Amanda Kenney
@alkenney79.bsky.social
Lapsed medieval historian, US history teacher, para educator, PCA, NetGalley reviewer, book lover, and geeker out over many things. When I'm not immobile from invisible illnesses. Ally to everyone except jerks.
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Your Daily Affirmation:
I'm living life like I'm driving with a bee in the car. There is far more danger from being distracted from the task at hand than there is from being stung.
Eyes on the road, windows open, eventually that fucker will be blown out and I will get where I need to go.
I'm living life like I'm driving with a bee in the car. There is far more danger from being distracted from the task at hand than there is from being stung.
Eyes on the road, windows open, eventually that fucker will be blown out and I will get where I need to go.
April 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Your Daily Affirmation:
I'm living life like I'm driving with a bee in the car. There is far more danger from being distracted from the task at hand than there is from being stung.
Eyes on the road, windows open, eventually that fucker will be blown out and I will get where I need to go.
I'm living life like I'm driving with a bee in the car. There is far more danger from being distracted from the task at hand than there is from being stung.
Eyes on the road, windows open, eventually that fucker will be blown out and I will get where I need to go.
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The Whitney Plantation is a NATIONAL TREASURE. It actually highlights the lives of *enslaved people* on that plantation, instead of romanticizing enslavers & ignoring slavery. 🤬 this 🤬.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the interest of the United States.”
Trump admin pulls Black history grants to Whitney Plantation
The federal government has terminated two grants for African American history and culture awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a museum aimed at memorializing slavery, as the Trump administration works…
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April 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Whitney Plantation is a NATIONAL TREASURE. It actually highlights the lives of *enslaved people* on that plantation, instead of romanticizing enslavers & ignoring slavery. 🤬 this 🤬.
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Check out this book: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
@sgj.bsky.social Have you read the work of Rebecca Earle? Because it felt like you did... (Her medieval/early modern medicine is spot on)
www.academia.edu/21672113/_If... (book The Body of the Conquistador)
@sgj.bsky.social Have you read the work of Rebecca Earle? Because it felt like you did... (Her medieval/early modern medicine is spot on)
www.academia.edu/21672113/_If... (book The Body of the Conquistador)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American …
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April 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Check out this book: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
@sgj.bsky.social Have you read the work of Rebecca Earle? Because it felt like you did... (Her medieval/early modern medicine is spot on)
www.academia.edu/21672113/_If... (book The Body of the Conquistador)
@sgj.bsky.social Have you read the work of Rebecca Earle? Because it felt like you did... (Her medieval/early modern medicine is spot on)
www.academia.edu/21672113/_If... (book The Body of the Conquistador)
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The meaning here is clear. Clearer still if you're familiar with Posobiec's neo-Nazi ties. And by neo-Nazi, I don't mean people I think are jerks; I mean self-avowed national socialists. www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...
I know folks hate seeing content from the other site, but the escalation implied in this tweet exchange is so severe that it needs to be acknowledged. Take the advice of so many other great folks dedicated to antifascist work with a wealth of experience of historical knowledge; you need to prepare.
February 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The meaning here is clear. Clearer still if you're familiar with Posobiec's neo-Nazi ties. And by neo-Nazi, I don't mean people I think are jerks; I mean self-avowed national socialists. www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...
This is bad. Like, very bad. I totally understand not being able to read all of it. What makes me maddest are the people who I bonded with over his work who are no longer here. I also wonder what Terry Pratchett would have said. The purging commences.
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is bad. Like, very bad. I totally understand not being able to read all of it. What makes me maddest are the people who I bonded with over his work who are no longer here. I also wonder what Terry Pratchett would have said. The purging commences.
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Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.
January 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.
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‘The very technology meant to guarantee holiness was at risk of undermining it. How to tell authentic sacral object from worthless counterfeit? Mass production sapped the “aura”, to use Benjamin’s term, of holiness.’
Alexander Bevilacqua: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Bevilacqua: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Bevilacqua · Saints for Supper
From frescoes and printed devotional images to incised amulets, moulded gingerbread and the stamped Eucharistic host, a...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
‘The very technology meant to guarantee holiness was at risk of undermining it. How to tell authentic sacral object from worthless counterfeit? Mass production sapped the “aura”, to use Benjamin’s term, of holiness.’
Alexander Bevilacqua: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Bevilacqua: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
New here! Mostly because I'm lazy or overwhelmed and therefore slow moving. Currently reading. Should be updating the online US history course. Coming soon....
January 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
New here! Mostly because I'm lazy or overwhelmed and therefore slow moving. Currently reading. Should be updating the online US history course. Coming soon....