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Sarah Calise (she/they)

@sarahcalise.bsky.social
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*views expressed here are my own, not those of my employer* 🗃 archivist, public historian, writer and pro-wrestling watcher 🦋 founder of Nashville Queer History 📚 Y'all Come Out Now Y'Hear: Nashville's LGBTQ History coming soon via Vanderbilt Press

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
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CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
👁👄👁
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
developed multiple crushes at today's nashville comic arts festival 😌
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
the number one thing institutions and funders can do for community archives is just give them money, whether they have a 501(c)3 or not. give them money to do the work they need to do. #SAA25 signed, a jaded community archivist
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Little MTSU Public History reunion at #SAA25 in Anaheim 🤩
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This is my personal feeling, too. But also told from my higher ups that we *have* to engage with it, which suuucks.
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Really enjoyed hearing about how the National Archives of the United Kingdom partnered with high school students to enhance their engagement with historical documents by using DRET AI and the RICHRAB analysis model #SAA25 Session 103
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
ok conference time tomorrow, but here are some fun SoCal things i did since thursday
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/08/2025
Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.
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Zay The 5’6 Giant @xaviersmith.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
Post a non religious picture you think of as holy. #RIPEdwardCrawford
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Afrosheen is literally the coolest baddie in Nashville, no competition
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 21/08/2025
this is why everyone I know isn’t having kids btw
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
flying to LAX today for: • queer history research at ONE Archives • queer exhibits at Getty Center • shenanigans, like seeing Yungblud on Saturday • the @saa-official.bsky.social annual meeting
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a woman with a surprised look on her face is holding her hands to her face
ALT: a woman with a surprised look on her face is holding her hands to her face
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
WOMEN
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
update: 6 months later and guess what happened folks? LOL
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
i'll be attending #SAA (Soc. of American Archivists) for the first time ever this week, so i thought i'd hop back on here and try to actually use this account ~forever missing old archives twitter RIP 🪦
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
either i gotta move home to live with my parents or they gotta move to me because being a single wage earning adult is not possible anymore
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: 

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell 
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hello #archives #history and scholarly friends... help with this name! Last name is Scholz, first name is...?
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
not to be h0rny on main (event), but Walter is so hot and i guess by Walter, i mean "Gunther" or whatever dumb name WWE gave him
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 22/03/2025
This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.
Ethical: There is a particular paradox that makes Al essentially useless as a tool for studying history. The entire point of what we do as historians is to look for untold stories...elements of the history of mankind that are novel and unexpected. There is a fundamental epistemological disjuncture between what PhD-holding historians do and what ChatGPT and its ilk do: the former meticulously, purposefully, and rigorously comb through a mountain of human-curated documents looking
- Continued to Next Pagefor revealing details that diverge from the baseline, offer indications of cultural shift, or elements humanity embedded in seemingly mundane activities; the latter processes terabytes of machine-harvested data in order to predict what will be the most likely next token in a string, and when these tokens are words they may or may not result in a grammatically coherent sentence.
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
went to a super cool (ha!) presentation today by @tchotchke.bsky.social about The Terror fandom and historical research which reminded me so much of this piece i wrote for @nursingclio.bsky.social nursingclio.org/2019/10/02/h...
nursingclio.org
Historical Fanfiction as Affective History Making
I became a historian because of a television show. That is something I don’t often admit, but it’s true. I was home for Thanksgiving in 2009, nearly finished with my first semester as a journalism …
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Gary Chun @garychun.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"watching" the #Oscars thru bluesky posts since Hulu cut the feed this feels like old Twitter
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
i have no sports thoughts to contribute but i did eat hella good Indian food tonight and that's my win.
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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
ok #museums and #archives folks: are there any upcoming textile workshops? specifically focused on management and preservation? in-person preferred i can't find anything current 😭
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
my students: are we gonna face backlash for this LGBTQ exhibit? me: ummmmm probably but also i don't care
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
ok i canNOT be eating like i did when trump was elected the first time because it might actually kill me 🤪
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
what will Vandy do when the fascist leaders decide that the word "belonging" is no longer acceptable? will we have to update all of our belonging statements to something else? the fascists move the goal post and we just keep following orders?
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
FAFO, Vanderbilt. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/05/v...
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Vanderbilt removes DEI statement from its website - Nashville Banner
Vanderbilt University removes 'Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility' statement from website. The exact reasons for the removal are unclear.
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Piley Raige 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rileypaige.gay · 04/02/2025
Seth dresses like if every non-binary person I know had a budget lol #WWERaw #WrestleSky 🤼
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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
You aren't that sly, Seth
Seth RollinsThe Rock
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
is netflix always this glitchy for WWE raw? love this, love to watch a glitchy livestream
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Alie Lark @alielark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it
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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
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Nneka @nnekaboo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Kendrick had no plan to win any of this shit. He was just hatin and look where it got him. There’s a lesson there!
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
YOUR first draft doesn’t need to be perfect. but mine does
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
bro every time i read a college essay i cry like where are these kids learning to write? 😭
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I polled people on Instagram and THIRTY SEVEN people said yes. 2 said no. So, anyway, I went with yes they are the same person and then I bought an $800 drag program from the 1960s for Vanderbilt's archive. The person in the photo is trans icon Aleshia Brevard.
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
my perfume bottle broke in my backpack and leaked all over everythingggggg 😭
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ok i need y'all to help me make an $800 decision your task: answer one question the question: is this the same person?
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
daryl dixon is so obviously a biromantic asexual i love him so much
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
and just like that, the DEI statement from the university library ceased to exist just kidding, the wayback machine has the receipts
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
People who don't use both lanes to line up at Dutch Bros shouldn't be able to vote
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
just absolutely bonkers i cannot afford a studio or 1 bedroom apartment on my salary what an american dream
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Sarah Calise (she/they) @sarahcalise.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
when students call me Dr. Calise, like nooooo that's my hot Italian grandpa
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