I am deeply honored to have my paper accepted for presentation at this year’s Haitian Studies Association conference. I look forward to meeting the other amazing scholars of Haitian studies!

#booksky

#OtD 14 Jun 1914 during the Mexican revolution, the military unit of Amelio Robles Avila seized the square of Huetamo de Núñez, Michoacán, guarded by federal government forces. Robles Avila was Mexico's first recognised transgender soldier www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...

English natural history artist Sarah Stone's work-highly significant to science, first Western studies of many species, 1760-1844 #womensart

Out now! Part 1 of a double podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian @marcusrediker.bsky.social. Pirates fought every colonial empire, and created their own ways of living free from authority. Listen here and support us on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/e103-p...

#OtD 25 Mar 1969 Pakistan's dictator Ayub Khan resigned after mass protests that began in October. Repression of student protests had led to more unrest, with peasants killing land owners and police. The next year, Pakistan's first elections took place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

What plans do the do-nothing Democrats have against Trump other than to do nothing about Fascism and enable its rot?

What radicalized me? Jamming out to this song at like 1:00 AM in high school and being like “fuck imperialism!”

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

This past week’s discussion on Gender and Women’s history in my graduate seminar on historical methods has me wanting to revisit Engels’ old thoughts on the origins of the gendered division of labor and family.

BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.

Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.

Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

So instead of losing and doing nothing about Fascism, what else are Democrats going to do to stop it?

Do nothing performative activism. I guess when it comes down to it, resist means feed into the same structures that enable Fascism in the first place.