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hstgrrl.bsky.social
Studies 19th-early 20th C. history of race, gender, ethnicity, and disability with a focus on California. Author of California and The Politics of Disability, 1850-1970 and other stuff, too.
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I like to imagine Hillary & Kamala have nice chatty chats on the phone every once in a while, a glass of good wine, talk about their families, new recipes & send each other tik toks of white ppl saying they regret their vote until they're laughing so hard they're crying. That brings me joy.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

A proposed 8% budget cut would devastate the CSU system. Typical Newsom to undermine this absolute gem of public higher ed in California at a moment when we should be doubling down on investing in education.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

As an Angeleno, I really hate that Facebook has turned out to far and away be the best way to keep track of LA friends and organizations during this tragic chaos. But the fact of the matter is, it is. So that bastard Zuck isn't driving me off it quite yet.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Yeah, that seems about right.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

"sanewashing" is hella ableist. stop equating fascism with mental illness.

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

All of the elite responses to the UHC/Luigi thing seem incapable of grasping that people broadly recognize now that the Proper Channels they insist everyone should direct their grievances into are designed to waste your time, take your money, or both.

submitted 80 days ago • 89 comments

Our faculty union is in the fight, but it's an uphill battle. Link below 2/2 #academia #highereducation #California #LATimes

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, #academic Bsky, please help spread the word that the California State University system, one of the largest public university systems in the world, is trying to gut the #Humanities and the Behavioral and #socialsciences in a misguided attempt to "reform" #generaleducation. Link in next post.1/2

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

I'm just an #academic, standing in front of a funding agency, asking them to $@$# tell me when I *dont* get the funding/fellowship/job just as promptly as they tell the person who does. Don't leave me hanging out here to flap helplessly in the breeze, my dudes. #academia #history

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season

submitted 135 days ago • 86 comments

Friendly reminder to new arrivals that a lot of people have been here for a year or two, so if you show up acting like this place is a barren wilderness that you’ll finally make into something good … it’s not going to go well.

submitted 111 days ago • 314 comments

Howdy! To reintroduce myself, I'm a historian and writer who specializes in the history of California; US women's history; public history; and medicine and disability history. Community activist, coffee lover, teacher at a public state university.

submitted 112 days ago • 4 comments

I worry sometimes about not writing enough, that I waste too much time. Then I think about the lines “The limits of art cannot be delivered. There is no artist whose talent is fulfilled.” Which sentiment was written by a gent named Ptahhotep. In 2600 BC.

submitted 148 days ago • 44 comments

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

Anyway, it’s a huge week for the tasteful pantsuit industry

submitted 194 days ago • 4 comments

God the absolute humiliation of having to be saved by your own lunch

submitted 196 days ago • 92 comments

This is awesome. Blizzard needs to make a Kamala Harris character for Diablo and she can summon Tim Walz to bring a hotdish

submitted 199 days ago • 18 comments

“DON’T TINKER WITH TAYLOR!” SAY SOLDIERS, SPIES

submitted 206 days ago • 106 comments

Alright Warren 2020 people. It's time to take the blade that was broken, named "She is electable if you vote for her", reforge it, and collect the souls of people who an age ago promised to support a woman for President

submitted 225 days ago • 11 comments

If you’re going to let screenwriters indulge in their worst tendencies and call it insight, at least have fun with it and run op-eds like “Wes Anderson: The Democrats Should Have a Brokered Convention of Mice in Hats in a Victorian Dollhouse Set to the Music of Serge Gainsbourg”

submitted 226 days ago • 24 comments

Someone tell Captain Picard, stat.

submitted 230 days ago • 4 comments

It's the Feast Day of St George Michael (his birthday). To celebrate, I suggest you listen to his many divine jams, do some mutual aid, and flirt with a stranger. May he continue to guide us all in our endeavours. Ora pro nobis, Sancte Georgi.

submitted 252 days ago • 21 comments