Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD
@tkwayne.bsky.social
Historian of women, gender, and feminism.
Writing a book on Sara Bard Field and a 1915 US suffrage road trip from San Francisco to DC.
Publication updates and blog at https://www.womanwriting.com/musings
Writing a book on Sara Bard Field and a 1915 US suffrage road trip from San Francisco to DC.
Publication updates and blog at https://www.womanwriting.com/musings
I wrote a blog post that came out of recent conversations with my neighborhood book club when we read Percival Everett's new novel, James.
(Low-to-no spoilers here.)
Includes more book recommendations for anyone interested in further reading.
#james #marktwain #womenshistory #historyofslavery
(Low-to-no spoilers here.)
Includes more book recommendations for anyone interested in further reading.
#james #marktwain #womenshistory #historyofslavery
Thoughts on James and the Swamped History of Black Women’s Resistance
I recently rewatched Harriet (2019) starring Cynthia Erivo. I was a high school History teacher when the film first came out and I organized a screening with students and our school community. I was i...
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August 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I wrote a blog post that came out of recent conversations with my neighborhood book club when we read Percival Everett's new novel, James.
(Low-to-no spoilers here.)
Includes more book recommendations for anyone interested in further reading.
#james #marktwain #womenshistory #historyofslavery
(Low-to-no spoilers here.)
Includes more book recommendations for anyone interested in further reading.
#james #marktwain #womenshistory #historyofslavery
Sandhill Crane in the neighborhood.
Florida is beautiful 🌴
Florida is beautiful 🌴
May 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sandhill Crane in the neighborhood.
Florida is beautiful 🌴
Florida is beautiful 🌴
I just posted about finally reading Ulysses for the first time.
Q: What’s a Big Novel you’ve never read before but really want to someday??
Q: What’s a Big Novel you’ve never read before but really want to someday??
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I just posted about finally reading Ulysses for the first time.
Q: What’s a Big Novel you’ve never read before but really want to someday??
Q: What’s a Big Novel you’ve never read before but really want to someday??
Summer self-challenge 😳
I have to keep up with my English grad student son, after all!
I have to keep up with my English grad student son, after all!
May 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Summer self-challenge 😳
I have to keep up with my English grad student son, after all!
I have to keep up with my English grad student son, after all!
This is what they’re mad about.
It’s basically their checklist of things to dismantle.
And they’ve been mad about it since 1964.
Actually, they’ve been mad since 1864.
It’s basically their checklist of things to dismantle.
And they’ve been mad about it since 1964.
Actually, they’ve been mad since 1864.
May 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what they’re mad about.
It’s basically their checklist of things to dismantle.
And they’ve been mad about it since 1964.
Actually, they’ve been mad since 1864.
It’s basically their checklist of things to dismantle.
And they’ve been mad about it since 1964.
Actually, they’ve been mad since 1864.
Sickened. And feel so bad for my colleagues at FAU (and everywhere) who always have students best interests at heart. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
At Least 10 Florida Universities Have Signed ICE Agreements
Amid a state crackdown on undocumented migrants, at least 10 public universities are giving campus police immigration enforcement powers. More are considering doing so.
www.insidehighered.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sickened. And feel so bad for my colleagues at FAU (and everywhere) who always have students best interests at heart. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Be like me and always back up your files, kids.
April 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Be like me and always back up your files, kids.
Reposted by Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD
Greatly enjoyed @tressiemcphd.bsky.social putting the boot to A.I. hype and reminding the world that "mid" technology that streamlines some activities isn't truly transformative, and thinking and expertise will always matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Greatly enjoyed @tressiemcphd.bsky.social putting the boot to A.I. hype and reminding the world that "mid" technology that streamlines some activities isn't truly transformative, and thinking and expertise will always matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Reposted by Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD
I’m excited about this planned volume for educators on new ways to teach the U.S. women’s suffrage movement!
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
@serenewilliams.bsky.social, Kristen Kelly, and I are working on a new edited collection about how to teach about women's suffrage in secondary and college classrooms. Submit your chapter proposals to us! Instructions below! #history 🗃️ #education #teaching #suffrage
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Copy of Edited Volume - Call for Contributors.docx
Call for Contributors: Teaching about Women’s Suffrage in Secondary and Collegiate Classrooms [Working Title] Volume Editors: Kelly Marino (Associate Professor of History – As of August 2025, Sacred ...
docs.google.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m excited about this planned volume for educators on new ways to teach the U.S. women’s suffrage movement!
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
Here’s something tangible to do: Support TWO Florida Democrats in special election to replace MAGA seats in the House.
Gay Valimont is running to fill the seat vacated by Matt Gaetz.
Republicans have VERY narrow lead in the House. 218 Rep, 215 Dem, & 2 vacancies.
Donate, boost, share!
Gay Valimont is running to fill the seat vacated by Matt Gaetz.
Republicans have VERY narrow lead in the House. 218 Rep, 215 Dem, & 2 vacancies.
Donate, boost, share!
"On April 1st, voters in Florida’s 1st Congressional District will cast their ballots in a special election that could change the course of American politics."
Read more about #GayForCongress via @dailykos.com:
Read more about #GayForCongress via @dailykos.com:
Why Everyone in America Should Care About Gay Valimont’s Race in FL-01
By Danika Joy Fornear On April 1st, voters in Florida’s 1st Congressional District will cast their ballots in a special election that could change the course of American politics. This isn’t just abou...
www.dailykos.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Here’s something tangible to do: Support TWO Florida Democrats in special election to replace MAGA seats in the House.
Gay Valimont is running to fill the seat vacated by Matt Gaetz.
Republicans have VERY narrow lead in the House. 218 Rep, 215 Dem, & 2 vacancies.
Donate, boost, share!
Gay Valimont is running to fill the seat vacated by Matt Gaetz.
Republicans have VERY narrow lead in the House. 218 Rep, 215 Dem, & 2 vacancies.
Donate, boost, share!
Well this summer is going to be lots of fun with all the museums and national parks closed and huge numbers of Americans newly unemployed. Plus whatever other destruction is on the horizon. Awesome 🇺🇸
February 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Well this summer is going to be lots of fun with all the museums and national parks closed and huge numbers of Americans newly unemployed. Plus whatever other destruction is on the horizon. Awesome 🇺🇸
AI is so awesome because now our students can find even more useless & false information out there.
Screenshot from @civilwarmemory.bsky.social’s video for educators trying to navigate all this.
Screenshot from @civilwarmemory.bsky.social’s video for educators trying to navigate all this.
February 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
AI is so awesome because now our students can find even more useless & false information out there.
Screenshot from @civilwarmemory.bsky.social’s video for educators trying to navigate all this.
Screenshot from @civilwarmemory.bsky.social’s video for educators trying to navigate all this.
New U.S. History class just dropped
February 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New U.S. History class just dropped
Greetings from this gopher tortoise and from the nesting Sandhill cranes we saw out on the savannas here in southeast Florida this morning.
February 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Greetings from this gopher tortoise and from the nesting Sandhill cranes we saw out on the savannas here in southeast Florida this morning.
I’m excited about this planned volume for educators on new ways to teach the U.S. women’s suffrage movement!
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
@serenewilliams.bsky.social, Kristen Kelly, and I are working on a new edited collection about how to teach about women's suffrage in secondary and college classrooms. Submit your chapter proposals to us! Instructions below! #history 🗃️ #education #teaching #suffrage
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Copy of Edited Volume - Call for Contributors.docx
Call for Contributors: Teaching about Women’s Suffrage in Secondary and Collegiate Classrooms [Working Title] Volume Editors: Kelly Marino (Associate Professor of History – As of August 2025, Sacred ...
docs.google.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m excited about this planned volume for educators on new ways to teach the U.S. women’s suffrage movement!
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
See below if you’d like to submit a chapter proposal.
I am reading a well-reviewed & compelling book of journalistic nonfiction & so distracted by absolutely NO endnotes, bibliography, not even a Note on Sources. Story just floating out in space with details & interviews & history…and NO references. I can’t do it. I can’t read it. Publishers, WHY?!
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am reading a well-reviewed & compelling book of journalistic nonfiction & so distracted by absolutely NO endnotes, bibliography, not even a Note on Sources. Story just floating out in space with details & interviews & history…and NO references. I can’t do it. I can’t read it. Publishers, WHY?!
Oops, reposting because I put wrong code.
Bloomsbury is offering 20% discount on my paperback A-Z guide to US suffrage & 19th Amendment with code: SUFFRAGE20 through March!
(This is in *addition* to 10% web discount shown at this link.)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/womens-su...
Bloomsbury is offering 20% discount on my paperback A-Z guide to US suffrage & 19th Amendment with code: SUFFRAGE20 through March!
(This is in *addition* to 10% web discount shown at this link.)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/womens-su...
Women's Suffrage
This is the "everything" women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional ame…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Oops, reposting because I put wrong code.
Bloomsbury is offering 20% discount on my paperback A-Z guide to US suffrage & 19th Amendment with code: SUFFRAGE20 through March!
(This is in *addition* to 10% web discount shown at this link.)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/womens-su...
Bloomsbury is offering 20% discount on my paperback A-Z guide to US suffrage & 19th Amendment with code: SUFFRAGE20 through March!
(This is in *addition* to 10% web discount shown at this link.)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/womens-su...
I gave a talk on the Limitations of the 19th Amendment & post-suffrage activism for my local League of Women Voters today.
This is the awesome view for our luncheon meeting in Port Salerno, Florida. Couldn’t ask for a better venue and group! 🌴
This is the awesome view for our luncheon meeting in Port Salerno, Florida. Couldn’t ask for a better venue and group! 🌴
January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I gave a talk on the Limitations of the 19th Amendment & post-suffrage activism for my local League of Women Voters today.
This is the awesome view for our luncheon meeting in Port Salerno, Florida. Couldn’t ask for a better venue and group! 🌴
This is the awesome view for our luncheon meeting in Port Salerno, Florida. Couldn’t ask for a better venue and group! 🌴
What? Your grocery list is not on Stanford’s Hoover Institution stationery?
January 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What? Your grocery list is not on Stanford’s Hoover Institution stationery?
“Read your sources until you hear voices.”
That’s sticking in my head now.
Love this thread of writing tips for historians by the gifted & generous @marcusrediker.bsky.social
That’s sticking in my head now.
Love this thread of writing tips for historians by the gifted & generous @marcusrediker.bsky.social
Writing tip no. 10: read and reread your sources until you hear voices, then write a deeply human story about your historical subjects. Readers want to learn about real people, making real choices, in real circumstances, in real time. Make your actors complex and multi-dimensional. "Humanize"!
December 11, 2024 at 4:48 PM
“Read your sources until you hear voices.”
That’s sticking in my head now.
Love this thread of writing tips for historians by the gifted & generous @marcusrediker.bsky.social
That’s sticking in my head now.
Love this thread of writing tips for historians by the gifted & generous @marcusrediker.bsky.social
A wonderful, human-created (i.e. intentional and meaningful) reflection on the connection between between language and politics.
Read the thread for full text and a link for how to print out your own copy. Thank you, @drisaac.bsky.social !
Read the thread for full text and a link for how to print out your own copy. Thank you, @drisaac.bsky.social !
If you’d like to read my essay about George Orwell, writing by machines, and our current nihilism about meaning, I offer you the entire zine in this thread.
I will finish the thread with instructions on how to print your own copies of the zine.
#OrwellvsChatGPT
I will finish the thread with instructions on how to print your own copies of the zine.
#OrwellvsChatGPT
December 9, 2024 at 1:57 PM
A wonderful, human-created (i.e. intentional and meaningful) reflection on the connection between between language and politics.
Read the thread for full text and a link for how to print out your own copy. Thank you, @drisaac.bsky.social !
Read the thread for full text and a link for how to print out your own copy. Thank you, @drisaac.bsky.social !
Oxford’s Word (phrase) of the Year: “brain rot”
The first recorded use of the term is from Thoreau’s 1854 Walden:
“While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
corp.oup.com/news/brain-r...
The first recorded use of the term is from Thoreau’s 1854 Walden:
“While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
corp.oup.com/news/brain-r...
'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press
After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.
corp.oup.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Oxford’s Word (phrase) of the Year: “brain rot”
The first recorded use of the term is from Thoreau’s 1854 Walden:
“While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
corp.oup.com/news/brain-r...
The first recorded use of the term is from Thoreau’s 1854 Walden:
“While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
corp.oup.com/news/brain-r...
Worth reading full essay. “Echo chamber” has become some kind of negative dismissal of what is actually a beautiful thing in finding community from which to build strength:
“Conversion or the transmission of new information is not the primary aim; the preacher has other work to do.”
“Conversion or the transmission of new information is not the primary aim; the preacher has other work to do.”
Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...
Preaching to The Choir, by Rebecca Solnit
harpers.org
November 24, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Worth reading full essay. “Echo chamber” has become some kind of negative dismissal of what is actually a beautiful thing in finding community from which to build strength:
“Conversion or the transmission of new information is not the primary aim; the preacher has other work to do.”
“Conversion or the transmission of new information is not the primary aim; the preacher has other work to do.”
I'm headed to CA tomorrow!
Suffragist Inez Haynes Irwin wrote the first history of National Woman's Party & Alice Paul.
But I found this other little book by her: “The Californiacs.”
Irwin’s visit to 1915 world's fair in SF inspired this love-letter to the state.
Cover quote still relatable, ha.
Suffragist Inez Haynes Irwin wrote the first history of National Woman's Party & Alice Paul.
But I found this other little book by her: “The Californiacs.”
Irwin’s visit to 1915 world's fair in SF inspired this love-letter to the state.
Cover quote still relatable, ha.
November 19, 2024 at 2:01 AM
I'm headed to CA tomorrow!
Suffragist Inez Haynes Irwin wrote the first history of National Woman's Party & Alice Paul.
But I found this other little book by her: “The Californiacs.”
Irwin’s visit to 1915 world's fair in SF inspired this love-letter to the state.
Cover quote still relatable, ha.
Suffragist Inez Haynes Irwin wrote the first history of National Woman's Party & Alice Paul.
But I found this other little book by her: “The Californiacs.”
Irwin’s visit to 1915 world's fair in SF inspired this love-letter to the state.
Cover quote still relatable, ha.