Reposted by Madison KeaneGeorgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Classism is alive and well in the book community, I see. 1282
Reposted by Madison Keaneazteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's *never* 'constructive criticism' when readers tell authors 'what's wrong' with a book--it's published, it's out there, it's done, it is what it is. (Unless there's a revised edition at some point, and you can bet that didn't incorporate 'reader suggestions' for how to 'make it better' either.) 062
Reposted by Madison KeaneRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The stories themselves will not result in systemic change. The stories may be the driver to be part of a mass mobilization of millions of people rising up also against ICE also against the desecration of voting rights also against many other harms in a sustained movement towards something big 017340
Reposted by Madison KeaneKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...spitfirenews.comDebunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane DoeAuthorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged. 22935269
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The reason why I’m writing a book about the Whitechapel women. Not only is remembering the names of Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elisabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly important, but so is remembering that they were real women. contestedlives.substack.com/p/knowing-my...contestedlives.substack.comKnowing My WhyThe Reason for My Book about the Whitechapel Women 000
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The impeachment process would, at the very least, bring evidence of wrongdoing to light. Rahm Emanuel is clueless here. 000
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My mom liked it too. So I just subscribed to Hallmark+ to watch all the cozy romances. 💕💕💕 110
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I went to my mom’s to watch this last night and it was such a good movie. 110
Reposted by Madison KeaneKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at: 531190
Reposted by Madison KeaneRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.) 6745152
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A piece I wrote about Catherine Eddowes, one of the women who was murdered during the Double Event on September 30, 1888. contestedlives.substack.com/p/catherine-...contestedlives.substack.comCatherine Eddowes: The Woman Who Lived on Her Own TermsOn the night of September 29 through 30, 1888, two women lost their lives in what would come to be known as the Double Event. 000
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ngl, not in the best headspace since the Cornell thing came out. Some nasty memories/unprocessed stuff from what happened to me earlier this year resurfaced. 000
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A piece I wrote about Elisabeth Stride, one of the women who was murdered during the Double Event on September 30, 1888. contestedlives.substack.com/p/elisabeth-...contestedlives.substack.comElisabeth Stride: The Woman Who Was ResilientOn the night of September 30, 1888, two women lost their lives within minutes of each other. 000
Reposted by Madison Keanejoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 332918483
Reposted by Madison KeaneMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026Some legal details here worth highlighting, such as, we are still waiting on a grand jury. “The district attorney’s office will bring the case before a grand jury, he said, and upon indictment it ‘will prosecute the charges zealously and to the fullest extent of the law.’” 0246
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They need to do something to stop the bleeding. 010
Reposted by Madison Keaneregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026imagine working your ass off to go to college imagine doing all the mind numbing little tests and filling out all the applications and writing all the essays and you get to cornell and they let a guy who gang raped a girl for 7 hours sit next to you in class. 532739
Reposted by Madison KeaneGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I also don't think most people, even extremely online people, clock what it means for Telegram Nazi misogyny to hit the political mainstream the way Telegram Nazi racism already has. It's not just "subjugate women." It's explicitly "rape, enslave, and murder women" 418061
Reposted by Madison KeaneLouis Tiffany @louis-tiffany.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Daffodils www.wikiart.org/en/louis-comfort-ti… 13710
Reposted by Madison KeaneBean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026<<cackles darkly>> How much of this tech bro shit is driven by the disappearance of female secretaries, who, let's be honest, kept a lot of companies running, and ability of wives to now say "No, time, honey, got a board meeting then school pickup, you gotta make the res for your mom's bday." 848990
Reposted by Madison KeaneGeorgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICYMI: Why Rereading Books Still Counts as Reading - Loud In The Margins loudinthemargins.com/books/why-re... #booksky #blog #bookblog #romanceloudinthemargins.comWhy Rereading Books Still Counts as Reading - Loud In The MarginsDoes rereading count as reading? Yes it does! In this post I break down why rereading absolutely counts and why returning to books still matters. 1203
Reposted by Madison KeaneAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12131321283
Reposted by Madison KeaneKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026PRIMETIME, which portrays Chris Hansen as a twisted egomaniac, is really good. It’s also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Hansen, who has long turned child sexual abuse into a spectacle centering himself—at the expense of actual victims. spitfirenews.com/p/chris-hans...spitfirenews.comChris Hansen was never the heroOn 'Primetime' and the real child abuse investigations that Hansen led astray. 13576144
Reposted by Madison KeaneLila Pounder: hand-crafted, top-shelf erotica @lilapounder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026well hullo if we’re writing smut to piss of tories I am ... interested 1102
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh. So true. From Sisters of the Little Ways Instagram showing a quote from their podcast Descent into Light. This is a huge part of the foundation that forms how I approach my nonfiction work on the Whitechapel women and others. 000
Reposted by Madison KeaneAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2026This is why I want the judge to rule on First Amendment grounds and not just due process grounds - because trump can "fix" due process by giving journalists advanced (albeit bogus) notice that they're being banned. The truth of the matter is that it's viewpoint discrimination violative of 1A. 441792491
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I know my own work will eventually be subject to the same discussion and scrutiny. Honestly, that doesn't bother me. If someone handles an aspect of the subject better than I did, I'll support their work. But that’s just me. 000
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For what it's worth: my own book on the victims will include a full look at the historiography around them. That means Walkowitz, Begg, Sugden — and her. Trust me, it's an equal opportunity thing. 100
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm not clear what the endgame is here. Public discussion or criticism of a book isn't a personal attack. I'm unsure why she's so determined to keep shutting it down. If she's conflated her public and personal identities, that's something she needs to untangle on her own. 100
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Publishing is the act that makes something public — there's no version of putting a book out into the world that exempts it from being discussed on those terms. 100
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Once a book is published, it stops being a private extension of the author's identity and becomes a public object, open to the same scrutiny, praise, and critique as any other. That's true regardless of how personal the subject matter felt to write, or how much of herself she put into it. 100
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And to be clear: The Five is part of the overall body of work on these victims, same as Walkowitz's, Sugden's, and Begg's. That means it's subject to the same public analysis and discussion as any of theirs. That's not an attack. That’s how the commercial nonfiction business works. 110
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026To be fair, she did credit Shelden's earlier work — that's worth acknowledging. But the "nobody wrote about these women" line ran alongside that credit for a long time, and it wasn't true then either. 100
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nobody claimed The Five dishonored anyone. What was said is that Hallie has called historians in her own bibliography people who "don't exist.” That framing wasn't accidental. It was part of the book's promotional campaign for years. I can cite several interviews where she said this directly. 100
Reposted by Madison KeaneMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is fucking gross and libraries have a duty to our communities to refuse to purchase books produced this way www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comNovvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI AssistanceThe Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. âThis is not a self-driving car,â notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. âItâs more like handing ... 516255
Reposted by Madison KeaneMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/09/2026not only are NY schools *not* required to offer comprehensive sex ed—of 50 school districts' curricula, "more than one third contained medically inaccurate or misleading information" & "Many districts also omitted lessons about LGBTQ people, prevention of STIs, contraception, consent, and abortion."nysfocus.comFrom Hitler to Lady Gaga: Inside New York’s Sex Ed ClassesA NYCLU review of 50 New York school districts found inaccurate sex ed lessons, along with gaps on consent, contraception, and LGBTQ issues. 03312
Reposted by Madison KeaneNPR @npr.org · 25/07/2026Sisters Theresa Alethia and Danielle Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Their order plans to help victims of abuse.n.prThese Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: helping survivors of clergy abuseSisters Theresa Alethia and Danielle Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Their order plans to help victims of abuse. 1438160
Reposted by Madison KeaneAerliss @aerliss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm tearing up just thinking about this tiny hero's story. I recommend you grab a whole crate of tissues before reading this thread. 054
Reposted by Madison KeaneKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Technology never has been and never will be apolitical. The conveniences (for some) that modern tech has created are not without consequences. And a lot of people distrust Big Tech because they are living through those consequences. It's good for people to recognize all of these things 9672137
Reposted by Madison KeaneRep. Haley Stevens @rephaleystevens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026After more than five years wrongfully detained in Russia, Paul Whelan came home to a life he no longer recognized. Our responsibility to Americans wrongfully detained abroad cannot end the moment they return home. That's why our bill is so important. 287
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What happened to me earlier this year and how it’s changed my approach to researching the stories of the #Whitechapel women and has made me want to explore the stories we think we know about other historical women. contestedlives.substack.com/p/where-were...contestedlives.substack.comWhere We’re Going from HereI’m shifting the direction of Contested Lives. 000
Reposted by Madison KeaneAdib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Last day to preorder ISN'T HE ROMANTIC?!! If you do get it from Under the Cover here in KC you get some goodies too!!underthecoverkc.comIsn't He Romantic? - PREORDER September 22, 2026This is a preorder for the third book in the Love On The Vine series by Adib Khorram, Isn't He Romantic? Each preorder will be hand signed by the author. Swag to be announced! To deter his ex, a lov... 1910
Reposted by Madison Keanerobingilbert.bsky.social @robingilbert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I listen to podcasts on my phone. So glad that I just subscribed to Scott Macfarlane's podcast on Podcast Addict. 940557
Reposted by Madison KeaneThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20/09/2026Irish scientists lay 3D-printed reefs in pioneering bid to restore deep-sea coralirishtimes.comIrish scientists lay 3D-printed reefs in pioneering bid to restore deep-sea coralArtificial reef project aims to speed up recovery process after decades of damage by commercial fishing ships 24714
Reposted by Madison KeaneMary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026TOO often news outlets who picked up her research are credited. THIS is where the story started: Catherine Corless, ‘The Home’, JOTS [Journal of the Old Tuam Society] 9 (2012), 75–82. 18237
Madison Keane @madisonkeane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So TL; DR: in my view, you can’t take away or give these women back their dignity because as human beings, they already had it. So really, the whole argument over labels was just noise and a means of selling books. 000
