Katy Telling
@katytelling.bsky.social
JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 PVD.
Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
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So academic. Much freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
So academic. Much freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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If someone says “gender ideology” one more time like it means something, I’m going to lose my mind.
Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria.
They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.
Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria.
They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If someone says “gender ideology” one more time like it means something, I’m going to lose my mind.
Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria.
They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.
Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria.
They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.
Hi y'all! I wanted to re-up the CFP for the Southern and ask if anyone would be interested in putting together a roundtable reconsidering the impact the American Revolution had on Southern religious life:
www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...
www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...
Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal
www.thesha.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hi y'all! I wanted to re-up the CFP for the Southern and ask if anyone would be interested in putting together a roundtable reconsidering the impact the American Revolution had on Southern religious life:
www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...
www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...
Two weeks of being a cat mother and I can confidently say that I would let Sadie open a credit card in my name if she wanted.
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Two weeks of being a cat mother and I can confidently say that I would let Sadie open a credit card in my name if she wanted.
Not to Youtube post twice in one day, but we finally have a teaser for the Ann Lee movie, I cannot wait for this to consume my every waking thought.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
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November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Not to Youtube post twice in one day, but we finally have a teaser for the Ann Lee movie, I cannot wait for this to consume my every waking thought.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...
A wonderful member of our Wednesday OI writing group alerted me to something that is smack bang at the center of my interests: Brandi Carlile quoting directly from Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists on her album from last year!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQ6...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQ6...
Brandi Carlile - Church & State (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BrandiCarlileVEVO
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November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A wonderful member of our Wednesday OI writing group alerted me to something that is smack bang at the center of my interests: Brandi Carlile quoting directly from Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists on her album from last year!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQ6...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQ6...
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CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
We have a NEW essay over @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social all about Halloween tourism and where witches are (and are not) in modern-day Salem. Courtesy of Carla Pestana!
NEW on Commonplace: Halloween may be over but the time is always right to talk about historic memory! In a new essay, historian Carla Pestana searches for the witches in witch city and considers what is lost when history and Halloween tourism collide: commonplace.online/article/sale...
Salem's Absent Witches - Commonplace
Such modest allusions to the colonial past were in the decided minority, however, swamped by the more generic Halloween ambience of the event.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We have a NEW essay over @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social all about Halloween tourism and where witches are (and are not) in modern-day Salem. Courtesy of Carla Pestana!
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Here to terrify on #Halloween 🦇😱
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here to terrify on #Halloween 🦇😱
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r
On this Halloween Eve, we're taking a look through the @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social archives and sharing this 2022 piece from James D. Lilley all about Poe. You know, as in Edgar Allan? Man of mystery, macabre, and...mollusk studies? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Poet, editor, and author of all things terrifying and macabre, Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the perfect author to revisit in the lead up to Halloween. So on this All Hallow's Eve Eve, we present Edgar Allan Poe...the mollusk specialist? From James D. Lilley in 2022: commonplace.online/article/edga...
Edgar Allan Poe: Pioneering Mollusk Scientist - Commonplace
Poe’s work reminds us that the separation of “Arts” and “Sciences” into discrete discourses of knowledge is itself a quite recent invention.
commonplace.online
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
On this Halloween Eve, we're taking a look through the @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social archives and sharing this 2022 piece from James D. Lilley all about Poe. You know, as in Edgar Allan? Man of mystery, macabre, and...mollusk studies? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️
New @joursouhist.bsky.social day, best day!!
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New @joursouhist.bsky.social day, best day!!
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"Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada. And more than double the number of queer New Yorkers."
Everything's bigger in Texas.
Everything's bigger in Texas.
I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready.
I am now.
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I am now.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...
Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too.
There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada. And more than double the number of queer New Yorkers."
Everything's bigger in Texas.
Everything's bigger in Texas.
Less than one week of being a cat mom and already working on a bit where I say “oooooh, I’m telling Sadieeee“ anytime anything displeases me.
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Less than one week of being a cat mom and already working on a bit where I say “oooooh, I’m telling Sadieeee“ anytime anything displeases me.
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"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
My sweet brave Sadie left her donut briefly to come over for some sniffs, pets, and an inspection of my morning coffee. Little steps that feel huge!
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My sweet brave Sadie left her donut briefly to come over for some sniffs, pets, and an inspection of my morning coffee. Little steps that feel huge!
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Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m...
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
Monticello identifies six more people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson
The six people include four adults—Moses, Nanny, Mary Ann Hern, and Robert—and two children whose names remain unknown.
www.29news.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m...
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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why did the crab go to prison
crimes
crimes
August 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
why did the crab go to prison
crimes
crimes
A sincere bracing joy to spend time this week talking history with some incredible folks in Philadelphia. A little shot of gumption for the days ahead!
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A sincere bracing joy to spend time this week talking history with some incredible folks in Philadelphia. A little shot of gumption for the days ahead!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale.
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Academic freedom should not be for sale
The Editorial Board argues the University should join the league of universities rejecting Trump’s compact in favor of in institutional independence.
thedailytexan.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale.
thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...
thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...
Listening to a generational run of songs (Safety Dance into Ironic into The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) in a cafe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Go--and I cannot emphasize this enough--Birds.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Listening to a generational run of songs (Safety Dance into Ironic into The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) in a cafe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Go--and I cannot emphasize this enough--Birds.
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Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.
In America, the law is king.
October 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.
In America, the law is king.
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NEW on Commonplace: Think you know the full story of Eli Whitney's role in the road leading to the Civil War? Think again. Get the full story in Ariel Ron's latest essay for Commonplace:
commonplace.online/article/how-...
commonplace.online/article/how-...
How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True - Commonplace
The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW on Commonplace: Think you know the full story of Eli Whitney's role in the road leading to the Civil War? Think again. Get the full story in Ariel Ron's latest essay for Commonplace:
commonplace.online/article/how-...
commonplace.online/article/how-...