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Writes and teaches about old things, currently as Assistant Professor of Classics General Faculty at the University of Virginia. Part-time Rotterdammer. More at http://www.ingerkuin.com

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Returning to the dark days of 1990, when it was still a ground of inadmissibility to the United States to be gay (which was considered officially to be a mental condition). Barney Frank successfully got Congress to amend the law.

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39% of the detainees disappeared to the Guantanamo offshore prison were deemed "low threat" by the Trump administration. Some of the individuals being detained at Guantanamo did not cross illegally, legally requesting asylum at a port of entry.

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Great turnout for prez day protest in C’ville. Thankful for likeminded friends and young’uns.

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1/ Protests are taking place at state capitols and city halls and other civic spaces today, most begin at noon local time. They have already started out East. #50501movement www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

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Passing along some useful information from our friends at Indivisible.

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Some recently published thoughts on atheism and imperial space in the Roman Empire, by way of Lucian. Please message or email me for a full PDF! www.academia.edu/127673167/Em...

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Right.

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Willem Schinkel en ik zijn in 2025 maar eens een blog begonnen. De eerste post staat online! Het gaat over pessimisme organiseren. De posts kun je volgen via dit account. Het wordt vast nog veel leuker. Deel en volg enzo.

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Lees dit boek! De mythen, de stenen, de mensen - alles komt voorbij.

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Ice skated on the Campus Martius (in Detroit) today! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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An excellent, thorough article by Erin O’Hara on the state of interventions to address homelessness in the Charlottesville area www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-year-after...

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This powerful piece about roads in the Cville/Albemarle area should get more views. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

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"Universiteiten zijn eigenlijk too big to fail: ze kunnen helemaal niet failliet gaan, dus een klein beetje academische ongehoorzaamheid is wel op z’n plaats." www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...

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Ladder faculty talking themselves into sacrificing the careers of their colleagues on the altar of the "freshness" and "pedagogical innovation" that new hires are expected to bring to workhorse teaching programs. Hmm...where have I heard that argument before? www.chronicle.com/article/at-s...

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Every single Democratic senator and representative should be asking this question on camera at least once a week.

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why do republicans insist on having the right to inspect your child’s genitals?

submitted 369 days ago • 77 comments

I wrote an article for Slate about the sharp and sudden decline in reading skill among college students:

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I need a simple app to let students sign up for extra office hours, but I don’t generally use an online calendar so I need something that’s freestanding. Any recommendations? Thanks!

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I wrote for Newsweek about my experience miscarrying in Texas after Dobbs. Democratic erosion and authoritarianism aren’t abstractions happening elsewhere—my story & that of countless other women are reminders that they happen every day in Texas & in other states. Polisky Gendersky Academicsky

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UVA email has been having problems. If you sent me a message between January 1 and 18 and I haven’t responded to you, please write again, I probably never got it. Thank you!!!

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Ik mag woensdag een lezing geven in het Gallo-Romeins museum in Tongeren, zowel live als online bij te wonen. Je moet je wel even inschrijven (3 Euro). galloromeinsmuseum.be/zien-en-doen...

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It’s super important to understand Biden has not been good on the border and that also he is far better than Trump

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For the website Hic et nunc I wrote a piece (in Dutch) about the use of slave names derived from classical antiquity under Dutch colonialism (in Surinam and Sri Lanka). Open access for a few days, after that behind a paywall. hic-nunc.be/nl/artikels/...