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Isabel Machado

@machadoisabel.bsky.social

Cultural historian interested in Gender & Sexuality and Celebration Studies. https://www.machadoisabel.com/

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Cover of The Witch Studies Reader, edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward. The cover features a grainy, gray illustration of a forest against a black background on the top half of the cover, with its vertical mirror image on the bottom half. The edges of the forest illustration blur and fade into the black background. The white title text is centered at the top of the cover.

Cover of The Witch Studies Reader, edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward. The cover features a grainy, gray illustration of a forest against a black background on the top half of the cover, with its vertical mirror image on the bottom half. The edges of the forest illustration blur and fade into the black background. The white title text is centered at the top of the cover.

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Witch Studies Reader," edited by Soma Chaudhuri & Jane Ward @gentlemanjane.bsky.social , which brings together scholars & practitioners who examine witchcraft from a perspective that decenters Europe and departs from exoticizing and pathologizing studies.
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12.03.2025 18:30 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 5
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Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years The remains were taken to the US during a revolt led by Muslim slaves

“A grave robber is hardly a morally reliable person, right?” Viva João Reis!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

05.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Participants of the Stonewall uprising in front of the Stonewall Inn, June 29, 1969. Gift of The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah

Accompanies a statement about the National Park Service's removal of mentions of transgender and queer identities from the digital record of Stonewall, multiple National Register of Historic Places webpages, and links to countless LGBTQ history resources; more acts of digital erasure are yet to come.

Participants of the Stonewall uprising in front of the Stonewall Inn, June 29, 1969. Gift of The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Accompanies a statement about the National Park Service's removal of mentions of transgender and queer identities from the digital record of Stonewall, multiple National Register of Historic Places webpages, and links to countless LGBTQ history resources; more acts of digital erasure are yet to come.

OUR HISTORY WILL NOT BE ERASED. We will not stand by in silence as the federal government attempts to erase LGBTQ history.

Read our full statement on National Park Service's erasure of transgender and queer identities.

Read: bit.ly/stonewallera...

20.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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The LGBTQ+ History Association statement on our outrage and call to update National Park Service (NPS) websites after the removal of reference to the Transgender (T) and Queer (Q) communities and history.

Please read our full statement: tinyurl.com/LGBTQHistory...

17.02.2025 19:55 — 👍 78    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 1

This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.

08.02.2025 22:44 — 👍 2834    🔁 597    💬 72    📌 18
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Reminder that we have a free zine called How to Archive a Protest that is a guide for activist and organizers interested in saving their work. When we beat back this wave of American fascism, we’ll want to remember how we did it.

Full Zine: bit.ly/protestarchive

06.02.2025 23:21 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooli...

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

05.02.2025 19:09 — 👍 366    🔁 187    💬 11    📌 28

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