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Le Monde now Anna Wintour, papesse de la mode, quitte la rédaction en chef de l'édition américaine de « Vogue », après presque quarante ans

PAPESSE DE LA MODE

Jamey is giving a paper on Re-Storying Trans Indigenous Contact on the Northwest Coast, 1774–1890. There is no common temporal or geographical thread we need to keep, moreso an approach to doing critical trans histories. Let us know if you need more info!

We originally applied to the Big Berks conference but since that’s not going ahead this year they created a panel with us for AHA. The panel is on trans history, broadly conceived. I’m writing about a defamation case in Germany that asked whether trans people were victims of the Holocaust

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

'Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).'

Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.

I’m opposed to infighting. But we should be accurate about (historical) fascism right now. Fascistic states have inconsistencies baked into their ideology and practice, with a hydra mix of wilful incompetence and clinical execution at their head. They’re no less deadly for it.

The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations - The National Archives Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...

The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

Not to be over-dramatic, but we have less than 24 hours until our crowdfund deadline, have to raise £1164 to continue our campaign for the NHS and complete our research about the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and if this was a film the montage would kick in now. HELP!…

Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel Political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we?

Important reflections by @DavidMotadel this morning, drawing on history, on whether we have reached a critical turning point.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.

He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.

Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...

Petition:
An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services

At 10k the Government will give a written response (it’s currently at 7k)

✍🏼 Please sign (even if it’s just to keep the pressure on)

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

A Men’s Health headline reading “WTF Is a ‘Rat Boy Summer’ Anyway?” with the deck “Men who look like "hot rodents" are apparently the most eligible bachelors out there. Allow us to explain.”

A New York Times headline “The Rise of the Noodle Boys” with the deck “As an era of macho politics sets in, sinewy stars like Timothée Chalamet, Dominic Sessa and Mark Eydelshteyn embody a slinky alternative image of white masculinity in American pop culture.”

Straight people love to stumble upon the concept of a twink and struggle to describe it, like if an ancient Roman saw someone vaping

I have been thinking about this a lot lately: that the “phasing out” of humanities scholarship as part of popular education is an effort to prevent people from being able to interpret their political reality.

BFTSI was the first thing I experienced when I arrived at Duke and I still feel the benefits of the intellectual generosity that Jen has nurtured within this summer workshop with deep appreciation! Apply!

Opinion | The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids (Gift Article) For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.

Since Alito and others are quoting the Cass Report like it's definitive science, this is the moment to repost @polgreen.bsky.social's excellent piece on the Cass Report , which is,"for all its claims of impartiality, is fundamentally a subjective, political document."
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...

Sprinting can feel ‘easy’ comparative to endurance or resistance sports, but it’s a CNS and max output exhaustive exercise. Its benefits are rarely measured by fatigue and optimally fatigue only occurs in winter (sprint endurance) training or lactic acid inducing racing (>150m). Trust the process!

Weather and fatigue / injury permitting, you can always make the flys 15-20m, still 3-5 reps, build up max 30m from roll in. The purpose is to be super snappy and relaxed, to simulate the mid portion of the sprint. They shouldn’t leave you too fatigued! Real plyos and drive work will help with speed

Depends on a) how fast you’re going b) how this supplements your other training c) your desired conditioning from incorporating sprints. Flys should not feel hard! As a former sprinter, we would only do flys in summer, once a week, plus blocks and time trials (100m etc) and two weight sessions.

Whooop can’t wait

“Trans people have always existed!” Even if we hadn’t, the fact is that we do currently exist. And so society has two options: living with us or killing us. But either way, we are bell that cannot be unrung.

Opinion | Enough To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.

"Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead." @roxanegay.bsky.social. in shorturl.at/zJgKT

Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future [FREE TO READ] Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor

A very thoughtful article by historian Mark Mazower — on the label “fascism” and how it applies (or doesn’t apply) to the past/present situation in the US and Europe

www.ft.com/content/4195...

Amazing!

Hi 👋 people in this new place! I’m a historian of modern Germany that specializes in the history of medical and legal forms of transition, trans subjectivity, and the historical production and state regulation of categories such as sex, sexuality, and labour. Hoping to have a regular time here

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

Waiting at the airport for a connecting flight to Amsterdam, and some kind woman returns my wallet that I had dropped an hour ago, saying: ‘it’s a good thing you’ve got such distinctive hair, or else I wouldn’t have identified you’. Moral of the story: mullets make life better

Call for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship - Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern... The UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) invites applications from interested parties to be considered for the Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program.

The application period is open to join us at UBC as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Please circulate to folks who may be interested. cenes.ubc.ca/news/call-fo...

A sharp and vital contribution from the brilliant @lauriem.bsky.social on the history (and contemporary relevance) of trans life and persecution under the Nazi State: a must read!