Caitlin Reed Wiesner

My new book is included in this excellent sale for Black History Month! Great excuse to stock up

Thanks for the glowing post, Eri!

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Tomorrow features another brilliant #AMA that #Skystorians should be keen to check out. We'll be joined by @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social , author of Between the Street and the State: Black Women's Anti-Rape Activism amid the War on Crime!

I’m one of them! What a treat to contribute to this incredible reader. All the cutting edge and up-and-coming histories of healthcare, sexuality, and reproduction, all in one place.

Black Women's Anti-Rape Activism The feminist anti-rape movement began in the late 1960s at the height of women’s liberation. As rape crisis centers relied on federal grants aimed at prosecution of…

Thanks @feministkelly.bsky.social for the chance to talk up my forthcoming book on the Unsung History podcast. Listen for a preview of Between the Street and the State (coming out next week from @pennpress.bsky.social)

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Not the worst birthday present I’ve ever gotten in the mail. Advance copies have landed! @pennpress.bsky.social

The cover of Caitlin Reed Wiesner's book BETWEEN THE STREET AND THE STATE: BLACK WOMEN'S ANTI-RAPE ACTIVISM AMID THE WAR ON CRIME.

"Caitlin Reed Wiesner demonstrates that Black girls and women were not only victims of gender violence within their communities but were also abandoned by the state when they sought justice. In this intersection, Black women anti-rape activists worked to restore the lives and dignity of Black girls and women by enveloping them in care while opposing rape reform’s march toward mass incarceration. Insightful and engaging, Between the Street and the State is an impressive achievement that significantly reshapes our understanding of how racism and sexual violence intersect while highlighting the courageous battles fought by Black women activists against these issues."—Kidada E. Williams, author of I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction "In her deeply researched and deftly argued new book, Caitlin Reed Wiesner reveals how Black feminists contested sexual harm and state violence in the final decades of the twentieth century. Through tactics of subversion, diversion, and resistance, these activists privileged care and healing over the punitive, carceral solutions increasingly endorsed by policymakers and other activists during the ‘post–civil rights’ era. Illuminating and elegantly written, Between the Street and the State makes vital contributions to carceral studies, women’s history, and African American studies, and it invites us to envision a world without interpersonal or state violence."—Paul Renfro, author of The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America

Really honored to join @kidadaewilliams.com and Dawn Rae Flood in blurbing @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social's amazing book BETWEEN THE STREET AND THE STATE: BLACK WOMEN'S ANTI-RAPE ACTIVISM AMID THE WAR ON CRIME (forthcoming @pennpress.bsky.social). Y'all check it out! 🗃️

What a dream team for blurbs. Can’t thank @renfro.bsky.social @kidadaewilliams.com and Dawn Flood enough!

This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks

Pick me! Pick me!

At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social.

Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️

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New post for the new year on "Running a DH Mock Interview." Contains a public-facing version of the guide I use to run mock interviews for students applying to DH-y jobs. Some notes on format, structure, content, and debriefing.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

“…the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.”

People cite this essay for its central idea, but it’s also damn good writing.

Anna Paquin for me. Never really saw it until I dug up her brunette era

I’ve been told this is the place to be for academics to talk about projects and pedagogy to a non-fascist audience. I already like what I see.