a plan for democratic action. #Missouri #resistance
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 05/03/2025
Here we have a Texas government official telling a Baptist minister what they are supposed to believe
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/02/2025
(above images of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk) The only MINORITY DESTROYING the COUNTRY is
BILLIONAIRES.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 13/02/2025
Please consider updating this setting & providing alt text for media going forward as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to your posts on BlueSky as those of us who can see that @lambdalegal.bsky.social refused to take just a few minutes to invest in accessibility! 🙏🏽
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I frequently think about the beetle sex scene in North Woods and imagine Daniel Mason chortling at his typewriter, delighted by his audacity. #booksky
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 08/02/2025
Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity - Google Drive
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
State-sponsored terrorism in our neighborhood.
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🇳🇴 Anne Worner 🇺🇦 @anneworner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I took some time with this. Here is my full report at Law Dork on Trump's order revoking Executive Order 11246: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-fede...
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Trump ends federal contractor civil rights order with roots that go back to FDR
In revoking Executive Order 11246, Trump took aim at history and efforts to combat discrimination. Also: Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship is blocked for now.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
In a week of upheaval, one executive action feels strikingly surreal to me: the rescission of Executive Order 11246. EO 11246 was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of the enforcement process that gave teeth to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1/12
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jocelynsamuels.bsky.social @jocelynsamuels.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A statement alongside my fellow Democratic EEOC Commissioners regarding the rescission of Executive Order 11246.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT "WOKE" Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors It has been in place for 60 years It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II And now it is gone
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Trump undercuts enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
For decades, the political right has purported to broadly support the goals of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
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Frances Elizabeth @franceselizabeth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
From Naked Pastor: Never apologize for loving.
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Lucy Rehm @lucyrehm.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Thankful for Mother Jones and other media outlets who are shining light on this brazen takeover of the MN House. It’s unprecedented, unlawful and undemocratic. #GOPCoup #Resist @mnhouseinfo #mnleg #mndfl
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2025
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome…
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here’s an #EssayThread of eight example essays that I handed out to my Nonfiction Workshop students in our final workshop of the semester, which had thematic and craft similarities to their workshop drafts.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas keytar session. Merry everything!
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Woot! Congrats @zeets.bsky.social and @beltpublishing.bsky.social
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Posting this again because today it's in print! Go buy the paper. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/13/a...
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The 75 best books of 2024 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe book critics give us their favorites from a year of great titles.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
new distracted boyfriend meme dropped
life size symbols of gender outside toilets
a woman and man are on a panel in front
another woman symbol is on a wall behind
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s two weeks before Christmas, and I’ve done nothing to prepare. Maybe I’ll gift myself this t-shirt and stick a copy of Holding It Together by @jessicacalarco.bsky.social in everyone’s stocking. www.teepublic.com/long-sleeve-...
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Sandwich Generation by gary-s-graphics
Stuck in the middle.
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"Next time you catch yourself thinking a topic has been done to death, consider what you can do to put a new spin on it. ... stories are universal; it’s the particulars that change." ~ Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/i...
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I Can’t Write That. Someone’s Already Done It.
By Sarah Boon One of the biggest roadblocks to writing is our internalized idea that it won’t be “new,” that other people have written about it before—and we suspect they have done a better job tha…
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Leaving this here in case you need it like I did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMR...
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There's Still My Joy
YouTube video by Indigo Girls - Topic
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of the most demoralizing things about reading lots of posts by writers is how few understand advances & royalties are the same thing, & how this misunderstanding hurts non-corporate presses
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Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m excited to read this!
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My good friend John Gram and I wrote an article for the JAH on why teaching historical narrative construction in college survey courses is vital to civic life. And it’s open access! doi.org/10.1093/jahi...
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Historical Thinking and the Democratic Mind: An Apprenticeship Approach to Teaching Narrative Complexity in the History Classroom
You may have seen this meme making the internet rounds. The meme pithily calls out a crisis in higher education that we humanists have warned about for yea
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