Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
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Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My most recent book that has actually been published is Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion 2022). (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL)
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
once again experiencing that thing that, when you start riding your bike places, suddenly walking seems like going very slowly, even though walking was fine before.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
once again experiencing that thing that, when you start riding your bike places, suddenly walking seems like going very slowly, even though walking was fine before.
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A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
This is not a description of a special kind of economic bubble, it's just how all bubbles work: most people lose, but some people win, and ultimately this can help usher in new inventions that help everyone.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is not a description of a special kind of economic bubble, it's just how all bubbles work: most people lose, but some people win, and ultimately this can help usher in new inventions that help everyone.
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@schumer.senate.gov — Everyone said, hold the line on the Govt funding for the subsidies, and you whipped 8 Dem votes from reps who weren’t up for reelection anyway—
The failure is yours - we need new leadership
The failure is yours - we need new leadership
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
@schumer.senate.gov — Everyone said, hold the line on the Govt funding for the subsidies, and you whipped 8 Dem votes from reps who weren’t up for reelection anyway—
The failure is yours - we need new leadership
The failure is yours - we need new leadership
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Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.
No contract? NO COFFEE!
No contract? NO COFFEE!
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.
No contract? NO COFFEE!
No contract? NO COFFEE!
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This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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From his Wikipedia entry:
At a Berggruen Institute salon, Harari said that Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel "was kind of an epiphany in my academic career. I realised that I could actually write such books."
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That's a rare self own
At a Berggruen Institute salon, Harari said that Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel "was kind of an epiphany in my academic career. I realised that I could actually write such books."
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That's a rare self own
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
From his Wikipedia entry:
At a Berggruen Institute salon, Harari said that Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel "was kind of an epiphany in my academic career. I realised that I could actually write such books."
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That's a rare self own
At a Berggruen Institute salon, Harari said that Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel "was kind of an epiphany in my academic career. I realised that I could actually write such books."
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That's a rare self own
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Tear gassing a one-year-old U.S. citizen.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Tear gassing a one-year-old U.S. citizen.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
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At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
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Britain, 2010-present
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Britain, 2010-present
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Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
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enough dan ryan. portland has progressed beyond the need for dan ryan
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
enough dan ryan. portland has progressed beyond the need for dan ryan
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We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Finally!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Finally!
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Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power.
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
Charlotte Set a New Standard for Resisting ICE
If they thought Charlotte would break, they miscalculated. Inside: the proof, the tactics, and the shareable content to spread what really happened.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power.
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
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« If any politicians have doubts about adding new bike infrastructure, ´they can look at this report and see that everywhere in the world, other cities are investing in cycling, and they are getting back all the benefits from active mobility,´ » #copenhagenize
www.fastcompany.com/91442963/the...
www.fastcompany.com/91442963/the...
The 30 most bike-friendly cities in the world
The 2025 Copenhagenize Index shows which cities have done the most—from redesigning streets to growing bike-share systems—to make it easy to get around on two wheels.
www.fastcompany.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
« If any politicians have doubts about adding new bike infrastructure, ´they can look at this report and see that everywhere in the world, other cities are investing in cycling, and they are getting back all the benefits from active mobility,´ » #copenhagenize
www.fastcompany.com/91442963/the...
www.fastcompany.com/91442963/the...
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BREAKING: Dozens of Starbucks baristas & hundreds of allies are demonstrating at Starbucks’ largest regional distribution center in the country in York, PA.
Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.
Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
BREAKING: Dozens of Starbucks baristas & hundreds of allies are demonstrating at Starbucks’ largest regional distribution center in the country in York, PA.
Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.
Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.
Honestly the very idea that China would need to prove itself America's equal is ridiculous: the US has only been a country for 250 years, while China has been a world power for millennia, and currently makes most of the world's steel, glass, paper, and clothing as well as like, everything else.
Opinion | The Moment China Proved It Was America’s Equal
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Honestly the very idea that China would need to prove itself America's equal is ridiculous: the US has only been a country for 250 years, while China has been a world power for millennia, and currently makes most of the world's steel, glass, paper, and clothing as well as like, everything else.
Note that many Europeans were enslaved well into the 1700s, even as other Europeans were enslaving millions of Black Africans.
Similar are these bone and stone dice from the Grand Harbour of Malta, where the Knights of St John docked their galleys in the 17th & 18th centuries. Likely made by the captives that rowed the ships, they indicate the captives socialised and played games on board.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Note that many Europeans were enslaved well into the 1700s, even as other Europeans were enslaving millions of Black Africans.
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Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
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It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Race, and Wrongful Convictions | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
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In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."