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Feminist historian, dog-mom, book-lover. She/her. More at anyajabour.com.
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Ok. What is up with FB pushing ads to me on tools to get pregnant and religious paraphernalia? Cuz whatever algorithm they’re using is profoundly misguided. IYKYK

This was a bright spot in my week: being featured on the Academic Minute! academicminute.org/2025/02/anya...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

A quarter-million families with LGBTQ+ children have already been displaced by The Republican Party. They have relocated to states and cities that, so far, give promise to withstand Republican initiatives to restrict their freedom, healthcare, and relationships. www.ebar.com/story.php?ch...

The arc does not bend itself. And it is not bending in the right direction. So we will have to collectively drag it toward justice, to organize and bend it ourselves. No one is coming to save us. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Start local. tap into local orgs doing good work. Concede nothing.

✨ I am thrilled to be guest editing an issue of CENTRO journal with Alberto Ortiz Díaz on “New Histories of Health, Care Work, and Healthcare Activism in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the United States.” ✨ Please submit & circulate the CFP widely. 🧵✨

Ready for spring semester!

This is so good from historian @zelizer.bsky.social. I asked him whether the current despondence about Trump's win has parallels to the feeling after Bush won in 2004. He makes the case that there's much to learn from what happened *after* that. Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1902...

Just a semi-regular, not-at-all-pathetic reminder to please please pre-order THERE IS A DEEP BROODING IN ARKANSAS, out in nineteen days (Jan. 28)!!! Also, academics, bookstores, libraries, schools, etc, I am eager to speak about this book to anyone who will listen - hit me up!!!

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

As we're entering another Gilded Age, it's a good reminder to look at the first one for models of resistance. Here is my piece for @time-magazine.bsky.social #MadeByHistory on how Mrs. Astor won the 1890 tariff wars. Check it out, and think who could be today's Mr. Astor?🗃️ time.com/7202002/fash...

Seems like a good moment to remind everyone that you can learn all about the history of the Electoral College on Unsung History.

This woman believes in a gay man’s right to love who he wishes and marry who he chooses everyday in every state. 😍❤️

Like FDA approval of the pill a decade earlier, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act “changed the trajectory of American women’s lives” overnight. A new Smithsonian exhibit documents the fight.

"Everyone knows Hillary lost because she was so unlikeable and didn’t go to WI enough. Meanwhile, Kamala is likable, she went to WI plenty of times. Yet there was still something not quite right about her, and when it came time for me to choose, I had to go with my gut." h/t @mcsweeneys.net

Delighted to see my latest essay is now out! This deals with the representation of working-class women in England and Wales as 'bad mothers' between 1870 and 1939. Thanks to editors Laura Price, Laura Harrison & Oli Betts for bringing it together 🥳🌟 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Hi all, wanted to introduce myself as co-editor (with Greg Downs) of the JOURNAL OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA. We're a scholarly journal published quarterly by @uncpress.bsky.social. Our interests are wide-ranging! Civil War but much, much more. On here we're at @jcwe.bsky.social. Give us a follow!

This looks like an amazing conference!

I'm excited to be giving a hybrid presentation, "Trailblazer: How Katharine Bement Davis Advanced Women's Equality in the Workplace, at the Polls, and in the Bedroom," at the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House and via Zoom on Dec. 11 at 1 pm Eastern! Register here: susanb.org/guest-lectur...

Measure to ban trans Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from women's bathroom fails For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Susan B. Anthony had things to say about today's Atlantic misogyny article. She knew plenty of contented unmarried women who refused to settle for demanding disrespectful men. She also thought this "epoch of single women" would be a "transitional phase," until the men came around. 1870s.

For @xtramagazine.com I wrote about Julia's national call for action and the need for trans people and our family, friends, and allies to call our representatives and senators. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

A new feature at the #JERPano! Our #JER senior editorial assistant, Elena Telles Ryan, introduces a new "Curious Sources" series featuring historians' reflections on strange, challenging, or otherwise unusual archival sources. thepanorama.shear.org/2024/11/12/c...

Yes!

Some good insights about respectability politics in this #LGBTIQNotGoingBack post!

Important long read on why it’s important for Democrats to keep supporting LGBTIQ+ rights. #LGBTQNotGoingBack

Together We Are Unstoppable - #LGBTQNotGoingBack @juliaserano.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pittpeop...

LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back #LGBTQNotGoingBack Today many in the LGBTQIA2S community are working to have a collective conversation with the US and its Democrat officials thanks to the effort of @juliaserano.bsky.social. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/ericavog...

Today is #LGBTQNotGoingBack Day of Action - Call and write your Congress rep & Senators and let them know: no backsliding on any LGBTQ rights - it's both wrong and it's politically unwise, losing more voters than it'd gain. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Lookup tool to find your rep: www.house.gov/representati...

My 6800-word report combining election data, polling, and historical analysis disproves the narrative that trans rights was a major factor in Democrats losing this year. Democrats stand to gain nothing if they leave trans people behind! #LGBTQNotGoingBack www.madycast.com/p/countering...

for everyone taking part in the action tomorrow/Tuesday, 1) thank you! 2) here's some info that may be helpful + how to make sure your link is included in the collection of #LGBTQNotGoingBack writings/creations...

#LGBTQNotGoingBack!

More than 100 years ago, power couple Sophonisba Breckinridge and Edith Abbott helped build the welfare state. #LGBTQNotGoingBack theconversation.com/same-sex-cou...

Post-Thanksgiving gratitude: handyman seems to have solved my plumbing problems; made some headway on my first official book talk; and heard from a student in my first ever class, 30 years ago, who is still thinking about the material on gender diversity we discussed then!

#LGBTQNotGoingBack

Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac... or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...

While we are introducing ourselves, I am mom to three doodles! Here is a set of photos of Otis, my blonde labradoodle, looking cute with and without toys.

Fascinating!

1. The Republican Party's panic over Sarah McBride in a bathroom shows it was never about sports or kids. They cannot help but to indulge in its cruelest impulses when a transgender person becomes an equal. Now, Dems have an opportunity to flip the script. Subscribe to support my journalism.