Monica L. Mercado

American Girl Is Having a Midlife Crisis As the brand turns 40, it’s targeting nostalgic millennials with a Samantha book for adults. But that’s not what American girls and women really need.

oh yeah, everyone's having a midlife crisis www.thecut.com/article/sama...?

We are excited to share the CFP for next year's annual meeting in New Orleans, from January 7 through January 10! We are accepting proposals on any topic relevant to Catholic studies. To submit a proposal or visit our collaboration Google Sheet, visit achahistory.org/neworleans20....

Bad Bunny & the Politics of Representation

already had the conference :)
centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/media/bad-bu...

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

me, screaming to the radio in my kitchen this morning, did we all forget STOP THE CHURCH

Saving this thread for day 2 of Upstate History where I make them fill in a map 🤣

Hearing My Own Scream For months, Rümeysa Öztürk has been haunted by the cries of ICE detention — those of scared children, grieving mothers, barking guards — and her own.

Rümeysa Öztürk, in her own words.

"Our scream is individual and collective, and it is a response to the loss of autonomy, to the violation of consent, to being treated as an object by unfamiliar hands."

www.thecut.com/article/rume...

Each city has developed different tactics to fight ICE but we are also learning from each other. They will lose in Minneapolis and they will try to take another city, but they will be starting from behind because we will have learned from our northern siblings and gotten stronger in the meantime.

Oh and don’t ask me how, when, and where I managed to get that talk written 😂

A city street buried in 20 inches of snow. Cars have not been dug out yet.

On January 22, 2016 my laptop died as I was thinking about outlining my Colgate job talk and everything shut down for snowmageddon. On January 23 I just walked around Philly to gawk at the snow because who cared, I was never going to get a job anyway. Time flies. Stay warm & check in on your people.

I am revisiting some of my annotations in books for a curriculum guide and community political education initiative we will be launching with the documentary (please don’t ask! I’m so overwhelmed) and I’m thinking of how today’s children will one day testify about ICE.

Jason, you are doing! the work! And teaching all of us.

Around a classroom seminar table covered in papers, notebooks, a laptop, and water bottles, six students write and draw on large yellow post-it notes affixed to walls and windows.

If you want to experience some light in the darkness, ask your seminar to map their journeys to taking History honors & see all the ways that students find meaning in the work we do together @colgate.edu.

(Pretty sure I stole this exercise from @jackiantonovich.bsky.social a long long time ago!) 🗃️

Did ~a history of your day~ in methods day 1 this afternoon, thanks to the write up with @geekypedagogy.bsky.social in Teaching History! Worked like a charm :)

Nursing Clio still the best! (Laura - I'm teaching your piece on Almost Fourteen tomorrow in History of Sex/Sexualities :)

Oh trust, my convent postcards collection is also an image permissions disaster 🙈

Bear down, the @achahistory.bsky.social made it happen 🏈

oh no, me too!

Grateful to be joined by both Pope Leo and the Second City Sisters (of the perpetual indulgence) this weekend at ACHA 2026. #AHA26

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

Yes, be in touch! And I was planning on getting myself to your panel, fingers crossed

Museum of the City of New York, 2003 or 04! Most memorably haggled with a (junk?) dealer on Houston Street to get a piece of an automat for the install 😂

ooh one of the first exhibitions I ever worked on (mumble mumble twenty something years ago) was about the Automat!

We love a fresh start.

I was so thrilled when this popped up in my feed! Girls girls girls!

So exciting!

Wow! Congratulations on all of this!

I bought the new highlighter yellow CMOS as a tenure present for myself 😅 Turns out I love actually having it on paper.

This is the real stuff, Jason. Glad you’re still writing it down for the rest of us.