Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
02.08.2025 01:34 โ ๐ 6137 ๐ 1142 ๐ฌ 58 ๐ 36@drlmmurillo.bsky.social
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Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
02.08.2025 01:34 โ ๐ 6137 ๐ 1142 ๐ฌ 58 ๐ 36At the intersections of immigration and religion, this fantastic essay by Carlos Ruiz Martinez, doctoral candidate in religious studies at UI.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
most expensive meeting in history. plus, these people receiving my taxpayer funded healthcare. MAKE. IT. STOP.
08.07.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0IOWA!!! CALL HER OFFICE!202-225-6576
She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!
Oh YESSSSSS! Looking forward to connecting as soon as I land! โ๐ผ
03.07.2025 12:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's bittersweet, Silvia! Solidarity from another super duper red state! โ๐ผ
03.07.2025 03:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's an honor and a huge responsibility, and I'm so excited to get to work! My colleagues at UT are incredibly generous and warm and have been fighting the good fight to protect academic freedom and the pursuit of justice for their students for a long time. I can't wait to join them! ๐ช๐ผ๐๐ผ๐
03.07.2025 03:02 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is a special position dedicated to expanding and protecting Reproductive Justice as a scholarly and community-centered field of study in the state of Texas.
03.07.2025 03:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm elated to have accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Womenโs, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin beginning this fall!!!
03.07.2025 03:01 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0This is poster for a book prize submission with a deadline of July 1. For more information: westernwomenshistory.org
Friends! If you know of books who may qualify for this prize, SIGN THEM UP!!! deadline is July 1!
#womenalsoknowhistory
Book talk announcement. Green background, letters in Black and red. Fighting for Control book talk at Dartmouth from 5-6:30pm Tuesday, May 20.
Friends! If you're in Hanover or nearby, I'll be at Dartmouth giving a book talk this afternoon! @uncpress.bsky.social
20.05.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trying to fight for my job.
20.05.2025 12:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#JPPseries @uncpress.bsky.social publish some of the most outstanding, cutting-edge history in the field right now. Honored and proud to be among so many distinguished scholars. Thank you, @dawnd.bsky.social, for the love this morning! ๐ฅฐ
20.05.2025 12:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yesssssssssss!!! ๐๐ผโค๏ธ
13.05.2025 02:14 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The folks in Fort Madison, Iowa were big mad today. Turns out fascism IS fucking scary FOR EVERYONE.
15.04.2025 23:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ DAMN! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ Folks big mad. This shit made me LAUGH OUT LOUD for REALZ. "I'm pissed."
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14.04.2025 00:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yellow and orange poster with information about the OAH conference panel on Thursday, April 3 from 11am-12:30pm dedicated to books new coming out now.
If you're going to #OAH2025 in Chicago this week, check out our panel on Thursday celebrating new books by historians of color.
02.04.2025 11:44 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Just as forced birth is becoming the norm in many states across the country. With the developed worlds highest maternal mortality rates, what could go wrong? ๐ซ
02.04.2025 03:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
01.04.2025 23:40 โ ๐ 11432 ๐ 1847 ๐ฌ 85 ๐ 70My QWEEN. ๐
25.03.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I love him. ๐๐ผ
24.03.2025 21:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments arenโt deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?
19.03.2025 21:19 โ ๐ 3750 ๐ 934 ๐ฌ 61 ๐ 33Hey Friends! My new article, "Fears of White Population Decline," with the Journal of Gender Studies is out today! In it, I examine connections between white population decline, misogyny, and gender-based violence, such as the denial of gender-based healthcare in the US. Link below! ๐๐ผ
19.03.2025 20:07 โ ๐ 56 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0And the voucher program is--ahem--thriving here in Iowa. Where the fastest growing populations, the ones actually having children, are increasingly Black and brown.
11.03.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โThe previous administrationโs policy was focused myopically on climate change, with people simply as collateral damage." Chris Wright, US energy secretary. ๐
10.03.2025 21:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you to my friend David-James Gonzales, host of New Books in Latino Studies, for this amazing conversation about my book! Check out the link:
newbooksnetwork.com/fighting-for...
Thrilled to be heading back to the borderlands next week for this wonderful event!!! Thank you @kmassotphd.bsky.social for this generous invitation!
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