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sarahknott.bsky.social
Writer, feminist, historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Here from the other place. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDCARE
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Cory Booker grooving on Federalist 51 warms an early Americanist heart @booker.senate.gov

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As an Essex girl, I am 100% here for the New Jersey jokes #CoryBooker

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ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.

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This open letter will be published tomorrow on the AAUP blog. Signatures will be accepted after that, but a high # of signatures in advance will help the organizers gain media attention that could benefit the effort. Share in ways you believe will get results! sites.google.com/view/we-must...

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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

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Endorsing this as a former professor at one of the 60 universities to have funding threatened: sites.google.com/umass.edu/we.... International colleagues, there is the opportunity to sign too

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In "The Politics of Care Work," @emmaamador.bsky.social tells the story of Puerto Rican women’s involvement in political activism for social and economic justice in Puerto Rico and the United States throughout the 20th century. Read the intro for free on our website! #LatinxStudies buff.ly/LcOHJKW

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SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN HISTORY: year-long appointment, topic of religion and the state. www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-s...

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JOB: 3 year postdoc in North American history since 1600, University of Oxford. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DME724/b...

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Excited to unwrap this timely forthcoming book by the brilliant historian of medicine Mary Fissell. We’ll be talking about it in London next month

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"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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Moment of levity: @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social knows how to celebrate Valentine's Day

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The Centre for Women's, Gender and Queer Histories @ox.ac.uk has a new website and a shorter title (WGQ). It's necessary times for historicizing work www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-w... #skyhistorians @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

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9 (NINE!) one-year early career fellowships at Oxford for historians working on religion and the state. Come on women's/gender/queer scholars, you know that's you too www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j... #skyhistorians. Deadline 26 Feb

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NEW BOOK, or, how feminists are good at witty titles

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NEW BOOK: histories of family, objects, emotion.

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On the train to Birmingham to talk feminist histories this afternoon

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There's nothing like when a colleague arranges a talk in which you have particular interest! Join WGIQ tomorrow at 11.45am when @annafranjam.bsky.social talks about care and the asylum cgis.history.ox.ac.uk/article/hila...

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There's a bunch of us interested in 'care' as a category of analysis here in Oxford. Join queer political theorist Lucile Richard and I, if that's you. We're going to read some good stuff cgis.history.ox.ac.uk/article/2025...

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For @thetls.bsky.social, I wrote about Helen Charman's capacious account of mothering and the British state since the 1970s. Totally recommend MOTHER STATE. www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...

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