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Mara Keire

@marakeire.bsky.social
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Historian of sexual violence. Should come with a content warning. Has strong opinions about the importance of gossip past and present.

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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
How have I never heard Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Machine Gun’ before yesterday? What a visceral protest song.
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Mike Behr @mabehr.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
I’m still amazed at how hard it is for people to recognize that others on their own “side” can be bad, or even do bad things. Terry Pratchett very wisely described it years ago, and these words have been so descriptive of the last decade or so.
And then he realized why he was thinking like this.
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me?
After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us.
It's Them that do the bad things.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Happy New Year! Wishing you all a 2024 full of health, happiness & stationery.
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
If I could pick one single figure to transport to the modern age with microblogging social media access I would pick Dorothy Parker in an absolute heartbeat and never even think about anyone else
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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Yesterday was the anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee. It is time for Congress to pass the Remove the Stain Act and revoke the medals of honor given to the soldiers who perpetrated this entirely avoidable slaughter. michaelleroyoberg.com/current-even...
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The Remove the Stain Act
This past June a congressman from Washington state named Denny Heck introduced the “Remove the Stain Act,” which would rescind “each Medal of Honor awarded for acts at Wounded Kne…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/12/2023
there is still a pervasive but unstated belief within mainstream media institutions that republicans represent a “real america” that must be indulged regardless of what they believe or the implications thereof
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
NEWS: SCOTUS will not immediately hear the case over Trump’s immunity claim in connection with the Jan. 6-related federal charges he faces in DC. The DC Circuit, however, has already expedited the appeal to be heard there in early January.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/12/2023
Y'know I was gonna just enjoy my holiday but if I see one more white man law professor saying it would be Undemocratic, Actually to enforce a constitutional provision expressly designed to foster multiracial democracy and disempower instigators of white supremacist takeovers, I'm gonna lose my shit
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
“Deplatforming Nazis makes the Nazi problem worse” is demonstrably wrong. There’s endless evidence and studies and data and proof that not giving Nazis a platform and forcing them into silent obscurity works to fight the Nazi problem. Anyone saying otherwise just likes Nazis.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
PSA: today is the LAST DAY that UK people can book a covid vaccination. if you are caring for elderly/ill relatives over the xmas period this is THE LAST CHANCE you have to try to get a vaccine in your arm for the festive season. www.england.nhs.uk/2023/12/nhs-...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
"he refused to shut the fuck up for decades"
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
pajiba.substack.com/p/say-henry-...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
The great historian Barbara Keys is finishing a book on Kissinger. @jamestwotree.bsky.social on Twitter refers us to two of her essays. I was delighted to find copies on her website. 1) Keys, Barbara. “The Kissinger Wars.” American Historian 10 (2016): 16–22. www.barbarakeys.com/wp-content/u...
first page of article

with photos of Grandin and Ferguson book covers

Early in their new books on Henry Kissinger,
Niall Ferguson and Greg Grandin tell the same
story about a decisive break between Kissinger
and his former Harvard colleagues over the U.S.
invasion of Cambodia in the spring of 1970. A
dozen professors headed by Nobel Prize-winning
economist Thomas Schelling flew down to
Washington, D.C., where they took turns venting
outrage and excoriating their old friend.
Ferguson and Grandin agree that this episode
is revealing, and revealing it is, for their sharply
contrasting uses of the story lay bare much about
the assumptions and methods that underpin
their two books, as well as about the battle tactics
in what we might call the “Kissinger wars”:
the high-stakes contest over how to appraise
the record of America’s most controversial
statesman.
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
The Colour exhibit at the Ashmolean is good fun. It’s always a joy to see aniline dyes creating bright, beautiful clothing. And shoes! Gorgeous cloth shoes.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Instead of asking yourself “why do successful women date abusive men?” Ask — why would an abusive man prey on a successful woman? Abuse is one of the tools in the patriarchy’s toolbox.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
FYI: If you're wondering why a bunch of rape allegations have been made against celebrities in the last few days, New York's Adult Survivors Act — a law that that temporarily lifted the statute of limitations for filing a sexual assault complaint — expires today.
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Perfect image for Black Friday is perfect.
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Breaking a generational cycle! The kid’s decided against doing history at A-Level. His grandparents were historians, his parents are historians, and he will NOT be a historian. I am so proud.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Le Roy Ladurie was a brilliant historian. Montaillou was a revelation to me. Jasmin's Witch remains a necessary point of reference for my current work. But he was also *v publicly* homophobic and I'm finding it a bit odd this is going unmentioned in obits etc link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Another giant of French history has died (at the ripe old age of 94). RIP Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 🗃️ www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
lemonde.fr
L’historien Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie est mort
Professeur au Collège de France, administrateur général de la Bibliothèque nationale, historien de l’époque moderne et du climat, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie s’est éteint le 22 novembre à l�...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The deepfake crisis for women and girls has grown tremendously. It isn’t mentioned in most AI discourse, even though it’s the primary use of deepfakes by far. Now, it is being used to victimize dozens of teen girls. The perpetrators include their male classmates www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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For teen girls victimized by ‘deepfake’ nudes, there is little recourse
The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The kid gave his bff a water spray bottle when they came out as non binary to use whenever someone misgendered or deadnamed them. They had a lot of fun AND got their point across.
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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Only a few days left to send us your proposals!
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Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Dear #skystorians, could someone help me out with an article? Fernández-Silva et al., "Mujeres Magazine as a Classifying Space of Performativities of Being a Woman in Cuba". Unfortunately, I don't have institutional access to Journalism Practice. 🗃 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 22/11/2023
🌈🎓 Academic jobs at LSE: -- Associate Professor in Gender and Sexuality -- Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation -- Assistant Professor in Gender, Peace and Security
lse.ac.uk
Work with us
Vacancies at the LSE Department of Gender Studies
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Frankly, I am so done with media outlets "explaining" the electoral successes of right-wing or downright fascist candidates/parties in many parts of this world as "people" being "fed up" with "the usual" politics. Really? Then how come, e.g., Black people don't provide right-wing majorities? (1/n)
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/11/2023
"Other countries have social safety net. The U.S. has women." That quote is the beating heart of my new book, HOLDING IT TOGETHER, which will be out June 4, 2024 with Portfolio/Penguin, and which I can't wait to share with all of you. For the curious, a 🧵 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding...
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Great news! And a good time to make sure everyone knows #UequalsU. (Undetectable = Untransmittable. It means that if someone with HIV has a consistently undetectable viral load, then they can’t pass on the virus.)
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
If UK universities do have a legal duty of care that could significantly change how they handle not just mental health, but also sexual harassment. /1 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
High court to consider whether universities owe students legal duty of care
Campaigners say move would save lives and bring England and Wales in line with other countries
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Deadline approaching! Get your submissions in for this fantastic opportunity! As always please let us know if you have any queries...
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
If UK universities do have a legal duty of care that could significantly change how they handle not just mental health, but also sexual harassment. /1 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
High court to consider whether universities owe students legal duty of care
Campaigners say move would save lives and bring England and Wales in line with other countries
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
"Not the odds, but the stakes..." is my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in campaign coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. I have been floating this phrase since March. This week it took off a bit, after CNN wrote about it.
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Journalism professor’s six-word mantra is a blueprint for how news outlets should cover the 2024 r...
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen implores newsrooms to organize 2024 campaign coverage around the stakes of the presidential contest — not the horse race.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
The allegations of how Diddy abused Cassie are so horrific I’ve been reading about them a little bit at a time. It feels… significant that Diddy settled in ONE DAY. I hope she is breathing easier.
nytimes.com
Cassie Settles Lawsuit Accusing Sean Combs of Rape and Abuse
The R&B singer Casandra Ventura and the music mogul did not disclose terms of the settlement, which came one day after Ms. Ventura filed an explosive complaint.
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Congratulations to Karen Cook Bell whose @jwomenshistory.bsky.social article “Fugitivity and Enslaved Women’s Agency in the Age of Revolution” was recently awarded the Association of Black Women Historians 2023 Letitia Woods Brown Honorable Mention Free thru Nov 30 ow.ly/PMb250Q7WsI
Promotional tile featuring the cover art from the Winter 2022 edition of Journal of Women's History, surrounded by the text 
Fugitivity and Enslaved Women's Agency in the Age of Revolution 
ABWH Award Winner
2023 Letitia Woods Brown Honorable Mention
Open Access Thru 30 Nov
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
This @motherjones.bsky.social reporter asked wonderfully thoughtful questions re: the meaning, importance, & history of this week's congressional mayhem. Perhaps most important: it's a sign of weakness. Of desperation. Not strength. A sign that we should stand up & resist in the name of democracy.
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Dueling, shoving, and threats in Congress. Why are Republicans like this?
A Yale historian on the GOP’s culture of violence and what is risked by weaponized incompetence.
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
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Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
The call for Bodleian Visiting Fellowships 2024 is now open. Useful if you want to use their Special Collections for one term. DEADLINE: December 1, 2023 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
"Why Republicans are on the Verge of Fistfights" Part of the reason? The Republicans are "'a divided party,' Freeman said, with no real leadership and no way to bring discipline or accountability to members." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Why Republicans Are on the Verge of Fistfights
A historian who studies political violence and the runup to the Civil War explains why congressmen are getting ready to brawl.
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Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
On Thu 16 November, 5:30pm London time, CELESTE MCNAMARA will speak via Zoom on “Hunting a harasser: urban space and anonymity in 18th-century Venice”. To register please visit www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita... @celestemcnamara.bsky.social
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Rachel Louise Moran @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
My book has a title and a release date, which I think makes it a real thing? Excited to spend the next year plugging "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America," coming out with Chicago in Fall 2024!
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
This is very good and worth a read. Thanks @unlawfulentries.bsky.social for putting it out in the world.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Free gift link from my subs: wapo.st/47rE7Qi
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Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini
Former president Donald Trump described his domestic opponents as “vermin” that posed a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China or North Korea, drawing rebuke from...
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Bottom? Daddy? What the whatting what.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
I am genuinely impressed (and surprised) that @washingtonpost.com rightfully contextualized this in terms of fascist history.
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Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini
Former president Donald Trump described his domestic opponents as “vermin” that posed a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China or North Korea, drawing rebuke from...
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Wait! What? WTAF!?! David CAMERON got appointed foreign secretary. David BREXIT Cameron!?!
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Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
As I was saying earlier about the Tories. Like the GOP, but better able to keep a lid on the rhetoric.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Here is the graphic I use when I teach on how the militarization of police has impacted protestors
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Incredible Lancet cover…
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