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100 Years of Women Who Changed History (Gift Article) Revisiting the obituaries of a century of notable women to show how they were remembered — and what history may have left unsaid.

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Well, Dan, having students hand write is one option right now. Students are copying everything, even reflections, in our literature and composition courses, in and out of class. How do we teach them the beauty and magic of thinking for themselves? Handwriting, WITHOUT DEVICES in sight.

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Library To Host Author Sarah Rovang’s Talk Exploring Georgia O’Keeffe’s Relationship With Cold War Los Alamos Author and historian Sarah Rovang. Courtesy photo COUNTY NEWS RELEASE The Los Alamos Public Library will host author and historian Sarah Rovang for a talk exploring the surprising connection betwee…

Interesting new work in Georgia O'Keeffe studies. @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social losalamosreporter.com/2026/02/28/l...

Celebrating Scholars Who Illuminate Women’s History Graduate Center faculty, students, and alumni create art and scholarly works that offer fresh takes on topics from abortion to the legacy of Martha Graham.

Congratulations @klculkin.bsky.social and all. Wonderful to see you getting recognition for your important work. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social www.gc.cuny.edu news/celebrating-scholars-who-illuminate-womens-history

Letter | Misunderstanding American Studies A recent report and the news coverage around it failed to reflect the field’s aims, writes Alex Lubin.

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Comment | Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder Exhibitions pairing Munch with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maria Lassnig provide opportunities to subvert the established order

Thank you @benlukeart.bsky.social You remind us of the importance of studying feminist art history.
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The Self-Invention of Helene Schjerfbeck The Finnish artist’s first major exhibition in the US is a moving and harrowing document of her growth, as well as the psychic and physical ravages of aging.

Thank you @bridgetquinn.bsky.social for this gorgeous review. Always a pleasure to read your work. hyperallergic.com/the-self-inv...

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House

Yet another literary reference in a judge’s ruling. This time appropriately to George Orwell. More arguments for why students should tske literature classes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

The Essential Toni Morrison

Beautiful and inspiring discussion of Toni Morrison’s gifts and power. “The Essential Toni Morrison” www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/cl...

Great things are happening @yorkcollege @cuny.edu Three Nursing Faculty discuss Black Women and Health Past and Present. March 5, 12:15-1:45. Academic Core, 2M04.

English Department Celebrates Faculty Publications The work of four faculty members in York’s English Department is highlighted in the latest issue of WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly). The issue, titled “Body Matters,” was co-edited by Professors Andie...

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In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE (Gift Article) Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

A good example of the importance of the humanities and for majoring in English. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Richard Wright Shaped John Wilson’s Protest Art Wilson, like Wright before him, wrestled with the psychic toll of racial violence on Black families in his paintings and lithographs.

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Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art” President Trump's plans to sell a federal building housing works of art about Social Security is an attempt to erase the country’s history, a new petition argues.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “If more men read books about women’s lives, literature could improve communication” ...

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Despite Drastic Financial Steps, Met Opera Turns to Layoffs and Cuts

Oh no! A Mary Callery sculpture lives at the MET, which has a complicated history. One thing is clear: art was valued as part of the public good when the MET was created. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/a...

Rebecca Salsbury James, the Artist Who Brought Georgia O’Keeffe West Rebecca Salsbury James mastered the meticulous art of reverse glass painting. Now, the New Mexico Modernist is gaining renewed attention.

Good to see a substantive article about Rebecca Salsbury James. The artistic and emotional reciprocity between James and Georgia O'Keeffe needs to be explored in more depth. The correspondence between James, O'Keeffe, and Stieglitz is quite fascinating. news.artnet.com/art-world/re...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Nigerian author 'devastated' by death of young son The Half of a Yellow Sun and We Should All Be Feminists writer's twin boys were born in 2024.

So sorry to hear about the loss of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's child. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Terrific! I really enjoyed learning about Hokinson and other women cartoonists in a recent New Yorker issue.

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-Merging in books written by and about women” class in @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Watching ‘Liberation’ With a Women’s Movement Pioneer, My Mom

I hope Liberation is extended so I can take students in my 1910s Feminism class in the Spring. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/t...

Joan Semmel’s Paintings Are Beautifully Disturbing The nonagenarian artist insists that women’s bodies are interesting for more than their eroticism.

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Remembering Kay Trimberger, professor, author, feminist, thinker A professor at Sonoma State University, she wrote books about imperialism, single women and her experience raising an adopted mixed-race son.

Kay Trimberger helped us think about about feminism in important ways: www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/15/o...

Our Favorite Art Books of 2025 This year, we read too many incredible books to count — here are a few that stuck with us, including tomes on Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, and Ruth Asawa and mothering.

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Curtains and Cauldrons: The Delicate Politics of Exhibiting Leonora Carrington It’s thrilling to see women Surrealists finally recognized, but the art world’s enthusiasm sometimes feels performative.

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Remembering @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social who was murdered in the city he loved 45 years ago today, December 8.