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Maria Scott @mariascott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I spent a few hours yesterday reading this double issue -- and am even more delighted, after reading it, to be included in the list of contributors. Thank you to guest editors @cherylperfume.bsky.social, @rmesch.bsky.social and Masha Belenky, and to the Dix-Neuf editors

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you are looking for some late-summer reading, we’ve got just the thing… the latest special double issue of Dix-Neuf, which features articles around Baudelaire's "À une passante", edited by Masha Belenky, @cherylperfume.bsky.social, and @rmesch.bsky.social

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨 Our double issue of Dix-Neuf is now up!! TO THE PASSERSBY: BEFORE & AFTER BAUDELAIRE has 8 stunning articles that center the passante herself through cultural, visual, and literary history, ecocritical, feminist, and queer perspectives

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just got invited to write a 8,000-10,000 word article that would be due in 3 months… for an academic outlet. Do other people churn things out at this speed? During the academic year?

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Realizing that I haven’t shared this gorgeous new French pub here: Allures Dissidentes: Apparences Queer & Représentations de soi du 19e à aujourd’hui ed by Magali Le Mens, Elizabeth Fischer & nonbinary poet Klimte. Put together in a highly original choose your own adventure way 🏳️‍🌈

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Actual image of my brain right now

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you are moved by the BU pride flags story, please take a moment to support our WGS program which is currently the leader in BU’s Giving Day! There’s matching $ for high participation. Even a $5 helps send a message about how vital this work is to education& students 🏳️‍🌈 give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hopefully @bostonu.bsky.social realizes there’s no going back now.

A range of new pride & nods to pride flags & window displays in these 4 photos

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags

Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ravie de partager mon article en open access: “Les jambes de l’orientaliste: photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy” - première publication en français de mes recherches sur la transitude avant la lettre #FRHistory 🌈🗃️ publications-prairial.fr/theia/index....

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Les jambes de l’orientaliste : photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy – Théia

Cet article examine l’écrivain·e et archéologue Jane Dieulafoy sous l’angle de la transidentité, plutôt que par le biais du cadre féministe traditionnel à travers lequel iel a le plus souvent été évoq...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Upside of being dept chair is that you can plant an idea like this in your Spanish colleagues’ heads and then it happens!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Fellow chairs, what are your practical tips for not spending all day everyday batting away emails? I need some strategies to get my actual work done

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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France

Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Moral dilemma alert: I want to cancel my subscription but getting the paper version of the Sunday times on Saturday is how I know I’m a real New Yorker. Pls advise! #NYTimes

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Just a reminder, for any of you kids who need to see it, good writing does not emerge seamlessly in the first draft. Feedback is the best and moving everything around is often part of the process. File under things you can’t learn from chat GPT

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 19/06/2025

Fascism so small it fits in your pocket?? When T-Mobile launches "T-Satellite" to the public in July, Musk could rake in billions. They don't expect anyone to make it a big deal. Oops. Sign our petition and tell them to drop Starlink #Starlinktakedown #teslatakedown actionnetwork.org/petitions/t-...

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T-Mobile: Stop Funding Musk

When T-Mobile launches its “T-Satellite” program in partnership with Starlink this July, Elon Musk stands to gain billions. We’re calling on T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and the company’s Board of Direct...

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Wrapping up our fifth season of NCFS Unbound with a conversation you don’t want to miss between Marlene Daut and Gregory Pierrot about MD’s new book, The First & Last King of Haiti. This Friday 2:30 EST 🗃️🎓#FrHistory southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 7: Marlene Daut with Gregory Pierrot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Marlene Daut discusses her book The First and Last King of Haiti with Gregory Pierrot

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Question from a Fr editor : En quoi le port du vêtement masculin par Dieulafoy est-il dans ce cas précis l’expression d’une identification trans avant l’heure, quand cela n’est pas le cas d’autres individus portant le vêtement masculin à la fin du XIXe? Ummmm where do I start

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/04/2025

The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown. Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.

Mother and young baby wearing a pink hat

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy to be at Harvard (our new hero??) on a beautiful spring day Intellectual community is so precious- trying to just appreciate it and take advantage of it whenever I can #FrHistory 🗃️

Sitting at table during talk, slide with title Trans Orientalisms

Reading talk, slide of Missy and Colette’s Rêve d’Egypte

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Is social media part of the problem? I’m sick of electeds & leaders saying “we must stand up to this” as if by posting about it they are doing something. besties, show, don’t tell! Like, we know it’s fascism, now lead us the way out!!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Boston area folks, I will be speaking on Thurs 4/24 on what I call “trans orientalisms” at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/trans-...

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Trans Orientalisms: Home Theater and Cultural Cosplay at the Fin de Siècle | Mahindra Humanities Center

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible.

This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory.

And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

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Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Please do this.

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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

WTF @nytimes.com I had to search for coverage of @booker.senate.gov ‘s historic speech How is this not a lead story, like it was when you covered Storm Thurmond’s now broken record trying to prevent people like Sen Booker from succeeding?

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Btwn Cory & WI, seems like I might actually be able to sleep tonight… if I can avoid thinking about NIH, NEH, deportations, higher ed, law firms—-

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My god, Cory Booker. More of this please

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis. I am enraged.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI? Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?

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