Selena M Moon
@selenammoon.bsky.social
Disabled hafu Japanese American historian researching JA disability, mixed race, military hist, Smith College, UMass Public History. UMN American Studies PhD student, Accessibility consultant ♿ author; my posts. #DisabilitySky #AcademicSky, she/he
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1/2 Excited to announce this roundtable on #AsianAmerican #Disability: History, Archives, Methods with my amazing co-authors! March 26 4-5:30 pm Central (online) sponsored by the UMN Immigration History Research Center. We'll present on our articles Journal of American Ethnic History special issue.
1/x #HATM Gearing up for this, so excited! Scared of chili with spaghetti. Also @herberthistory.bsky.social is a fellow UMN alum! So excited to see @lizcovart.bsky.social again. We met once at an NCPH meeting a few years ago.
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1/x #HATM Gearing up for this, so excited! Scared of chili with spaghetti. Also @herberthistory.bsky.social is a fellow UMN alum! So excited to see @lizcovart.bsky.social again. We met once at an NCPH meeting a few years ago.
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
Alice Wong and her work sustains the disability community. While we never met, she asked me to write about my research on Japanese American disability history to write for her blog. Between Long COVID, and a PhD, I hadn't finished it yet. I really wish I had. Thank you so much for your support.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Alice Wong and her work sustains the disability community. While we never met, she asked me to write about my research on Japanese American disability history to write for her blog. Between Long COVID, and a PhD, I hadn't finished it yet. I really wish I had. Thank you so much for your support.
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AASLH-NCPH 2026 update! We have pushed back the final proposals deadline to Friday, December 5. Submit final proposals through @aaslh.org’s Submittable platform at: https://aaslh.submittable.com/submit/333312/2026-aaslh-ncph-call-for-proposals #WorkOfRevolution
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
AASLH-NCPH 2026 update! We have pushed back the final proposals deadline to Friday, December 5. Submit final proposals through @aaslh.org’s Submittable platform at: https://aaslh.submittable.com/submit/333312/2026-aaslh-ncph-call-for-proposals #WorkOfRevolution
Finally got to see northern lights!!!! Why are everyone's pictures so much brighter? #NorthernLights
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Finally got to see northern lights!!!! Why are everyone's pictures so much brighter? #NorthernLights
Dear academic, journals, books, and other publications: Please standardize using footnotes with the entire citation instead of endnotes in a Notes section in the back with partial citations and a bibliography with full citation
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Dear academic, journals, books, and other publications: Please standardize using footnotes with the entire citation instead of endnotes in a Notes section in the back with partial citations and a bibliography with full citation
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
Great! But it'd have been nice if they'd left Row v Wade alone too.
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
Supreme Court won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great! But it'd have been nice if they'd left Row v Wade alone too.
Finally a #HATM I can watch!
Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
The American Revolution on PBS
A Historians At The Movies/Ben Franklin’s World Watch Party
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Finally a #HATM I can watch!
"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Fri temporarily halted a lower court order that would have req Trump admin to fund food stamps in full...Instead, she imposed a pause meant to give an appeals court more time to weigh the legal arguments raised by the govt..." WHY?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Curtail Food Stamp Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Fri temporarily halted a lower court order that would have req Trump admin to fund food stamps in full...Instead, she imposed a pause meant to give an appeals court more time to weigh the legal arguments raised by the govt..." WHY?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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The NCPH #AAPI Working Group fosters collaboration, identifies issues, and advocates for the AAPI community. Promote yourself or an organization, and join 60 connections in the AAPI #PublicHistory directories! Individuals, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PH-Form. Orgs, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PHOrgForm.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The NCPH #AAPI Working Group fosters collaboration, identifies issues, and advocates for the AAPI community. Promote yourself or an organization, and join 60 connections in the AAPI #PublicHistory directories! Individuals, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PH-Form. Orgs, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PHOrgForm.
Holocaust hist is full of non-Jews risking their lives to help Jews...Newsome feels the same cannot be said of most straight ppl for their LGBTQ+ neighbors. “I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person.”
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family
A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.
www.them.us
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Holocaust hist is full of non-Jews risking their lives to help Jews...Newsome feels the same cannot be said of most straight ppl for their LGBTQ+ neighbors. “I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person.”
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
Just submitted an internal fellowship application. Took longer than I thought because I applied to one center, got rejected and re-applied. Done now and can get into the things I've been ignoring while I wait. And start working on the next one. #PhDLife #AcademicSky
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Just submitted an internal fellowship application. Took longer than I thought because I applied to one center, got rejected and re-applied. Done now and can get into the things I've been ignoring while I wait. And start working on the next one. #PhDLife #AcademicSky
"Among descendants of ncarcerees formerly held at this site, it has become colloquially known as the Snow Country Prison — coined in a haiku written by Itaru Ina in late 1945. The untitled poem reads, 'The war has ended/but I’m still in/the snow country prison.'"
www.nichibei.org/2025/09/snow...
www.nichibei.org/2025/09/snow...
Snow Country Prison Memorial in N. Dakota, site of wartime incarceration, unveiled | Nichi Bei News
BISMARCK, N.D. — A couple hundred people gathered at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck on Sept. 5 to attend the opening ceremony of the Snow Country Prison Memorial. […]
www.nichibei.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Among descendants of ncarcerees formerly held at this site, it has become colloquially known as the Snow Country Prison — coined in a haiku written by Itaru Ina in late 1945. The untitled poem reads, 'The war has ended/but I’m still in/the snow country prison.'"
www.nichibei.org/2025/09/snow...
www.nichibei.org/2025/09/snow...
1/2 My senior yr at #SmithCollege, wrote a paper re Japanese American students from 1899-1945. First was Inokuchi Akuri who learned about phys ed, returned to Japan (she invented bloomers, if I recall). Come full circle, now rdg Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
1/2 My senior yr at #SmithCollege, wrote a paper re Japanese American students from 1899-1945. First was Inokuchi Akuri who learned about phys ed, returned to Japan (she invented bloomers, if I recall). Come full circle, now rdg Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945
Listening to Sherlock Holmes & Seven Percent Solution. Glad I know that shag is also a noun or I'd have been quite confused: I seldom knew him to take more than wine with his dinner, and this, with the exception of huge amounts of shag, was his only indulgence when involved with a case. #BookSky
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Listening to Sherlock Holmes & Seven Percent Solution. Glad I know that shag is also a noun or I'd have been quite confused: I seldom knew him to take more than wine with his dinner, and this, with the exception of huge amounts of shag, was his only indulgence when involved with a case. #BookSky
Knew Vassar was involved in eugenics. Smith too: Joining Potter as a member of Euthanasia Society of America & his First Humanist Society was Smith College historian Harry Elmer Barnes....[who] believe[d] in sex education, eugenic sterilization, birth control, and the decriminaliz[ing] abortion.
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Knew Vassar was involved in eugenics. Smith too: Joining Potter as a member of Euthanasia Society of America & his First Humanist Society was Smith College historian Harry Elmer Barnes....[who] believe[d] in sex education, eugenic sterilization, birth control, and the decriminaliz[ing] abortion.
When do we get to "daily mass protests" part of fighting fascism?
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When do we get to "daily mass protests" part of fighting fascism?
Listening to A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
Book by Lonnie Bunch. Enjoying listening to the #PublicHistory aspect of collecting artifacts from ordinary ppl. #BookSky #Skystorians #MuseumSky
Book by Lonnie Bunch. Enjoying listening to the #PublicHistory aspect of collecting artifacts from ordinary ppl. #BookSky #Skystorians #MuseumSky
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Listening to A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
Book by Lonnie Bunch. Enjoying listening to the #PublicHistory aspect of collecting artifacts from ordinary ppl. #BookSky #Skystorians #MuseumSky
Book by Lonnie Bunch. Enjoying listening to the #PublicHistory aspect of collecting artifacts from ordinary ppl. #BookSky #Skystorians #MuseumSky
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Too Good to Go partners with restaurants and delis and other places, including Whole Foods. At the end of the afternoon or evening, you can go on the app pay a cheap flat rate and you get a bag of whatever is left of the day.
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Too Good to Go partners with restaurants and delis and other places, including Whole Foods. At the end of the afternoon or evening, you can go on the app pay a cheap flat rate and you get a bag of whatever is left of the day.
Reposted by Selena M Moon
NCPH signed on @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's Open Letter. A group of survivors and descendants of the Topaz concentration camp, other members of the Japanese American community, and allies have 5 proposals. Read and consider signing. https://loom.ly/m3bxnD8
Open Letter on the Wakasa Memorial Stone and Site (sign on and share by October 31st)
We, the Wakasa Memorial Committee, are issuing this public call to action and cooperation, with the goal of having the community move forward to protect and preserve the Wakasa sacred site and its memorial stone, the most significant artifact discovered in any of the WWII Japanese American concentration camps. Four years ago, the Topaz Museum, in Delta, Utah, whose mission is to preserve the Topaz concentration camp, forcibly removed the murder memorial from its site and relocated it to the g...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
NCPH signed on @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's Open Letter. A group of survivors and descendants of the Topaz concentration camp, other members of the Japanese American community, and allies have 5 proposals. Read and consider signing. https://loom.ly/m3bxnD8
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Do you have a great public history or historic preservation project that you wish more people knew about? Are you looking to find more clients and professional connections?
The NCPH Consultants' Committee is sponsoring a session at the 2026 @ncph.bsky.social conference
The NCPH Consultants' Committee is sponsoring a session at the 2026 @ncph.bsky.social conference
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Do you have a great public history or historic preservation project that you wish more people knew about? Are you looking to find more clients and professional connections?
The NCPH Consultants' Committee is sponsoring a session at the 2026 @ncph.bsky.social conference
The NCPH Consultants' Committee is sponsoring a session at the 2026 @ncph.bsky.social conference
Had a great time at a UMN talk on Latino history in WI and the Sanctuary movement. Think I just got a new @ncph.bsky.social recruit! Also came home with lots of food and coffee. #PhDLife
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Had a great time at a UMN talk on Latino history in WI and the Sanctuary movement. Think I just got a new @ncph.bsky.social recruit! Also came home with lots of food and coffee. #PhDLife
@jstor.bsky.social I don't see this, but if there isn't already, can we get a button to shrink the lefthand panel? Then the article'd expand for easier viewing w/o downloading. Most articles have small font. Yes, I've zoomed, but then I can't see most of the page. Thanks! #Accessibility #AcademicSky
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
@jstor.bsky.social I don't see this, but if there isn't already, can we get a button to shrink the lefthand panel? Then the article'd expand for easier viewing w/o downloading. Most articles have small font. Yes, I've zoomed, but then I can't see most of the page. Thanks! #Accessibility #AcademicSky
I was going to grade today. The universe had other ideas. Which means I can get my stuff done. #AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I was going to grade today. The universe had other ideas. Which means I can get my stuff done. #AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky
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Protest posters are cool. Want to know what's also cool? Adding in alt-text so people who use screen readers can know what they say.
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Protest posters are cool. Want to know what's also cool? Adding in alt-text so people who use screen readers can know what they say.