Deb Gussman

Exciting news: the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters was awarded the 2025 Recovery Hub’s Digital Edition Prize by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers! We (Deb Gussman, Pat Kalayjian & Lucinda Damon Bach) are thrilled and honored.

2026 Joint Symposium Call for Papers for a joint symposium to be hosted by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society Williamsburg, Virginia June 24-27, 2026 The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society…

The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are holding joint symposium, June 24-27, 2026, at the College of William & Mary!

Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely!
cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...

Thanks for the great story and helping to spread the word about the CMSOL project! @stocktonuniversity.bsky.social and @markmelhorn.bsky.social !

We are thrilled to announce that the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters has been awarded a grant from @nehgov.bsky.social to
continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

NEH Lawsuit Update: On Friday, Judge Colleen McMahon issued a temporary injunction regarding the grant terminations.

"But agency discretion does not include discretion to violate the First Amendment. Nor does not give the Government the right to edit history.“ (1/2)

Opinion | The fight for birthright citizenship started with these Black Americans We have endured years, decades, even centuries of confusion about citizenship.

Important piece from @marthasjones.bsky.social on the history of our Constitution’s broad birthright citizenship guarantee — and the long advocacy of free Black Americans in antebellum America to make it so.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

No Kings South Jersey · Cooper River Indivisible Donald Trump is planning a fascist military parade on his birthday the likes of which would make North Korea blush. He's spending our tax money to throw himself a birthday party while he's cutting our...

I'm attending Cooper River Indivisible's event, “No Kings South Jersey” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

No kings, no fascists, no idiots.
See you at the march.

A Muzak version of Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing in my doctor’s office. Is this the soundtrack from heaven or hell? Not sure.

💚🦅💚🦅💚🦅💚

The refugees who lived with me did more for America than the Trumps ever will And so did my mom.

Trump has rescinded refugee status of Black and Brown people fleeing violence in their home countries and extended it to...white South Africans, who previously exercised total, brutal, control of that country.

My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

More arrests and deportations coming. Keep calling and protesting. Keep the pressure on.

The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.

This is the most important story in the United States right now.

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

*protest against Project 2025 and the Trump/Musk chaos (is what I meant to say 😊).

Some images from #50501 protest against in Philly. Early days - I hope the movement and momentum will keep growing! #resist #protectdemocracy #stopproject2025

Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
from a grateful NJ constituent! #resist

I want you to do these four things right now Four simple steps to keep yourself safe online.

Hi, friends. Here's what I want you to do: four simple things. It's not going to take long. Let's go. werd.io/2025/i-want-...

Orbital is a beautiful, awe-inspiring book. I read most of it on a plane — as close as I’ll get to orbiting the Earth — hurtling in a metal tube through the sky. I loved the book’s insistence on the global: one earth – one humanity. That planetary view seems more. essential now than ever. #booksky

God granted you a fully formed conscience so you can make decisions that are right for your body and life.