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Katrin Horn
@katrinhorn.bsky.social
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American Studies Teacher, Gossip Researcher, Pop Culture Enthusiast
Here for #Gender #Queer #Archives #DH
Prof @UniGreifswald
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kwissoker.bsky.social
Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
kinda reassuring to know that even one of the best US prose authors was not above enjoying bad puns.
I present to you, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist #EdithWharton writing that a letter to Sara Norton "has since been answered mentally though not (ha! ha!) PENtally" 😅
image of a hand-written letter, faded black ink on beige paper. Text: "which letter has since been answered mentally though not (ha! ha!) PENtally"
February 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
Back to the Roots: mit dem ORF durfte ich über #LadyGaga, Camp, Queerness, und "Bad Romance" sprechen

sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/...
100 Songs - Geschichte wird gemacht - "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga (USA, 2009)
Mit der Weltfinanzkrise blühte sog. "Recession Pop" auf, also schnelle, laute, tanzbare Popmusik, die gute Stimmung zur schlechten Lage verbreiten wollte. Die New Yorker Sängerin Lady Gaga wurde 2008 ...
sound.orf.at
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
Call for Papers, please circulate!

Ethics of queer in/visibility
Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026
queer-in-visibility.de

Keynote speakers:
J Calder
(Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder)
Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social
(History, University of Warwick)
oil painting La mujer barbuda/Magdalena Ventura con su marido; a bearded woman nursing her baby while standing up. Queer in/visibility in pink, plus a QR code to the conference website
February 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
"A Trump denial is not a fact. That’s the thing. It never was. But for a significant portion of the political press, it functioned as one anyway."

great (infuriating) article
sachlichepolitik.bsky.social Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.bsky.social · 17d
Dieser Artikel ist ein Must-Read. Ein Artikel, von dem ich mir wünschte, dass alle JournalistInnen ihn lesen und dann wirklich mal in sich gehen. Bitte. Diskussionen über alte/neue Formate, Kommentar vs. Nachrichten usw. führen nicht weit. Dieser Artikel arbeitet

newrepublic.com/arti...
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The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.
newrepublic.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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zibrak.bsky.social
Submit to this Edith Wharton society panel at the MLA -- looking for scholars at any level, grad students, independent scholars, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · 19d
Come talk about me at the MLA! It's a guaranteed session.
The Edith Wharton International Society seeks panels for a roundtable on “Wharton in Context” for the MLA Convention in Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027. We welcome submissions on Wharton’s work in the context of other disciplines, figures from her period, greater movements in history and literary and cultural trends, and Wharton in relation to other writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a broad range of theoretical perspectives including transmedial approaches. Proposals for presentations no longer than fifteen minutes should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a 200- to 400-word abstract in the body of an email to Arielle Zibrak at azibrak@uwyo.edu As this is an MLA panel, all MLA program participants must be members of the Modern Language Association by April 1, 2026. Become part of the MLA and join here: https://www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
January 30, 2026 at 5:46 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
"Ich verstehe auch, dass Leute wütend sind. Das ist doch aber kein Grund, eine Partei zu wählen, die rechtsradikal ist und menschenfeindliche Politik macht." 👈
January 30, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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taz.de
Wie umgehen mit AfD-Wählern im Osten? Die Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh hat im taz-Interview Antworten gegeben, die Katrin Göring-Eckardt ärgerten.
Grünen-Politikerin über die Brandmauer: „Politik wird zu sehr von der Stadt her gedacht“
Wie umgehen mit AfD-Wählern im Osten? Die Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh hat im taz-Interview Antworten gegeben, die Katrin Göring-Eckardt ärgerten.
taz.de
January 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
As part of #AmSt issue "American Studies across the Decades" I wrote about the surprising timeliness of Schöpp-Schilling's "'Women’s Studies': Ein neuer Schwerpunkt in den Amerikastudien" from 1977:
amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...
(Re)Current Affairs: On the Politics of Gender Studies as American Stu
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amst.winter-verlag.de
January 29, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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jmwiarda.bsky.social
Gutachten mit Haltung

Wie Wissenschaftsministerin Bettina Martin Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Wissenschaftssystem neu vermessen ließ – und warum der Blick dabei jenseits der nächsten Landtagswahlen geht.

Erst im Wiarda-Newsletter, jetzt im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/index.php/bl...
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
diskriminierung-umfrage.de
Wie es in D'Ignazio's / Klein's #datafeminism so schon heißt: "What Gets Counted Counts"
Die Umfrage zu Diskriminierung in Deutschland. Mach mit.
Drei gute Gründe, bei der großen Umfrage zu Diskriminierung mitzumachen: 1. Deine Stimme hilft, Diskriminierung sichtbar zu machen.
diskriminierung-umfrage.de
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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taz.de
Eine Oxfam-Studie zeigt: Fast die Hälfte aller Menschen lebt in Armut. Überreiche werden hingegen reicher – und ihr Reichtum wächst immer schneller.
Studie zur Reichtumsverteilung: Musk verdient in vier Sekunden ein Durchschnittsjahresgehalt
Eine Oxfam-Studie zeigt: Fast die Hälfte aller Menschen lebt in Armut. Überreiche werden hingegen reicher – und ihr Reichtum wächst immer schneller.
taz.de
January 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'"

They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity.

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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adriandaub.bsky.social
Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 8
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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gulsinciftci.bsky.social
Framing Turkish American Literature

I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here:

www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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abeardedpanda.bsky.social
Gender studies really is the quintessential "useless" major that correctly explains basically everything that's going on in the world right now
January 6, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 AM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
I look forward to travelling to Hamburg on Thursday to talk about "From Letters to Data(base). Transforming Queer Knowledge"
www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/liberalarts/...
Gendering Knowledge
www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de
January 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
#TimelineCleanse Ich durfte mit @perspective-daily.bsky.social
übers Lästern reden

perspective-daily.de/article/4046...
Lästern ist eine Überlebensstrategie. So funktioniert sie
Es gilt als Tabu: über andere zu lästern. Dabei erfüllt genau das 4 wichtige soziale Funktionen in unserer Gesellschaft.
perspective-daily.de
January 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
*meh* for the wasted potential of "The Abandons" (which, admittedly, I might've mostly watched for the cast)–could've been a show about the diverse dramas of the frontier / the violence of westward expansion. Feels like one mostly about moody/horny teenagers and domineering mothers
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
new extra-woke identity marker just* dropped:
Cis-Atlantic
😱😅
*November 9, 1893
screenshot of 1893 newspaper article: "Issue 19 (November 9, 1893) “Mr. Oscar Wilde’s press-agents have wisely taken the hint offered in these columns and have considerably tempered the advance notices of the character of that person’s forthcoming lectures in this country. We hear much less than formerly of Wilde’s intention to initiate the American public into the mysteries and delights that formed the theme of his story of “Dorian Grey,” and he has probably been dissuaded from his purpose of instructing us in a new philosophy of filth. There is a limit to the proverbial patience of cis-Atlantic audiences, and it seems to have been reached by the mere hint of Wilde’s proposed incursions into the domain of Sodom and Gomorrah.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
Did not expect to feel personally attacked when I opened the dictionary this morning, but here we are:

"... and you will find more schools of thought than you would at a joint conference of Digital Humanities and American Studies." #DH #AmStudies

www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/buck...
'Buck Naked' or 'Butt Naked'?
It's a natural question
www.merriam-webster.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
Stromausfall im Uni-Gebäude ... und ich hab nichts davon, weil der Laptop weiter funktioniert #WorkingInTheDark
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
katrinhorn.bsky.social
eben mal wieder von einer Schülerin für ein schulisches Abschlussprojekt zu #seximus in #medien interviewt worden und kann daraus nur schlussfolgern: (at least some of) the kids are alright 👍#perksofthejob
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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glasmanjo.bsky.social
Neue Ausschreibung an der @unibayreuth.bsky.social : Didaktik der Geschichte, Akademische Ratsstelle
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM