Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
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Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social
· Oct 15
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
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bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
Spotted in the wild! Register for a virtual conversation with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Spotted in the wild! Register for a virtual conversation with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
January 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
Advance reader’s copies of I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU have arrived!!! If you’re interested in reviewing it shoot me a DM.
January 13, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Advance reader’s copies of I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU have arrived!!! If you’re interested in reviewing it shoot me a DM.
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Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The addressee of Dr. Peterson's email, Dr. Sweet, who was the conduit of these complaints. You cannot make this stuff up. The cowardice of so many academics just blows my mind. 😭
Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.
Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
The addressee of Dr. Peterson's email, Dr. Sweet, who was the conduit of these complaints. You cannot make this stuff up. The cowardice of so many academics just blows my mind. 😭
Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.
Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.
Come to Texas A&M where we’ve stamped out the woke gender ideology of *squints* Plato
What are we even doing here
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Come to Texas A&M where we’ve stamped out the woke gender ideology of *squints* Plato
What are we even doing here
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:17 AM
What are we even doing here
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I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social
This feels a bit tone deaf almost LinkedIn to post about this right now, but @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are extremely happy to share that our volume and the brilliant thoughts of our contributors were published yesterday by Palgrave 👇
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World
This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
link.springer.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social
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Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
January 1, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Forcing AI on students will create a generation of functionally illiterate and innumerate adults.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Forcing AI on students will create a generation of functionally illiterate and innumerate adults.
Christmas came early! I’m blown away by the endorsements for I Will Not Abandon You. It’s a gift to have such generous colleagues.
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Christmas came early! I’m blown away by the endorsements for I Will Not Abandon You. It’s a gift to have such generous colleagues.
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I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
American Cant | Defector
Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders. T...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
Anyone who promises to actually enforce traffic laws as DC mayor gets my vote. I’m sick and tired of having to worry as a pedestrian and cyclist if some crazed driver is going to blast through a red light.
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Anyone who promises to actually enforce traffic laws as DC mayor gets my vote. I’m sick and tired of having to worry as a pedestrian and cyclist if some crazed driver is going to blast through a red light.
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I give monthly. It's a treasure.
I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I give monthly. It's a treasure.
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This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
I’ve actually experienced the opposite over the last year or so — students being very diligent about showing up, asking questions, studying for exams, and so forth. It’s still a struggle to get them to read much for class, but in my experience it’s not worse now than it was five years ago.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’ve actually experienced the opposite over the last year or so — students being very diligent about showing up, asking questions, studying for exams, and so forth. It’s still a struggle to get them to read much for class, but in my experience it’s not worse now than it was five years ago.
From a student essay: “After World War I, Germany was a hot mess.”
Yes, yes it was.
Yes, yes it was.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
From a student essay: “After World War I, Germany was a hot mess.”
Yes, yes it was.
Yes, yes it was.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
Irrelevant detail given the grotesqueries they reveal, but it is sending me that every single one of these Epstein emails is marked high impotence
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Irrelevant detail given the grotesqueries they reveal, but it is sending me that every single one of these Epstein emails is marked high impotence
I’ve just officially signed to become one of the next co-editors of Journal of Social history!
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I’ve just officially signed to become one of the next co-editors of Journal of Social history!
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Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I'm always delighted to hear from @schuneke.bsky.social whose research remains alarmingly pertinent. Thanks to him for writing about Weimar with nuance, political violence, and the portents to pay attention to these days.
time.com/7321664/poli...
time.com/7321664/poli...
Can Democracy Survive Political Violence?
Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by democracy’s enemies.
time.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm always delighted to hear from @schuneke.bsky.social whose research remains alarmingly pertinent. Thanks to him for writing about Weimar with nuance, political violence, and the portents to pay attention to these days.
time.com/7321664/poli...
time.com/7321664/poli...