Obsessed about the history of women, their work, and their communities.
The Supreme Court has denied Alabama’s Hail Mary pass after that state defied a three-panel judge order to draw a second majority Black opportunity district. AL tried to pick up a vote by getting Justice Kavanaugh to change his position after ruling for the plaintiffs. It was a no-go. Alabama will get new maps.
NEW: 65% of Americans want to elect the president by popular vote rather than via the Electoral College system.
82% of Democrats & 47% of Republicans favor this change.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/25/majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-moving-away-from-electoral-college/
@DrSuzanne 🙏🏾
Stay tuned ✊🏽
#fakeshakespearefacts Will Shakespeare wrote the sonnets and plays, not Emilia Bassano. #elizabethwinkler #ShakespeareWasaWoman
@geoffjobson this is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏾
Highly recommend watching ‘Lingui, the sacred bonds’ as we digest the news of a Nebraska mother sentenced for giving her daughter abortion pills. #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #linguithesacredbonds #chad #systemicmisogyny
Wondering about Long Covid (or Post-Covid Syndrome).
Do you know people who are suffering significantly as follows? (This is a multiple-choice poll.)
(pls boost if the subject interests you)
One editor suggested I reach a ‘feminist presses’. Clearly most mainstream ones are misogynist? From BA Crete to Nebraska 2023, we’ve come a long way 😡😢 #WomensRights #womenhistory #misogyny #Crete #abortionrights #Nebraska
@dpc2 @__ash @JamesGleick i reported him. Hope others will too.
@dpc2 @__ash @JamesGleick omg this is just awful.
@squig @__ash @JamesGleick I rest my case.
@squig @__ash @JamesGleick this is deeply deeply misogynistic.
@peachfront @JamesGleick actually women have not lived in a misogynist’s dreamland until a few centuries ago. There are countless examples of communities where women called the shots (or did so jointly).
Let’s not accept the dismal view of our history fed to us by male academics who brilliantly reproduced the implicit and explicit misogyny around them.
This is Handmaid’s Tale stuff. We are the dystopia now.
I remember when even anti-abortion politicians were careful to say they would never criminalize the pregnant women. Now Nebraska is imprisoning a mother who helped her teenage daughter with an abortion pill.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter
Should I ‘publish’ my manuscript on the history of women’s work and communities on Mastodon? Hmmm… #book #publishing #mastodon #bookstodon
I haven’t been here for a while. Been burrowed in research. My home!
Recent analysis of the National Crime Victimization Survey “found that the odds of being a violent hate crime victim for LGBTQ people was nine times greater than it was for cisgender and straight people from 2017 to 2019.” https://theconversation.com/lgbtq-americans-are-9-times-more-likely-to-be-victimized-by-a-hate-crime-196717 via https://mastodon.social/@DrAndrewFlores
“… The former denaturalizes black skin as the prod- uct of a shattering white gaze; the latter has been particularly instructive in training our gaze on the black female body and the ineluctable matter of ungendered, jeopardized flesh. Yet, has the “epidermal racial schema” hardened for us into a thing of untroubled legibility? To what extent have the “hieroglyphics of the flesh” prevented us from seeing an alternative materialism of the body?” (2/-) #feminism #ornamentalism #orientalism