Anya Jabour

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Beginning my week by declining to have my work used for generative AI. Happy Monday!

“No men need apply”: How a Group of “Perfect Little Ladies” Challenged Gender Norms in Turn-of-the-Century New York – Anya Jabour President Edith Joiner addresses the Perfects. Jan. 29, 1897. May Bragdon Diaries. Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. In the …

Happy #lgbtqhistory month! Happy to announce I will be contributing a chapter overview on "Queer Lives and Loves in the Nineteenth Century" to the Schlager Anthology of LGBTQ History and to share a short article in that spirit:
womenshistorynetwork.org/no-men-need-...

New book in the works means it's time to refresh the website!
www.anyajabour.com

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Aieee!

I literally just saw that the same school has a prof who flashes his students. He apparently is still employed.

Awesome! Do you by any chance have a copy of Kounine’s article in German History? My library doesn’t have access.

A student had a great question in my women's history class. What do we know about the MEN accused of witchcraft in early America? If somebody has written about this, I've missed it. Let me know where I should start!

Dressed for Reform Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then."

A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

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Two of my books are in here, and tons of articles and reviews. Check it out and join the fight!

Aha! Thanks!

I’m in here, but not finding the link?

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Positive Covid test

Paxlovid and coffee

One brown and one blonde doodle

Blonde doodle begging for attention

Finally emerging from the Covid cave. Right before I tested positive, I sent the ms to my editor.

Headline:”Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling.”

Edited draft manuscript incorporating news re SCOTUS and legal challenges to LGBTIQ+ civil rights.

Rewriting the epilogue to the book… sometimes I hate writing relevant history!

The Intermediaries and Their Allies | June 21, 2025 | By Missoula's Community Media Resource | Facebook June 21, 2025

Amazing panel on "The Intermediaries and Their Allies" with @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and River Watson for Missoula Pride 2025 yesterday! Full (auto-captioned) recording available! www.facebook.com/MissoulaComm...

Pictured from the Kheel Center at Cornell University: "A cartoon referring to the Triangle fire depicts a factory owner, his coat bedecked with dollar signs, holding a door closed while workers shut inside struggle to escape amid flames and smoke."

I'm starting off No Kings Day writing about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, in which 146 workers--most of them teenaged girls and young women--lost their lives to corporate greed and corrupt politicians. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel

Missoulians, check out this amazing event for Pride! facebook.com/events/s/the...

Has anyone made a starter pack of folks on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist?

Today I got in touch with archivist there to request THE LETTER—AND got my own copy of Foster’s 1955 book SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE— which lists FACTORS in the bibliography under “Scientific and Psychiatric Material”!!!

I’ve been searching for a reader (as opposed to a reviewer) of Katharine Bement Davis’s FACTORS IN THE SEX LIFE OF TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED WOMEN for 2 years. Finally, revisiting Joanne Passet’s bio of Jeannette Foster, the Kinsey Institute’s official librarian, I found the proverbial “smoking gun!”

Hello my #autistic #actuallyautistic #ND and #disability friends. I am putting together a starter pack on Autism/ND/disability platforms—I am also happy to add any individuals who would like to be included. Please make recs! We need community to fight RFK Jr.🧪♿️

go.bsky.app/wbCudt

Sex smackdown!

What to do? Do I follow in the grand tradition of reclaiming terminology (i.e., "queer") and explain all this in the intro, or do I change the title? #SexMatters, just not the way some people think it does!

The tentative title of my f/c book about Katharine Bement Davis is SEX MATTERS, a paraphrase from her quote "matters of sex" + an assertion that sex (sexual desire, sexual education, sexual study, etc.) is significant. But anti-trans folk are using the hashtag to assert primacy of sex (vs. gender).

My mission this week: Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES, write about Europeans who launched the scientific study of sex and the queer civil rights movement, and document Katharine Bement Davis’s role in it all! #sexmatters #intermediaries

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

Book at featuring Anya Jabour’s bio of Sophonisba Breckinridge

Cabin in woods

@b_schillace’s book THE INTERMEDIARIES

UMontana WGSS writing retreat is awesome as usual!