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Living in a parallel universe of IUPUI, "Loyal to you we’ll always be" Older than Norma Desmond. Feminist AF. RPs=FYI. New York style for pizza. Chicago style for citations. Childless Cat Lady living with Esperanza, the Empress.
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I have a new book out today, the Portable Feminist Reader. I hope you check it out. audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-o...

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." – Seamus Heaney

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

From a novelist, but relevant to historical writing on any sort: “So I read enough to understand the context in a general way, and then I started writing. The writing informed my research, and then the research informed my writing. I would shift between the two activities constantly.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So it has taken a bit longer than promised but the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States is about to go into production! Watch this space for pub date and possible (shameless) semiquincentennial branding. And massive thanks to the stellar contributors who have been incredible to work with

submitted 132 days ago • 15 comments

When talking with folks about implications of threats to government programs, it makes sense to know what Medicaid is called in your state.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Watching and listening to a book talk by Kim Williams-Pulfer on “philanthropy from below,” with Bahamian life and organizations as the case. The concept recognizes how enslaved people and their descendants developed practices of living and responding within civil society with a sense of agency.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Anniversary to the covid emergency declaration!

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

thing about community is you got to just make it with whoever's around. those are your people. right there. you're already in it. keep retying those bonds. send a letter. a text. make a call. a meal. yes, there's always room for another. say hello when you sit down on the bus. don't wait

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

they'll really give women a whole Day but not a fair 8 hours of sleep afterwards

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

packing and consolidating what’s left at the former house, like an archaeologist excavating and reconstructing the future you thought you were going to have

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This essay by Peter Coviello--on what it is that the humanities, public higher ed, unions, and people can do--is what's giving me life today www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Could Roosevelt have stopped the Blitz by cutting off Churchill from Lend-Lease? Our experts weigh in.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Indiana University quietly shuttered a project that trained educators in civil rights, equity and school reform after a stop-work order from the U.S. Department of Education. indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-clos...

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"We say we can get more done at home — which is very likely true — but academic work is not just about getting things done. A college is meant to foster a distinct way of life. It aims to live in accord with values that are rare elsewhere: collegiality and the free exchange of ideas."

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Finished inking in the words in my first-ever acrylic on canvas. These words are the ones being scrubbed from fed'l websites & being used to flag/deny NSF and FEMA funding. May we all be keepers of the Words.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Are you one of the many federal employees wondering what the hell is going on with those stupid bullet point emails? Well don’t worry. We’ve got all the guidance you could possibly need right here.

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

Teen Vogue and Wired becoming the most reliable publications was not on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

A student at IU Bloomington opposes a bill that'd ban student IDs for voting: "At best, it's a misguided policy that is building on anti-student sentiment; at worst, it's a targeted form of voter suppression to try to make it harder for students to vote." boltsmag.org/indiana...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Mug check, courtesy of @artofmarza.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

we need to return to shaming evil capitalists in church murals

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

I feel so seen! 🤣

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

One way I dealt with going online (almost) 5 yrs ago was to have this plaque & sword on the wall behind me. And to dye my hair--usually a blue that I called "comic-book blue-black." The pandemic isn't over. But I have retired & I am moving on to other colors. Ruby Red for the next period of time!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

In other news, Ramadan is starting on Saturday. Be kind to your Muslims friends who are fasting. If you think we're ignoring you around 5 pm, just know we're in a Ramadan Hibernation Zone preparing for sunset when we can eat and drink.

submitted 29 days ago • 174 comments

Join us at the kitchen table for discussions of radical answers. Submit a proposal to the Big Berks or join us this May at the Little Berks berks.confex.com/berks/2026/c...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Monday!

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

An old favorite: Roses are red Gender’s performative Valentine’s Day Is heteronormative.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Check it out, Public History folks at Indiana University Indianapolis!!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 32 days ago • 583 comments