Kriti

Agree 1000% and would add: Criticism is also not a job-performance review. It's not about how hard you worked or how gifted you are or how well you did given the circumstances. It's about the work as it is. A lot of bad work has been done by talented people trying their best (including critics)!

A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad

It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.

(1/8) Welcome to the official Bluesky account for Stolen Relations (indigenousslavery.org)! We are a digital humanities project housed at Brown University that centers on and works collaboratively with tribal communities in our local region.

When the opposition party who has embraced apocalyptic religious narratives takes over and starts by saying that those with empathy are sinners and snakes and gods enemy it should be clear you are dealing with eliminationist group that is readying to kill their opposition under the banner of god.

West India lobby was the prototype of an industry under attack. One of its first impulses was to consider cosmetic changes.* "The vulgar are influenced by names and titles," suggested one proslavery writer that year. "Instead of sLAVES, let the Negroes be called ASSISTANT-PLANTERS; and we shall not then hear such violent outcries against the slave-trade by pious divines, tender-hearted poetesses, and shortsighted politicians. On May 12, 1789, Wilberforce rose to make his first speech against slavery, in the famous voice that, as one observer noted, was "so distinct and melodious that... if he talked nonsense you would feel obliged to hear him." He spoke from

when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.

Chimney sweep whose death changed child labour laws honoured with blue plaque George Brewster, youngest to get plaque, died aged 11 in 1875 after getting stuck in flue, leading to law banning ‘climbing boys’

11-year-old chimney sweep George Brewster was forced up a flue measuring just 12x7.5 inches.

His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.

Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.

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Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes mainly, of course, to A Christmas Carol, and even more so to its many adaptations, most of which draw i...

Good to see Michael John Goodman's The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery getting some festive attention. Completely open-access & reusable & remixable & with a range of Dickens's illustrators beyond the familiar original ones including Fred Barnard, Charles Green & Harry Furniss 👇.

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

Brown University transfers 225 acres of land to Pokanoket tribe in Rhode Island The land was the ancestral home site of a historic leader of the Pokanoket Tribe who died during King Philip’s War in 1676.

#LandBack is always a good thing.

The Invention of Thanksgiving Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

Thanksgiving - a holiday complicated by a desire to keep it all cozy and without the realities of a regularly violent history. I’m as keen on cozy as anyone, but the history, as always, really matters. Sharing for the 5th year Phil Deloria’s excellent piece. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

This is full, so I have started a second starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the
#19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe

I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

Illustrating a natural disaster on an #earlymodern #broadside:

After the #landslide of 1618 in #Piuro (then a city within the Three Leagues, Raetia) that wiped out the city and killed thousands, a Swiss printer came up with this idea: using a liftable flap that offers a before and after scenario.

Pub. day for this long-gestating collection! Reframing Indigenous Biography #indigenoushistory (we really need a starter pack, who's in?) My ch: 'Reframing the Tahitian archipelago: insights from the whole lives of Tupaia, Purea, and Hitihiti', contact for PDF... www.routledge.com/Reframing-In....

Still wild to me how the conservative vision of masculinity isn't just toxic, it's *only* the toxic parts. Zero sense of duty, responsibility, stoicism, manning up, taking things on the chin, protecting the weak, etc, etc.

Just endless whining, entitlement, and abuse of others.

For the first time today, I felt such unnerving sadness amongst my students.
We discussed Unitarianism and Chartism, and it felt so distant.
At the end of the class, a few of them remarked “at least Tucson and Phoenix’s blue”.
Guess we’ll have to cope up with that.

Do not obey in advance. Resist. Do not offer an oppressive government what it wants. Do not anticipate its needs and offer up what you think it wants. To do so teaches power what it can do.

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YOU: How did your date go

ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic

YOU: Why?

ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti

Do I design my class syllabus around Keats and Halloween? Aye!

Adding that the entire viewpoint diversity concept rests on the anti-intellectual presumption that political orientations are preexisting “beliefs” separate from analytic processes & evaluation, & do not instead emerge from the lifelong study of, e.g. history, or other human beings’ experiences

It's always "we're cutting the Romance Languages and Literatures department due to lack of majors" and never "we're hiring 25 full-time professors of creative writing to meet student demand"

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous is a weird little book but I’m super proud of it and SUPER grateful to @rjdashwood.bsky.social for all her work on it (especially when I got sucked into a BARS/NASSR conference organising black hole).

Pre-order it for your library 🙏

cover for the cambridge companion to romanticism and race

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NASSR is the perfect end to this summer!
-Presented my paper “The Allure of News and Romantic Periodicals” today.
-Loved Dr Lucien Meadows’s paper on “The Cherokee Phoenix” - the first indigenous paper!
-Spence and “circulation” of ballads in Dr Ian Newman’s paper.
-My obsession with Medicis!

banner says ‘liberty and fraternity’

the only surviving banner from the peterloo massacre, brought from middleton to manchester where on this day at st. peter’s field people met to hear speeches and protest for democratic rights such as universal suffrage & were massacred instead

it’s locally made silk, and the motto is handpainted

Elizabeth Gaskell isn’t appreciated nearly enough for her humor. Great scene where a character wants to tell his sister something after tea, but she doesn’t want to hear it so she just keeps drinking cup after cup of tea 😂

Derek Walcott’s “Names” and perhaps, Linda LeGarde Grover’s collection “The Indian at Indian School”