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The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

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If you live in Philly and especially if you have children in the public schools, let the school district know you agree with their decision re: trans students and sports.

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Happy book publication day! Writing and researching Unforgettable Sacrifice was a journey. I am forever grateful to my family and community kinskeepers who inspired the book and ensured that I narrated their past with accuracy, dignity, and respect. 1/3

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The organized pro-censorship movement undermines the authority and autonomy of library workers, terrorizes the people who work at the library. Vaunted principles yes, intellectual freedom yes, but I wonder what our opposition might look like if we'd been framing it as a labor issue all along.

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Pre-ordered! 📚 ✅

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When we fight, we win. Judge Halts Implementation of Trump Anti-DEIA Executive Orders Nationwide The AAUP is proud to stand up & defend our campuses & communities against those attempting to squash civil rights & halt progress toward an equitable, multi-racial democracy. www.washingtonpost.com

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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Reupping: Application period open to survey the history of books with me in Los Angeles this summer. There are amazing collections at amazing libraries staffed by amazing librarians in LA. We'll work with them to explore how books emerged, were made, used, & made meaning/information for centuries!

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Today is the last day to submit comments about proposed LCSH changes, including changing to Mt. McKinley and Gulf of America. h/t @katscade.bsky.social classweb.org/tentative-su...

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📣 Douglass Day Update! We've hit 686 pages with 476 in progress, even and more to review & cite! Although this is the end of our Douglass Day celebration, please keep the momentum going by transcribing at crowd.loc.gov. Every contribution helps to make history! #DouglassDay2025 #Youmakehistory

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Black History Month as the nation denies diversity, #6. Thank brave Black archivists & librarians for access to Black history. Dorothy Porter Wesley literally made anti-racist space in cataloging practices & collections. See scholars like @drkmttr82.bsky.social & @lehelton.bsky.social on her legacy.

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"Helton animates the inventiveness of Black librarians, scrapbookers, collectors, curators, and archivists who salvaged and preserved records of Black life by and for Black communities." via a review of SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS, by @lehelton.bsky.social. shorturl.at/hjkLB @columbiaup.bsky.social

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The National Parks Service erased transgender people from their website honoring Stonewall. You can leave a comment on the website. Flood this comment box www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

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The key tactic they're using to symbolically erase trans people is to leave the LGB in place, splitting our communities apart rather than erasing us entirely. I think we need to think more about who's the target of this tactic.

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Here's where you can go to email them your complaint: www.nps.gov/ston/contact...

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The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

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In just two days, we’ll be transcribing history for Douglass Day! ❤️ Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African was first published in 1789 in London. One of the earliest firsthand accounts of the Middle Passage. #Douglassday2025

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"We cannot remain silent while these policies attempt to strip people of their humanity and dignity and reverse course on our nation’s journey towards a more just and equitable future." A necessary North Star from the Japanese American National Museum: blog.janm.org/2025/02/11/s...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is officially available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

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There are a lot of reasons for despair these days. I get it. It's also time to get after it! Registration for this year's Douglass Day is at an all-time high. Demand for histories of organizing and activism is just gonna keep going up and up 📈

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8 years ago @asbmb.bsky.social gave me +18 more trainees a crash course in advocacy for their DC Hill Day. With NIH slashing indirect costs effective immediately, university Govt Affairs teams will be swamped. Here's 10 tips for scientists contacting lawmakers +pics from Denver's 2017 Science March.

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SUNDAY, FEB 9, 1PM: Marathon reading of The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde @ Performance Space New York (formerly P.S. 122). Organized by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sarah Schulman. FREE with RSVP. performancespacenewyork.org/shows/marath... #BlackWomen #BlackLesbians #QTPOC #LGBTQIA #NYC

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Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

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Shout-out to @justsecurity.org for this “Litigation Tracker”! I’ve been needing something like this. (Request: It would be even more awesome if we could also see each suit’s status.) www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

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So grateful for the time I got to spend with Jenny Schuessler. She did a beautiful job capturing the essence of our new exhibition at @brooklynhistory, and centering the voices at the center of the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/a...

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Those who watch this @democracynow.org segment, below is a 🧵 including the Executive Order that was mentioned. ⬇️ www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...

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Congratulations to @shelbinahwilet.bsky.social and Dr. Diana Marsh on this amazing grant to expand and improve archival collections related to Indigenous knowledge. Read all about it in Maryland Today. today.umd.edu/umd-awarded-... #academicsky #universityofmaryland

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Proud that @aaup.bsky.social joined this lawsuit and thankful for the leadership of @democracyforward.bsky.social

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“Black History Month was not a government gift; it was a hard-won effort” by Black activists during Jim Crow. As @marthasjones.bsky.social puts it, it’s critical we all realize that "no one gave us permission" to celebrate Black history. www.axios.com/2025/02/01/p... @marthasjones.bsky.social

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“Black History Month existed long before presidents endorsed it, and it will continue, even if presidents do not,” said Martha Jones, a professor of history and a presidential scholar at Johns Hopkins University." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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I want the public to hear from every university president by 12 noon tomorrow. I am so serious

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Some thoughts on the latest anti-history and anti-trans EO. (Initial, on the bus, subject to revision 😉 & more informed on the 🗃️ than the 🏳️‍⚧️rights problems here.) 1) Can they do this? That is, is it legal for the executive to do this, in this way? NO.

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Attacks against our right to teach, research, and advocate for higher education as a public good, are increasingly rapidly. Join our movement to organize for a better future for all higher ed workers: www.organizeeverycampus.org

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My author's copies arrived on the day where an EO was passed about telling the full American experience as indoctrination. As the product of AfAm porches, I will be loud, proud, and continue to speak their truth as well as my own to power even in this political environment.

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BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.

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We are honored to join @nclrights.bsky.social and @gladlaw.bsky.social in challenging the Trump Administration's latest attack on transgender service members.

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I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources: DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...

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As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

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The "DIY Web Archiving" zine shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about—and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!). Preservation & collaboration tools; advice on metadata, file org, privacy: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

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NEH's newest grant program, State and Impact of the Humanities, funds data-grounded research that can help us tell the story of how and why the humanities matter. It was a privilege to develop this program with Jess Unger, Ben Skinner, Lutie Rodriguez, & Scott Weingart. www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...

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Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print! Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...

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Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept.

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Meanwhile...Letterpress was launched with the first "I You We Exist" print in 2018 when Trump tried to narrowly define sex/gender. I made a new print last year for a special exhibition of art work by queer youth responding to anti-LGBT legislation. I guess it's time to reprint both.

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This work will give me life in 2025! So thankful to @mellon.org for this support. Please stay tuned as we will need a Project Coordinator (f/t), Asst. Project Coordinator (p/t), and Metadata Specialist (p/t). Happy to make this announcement on MLK Day! Moving with intention! standarchives.com

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Colleagues: If you're teaching this Spring, please let me know if I can help. Happy to talk with your students about immigration, free speech, ideological exclusion & deportation, Cold War/McCarthyism, War on Terror, and Threat of Dissent. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

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