iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you are employed as a teacher, researcher, graduate student, or in a related professional appointment at a college or university, you can support this work (and protect your own job) by joining the AAUP: www.aaup.org/join-aaup

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If, like me, you have contradictory feelings about Gloria Steinem, can I suggest watching Irene Lusztig's 2018 film Yours In Sisterhood? It takes her and Ms Magazine's accomplishments and failures equally seriously, and is also just a riveting, beautiful portrait of American women now and then.

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YOURS IN SISTERHOOD trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2018

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Screening 9 to 5 this weekend for students in Strasbourg, France. This is one of my faves. youtu.be/PQ4UZ0pc-IY?...

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Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - "Islands in the Stream" | CMA Awards 1983

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026

A phenomenal woman

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My friend and fellow historian has just launched a queer women’s bookstore in San Diego. Check out Lemonade Berry books. Her carefully curated collection is 🔥. It’s mobile for now, brick and mortar to come, and stickers crafted by historians. www.lemonadeberrybookshop.com

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Home | Lemonade Berry Bookshop

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why/is there not a full fledged biography of Simonne Vidal? Married to and intellectual interlocutor of/political enabler avec historian Marc Bloch. She died in hospital two weeks after the Nazis executed him, perhaps not knowing of his fate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonne...

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Simonne Vidal - Wikipedia

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"So, you see, Ms. Cunningham, I will admit that I don’t understand what you’re aiming at here with your public concerns about trans youth in sports. I don’t get it."

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What Do I Think About Sophie Cunningham?

I'll tell you.

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

According to the Ministry of Defence, 1,500 soldiers are to be sent to the forest fire areas by the evening - mainly to help evacuate the affected areas. The fire north of the Bay of Arcachon is still not under control. Already, the flames have devastated an area three times the size of Paris. 4/

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Project: Pamela Paul to Emily Ostler NYT parenting to pundit pipeline. By parenting I mean essentialist exclusionary cis white motherhood, though they never say it. This is how they smuggled it in

Image of Pamela Paul’s book Parenting, Inc with babies with dollar signs as diapers. Features taupe baby, ironically since she doesn’t address racism and mothering except as an aside

Emily Oster’s book cover “Expecting Better”

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sam Neill was chillingly good in The Piano (1993). RIP.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US gofund.me/140322128

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Donate to Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes, organized by Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav, the legendary rapper and Hollywood personality, has long been… Flavor Flav needs your support for Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“We often experience and imagine the employment relation, like the marriage relation, not as a social institution but as a unique relationship.” —Kathi Weeks, The Problem With Work

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Caturday. (Sitting on Succulents)

Black and white tuxedo cat sitting in outdoor planter. Smushing succulents

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

maybe im crazy but i dont see any issue with the dem base constantly nominating candidates that push popular positions and also theyre all sexy

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans lives matter. Trans people will always be here. I’m sending a ton of love to every trans person. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ I’m sickened to see the deliberate, coordinated, & federal assault on the lives of trans people. The SCOTUS ruled 6-3 to uphold state bans on trans athletes, but it doesn’t require them. 1/

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is such a good book, underlining like mad. (I grew up white in Minneapolis ten years before Ellis, this resonates with all the white unsaid).

Cover of Justin Ellis’s book, entitled The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis is the Story of America. Jacket design by Olivia McGiff features photograph by Bruce Gilden of older Black woman in pearls with handbag, with younger Black woman behind her looking directly at camera.

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

More faculty wives pulp fiction, and candidate for campus novel class.

Racy cover of 1960s pulp fiction novel entitled Campus Motel. Red background, picture of man with crew cut and varsity jacket kissing half-clad woman in bra and purple mini skirt. Captions: “From faculty wives to freshman jailbait, Bronc Kendricks had them all on a string!” “A ruthlessly frank novel of college sex gone wild”. Published 1965

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

The described cocktail in a coupe glass. It's very algae lookin

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/06/2026

Understated consequence of this: how can you convince your hospital board that it must keep offering trans youth care if one of the leftmost politicians in America set his new clinic at 19 and over? It sets a horrible precedent.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

1) countless trans kids are going to needlessly suffer because of this. 2) 18 year olds are ADULTS – so your conceding (as Trump admin hoped by setting 19 at age) that restricting care for trans adults is fine. 3) this goes against the recommendations of most medical professional organizations...

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They need a Pitt equivalent airline drama series. (ACARS drama script writes itself)

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

During the period from 1924 through 1971, not a single new female tenure-track faculty was appointed in the psychology department at University of California, Berkeley. psychology.berkeley.edu/about/histor...

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Psychology Part III: A Social History of Female Faculty at Berkeley | Psychology

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Mathematician Julia Bowman Robinson worked as a lecturer at Berkeley from roughly 1940-1975; she was denied a tenure track position due to her marriage to another mathematician. 1/2

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In 1971, if a University of California woman student who was a California resident married a non-resident, she must then pay out-of-state tuition.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Little wonder, then, that after California passed a “unilateral” divorce bill in 1969, allowing individuals to leave an unhappy marriage even if their partner objected, states that followed suit saw women’s suicide rates decline by 20% over the next five years."

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Contributor: What the marriage and family nostalgia is really about

Much of the pain in our social and family relations originates in a deeper part of the body politic. Reverting to homemaker/breadwinner roles would not solve the issues.

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Today I wrote and submitted my final word on the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the subject of my ages ago dissertation. Goodbye temperance ladies!

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I've done a big update to the 'Against Generative AI' bibliography, including a link to today's papal encyclical. Enjoy! catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

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Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I oppose using cruise control while driving. Spouse claims it improves driving if used judiciously. Who is right?

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Who put this Today™️ Sponge in my beer?

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Looking for end-of-semester jaunty yet piercing takes on academia, ambition, adjuncts, and “the two-body problem”? Zoe B. Wallbrook *History Lessons* and Olivie Blake, *Girl Dinner* reinvent the campus novel.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“On August 21, 1781, she became the first enslaved woman to have her self-proclaimed independence validated in a court of law. She changed her name to Elizabeth Freeman to reflect her new status.” 19thnews.org/2026/04/revo...

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Present at our nation’s founding — but excluded from its promise

Elizabeth Freeman demanded her rightful place among this country's founders and helped forge a tradition of forcing America to live up to its ideals.

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Gerda Lerner to Florence Howe (founder of the Feminist Press) about marriage: "My husband and I fell in love with other people now and then, but we talked about it to each other, and we never acted on it." ("He's immature," Lerner added about Howe's soon-to-be-ex-husband). Academic marriages file

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A 1970 status of women report at a state university identified “career patterns of survivors” (those who didn’t leave academia): Mainstream professionals Permanent peripherals Marginal professionals Neo-traditional hopefuls Long history of adjuncts

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What an absolute treat!!! She’s so damn good!

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

No amount of reusing foil and unplugging appliances will make up for wage gaps, hiring and housing discrimination, a US federal minimum wage of $7.25 unchanged since 2009, and a 40+% increase in gas prices just in the last month (in Toronto).

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I need to be clear: I don’t use Gemini for research. I tested it this weekend so I could report to students based on my own experience.

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Gemini admits when pressed on fabricated evidence: “I am essentially ‘character acting’ a historian instead of being one.”

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Leslie Dunlap @lesldunl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Gemini completely fabricated the existence of a file and *case number* for a 1971 discrimination suit I’m researching. I know this isn’t news, but I wonder if archivists are seeing more requests for non-existent records?

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