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Mallory Hardesty

@malloryhardesty.bsky.social

Feminist I Grad Student I Historian

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I live in Chicago. There’s been a lot more helicopters lately. (Jan 2026)

01.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Bluesky! What methods are people using to fight ICE? I am making a directory and i would love to include direct action in smaller communities!

30.01.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Washington, DC Sept 8 | 7PM
with Ari Shapiro!
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater
at GW University in partnership with Politics & Prose

Columbus | Sept 9 | 6PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library in partnership with Prologue Bookshop
NYC | Sept 10 | 7:30PM
reading & discussion!
St. Joseph's University in partnership with Greenlight Bookstore with Hala Alyan, Aubrey Hirsch, Mira Jacob, and ACLU's LGBTQ Rights Project Co-Director Chase Strangio

Cambridge | Sept 11 | 7PM
reading & discussion!
Marran Theater in partnership with Porter Square Books
with Tiana Clark, Koritha Mitchell, Imani Perry, & Jason Silverstein

Burlington I Sept 13 | 7PM
with Alexander Chee!
First Unitarian Universalist
Society
in partnership with Phoenix Books

Decatur | Oct 3 | 7PM
2025 Decatur Book Festival
Keynote with Saeed Jones with Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, & Aruni Kashyap
Books sold by Charis Books & More

San Francisco | Oct 21 | 7:30PM
Litquake Literary Festival in partnership with Green Apple Books
Looking Forward Panel
with Jill Damatic, Randall Mann, Abi Maxwell, & sam sax

Washington, DC Sept 8 | 7PM with Ari Shapiro! Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater at GW University in partnership with Politics & Prose Columbus | Sept 9 | 6PM Columbus Metropolitan Library in partnership with Prologue Bookshop NYC | Sept 10 | 7:30PM reading & discussion! St. Joseph's University in partnership with Greenlight Bookstore with Hala Alyan, Aubrey Hirsch, Mira Jacob, and ACLU's LGBTQ Rights Project Co-Director Chase Strangio Cambridge | Sept 11 | 7PM reading & discussion! Marran Theater in partnership with Porter Square Books with Tiana Clark, Koritha Mitchell, Imani Perry, & Jason Silverstein Burlington I Sept 13 | 7PM with Alexander Chee! First Unitarian Universalist Society in partnership with Phoenix Books Decatur | Oct 3 | 7PM 2025 Decatur Book Festival Keynote with Saeed Jones with Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, & Aruni Kashyap Books sold by Charis Books & More San Francisco | Oct 21 | 7:30PM Litquake Literary Festival in partnership with Green Apple Books Looking Forward Panel with Jill Damatic, Randall Mann, Abi Maxwell, & sam sax

I’m excited to announce that I’m hitting the road with @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social next month to celebrate our new book THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT! Come on out and join us! Pre-order your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

14.08.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 443    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 14

I just did this, and you can too!

03.08.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump threatens to withhold his endorsement from any Republican who doesn’t support his $9.4 billion rescission package. It’s headed for the Senate floor next week and needs a simple majority.

10.07.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 17
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For my chicago audience.

12.06.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
The New Words Without Borders The Whiting Award-winning digital literary magazine Words Without Borders is the premier publication for international literature in English. Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Fernanda Melchor, Jokha Alharthi...

ChatGPT may be down, but you know what's not down? Over 4,000 pieces of literature from 147 countries and translated from 141 languages by actual people and not LLMsβ€”and every single piece is free to read.

Just saying!

wordswithoutborders.org

10.06.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Book buying is a hobby entirely unrelated to book reading

Book buying is a hobby entirely unrelated to book reading

No truer words #booksky

11.06.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 13112    πŸ” 1334    πŸ’¬ 379    πŸ“Œ 209

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacyβ€”it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

10.06.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 45805    πŸ” 11199    πŸ’¬ 992    πŸ“Œ 448

I have just found out that I can view the search terms people have used to find my papers. Why has ChatGPT (and other AI) looked at my paper? Why can’t I opt out of that?

this is a formal note, do not train AI on my research. πŸ’œ

11.06.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.

28.02.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 16530    πŸ” 1180    πŸ’¬ 1020    πŸ“Œ 156

im an INFLUENCER
today in stream we came up with a list of things that I'm actively influencing ppl to do -- here it is:
- get a library card
- read Braiding Sweetgrass
- play weird indie ttrpgs
- trans your gender
- get off the internet
- buy your DM a pizza
- don’t fear mushrooms

25.02.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Attention History Bluesky! I am writing a paper about representation of teenage girls in John Hughes movies and its relation to feminism. Any article/book recommendations??

28.02.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

28.02.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 60466    πŸ” 6673    πŸ’¬ 1455    πŸ“Œ 244
Kids putting on socks and me perhaps panicking?

Kids putting on socks and me perhaps panicking?

Kids feet with a whole lot of socks on them (one had fifteen one had 16)

Kids feet with a whole lot of socks on them (one had fifteen one had 16)

The game!! The griz are up 38 to 33.

The game!! The griz are up 38 to 33.

Good.Store sponsored the Lady Griz game tonight and we did a half-time game where middle schoolers had to put on as many socks as they could in 2 minutes.

28.02.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4605    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 4
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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

17.02.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 56516    πŸ” 14899    πŸ’¬ 682    πŸ“Œ 586

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

17.02.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 125046    πŸ” 31453    πŸ’¬ 2158    πŸ“Œ 1264
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This energy.

10.02.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 42344    πŸ” 6297    πŸ’¬ 616    πŸ“Œ 194

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

29.01.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 32055    πŸ” 4085    πŸ’¬ 373    πŸ“Œ 87

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

04.12.2024 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 15622    πŸ” 2072    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 78
Cat in a library.

Cat in a library.

05.12.2024 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 26856    πŸ” 4656    πŸ’¬ 240    πŸ“Œ 203
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.

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.

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

06.11.2024 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 20506    πŸ” 6420    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 92

The fact that Mitch McConnell decided to retire (as leader) rather than endorse trump and what that indicates about the kind of fundamental ramshackle dishevelment is at play in today's Republican party *should* be getting a major share of the US political analysis, this week

28.02.2024 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 288    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

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