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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 01/05/2026

What about the dirt of the East Wing? 10,000 years of history may now lie dumped on another Trump golf course. (free basic subscription) #anthropology/archaeology shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/a-peoples-...

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day! Last week's essay was in praise of the deep weirdness of life on Earth. Chill out, people, we're just a temporary anomaly here. shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/the-comfor...

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 28/03/2026

The history of war tax resistance is as old as, well, war and taxes. Free subscribers welcome. shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/war-and-ta...

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 19/03/2026

It's Lent. Which means I gave up plastic and discovered the ancient roots of plastic near the Strait of Hormuz. (Free to subscribers) shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/the-worldw...

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 28/02/2026

A few hours before the U.S.-Israeli bombs started hitting Iran, I posted a new essay on why we have so few monuments to peace and why it is so hard to sustain peace movements. Let's fix that. With shout-out to @wingedisis.bsky.social and Monument Lab (link in bio, free subscribers welcome)

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 16/02/2026

How do we rehabilitate utopian thinking and plant positive seeds for future generations? Please join us at the first virtual salon of The Future Cafe on Feb 26 @ 8:00 pm EST. Registration below. uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 11/02/2026

Launched! Free subscribers welcome. shannonleedawdy.substack.com Seasonally appropriate intro post about the archaeology of Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras. @academicblue.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #history

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 02/02/2026

Lol, is this what they mean by dark academy? [verified] @academicblue.bsky.social

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 16/01/2026

In other news, came across this while researching an unfamiliar gravestone symbol. Strangely inspiring right now.

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 06/01/2026

This is what historians 100 years in the future will see. Venal revisionism will fail.

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 05/01/2026

We need fresh utopian thinking to boost us out of the nightmare loop of the present. Join us and share! futurecafes.org

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 18/10/2025

Retired!!! To mark this happy occasion, today I bottled my own Liberation Cider. I am NOT retiring from writing, fermenting, or fomenting.

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 21/02/2025

Don't get overwhelmed by the toxic flood. Pick a cause, get involved. now.org/disrupt-now-2/

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Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com · 05/02/2025

In other news (it exists!), I am so tickled to finally have a book translated into another language -- unexpectedly, Chinese! Native speakers assure me that the inventive title doesn't read "Death to America". @princetonupress.bsky.social

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