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Karen Weingarten

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Editor of Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade, author of Pregnancy Testing and Abortion in the American Imagination.

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Save the date! MSA 27 in Tallahassee, FL, December 2- 5. Details forthcoming!
MSA 2027 Modernism, Expanded Universe Tallahassee, Florida. Black and white images of expanding folded sheets.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Yes, please do!
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
All my CUNY colleagues should check out this thread, and the report @zachsamalin.bsky.social links to below. It's CUNY history worth remembering. @cadhe.bsky.social This will be of interest especially!
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This report looks worth reading! Thank you. Coincidentally, one of the authors is giving a talk this spring in a series I'm organizing on campus.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Woah. That's a piece of Queens College history I haven't come across yet. The next line in that excerpt is even better!
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Abortion Stories is included in Ms. Magazine’s Top Feminist Books of 2025. An honor to be part of this incredible list! I can't think of a better new year's resolution than a promise to read more feminist books in 2026.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excited to listen to this conversation about the Nursing Clio Reader. I have no doubt that it will be good!
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
@johannawinant.bsky.social I'm looking forward to reading it! So much has changed since it was published, and yet so much has also remained the same...
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This looks amazing! I'm presenting on a panel at MLA on 40 years since Johnson's "Abortion, Animation, and Apostrophe."
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is fascinating research!
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This was such a good conversation! Knowing the history of the pregnancy test--and pregnancy testing more generally-- is more important than ever in today's reproductive climate. The pregnancy test continues to be overlooked as an important technology when it comes to individual AND state control.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
moderniststudies.org
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
And the response from their faculty union: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Statement on the President's Announcement of Austerity Measures
November 18, 2025 Dear Colleagues, We are writing with deep dismay over yesterday’s announcement of austerity measures made without meaningful, representative consultation with faculty, staff, or stud...
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I think so given all their austerity measures: blogs.newschool.edu/community-me...
blogs.newschool.edu
Important Update on University Planning and Finances
<p>A Message from Joel Towers, President and University Professor Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students, I’m writing to you today to provide updates on academic and operational planning and the university...
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Lader's 1966 book argued that abortion should be completely legal with no restriction. His follow-up book, Abortion II, published in 1973, told the story of the movement that formed to repeal all abortion laws.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I shared my essay with Lader's widow, and she wistfully responded that if her husband were still alive we'd have an organized fight against Dobbs today.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I wrote about a 1966 book that radically transformed the American abortion rights movement. I wish it wasn't out of print, but I've also discovered that you can find copies at most libraries. It's hard to exaggerate its importance at the time; for example, Roe v. Wade cited it 9 times.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/10/2025
BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE! That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted. Stay tuned! 🍿 #DefendHigherEd #StandUpFightBack
latimes.com
USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right
USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Here’s the simple resolution UFS passed that undergirds the Executive Committee statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact for higher education in/and America. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I hope faculty, students, and alumni at these nine universities do everything they can to make sure their administrations don't agree to these so-called compacts. Otherwise, those of us at poorer university systems will be fighting an uphill battle.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Trumpist higher ed agenda is to shut down most institutions and control the rest.
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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Can't decide what's more contemptible: trading the university's most precious assets, its institutional integrity and intellectual freedom, for cash, or selling out the rest of higher education by rewarding the divide-and-rule tactics of a corrupt government
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We should all be watching what's happening in Texas very closely (and supporting our colleagues there).
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
And we also hope that other states don't fall in line, one after another, esp. since the Trump administration has threatened to pull federal funding from any university that follows decades of research and scholarship acknowledging that sex is not a binary. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies
The proposal has the potential to transform the government’s vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The next NYC mayor stands for reproductive justice! (And knows his history.) Believing that every person should get to choose whether or not they want to be a parent and have access to free healthcare if they proceed with their pregnancy shouldn't be controversial. And yet, sadly, in 2025, it is.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This workshop should not be missed!
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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south #MADC #CADHE #HigherEd
theguardian.com
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
CUNY friends (and allies!), please follow the new CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education account. Our mission statement and a link to get involved is here: cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Mission Statement – The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Inside Higher Ed offers these tips to "stay safe online," including the tip not to include your university's name in your bio. I just removed mine with a very heavy heart and mixed feelings. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
insidehighered.com
7 Tips to Keep You Safe From Online Doxing
Experts offer solutions to prevent doxing and advice about how to respond and keep yourself safe if it happens to you.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I love the questions I'm getting from the AskHistorians community on Reddit! It's been so much fun that I have to drag myself away to get other things done.
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Oh, and I forgot to tag @nursingclio.bsky.social of course!
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I also have a chapter in it that has some of my most personal academic writing.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The Nursing Clio Reader is out now! This book is so good, so accessible, so smart. It's perfect for teaching, bedtime reading, and gifting. (My cat also likes the color coordination.)
Orange cat with orange eyes sits behind the orange cover of the Nursing Clio Reader.
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Dr. Ayah Nuriddin @ayahnerd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Cover of the Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction and Justice edited by the Nursing Clio Collective Front page of essay: Theresa Ventura, The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant: Breast Milk as Superfood
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The best part of coming home after some time away was seeing this waiting for me. You can pre-order it now!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is happening tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us! We have a few prepared thoughts, but mostly it's a chance for contingent/independent scholars to pool ideas and strategies for research funding!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The MSA Committee of Contingent/Independent Scholars is holding a Zoom roundtable on Tues., Aug. 26, 4pm EST on “Funding and Support Off the Tenure Track and in the Face of Increasing Precarity” w/ @nissaren.bsky.social, Emily Bloom, and @chollis.bsky.social Email kschnur@qc.cuny.edu for Zoom link!
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖 against-a-i.com #highereducation #pedagogy
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It looks amazing. I seriously could not be more excited to see it in print.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Yes! This is so cool to see.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It's so exciting to see the Nursing Clio Reader in someone's hands! I can't wait to get my copy in September!
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Important correction! Early registration rates for the MSA 2025 Conference in Boston will be available until August 31. Please make a note of this! We'll send reminders too.
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This graduate mentoring program designed by @jessmasters.bsky.social is a new MSA initiative, and I wish existed when I was a grad student. Pass it along to any graduate students working in modernism or modernist-adjacent fields, like the Harlem Renaissance, 20th-century studies, etc.
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