@jbpaoletti.bsky.social
I write about fashion and gender at https://gendermystique.substack.com/ I write about other things at https://substack.com/@jopaoletti I also knit. alot. https://www.jbpaoletti.com/
An exciting new publication on gender/sex in child development
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
8 lbs of rhubarb in the freezer. Still not enough.
13.07.2025 00:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will be in Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork, and Galway for two weeks very soon. I need dress history/textilian recommendations for edification and shenanigans.
12.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Wanta hear my dulcet voice being interview by awesome podcasters? Of course you do.
04.07.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Postcard from Star Island
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Sort of an over the top fan. “Foamers” is railroad crew slang for people who love trains so much they foam at the mouth. I think I know some “history foamers”, too!
09.06.2025 03:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For those dress historians, costume designers, and other fans and “foamers” of fashion, next year’s Costume Society of America symposium will be in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. www.costumesocietyamerica.com/future-sympo...
08.06.2025 18:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh, shit. There are two “CSA” conferences going on right now. I am posting from Costume Society of America, not Cultural Studies. Though there is certainly some overlap.
03.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0QOTD from the Costume Society plenary panel on technology:
“I wouldn’t believe anything that Meta says about democracy.” #CSA2025
gendermystique.substack.com/p/creepers-a... take a peek around in a minute
21.05.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0People aren’t going hungry because we cannot feed the poor. People are going hungry because we cannot satisfy the rich.
13.05.2025 06:00 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0“The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one” - Jill Churchill
11.05.2025 12:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My crush at the #MetGala
06.05.2025 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Voodoo doll with a long necktie. Note says “dear Santa, I only want one doll this year. Love, Jo. Ps I have been a very good girl.”
06.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, I waited for the release version and it definitely paid off.
16.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sure, let's definitely put this guy in charge of everything.
"While she was pregnant, Musk had urged her to deliver the baby via caesarean section (Musk has posted on X that vaginal births limit brain size and that C-sections allow for larger brains)..."
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More from wordinblack.com/2025/04/psyc...
" In 2023, nearly 8 in 10 active U.S. psychologists were white, compared to just 5.5% who were Black. Studies also show mental health outcomes improve when a patient has a caregiver of the same race. "
open.substack.com/pub/gendermy...
The recent history of the gender binary, part 2
The mystery in the index
And if you just can't wait, check out my conversation with @royalhistorian.bsky.social Carolyn Harris on Queens and Revolution in the meantime: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
I dunno about girls in Buffalo, NY, but this 15-year-old in small town western Connecticut never heard of the veil, the muffin, the wedding or them. Not my icons...
12.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
03.04.2025 04:13 — 👍 10769 🔁 4022 💬 175 📌 449It is a wonder. One of my favorite things in DC.
02.04.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have two Substack newsletters. Links are in my profile.
30.03.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A love note to the Smithsonian. Why I love the Smithsonian (and so should you!)
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Hell no.
27.03.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The recent history of the gender binary
open.substack.com/pub/gendermy...
