@moiraparmstrong.bsky.social
they/them/theirs ⦁ Kent State and Birkbeck UoL alum ⦁ American Studies PhD candidate at Rutgers - Newark ⦁ aro/ace studies, queer/crip history, and public humanities ⦁ wear a mask!
Were you or your kids assigned full books to read in high school English — novels, nonfiction or plays from beginning to end — or mostly shorter excerpts? We are digging into this very controversial maybe-trend and need your help:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
I passed my proposal defense for my dissertation project, "Beyond Romance: Kinship Experiments in the Modern United States," today! I've been gearing up to write this aromantic history for so long and I'm so excited to really get started.
05.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
NEW: Fight for the Future and @covidsafecampus.bsky.social are sounding the alarm as more schools capitulate to Trump admin financial threats and quietly adopt forced unmasking policies for the fall semester.
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...
"I don’t know how to convince everyone that we can’t give up. So many people consider COVID to be endemic, or accept that everyone will eventually become infected, thinking nothing more can be done... but I know a better world is possible and we will move forward together."
21.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 892 🔁 399 💬 8 📌 38
This is a piece you should read right now and share share share open.substack.com/pub/leikelis...
19.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0I am deeply disturbed by this rhetoric that preexisting health problems mean deaths don’t matter. We saw this during COVID. Now it gets applied to every public health threat—H5N1, measles, etc.—and genocide. Disabled people are not disposable.
18.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1The fact that there is a disability history museum but it is in Nassau County, where there is a ban on masks, makes me indescribably angry
02.08.2025 02:43 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Incredible journalism, heartbreaking & terrifying story
31.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 24 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
We have @littlelobbyists.com families on the way to Washington DC right now, they'll be on the House-side of the Capitol tomorrow. We're going to make them see us before they vote to kill disabled children.
If you can help cover the costs of this urgent action:
secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...
A preorder link is live! 😊 If you would like the book and can preorder, that is a *huge* help, but if you can't, I completely get that. The best thing you can do in that case is request that your university or local library orders a copy - that helps sales, too! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/news...
12.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 45 🔁 18 💬 6 📌 2It is not too late to push back on the FDA’s attempts to limit vaccine access. Believe me, you want to fight for this even if you think Covid is over. They do not plan to stop here. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
20.05.2025 19:34 — 👍 162 🔁 107 💬 5 📌 51) If you have had Covid you are at risk.
2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES.
3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.
Cool! I'm definitely interested - can't seem to DM you though!
14.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’d love more info!
13.05.2025 23:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
*refreshes feed*
[The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
This study needs more participants, so far 125 students have been interviewed, and the aim is to interview 25 more students to reach the goal of 150 interviews.
umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you or your mutual aid group want to get some of that federal stockpile of COVID tests, you can order them for free. Minimum is 300, unclear what the max is! my local clean air group just did this and they arrived quickly:
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Trump is trying to gut libraries. Fight back with ALA. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association
Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
COVID Safe Campus is tracking campus mask bans and restrictions. We need your help identifying schools that have these policies. Know somewhere that bans or restricts masks on campus? Fill out our anonymous policy report form. Link in bio. Please share to help spread the word. Below is the URL: https://tinyurl.com/ReportCampusMaskBans and on the right bottom corner of the image is a QR code that directs you to that URL. The bottom left corner of the image has the COVID Safe Campus logo, which is an illustration of a spike protein above the name COVID Safe Campus, surrounded by a white circular outline.
NEW: CSC is launching a policy report form to track campus mask bans and restrictions being proposed or implemented at universities/colleges across the US.
If you care about pandemics, privacy, protests, and Palestine, help us spread the word and track these policies.
tinyurl.com/ReportCampus...
Two hours left! Please share and comme t. 🙏
16.03.2025 01:43 — 👍 123 🔁 87 💬 7 📌 2This is really important, please take a moment to fill this out and pass it around
15.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 59 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 0Free Covid tests!
My understanding is this is still happening and anyone can order—just spoke to someone who ordered 3000 tests as an individual and was able to very quickly distribute them out to interested groups!
And let me emphasize: for free!!
We encourage participation!
The Heritage Foundation is the group behind Project 2025 and the mass destruction of government.
Master’s thesis study flyer. Text reads: “University of Chicago Recruiting Participants to Record Life Histories of Asexual Individuals in the Leather Subculture and BDSM Community Looking For: • Participants living in the United States • Identifies as Asexual or on the Asexual spectrum, participates (or had participated) in the Leather subculture or BDSM community • Identifies as an LGBTQ+ community elder or is 55+ Participants Will: • Complete a short demographic survey indicating your interest in participating in this study (5-15 minutes) • Complete 1-3 Zoom interviews recording your life history associated with your identity formation and community involvement (1-3 hours each) • Optional: Virtually share photographs or belongings important to your life history For more information, or to complete the interest form, please scan this QR code. This research has been approved by The University of Chicago Institutional Review Board, IRB24-2192. If you have any questions, please contact Juliana Theis at Theisjr@uchicago.edu” Backround includes the asexual and Leather flags.
Hello! I’m a master's student and ready to record life histories for my thesis.
If you are Asexual, within the Leather/BDSM community, and 55 or older, I would love to speak with you!
Feel free to DM me with any questions, and share this within your circles across platforms. Thank you!
Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
“..,pre-emptive compliance, even absent direct threats from the federal or state government.”
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
This is coming up on Thursday! Register today: www.masshist.org/events/begin...
21.01.2025 14:15 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This post from Caitlin DeAngelis is really powerful on why the archives need to hire staff instead of having people volunteer. bsky.app/profile/cait...
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