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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

and then, may they happen to get very sidelined in the DC ER waiting rooms. wouldn’t that also be a terrible shame.

lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i just responded to a millennial with “same to you but more of it”, and they looked at me as i had three heads. another sliver of gen x banter dies in one failed hegelian moment on a scorchin st. louis afternoon. will anyone but me mourn?

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

if i still drank alcohol… (might have to concoct a cannabis cocktail with this blueberry skin idea tho)

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

mmmmmm, going out on this one tonight.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

today i saw EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET. although the protests depicted in this film (which took place in glasgow) surely would have looked very different in the US, its good to be reminded of what urgent and timely solidarity action can do. highly recommend. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Documentary on Kenmure Street immigration protest wins Sundance award

The film documents how hundreds of residents in Pollokshields prevented the detention of two neighbours during a dawn raid in May 2021.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

can’t get US census website to load puerto ricans living in north america data. pretty sure i know who is to blame. trying to editing book introduction, yet would prefer to give a swirly to someone whose name and project rhymes with belon tusk and SMOGE.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i just created a wikipedia account & published my first edit. i changed a simple typo- “Albuquerque Campos” to “Albizu Campos”. clearly someone’s autocorrect was crazy that day. but now i wonder how i ever considered myself a digital humanist in before times.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

. @slateunion.bsky.social any reason to be suspicious of culture gabfest shutting down after 18 years? hosts said it’s because they are all too busy to do to every week, but i’m just a might but suspicious in light of the recent management shenanigans…

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

if ya don’t know @pattiegoniaa.bsky.social, you’re in for a real treat when you get to know her work. she’s an environmental & queer activist who uses trans history to center joy in movement. but pattie’s legal battle with patagonia is pure insanity & we must support them. youtu.be/JHWnkuB3gp0?...

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Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia

YouTube video by Pattie Gonia

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

it’s a writing day. forgive me for grumbling about the excellence of puerto ricans, but these 19th & early 20th century folks are often polymaths & makes it reeeaaaal hard to write succinctly when one must introduce three or four people, all of whom have five professional titles. #historianproblems

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

just starting to wonder when americans are going to demand a tariff refund. i make a squarely middle class wage, but it is NOT going far enough these days, nor has my salary kept up with cost of living for past several years, & i know that the lions share of americans are in worse shape than i am.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

most of the time the details of this administration roll over me with a regular cadence of disgust & fury. but occasionally abject horror takes over my whole body. as a survivor of childhood physical abuse, this one shook me to my core. these children will grow up, remember, & retain these traumas.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

sometimes i fantasize about residing ten miles eastward.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

i got to spend mayday with the leadership of a grassroots museum in puerto rico interpreting anti-colonial resistance that is making a succession plan for the post-founder era. it was kinda sorta perfection. quotidian as it has become, zoom is still one heckuva time/space continuum bender.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

@maryharris.bsky.social ehrmergerd, just listened to today’s plus episode. been a HUGE fan & supporter of amy goodman since my 20s! she’s a formative force in my politics to this day. i’ve thought more than once that you two are cut from the same cloth. what a DELIGHT to hear your conversation.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

at the farmer’s market with my sweet this morning. we’ve both been traveling so much this month, so the plant sale is the start of our big date day. the lesbian couples outweigh all the other demographics by far. i’d say something about #lesbianvisabilityweek but REALLY NO NEED HERE.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

this. this is the voice of the experience and expertise.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

i have heard a number of terrific young scholars doing truly wonderful scholarship at #oah2026. however, i dream of a day when established scholars embarking on public scholarship stop using “public history” without understanding the true scope of what the practice entails. one day, surely…

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

these days it seems like catching up with old friends is just a 1) litany of peri- or menopausal symptoms, 2) an accounting of midlife caregiving duties and number of chosen fam we’ve got with cancer or other serious illnesses, and 3) sharing of spiritual practices we do to deal with first two.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

last week we got a small grant to interpret the legacy of the past 45 years of the black liberation movement in st. louis, & honestly it feels like the most subversive thing we could have possibly managed to do. this both thrills me & breaks my heart (when i think of it as that sort of victory).

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

when you see another post-industrial city up close and you realize that some other folks have actually broken theirs worse than yours. surely there’s a long tortured german word for that, right?

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

bluesky discover, you done good today.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

again, i sure hope the abughazalehian style of campaigning spreads far and wide!

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

this is a bummer. @katmabu.bsky.social was an inspiration through this whole primary season. she was a model for what a campaign could be - community organizing hub, center of political vision, lodestar for party politics. i can’t wait to see what she does next. 19thnews.org/2026/03/illi...

19thnews.org

Kat Abughazaleh loses primary election bid for Illinois U.S. House seat

Since the Chicago-area district is drawn to heavily favor Democrats, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss is all but destined to win the U.S. House seat in the November midterm elections.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

you know, i might totally fall for this on its nutritional merits (add high fiber and TAKE MY MONEY), were it not for the MAGA-masculinist-what-smells-like-dirty-testosterone-laced-bodies-in-here-bullshit.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

just a little visual respite for the horrors that our eyes and minds take in at such a near constant rate these days. our souls deserve to take in this sweet bird so that we can go back and hold the world’s pain for another day. thank you, roseate spoonbill, for showing us your lovely frock.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

it’s an exciting time in every baby homo’s life.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

valuable counterprogramming to the SotMFU.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

just when you thought he had played all of his hero cards…

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

and towards the end of the episode plotz also advocated for telling US history from lens of heroicism, just including all the heroes. i fully understand you don’t police ideology of hosts, @slate.com, but the wonderful bazelon & dickerson are rescuing him on the regular. the show is declining.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

just emailed miss manners about her curt response to a reader seeking help for asking friends to support her celiac diet. as a gluten intolerant person, it triggered me. but if we can't look to miss manners for compassionate responses, WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO? www.al.com/advice/2026/...

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

my VD was a beautiful dinner in my home with partner & queer chosen family, slightly crazy dog, & much gaiety. inventory: one roasted chicken, ten lobster tails, fourteen hassleback potatoes, many carrots, one pregnant woman, menagerie atop a chocolate cake, six dates, zero heteronormativity.

group of people gather around champagne flutes toasting. six hands are visible, one head picturing a brown skinned woman is in the right side, and a body with a flannel shirt is centered. the rest of the hands are light skinned.

a chocolate cake with multiple cake toppers. the toppers include a turtle carrying presents on its back, a giraffe wearing a party hat, an elephant also wearing a party hat and trailing a balloon, and another animal blurred in the distance.

a black and white photo picturing a longer dinner table with tour people seated at it. the table is filled with dishes and the people are conversing and eating.

a blue merle mantle colored great dane seated in a living room looking attentively at the camera with her ears cocked. behind us a green couch and a grey chair and grey drapes.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

in the midst of writing today, and it occurs to me that it might be a good time to start sharing images of my research, in light of benito’s glorious extravaganza. this is blanca canales, a leader of the nationalist party in jayuya, and survivor of the 1950 uprising to overthrow U.S. colonial rule.

portrait of blanca canales in her later years, picture from the neck up, with white wavy hair, looking to the right. she is wearing a white blouse and smiling. the framed portrait is hanging on a grey wall.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

i mean the pava hats! the jibaros! when they climbed the light poles during el apagón i nearly flew of my couch in a dancing fugue…

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

i am aglow from bad bunny’s halftime show. as a scholar of puerto rican collective memory, it was beyond thrilling to see a global cultural juggernaut deploy semiotics of puertorriqueñidad towards redeeming US political culture. of course, celebrating latino joy was also glorious. i’m starstuck.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

last night my partner & i were discussing attempts to reduce protests & histories of state sanctioned violence into one another. as a social movement historian, i have concerns about this. i see great value in public discussion that compares, say, our current political moment with other atrocities.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

“nobody can outsuffer minnesotans” as a member of the minnesotan diasporic left, this piece is poetic journalism.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

@maryharris.bsky.social staying at a friend’s house & using a mr. rogers mug this am, which is giving me life. i’m reminded of your “what’s it going to take” speech, which became a 2026 grounding mantra for me & another dear friend; we wept together & i listened to it 4x all told. #lookforthehelpers

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

oh the volumes of knowledge that the upper midwest in winter contains about greyscale beauty and texture.

greyscale image of a wind turbine perched in a snowy crop field in winter. the entire image is awash in light snow, giving a hazy appearance.

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lara kelland - she/they @laraly.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

members of congress are ensuring that the military aren’t being primed into the totalitarian project. that’s a comforting thing. of course, the fascists react.

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