@amyefarrell.bsky.social
professor of American studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies; writer; author of Yours in Sisterhood; Fat Shame; and the forthcoming Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
My book is out! I am so thrilled that I'll be giving my first talk at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College where the work of Mara Baldwin is being exhibited. Her exhibit, "Trust Fall," is exquisite. If you're in the Ithaca area, please join us! Tuesday, October 21 at 5:30pm
14.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was a fun day of answering interesting questions--couldn't even get to them all. Will return later to finish!
01.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So...I'm on Reddit today, r/AskHistorians, to answer questions related to Intrepid Girls and my research on Girl Scouts....or I presume anything related to my work. Very thoughtful questions so far! Never thought I'd be on Reddit except for landing there with some odd search....
01.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hey, everyone--Goodreads is doing a giveaway for signed copies of my book :)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
I get this! Here’s my “write a book” badge🌞
17.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Her work on Josephine Holloway is very important!
09.07.2025 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So thrilled to see this! Lindsay Starr did such an amazing job with the cover of Intrepid Girls--I agree!
09.07.2025 20:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Those badges of mine even showed up on the cover of the fall 2025 catalog uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...! If you're interested in pre-ordering, you can get a 30% discount using the code 01SOCIAL30 on your order form--
I'm in amazing company in the fall line-up too--take a look.
I bet they learned a lot of great stitches....
20.05.2025 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thank you! And I agree that they did an amazing job with the cover!
20.05.2025 19:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thank you!
20.05.2025 19:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0yes, my research includes details about Brownies....
20.05.2025 19:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love your idea of having badges for real life--how true.
20.05.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So amazed to see this on the fall cover!!!
07.05.2025 19:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is so true.
07.05.2025 19:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is so horrible. And those kinds of improvements actually make it useful for so many people--
07.05.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I am so very pleased to share the cover of my forthcoming book on the history of the Girl Scouts, forthcoming in October.
I think UNC Press did such a beautiful job with the cover. Those are actually my badges from when I was a girl. Even the stitching is my own.
