Laura Kitchings
@foodandarchives.bsky.social
Food scholar and archivist exploring popular culture and experimenting in digital humanities (she/her). Childless cat lady. https://linktr.ee/LauraKitchings
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One of the laws of library science is “every book its reader” and this sure sounds like a case of people concluding the book is wrong and not that they’re the wrong reader for it…
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
One of the laws of library science is “every book its reader” and this sure sounds like a case of people concluding the book is wrong and not that they’re the wrong reader for it…
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LGBTQ+ children's TV and film archive launched after attacks on queer storytelling
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/the-rainbow-project-lgbtq-archive/?utm_content=1764313201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/the-rainbow-project-lgbtq-archive/?utm_content=1764313201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
LGBTQ+ children's TV and film archive launched by the Rainbow Project
An archive of LGBTQ+ children's TV shows and films has been launched amid cuts and attacks on queer storytelling.
www.thepinknews.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
LGBTQ+ children's TV and film archive launched after attacks on queer storytelling
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/the-rainbow-project-lgbtq-archive/?utm_content=1764313201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/the-rainbow-project-lgbtq-archive/?utm_content=1764313201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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“The prospect of the First Peoples being physically or forcibly stopped or detained is harrowing and reminiscent of this country’s original treatment of the First Peoples,” Galanda said.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The prospect of the First Peoples being physically or forcibly stopped or detained is harrowing and reminiscent of this country’s original treatment of the First Peoples,” Galanda said.
My latest post for #MaryElizaProject
Today’s #VoterOfTheDay is South Boston's Helen F. Merrill (later Hopkins), who registered to vote in Boston School Board Elections on November 27, 1918. In 1907, she earned a third-year diploma from South Boston High School. Image: @bpl.boston.gov #BostonHistory #WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My latest post for #MaryElizaProject
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I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
www.ed.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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Non fiction authors usually supplement their book income with public speaking, consulting, have full time jobs or they're in academia.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Non fiction authors usually supplement their book income with public speaking, consulting, have full time jobs or they're in academia.
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We gotta find non misogynistic ways to call out stuff like this
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We gotta find non misogynistic ways to call out stuff like this
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Holiday movie season is here and Historians At The Movies is all about it. This week we are talking about wine and love. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, November 30 at 8pm eastern for CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS. #HATM
Be the toast of the town by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Be the toast of the town by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Holiday movie season is here and Historians At The Movies is all about it. This week we are talking about wine and love. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, November 30 at 8pm eastern for CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS. #HATM
Be the toast of the town by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Be the toast of the town by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Late post for #HATM. Someone else shared the obit, but this quote seems very on point for the ice cream incident in tonight’s film.
In memos later made public, the F.B.I. director, J. Edgar Hoover, ordered his agents to begin arresting Mr. Al-Amin and other S.N.C.C. leaders “on every possible charge until they could no longer make bail.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Late post for #HATM. Someone else shared the obit, but this quote seems very on point for the ice cream incident in tonight’s film.
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Police claimed a fierce gun battle broke out but ballistics showed only 1 shot was fired from the Panthers’ side. The rest of the “bullet holes” were from nails used to put holes in the door to back up the cops’ story. While the grand jury recommended charges, prosecutors never filed them. #HATM
The Assassination · The Assassination of Fred Hampton · Digital Chicago
digitalchicagohistory.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Police claimed a fierce gun battle broke out but ballistics showed only 1 shot was fired from the Panthers’ side. The rest of the “bullet holes” were from nails used to put holes in the door to back up the cops’ story. While the grand jury recommended charges, prosecutors never filed them. #HATM
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Eyes of the Prize (1&2) are some of the most amazing works of living history. They use a combination of archival footage from the 50s/60s/70s and interviews with actual participants to reconstruct the Civil Rights & Black Power movements. It's very long, but worth the watch if you can find it. #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Eyes of the Prize (1&2) are some of the most amazing works of living history. They use a combination of archival footage from the 50s/60s/70s and interviews with actual participants to reconstruct the Civil Rights & Black Power movements. It's very long, but worth the watch if you can find it. #HATM
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This was an excellent choice this week @herberthistory.bsky.social . I got so wrapped up in the movie I forgot to post haha. I think of this movie which came out in 2021 and Till (2022) are two powerhouse movies that deserve(d) way more attention. #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This was an excellent choice this week @herberthistory.bsky.social . I got so wrapped up in the movie I forgot to post haha. I think of this movie which came out in 2021 and Till (2022) are two powerhouse movies that deserve(d) way more attention. #HATM
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“The Black Panther Party never just went into the community and did things. People told us what they needed.” #HATM www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-h...
Black History Month: Celebrating the Origins of Free Breakfast and the Food Justice Movement
When the Black Panther Party was established, they begun to hear loud and clear that children in Oakland were hungry and did not have access to nutritious meals
www.nokidhungry.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“The Black Panther Party never just went into the community and did things. People told us what they needed.” #HATM www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-h...
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
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Also: what someone is eating or not eating isn’t any of your business.
Holiday reminders:
- If someone has a new relationship, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask.
- If someone is pregnant and they want to share that, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask.
- If someone’s body has changed, they’re aware. You don’t need to point it out.
- If someone has a new relationship, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask.
- If someone is pregnant and they want to share that, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask.
- If someone’s body has changed, they’re aware. You don’t need to point it out.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Also: what someone is eating or not eating isn’t any of your business.
Stopping myself from researching this movie before tonight’s watch, but it feels like another series of historical events should have learned before today #HATM
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Stopping myself from researching this movie before tonight’s watch, but it feels like another series of historical events should have learned before today #HATM
Spent this afternoon at a Kingston Trio concert with my father and two immediate thoughts. 1. How much their music drew on Hawaiian music. 2. I need to start using the term “patriotic rage” more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...
The Kingston Trio - Wikipedia
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November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Spent this afternoon at a Kingston Trio concert with my father and two immediate thoughts. 1. How much their music drew on Hawaiian music. 2. I need to start using the term “patriotic rage” more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...