Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Sacred Heart University
@womenstudiesshu.bsky.social
The study of WGSS from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective! 🌈🍎 https://www.sacredheart.edu/majors--programs/womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies---minor/
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Such a great talk today with writer and speaker Alex Myers!
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Such a great talk today with writer and speaker Alex Myers!
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This month's #ACAhashtagparty is #ArchivesWomensHistory!
These images depict the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC). From 1904 to the early 1990's, it was a organization of Canadian journalists that prior to 1971 was only open to women. In 1971 the group was renamed to The Media Club of Canada.
These images depict the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC). From 1904 to the early 1990's, it was a organization of Canadian journalists that prior to 1971 was only open to women. In 1971 the group was renamed to The Media Club of Canada.
![Image depicting a pen and ink sketch of the Canadian Women's Press Club, n.d. University of Winnipeg Archives, Western Canada Pictorial Index, Women’s Studies Collection [A0870-25963].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x55k5nbfpej6s4wrf4it6gga/bafkreib42pn26rbd3ezwn4vou4p2m67f3j6vb7wvos3blikjeixhno6u2u@jpeg)
![Image depicting a group photograph of the attendees of the 1906 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Women's Press Club held in Winnipeg, 1906. University of Winnipeg Archives, Western Canada Pictorial Index, Women’s Studies Collection [A0870-25964].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x55k5nbfpej6s4wrf4it6gga/bafkreibvidqhze2sg4i2vnnya7aewccnpkqqnnm5ofb6437sr4rmynlamm@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This month's #ACAhashtagparty is #ArchivesWomensHistory!
These images depict the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC). From 1904 to the early 1990's, it was a organization of Canadian journalists that prior to 1971 was only open to women. In 1971 the group was renamed to The Media Club of Canada.
These images depict the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC). From 1904 to the early 1990's, it was a organization of Canadian journalists that prior to 1971 was only open to women. In 1971 the group was renamed to The Media Club of Canada.
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Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Happy Halloween!
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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My campaign colleague Kate Murphy has written today about the plight of women's studies in light of the BBC Written Archives Centre's withdrawal from the world of independent study. The policy changes, in her view, are 'nothing short of catastrophic'. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: recovering the invisible women of the BBC by Kate Murphy
My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…
cstonline.net
October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My campaign colleague Kate Murphy has written today about the plight of women's studies in light of the BBC Written Archives Centre's withdrawal from the world of independent study. The policy changes, in her view, are 'nothing short of catastrophic'. cstonline.net/defending-th...
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THIS
“Unlike previous generations of sports fans, boys like Brennan grow up rooting for the NBA and WNBA.”
“Women’s sports have become culturally cool in a way that I don’t think they have been historically,” said @rachelallison.bsky.social
an associate prof. who studies women’s sports and fan(s).
“Unlike previous generations of sports fans, boys like Brennan grow up rooting for the NBA and WNBA.”
“Women’s sports have become culturally cool in a way that I don’t think they have been historically,” said @rachelallison.bsky.social
an associate prof. who studies women’s sports and fan(s).
October 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
THIS
“Unlike previous generations of sports fans, boys like Brennan grow up rooting for the NBA and WNBA.”
“Women’s sports have become culturally cool in a way that I don’t think they have been historically,” said @rachelallison.bsky.social
an associate prof. who studies women’s sports and fan(s).
“Unlike previous generations of sports fans, boys like Brennan grow up rooting for the NBA and WNBA.”
“Women’s sports have become culturally cool in a way that I don’t think they have been historically,” said @rachelallison.bsky.social
an associate prof. who studies women’s sports and fan(s).
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Please join us for the next Regional Studies Women’s Network workshop! Participation is free, and we have online and in person (including free lunch!) options. A great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new faces ahead of the Winter Conference ☺️
On the 12th of November, the @regstud.bsky.social will host the RSA Women's Network Workshop. It will be a hybrid event, with topics covered including that of careers and CV's, academia in the #GlobalSouth, and grant application: For more and to register, see:
www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-w...
www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-w...
RSA Women's Network Events - RSA Main
www.regionalstudies.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Please join us for the next Regional Studies Women’s Network workshop! Participation is free, and we have online and in person (including free lunch!) options. A great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new faces ahead of the Winter Conference ☺️
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Anyone hosting a #writingcircle in #academicsky that would welcome another? Missing my writing circle colleagues and could use a digital version.
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Anyone hosting a #writingcircle in #academicsky that would welcome another? Missing my writing circle colleagues and could use a digital version.
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Congratulations to Dr. Anna Kouremenos on her recent research project and grant! 🎉 www.sacredheart.edu/news-room/ne...
Grant Funds Research at Ancient Greek Site
Glen R. Dash Charitable Foundation award provides professor with 21st-century tools to enhance research
www.sacredheart.edu
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Anna Kouremenos on her recent research project and grant! 🎉 www.sacredheart.edu/news-room/ne...
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We inherited a system rigged against us.
But we learned to run it anyway.
Read the post by Marie-Odile Baudement, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience 🧪
But we learned to run it anyway.
Read the post by Marie-Odile Baudement, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience 🧪
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - or Being a Woman in Science
Disclaimer
I will speak from my own experience and from what I know the most — the case of being a (European) cisgender woman in academia. I don’t claim to represent or fully understand the struggles...
www.themodernpeer.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We inherited a system rigged against us.
But we learned to run it anyway.
Read the post by Marie-Odile Baudement, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience 🧪
But we learned to run it anyway.
Read the post by Marie-Odile Baudement, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience 🧪
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“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
— Augusten Burroughs
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
— Augusten Burroughs
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
October 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
— Augusten Burroughs
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
— Augusten Burroughs
#WritingSky #AcademicSky
Happy Sunday!
October 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy Sunday!
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Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
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Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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What types of academic websites are there? A guide for faculty, researchers, and graduate students, #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/types-o...
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/types-o...
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
What types of academic websites are there? A guide for faculty, researchers, and graduate students, #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/types-o...
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/types-o...
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What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Marketing, Enrollment and Product Launches
Three tips for higher ed from the rollout of The Life of a Showgirl. https://bit.ly/48g87lT
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Three tips for higher ed from the rollout of The Life of a Showgirl. https://bit.ly/48g87lT
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
October 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Marketing, Enrollment and Product Launches
Three tips for higher ed from the rollout of The Life of a Showgirl. https://bit.ly/48g87lT
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Three tips for higher ed from the rollout of The Life of a Showgirl. https://bit.ly/48g87lT
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Interesting discussion starter…
This blog post posits that higher education is becoming devalued because of “male flight” — men leaving industries as large numbers of women enter (similar to white flight).
For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.
#AcademicSky
For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.
#AcademicSky
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
celestemdavis.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Interesting discussion starter…
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Thank you, Jessica Wade, for writing women into science history. #STEM #history
mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade...
mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade...
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
mymodernmet.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Thank you, Jessica Wade, for writing women into science history. #STEM #history
mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade...
mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade...
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Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky
October 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky
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The impact of Patti Smith on Irish music. Her memoirs have been really popular here too. Interesting article:
Why Patti Smith's songs and poems have chimed with Irish artists
Patti Smith's defiant and non-conformist work has always had a strong influence on Ireland's punk, rock and underground scenes
www.rte.ie
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The impact of Patti Smith on Irish music. Her memoirs have been really popular here too. Interesting article:
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Happy October 1st!
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Happy October 1st!
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Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
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Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky
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