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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're in the Boston area, or want to join by Zoom, I'll be talking about Lydia Maria Child and Jane Addams on pacifism Monday 9/28 12:00 EST at Harvard--really looking forward to it! #philsky #womeninphilosophy cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro...

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another Concord Public Library sighting--Louisa May Alcott! Just finished this fascinating book on The Emerson Circle by Bruce Nichols. Learned a ton about LMA, including how much she wrote beyond Little Women. Duly noted . . .

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had a glorious day visiting Concord's transcendentalist sites last week. Highlights: the new Margaret #Fuller statue and swimming in a windswept Walden Pond, complete with whitecaps! #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory #transcendentalism

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great news in history of women in philosophy--new book by Alison Stone on Julia Wedgwood, whose "law of imperfect antithesis" is a fascinating alternative to mainstream ethical theory. Watch Alison's terrific video summmary here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #philsky #womeninphilosophy

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Jane Addams birthday week final post, this time in response to the accusation that she advocated "peace at any price": "What we desire is peace at once, and a peace founded on justice and law." Here she is (3rd from left) en route to war-torn Europe in 1915, ready to argue for peace. #philsky

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Jane Addams birthday week post 4! A positive vision of peace: “I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.” Nurture doing away with nature ...food for thought. #philsky #womenshistory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Jane Addams birthday week #3: a quote for the start of the school year: "We have not yet had full confidence in the wondrous things these children are learning to do. We have not yet learned to teach them as they should be taught, because we do not yet sufficiently reverence their possibilities." 👇

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thrilled and grateful to be settling in as a 2026-27 fellow at Harvard's Transcendentalism Initiative. Looking forward to getting to know my very impressive fellow fellows . . . and to thinking through transcendentalism's promise and perils together this year. cswr.hds.harvard.edu/2026-27-tran...

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jane Addams birthday week post 2: today I read that her school principal, Miss Sill, subscribed to the opinion that women should not speak in public. Addams went on to be a world-famous speaker for suffrage, pacifism, worker's rights, and immigrant rights. I hope her disobedience brought her joy!

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beauvoir, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on happiness before breakfast: a good way to start the day. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o... #philsky

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Opinion | There’s Something Better Than Happiness

We ought to make it a point not to stay in our happy place for too long.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So many favorite Jane #Addams photos, but here's one for her Sept 6 birthday--on the road, gazing into the middle distance, wondering what injustice to challenge next. Happy Birthday, Miss Addams! #philsky

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A Hegel shout-out in a NYT piece about what Gen Z is wearing…what next?! Something sartorial about Marx and Gen Alpha, I assume #philsky

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy birthday Iris Murdoch--one of the fierce, playful, and brilliant metaphysical animals in this terrific book (I'm halfway through and loving it) #philsky #biography

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Apologies, but I need to repost this NYT quote from Mick Jagger in which he says he is reading Kant. Since posting it, it has been pointed out to me that I missed an opportunity for not one but two . . . puns? First h/t to @ywcath.bsky.social & Hedwig: You Kant always get what you want. And...👇

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This just in: Mick Jagger admits in a NYT interview that he is reading philosophy, specifically Kant, because it is fashionable. Well, vaguely, but still. Also: so many arguments! #philsky

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I posted this a year ago to honor Melissa Hortman, who was murdered #OTD last year for her political principles. Like her, I was a #BostonUniversity #philosophy grad from Minnesota. I hope, like her, to use my philosophy to fight for justice. Thinking of her all day. #philsky #womeninphilosophy

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thanks to the great team at GASTROPOD for this wonderful conversation in which I got to do one of the things I love most--talk about Lydia Maria Child's *agricultural activism.* In a nutshell: how to fight slavery by growing beets! How I HATED beets as a child. But now . . .

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Another quote from Mary Church Terrell on pacifism and justice, especially relevant given this week's USSC decision: "There is only one way... to establish and maintain peace. Each and every government must treat all its citizens justly, no matter what their color may be... 👇

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Researching Black women pacifists, I found this powerful Mary Church Terrell quote. She identifies as a pacifist, then says: "But all pacifists are not cut according to the same pattern...I do not advocate peace at any price. The only kind of peace I like is one that is a just & honorable one."👇

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Looking forward to reading this—congratulations! #philsky

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm continuing to learn about Black women's internationalism . . . #OTD in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was the only woman of color at the UN founding conference, which she hoped would allow Black Americans become "integrated into the structure of the peace and freedom of all people everywhere.”👇

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm reading Mary Church Terrell's 1899 speech in which she articulates "Lifting as we Climb" as her association's motto . . . and love this admonition to her white listeners. Even better in her original handwriting 👇! #blackwomenshistorymonth #bwhm #pacifistwomen

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Black Women's History Month continues! Here's another book that has helped me understand the leadership & the struggle-- looking forward to reading @marthasjones.bsky.social's newer "The Trouble of Color" as well #bwhm

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Käthe Kollwitz--sculptor, feminist, pacifist--died #OTD in 1945. It has always felt unbearably sad that she died just before the war ended. I took this picture of her "Mother with her Dead Son" in Berlin's Memorial to Victims of War and Tyranny last year. So many more victims to mourn this year.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Went searching for my favorite nature photo from last year for #EarthDay, and I think it is this one.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We see this in researching women in philosophy too—if they do something for a male colleague, their own original work gets ignored. Thanks for brining Royer to our attention!

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Researching Black women's internationalism...the more I learn about Jessie Fauset, the more I want to know. Novelist, editor, translator, diplomat, essayist, talent scout of the Harlem Renaissance and a huge talent in her own right . . . this book is going on the list #BlackWomensHistoryMonth #bwhm

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Another text shout-out to honor Black Women's History Month- a classic work that I really appreciated in trying to understand a fuller story about suffrage than the one I was taught #bwhm #herstory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Discovering in LOC archives today the unbelievable breadth of Mary Church Terrell's education at 1800s Oberlin--essays on suffrage, Tennyson, humor, Benjamin Franklin, slavery, the French Revolution, prejudice, war...clearly a brilliant mind in the making. Here's what she looked like then! #bwhm

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Grateful for this source during Black Women's History Month, edited by Tyina Steptoe--writings by Martina Simms, Mary Church Terrell, Aida Overton Walker, Ida B. Wells #blackhistory #womenshistory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Reading German pacifist Helene Stöcker today & this cry from the heart found an echo in my own. #womenshistory #pacifism

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It’s Black Women’s History Month, & I’ve been thinking about books that have helped me better understand Black women’s leadership on big questions of justice, rights, & peace. First up: Keisha Blain on how Black women articulated international human rights through their thought & activism #BWHM

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

No research angle here—just my favorite children’s book for #ChildrensBookDay. I swear this book is what made me go on to get a PhD in philosophy. So. Many. Questions. #philsky

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

After stumbling on a @archive.org book owned by W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday, I went looking for children’s books about him for #ChildrensBookDay today and can't find any. Help?? Instead: posting this 2026 Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner. Addams & Du Bois were allies, so this seems right!

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

When Rankin lost her seat after her vote against the US entry into WWI, she said: “Never for one second could I face the idea that I would send young men to be killed for no other reason than to save my seat in Congress.” Imagine that. #pacifism #UShistory @lorissa.bsky.social

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thank you for this! Rankin was also a lifelong #pacifist, arguing against the militarization and national prejudice that lead to war. Fortunately for us, there is a new biography of Rankin out by @lorissa.bsky.social called "Winning the Earthquake."

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Fabulous! Congrats. Can’t wait.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Researching US Black women's involvement in WWI, reading Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson's account of their time supporting Black soldiers in France ... Sometimes @archive.org gives you any old scanned version of a book, and sometimes ... it belonged to W.E.B. Du Bois?? #archives #Blackhistory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The angular vulnerability…haunting. Thank you for posting. Have been reading about Kollwitz’s activism for peace and reproductive rights—what an amazing human being as well as artist. #womenshistory #herstory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I've loved doing #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld for #womenshistorymonth, highlighting 19C women who rethought philosophy, religion, science, art, mathematics, education, & more. In a world that needs rethinking, their ideas are treasures. Here they are again, no particular order! 1/4 #herstory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm honored that @pdtoler.bsky.social has resposted our interview about my LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE for #womenshistorymonth. 🙏🙏 Child would have SO much to say about current events. Time to channel her wisdom. IMHO! www.historyinthemargins.com/2026/03/25/f...

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From the Archives–Talking About Women’s History: Three Question and an Answer with Lydia Moland – History in the Margins

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Day 30 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and journalist Margaret Fuller! Fuller rethought female intellectual solidarity, initiating "Conversations" that gathered women to discuss philosophy and social issues. With #Emerson, she founded American #transcendentalism. #herstory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As always, if you need a syllabus for the week, here it is! Always so much good to read and watch. Thank you @americanstudier.bsky.social!

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Day 29 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Puerto Rican suffragist and scientist Ana Roqué de Duprey! Roqué rethought civil rights for Puerto Rican women, fighting for equality beyond the vote. She wrote a study of Caribbean botany and an astronomical text called “The Sky of Puerto Rico.” #herstory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Love these photos—the Lette Haus provided crucial support, solidarity, and education to many emerging German feminists, including Helene Stöcker who moved to #Berlin after reading #Nietzsche and being convinced she had to change her life… #feminism #herstory

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