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

Celebrating Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize today by remembering two American Peace Prize laureates: Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch. Their organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, continues their work for a feminist peace. #philsky #womenshistory @wilpf.bsky.social

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

ICYMI--my talk on Lydia Maria Child and (briefly!) Jane Addams on American #pacifism at Harvard last week. Unfortunately does not include the Q&A, which was great fun. Thanks to audience and organizers! #philsky #womeninphilosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZC...

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A Transcendentalist Peace: American Pacifism from Lydia Maria Child to Jane Addams

YouTube video by HDS Center for the Study of World Religions

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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

And just to repeat: studying women philosophers is not special pleading, it is better scholarship! #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenrethinkingtheworld

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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

To me, Addams' philosophy of education is both inspiring and intimidating. A vision to strive for! Sending energy and all good wishes to all teachers this year. #womeninphilosophy #philsky #pragmatism #womenshistory #womenrethinkingtheworld

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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

I Kant get no satisfaction. (h/t to my husband) Maybe there's something deeper going on here. Please advise. #philsky

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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 · 13/07/2026

Oh, well played! [slaps head for not thinking of that first]

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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 · 02/07/2026

Now that is what I call having impact! So happy to see it.

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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 · 04/05/2026

Love that Lidian is getting more attention, also in Fuller’s Bright Circle. As a fellow Lydia, I still resent Emerson’s renaming her! There were apparently a lot of us around then, but still.

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

Huge thanks for this! Very thoughtful and thought-provoking. Amazing how it has stayed with you.

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

. . . nor in what kind of religion they may believe, nor where they were born nor in what social class they may move." Mary Church Terrell, 1944 #BlackWomensHistory #pacifistwomen

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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 · 01/05/2026

Fascinating--where did that upending leave you on the question of pacifism?

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

All true—AND she helped trigger a desegregation lawsuit that made it all the way to the Supreme Court…and won. When she was in her 90s! She was amazing.

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

Wow, that is fascinating. Nothing like a good pacifist fight!

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

Ah thanks for that—part of the ongoing debate about what pacifism is and should be! And definitely part of Terrell’s critique

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

Need to learn more about Hamilton so would love that, thanks! And so glad Alison Parker is on to a new subject—her bio of Terrell is wonderful.

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

Thank you! Can’t wait to listen.

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

Thank you…You put the possibilities and paradoxes of pacifism so well…I am loving exploring all the complexities through women who thought hard about it and tried hard to live it.

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

Thank you for this—so crucial to mark these anniversaries of atrocities most of us never learn about.

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

Terrell often had to remind white pacifists that it took a war to end her enslavement. She also challenged them to explain why they agonized about WWI deaths in Europe but ignored lynching and racial violence in the US. Taking these thoughts to heart as we end Black Women's History Month. #BWHM

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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 · 30/04/2026

Thank you for posting this! Especially interesting since Terrell did address the NWSA in February 1898 (apparently she met SBA's standards . . . ) and I guess the "Miss Logan" mentioned did not?

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

Paradiso Perduto if you like lively local character and fabulous seafood…Anice Stellato for more refined creative amazing options. Absolutely Baccaro di Gelato, also in that area, for gelato and I recommend ordering their specialty, Giogio Bagiogio. Have a wonderful visit!

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

Have loved learning about her translating and activist organizing too. Such an impressive career.

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

Just read THERE IS CONFUSION and PLUM BUN and think both should be required reading. Also her transnational activism was amazing. Thanks for remembering her birthday!

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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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