Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
@einavrfox.bsky.social
Historian. Curator. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
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Very honored to be included in this last #ScholarSunday thread of the year, which is as always, filled with great scholarship all around.
Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 255 (12/21/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please sha...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Very honored to be included in this last #ScholarSunday thread of the year, which is as always, filled with great scholarship all around.
It’s the holidays and what spells “holiday spirit” more than an ugly Christmas sweater. Check out my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social and get yourself a woolen joy 🗃
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Common Threads: The History of the Ugly Christmas Sweater | The Saturday Evening Post
Nothing says holiday cheer more than a knitted woolen with a reindeer motif, preferably in 3D and with glitter.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s the holidays and what spells “holiday spirit” more than an ugly Christmas sweater. Check out my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social and get yourself a woolen joy 🗃
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/12/comm...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/12/comm...
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
We light the first Hanukkah candle this evening, but we could all use some light right now, so here’s my 254th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from last week. Add more below, share widely, & solidarity, all.🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 254 (12/14/2025) – Black and White and Read All Over
We light the first Hanukkah candle this evening, but we could all use some light right now, so here’s my super-sized 254th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episo...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We light the first Hanukkah candle this evening, but we could all use some light right now, so here’s my 254th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from last week. Add more below, share widely, & solidarity, all.🗃️
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After all the turkey and the shopping, you can be thankful for @americanstudier.bsky.social's thread and treat yourself this weekend with all this great scholarship. And as always, I'm thankful for the mention.
I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. So let’s end the holiday weekend with my 252nd! Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 252 (11/30/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. So let’s end the holiday weeke...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
After all the turkey and the shopping, you can be thankful for @americanstudier.bsky.social's thread and treat yourself this weekend with all this great scholarship. And as always, I'm thankful for the mention.
Only two days more to get my book #DressedForFreedom and others for 50% off!
NOW ANNOUNCING our Black Friday Sale!
Take 50% off all (ALL! Including preorders!) books with code FRIDAY50 at checkout!
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#Thanksgiving #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #Sale #Books
Take 50% off all (ALL! Including preorders!) books with code FRIDAY50 at checkout!
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#Thanksgiving #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #Sale #Books
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Only two days more to get my book #DressedForFreedom and others for 50% off!
It’s Black Friday, so good opportunity to repost this short piece about this day’s origins. Enjoy!
As we gear up to the holiday, here is my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social on Black Friday, which like everything in pop culture can be traced to the Great Depression 🗃
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Common Threads: The Origins of Black Friday | The Saturday Evening Post
For 100 years, retailers and politicians have made sure that Americans were primed to spend their money in the days after Thanksgiving.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s Black Friday, so good opportunity to repost this short piece about this day’s origins. Enjoy!
Great thread on Pins and Needles, the ILGWU production that is at the center of my next book. To add to Erik's, the show not only centered labor, but also provided a model on how art can have a political role in society, and how it, and especially theater, were central to the culture of unions.
This Day in Labor History: November 27, 1937. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play “Pins and Needles,” which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. Let's talk about this moment of labor feminism meeting popular culture!
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Great thread on Pins and Needles, the ILGWU production that is at the center of my next book. To add to Erik's, the show not only centered labor, but also provided a model on how art can have a political role in society, and how it, and especially theater, were central to the culture of unions.
My book just turned 4, but it’s still kicking, and is also 50% off for Black Friday.
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www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=87...
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My book just turned 4, but it’s still kicking, and is also 50% off for Black Friday.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=87...
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=87...
As we gear up to the holiday, here is my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social on Black Friday, which like everything in pop culture can be traced to the Great Depression 🗃
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/comm...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/comm...
Common Threads: The Origins of Black Friday | The Saturday Evening Post
For 100 years, retailers and politicians have made sure that Americans were primed to spend their money in the days after Thanksgiving.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As we gear up to the holiday, here is my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social on Black Friday, which like everything in pop culture can be traced to the Great Depression 🗃
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/comm...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/comm...
Nothing against this group or the clip, but I find it really interesting that Americans can’t comprehend fascism in color.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Nothing against this group or the clip, but I find it really interesting that Americans can’t comprehend fascism in color.
Talked with @brittanywong.bsky.social on the conservative/fascist turn in today’s fashion. Fashion can be a tool of control, but it can also be a form of resistance. Don’t buy into the fascist trends.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Era Is Influencing Fashion In Some Pretty Depressing Ways
We asked fashion experts to share all the ways Trump 2.0 is influencing what we wear.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Talked with @brittanywong.bsky.social on the conservative/fascist turn in today’s fashion. Fashion can be a tool of control, but it can also be a form of resistance. Don’t buy into the fascist trends.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
“What’s interesting now is that, while during Trump’s first administration we saw more resistance and backlash from the fashion industry, now we see more compliance,” said professor @einavrfox.bsky.social.
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Era Is Influencing Fashion In Some Pretty Unsettling Ways
We asked fashion experts to share all the ways Trump 2.0 is influencing what we wear.
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“What’s interesting now is that, while during Trump’s first administration we saw more resistance and backlash from the fashion industry, now we see more compliance,” said professor @einavrfox.bsky.social.
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
116 years ago a bunch of working class women changed the world because they got together and fought for their rights. Their fight is still our fight.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
116 years ago a bunch of working class women changed the world because they got together and fought for their rights. Their fight is still our fight.
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Now that it's official, I'm happy to announce that starting today I am the managing editor at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I didn't choose to leave academia, but I'm very excited to begin this new chapter, in this dream job and keep doing the things I love to do, surrounded by art and beauty.
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Now that it's official, I'm happy to announce that starting today I am the managing editor at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I didn't choose to leave academia, but I'm very excited to begin this new chapter, in this dream job and keep doing the things I love to do, surrounded by art and beauty.
Happy 250th #ScholarSunday thread! This is such a valuable resource and thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for all his amazing work! Give him a follow
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy 250th #ScholarSunday thread! This is such a valuable resource and thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for all his amazing work! Give him a follow
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Coordinating Council for Women in History CCWH
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Coordinating Council for Women in History CCWH
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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Couldn’t get a better fortune today than this one. Details to come.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Couldn’t get a better fortune today than this one. Details to come.
Always happy to comment on First Ladies fashion, especially when the occasion is a new book on Michelle Obama. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Martha Washington to Melania Trump: How US first ladies through history have harnessed the power of fashion
As Michelle Obama's The Look is published, we dissect first-lady fashion through the decades. From "mother of the nation" to Flotus fashionistas, what have their styles signalled?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Always happy to comment on First Ladies fashion, especially when the occasion is a new book on Michelle Obama. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 248 (11/2/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add ...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Happy Halloween! Great time to repost my latest #CommonThreads column on WITCH
Just in time for spooky season, my latest #CommonThreads column for the @satevepost.bsky.social is a reminder that a witch is not just a costume but a powerful political statement. Check it out 🗃️
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Common Threads: When Women BeWITCHed Wall Street | The Saturday Evening Post
Feminists have used the figure of a witch to protest the patriarchy, beauty pageants, the president, and even public transportation costs.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy Halloween! Great time to repost my latest #CommonThreads column on WITCH
To echo this, part of the reason that unions were so powerful in the 1930s is that they understood the power of connecting different people for a common goal. Pins and Needles, the ILGWU musical celebrated just that - diversity - and why it was important not only to labor but to democracy
One problem with Vance's argument is that it was not immigration restriction in 1924 that led to rapid union growth--indeed that coincided with a fiercely anti-union decade of Republican governance--but the New Deal's National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
To echo this, part of the reason that unions were so powerful in the 1930s is that they understood the power of connecting different people for a common goal. Pins and Needles, the ILGWU musical celebrated just that - diversity - and why it was important not only to labor but to democracy
I know Sean Penn didn’t base his character in One Battle After Another on one person, but I can’t help but thinking of him every time I see a picture of Bovino.
why is everything so shit, example 34567890
DHS posted this video two hours after I asked about the viral photos of Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino.
The portion where he does hand signals is from Bovino leaving court in Chicago yesterday.
The portion where he does hand signals is from Bovino leaving court in Chicago yesterday.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I know Sean Penn didn’t base his character in One Battle After Another on one person, but I can’t help but thinking of him every time I see a picture of Bovino.
What a great joy on the Sunday before Halloween to read great Halloween-themed not not themed scholarship from @americanstudier.bsky.social, including yours truly on the feminist organization WITCH
Here it is, my 247th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 247 (10/26/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 247th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy,...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What a great joy on the Sunday before Halloween to read great Halloween-themed not not themed scholarship from @americanstudier.bsky.social, including yours truly on the feminist organization WITCH