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Sarah Chinn

@sarahchinn.bsky.social
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Teaches 19th century US lit at Hunter College, CUNY. Lives in Brooklyn, with all the contradictions that implies.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate
Meme edited version of classic tweet from "Lauren (@notabigjerk"):

"I'm not falling for that *Atlantic article*. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at"
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Feeling this hard.
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good thing we turned off the faucet while we brushed
TikTok video by Camden Garcia
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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Literal dick-head.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yes! Sending love from NY, home of a successful nurses’ strike
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Same same same.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
American women won the World Cup 4 times....
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I used this image in my book about Reconstruction. It has been grievously wounded over the years, but the 14th Amendment is still worth celebrating l!
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh, and I hate it here.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And it's not really even 6-3, given Kavanaugh's mealy-mouthed "I sort of agree but sort of don't" statement.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Indeed, it is for that very reason that a radical restructuring was required. The Citizenship Clause applies universally precisely because such universal application was necessary to achieve the Amendment’s own race-conscious remedial purposes."
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"So, the architects of the Second Founding did not think or pretend that race didn’t matter. Quite to the contrary, they understood that race made an enormous difference to the lived experiences of all concerned—and to the fate of our union."I
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BTW, Jackson's concurrence to the birthright citizenship case is gorgeous. She focuses in large part on the fact that minoritized people are most often the ones in favour of universal rights, whereas dominant majorities are more likely to oppose them.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A lot fewer people will be enraged by this, because it feels wonky — but I want you to think about how much harder it is to run progressive candidates when there’s even fewer restrictions on how these rich assholes can throw around their money.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Five to four to preserve birthright citizenship???? Did these four oafs not read the 14th Amendment?
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Explain?
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
YALL, the photos from Lubbock Pride are everything. When I was growing up in Lubbock, the second most “conservative” city in America, I would never have expected this— but I am SO HAPPY to be wrong.
A booth at Lubbock Pride
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One of the things I want most and the long-term project that I dream about is creating a National Museum of Reconstruction
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sad but true.
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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Thank you #SUNY #FCCC for the time to speak about Academic Freedom at your plenary! @csvacin.bsky.social @diverdanna.bsky.social @eialongo.bsky.social #madc cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu *Establish a NY State MADC: Promote collaboration between CUNY and SUNY to defend against political attacks. ✊
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's crazy to me how unadorned this all is. There's zero pretense that the FCC should be impartial, or that the media are here for both our entertainment and meaningful information. It's true that on the whole Carr's efforts have been a dismal failure, but the ambition is alarming in and of itself.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#nokings
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Because of a cancelled flight last night, I'm heading into Nashville at lunchtime, which means missing No Kings in NYC and in Nashville. Not the end of the world, but not what I'd wanted my weekend to look like.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
CROCKETT: Professor, are you saying you believe it's constitutional for the US to blow up people that are accused of being drug traffickers? "It's not going to be a yes or no answer" CROCKETT: I'm going to stop you there. It's unconstitutional.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is so sad for so many reasons. First, & most obviously, for the girls (now women) he abused & the trust that he betrayed. For Dolores Huerta, who had to stand next to him year after year, unable to say what he did to her. And for all of us, for whom CC -- with his many flaws -- meant something.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I know exactly where that is!
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is just so grim.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
When someone tells me that they’ve taught my work, it’s inexpressibly thrilling.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
True: since Ford pardoned Nixon, almost everyone seems to get a "get out of jail free"/ don't go to jail in the first place card. Iran-Contra, Abu Ghraib, fomenting an insurrectionary riot etc etc etc. and no real consequences.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I've already been to one meeting about organizing a national general strike, and there were an impressive number of union folks there. So, maybe it could happen....?
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Guest artists: the US Colored Troops marching into Galveston to liberate the remaining enslaved people there, and elected Black federal members of Congress and Senate from the 1870s.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Sure scared the hell out of me.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yes — it was a joyous celebration of community above all.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why have these people not learned that standing up to bullies works more often than not? And even if you get beaten up, at least you have your pride.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Actually it is -- all this kind of stuff has happened before, but there was no one who could record and share it with millions of people who cared.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026
If you're local to Ann Arbor or Ypsi Nextdoor, here is the link. nextdoor.com/p/rNNGzY3cn7...
nextdoor.com
Ice is at Washtenaw Community College pulling kids out of class.
Join Nextdoor, an app for neighborhoods where you can get local tips, buy and sell items, and more
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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
User @backintimeag: 
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I just phoned my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. It was hard to keep the white hot rage out of my voice as I demanded that they defund ICE. You can sound any way you like, but you need to phone your senators about this.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Holy fuck they actually did it
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This, my friends, is what welcoming immigrants and sharing with them can do.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Lucy Dacus singing Bread & Roses for all the SLAC alums in the crowd.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’m not crying! You’re crying!
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
More than once (as an experiment) I've asked AI to summarize a chapter from a novel I'm teaching. Every single time it gets it wrong in one way or another: what happens, how it connects to the rest of the text, how it connects to the author's other work etc etc.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This is pretty clearly AI slop. What's the weird grey fabric stuff to the right of Ross? Clinton's hand is clearly the same, even if the faces are not. And the same outfit on Jackson coincidentally worn with the exact same people years apart? I find that hard to believe.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yup, it all comes back to Reagan.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Looking forward to seeing both of you in the flesh! Maybe a drink afterward?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.
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