Lauren MacIvor Thompson

Excellent 🎉

I am so hoping it will be useful! And I will happily Zoom in and guest lecture!

That would be so awesome. A dream come true

Almost done with my entire book draft. "Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights: The Medical Politics of the American Birth Control Movement" is a project that is more than a decade in the making. A story we think we know well. Turns out we don't.

I generally don't engage with this kind of thing and block annoying bot troll reply guys but you provide here a series of such exceedingly on-point examples of ahistorical, uncritical non-contextualized thinking that I am going to leave this up for the general Bsky public to view and consider.

Ah yes. Debs. The Stalin of the US of A. 🤔

"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter."

-Eugene Debs, June 16, 1918

The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.

We look forward to seeing everyone in St. Pete Beach later this week at #2025SHA.

please excuse our typo in the flyer - the Friday Annual Address and reception is at 4:30 pm!

Flyer is a very light pink with an outline of the Capitol Building behind a pale blue sketch of a young activist and the American flag. The text reads: We're proud to announce the CFP for our 50th Anniversary & 2026 conference: "Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South" WGS South 2026 Annual Conference, Wake Forest University, March 19-21, 2026.

We're proud to announce the CFP for our 50th Anniversary & 2026 conference: "Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South"

Check out the details on our website!
Submissions due Dec. 1st! wgssouth.org/2026conference

#AcademicSky #edusky #highered #wgs

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Friday, November 7th @8am is the beloved SAWH Member & Graduate Student Breakfast. Tickets need to be purchased in advance (https://thesawh.org/.../member-grad-student-breakfast-at.../ ) Friday, November 7th @4:30 pm is the Annual Address and Reception. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University will be speaking about “’In Pursuit of ‘Their Highest Potential’: Black Women Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and Postbaccalaureate Education during the Age of Jim Crow.”

The Countdown to #2025SHA has officially begun! Mark your calendars for the @sawh1970.bsky.social member/grad student breakfast & the annual address/reception by Crystal Sanders, Associate Professor of Af-Am Studies/History @ Emory University!

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Extremely shitty. Solidarity.

It's just terrifying. Solidarity ♥️

This! I entered my PhD in 2010. I go up for tenure next summer. Was contingent for 6 years.

I just joined mine and the AAUP and very glad about it

That is the best bagel

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

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As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Sharing my USG colleague's important new book. Thank you @matthewboedy.bsky.social for this.

I did! Thanks for sharing this!!!

Thanks, appreciate that so much.

I spent many years as a NTT. 100 percent agreed.

xoxox

Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.