Charlotte Gibbs
@charlotte-gibbs.bsky.social
she/hers | History PhD Student at USC | MA UofT | BA UBC | studying gender & prisoner societies during the Holocaust |📍ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Malahat and Quw’utsun First Nations
take me back but it’s just garmin telling me my training readiness is at 100
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
take me back but it’s just garmin telling me my training readiness is at 100
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Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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I’m creating a panel on children’s perspectives and agency during the Holocaust for the 2026 Lessons & Legacies conference. If you’re interested or know someone who might be interested in participating let me know! And, please share widely!
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’m creating a panel on children’s perspectives and agency during the Holocaust for the 2026 Lessons & Legacies conference. If you’re interested or know someone who might be interested in participating let me know! And, please share widely!
When talking about how to take care of ourselves when working with difficult histories and I’m always happy to share my rule: No Hitler After Eight
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
When talking about how to take care of ourselves when working with difficult histories and I’m always happy to share my rule: No Hitler After Eight
Now that I’m out of the haze of the end of term (and end of my second year of PhD’ing!), here’s a recap of all that’s happened:
May 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Now that I’m out of the haze of the end of term (and end of my second year of PhD’ing!), here’s a recap of all that’s happened:
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New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
Attended a great lecture today by @sharonsalgmartz.bsky.social on the displacement and dispossession of Indigneous people, specifically the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the development of Palm Springs!
@usclibraries.bsky.social
@usclibraries.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Attended a great lecture today by @sharonsalgmartz.bsky.social on the displacement and dispossession of Indigneous people, specifically the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the development of Palm Springs!
@usclibraries.bsky.social
@usclibraries.bsky.social
Let them eat cake I guess
April 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Let them eat cake I guess
I’m really looking forward to this lecture this afternoon!
Join us in person or online next Wed April 16th for a lecture by research fellow Lauren Ashley Bradford on how women actively engaged in public displays of racial terror and transformed everyday spaces into sites of racial persecution in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.
April 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I’m really looking forward to this lecture this afternoon!
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In case you missed it: Queering the Tensions of Empire, a new collection edited by Jarett Henderson, T.J. Tallie, and Kristen Thomas-McGill.
Chapter abstracts due May 31st!
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Chapter abstracts due May 31st!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire | H-Net
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In case you missed it: Queering the Tensions of Empire, a new collection edited by Jarett Henderson, T.J. Tallie, and Kristen Thomas-McGill.
Chapter abstracts due May 31st!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Chapter abstracts due May 31st!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
On todays episode of my friends do cool stuff: Grace rocked her guest lecture today on queer and trans* people before, during, and after the Holocaust!
Today I gave a guest lecture on the Holocaust's queer and trans victims!
The students were so engaged and asked some amazing questions :,)
The students were so engaged and asked some amazing questions :,)
April 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
On todays episode of my friends do cool stuff: Grace rocked her guest lecture today on queer and trans* people before, during, and after the Holocaust!
Gave my first lecture today! I spoke about women in concentration camps & extermination sites during the Holocaust
The students were so engaged and asked some great questions. Looking forward to hearing more of their perspectives on Thursday!
The students were so engaged and asked some great questions. Looking forward to hearing more of their perspectives on Thursday!
April 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Gave my first lecture today! I spoke about women in concentration camps & extermination sites during the Holocaust
The students were so engaged and asked some great questions. Looking forward to hearing more of their perspectives on Thursday!
The students were so engaged and asked some great questions. Looking forward to hearing more of their perspectives on Thursday!
big moves from my alma mater
“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
US Applicant Week
www.grad.ubc.ca
April 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
big moves from my alma mater
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Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.
April 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.
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a friend sent me this one
April 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
a friend sent me this one
found out how long the book I have to read this week for class is from a group chat named after the moment in twilight (2008) when Edward says to Bella “hold on tight spider monkey”
April 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
found out how long the book I have to read this week for class is from a group chat named after the moment in twilight (2008) when Edward says to Bella “hold on tight spider monkey”
Really looking forward to this event!
Join us in person or online next Wednesday April 9th for a lecture by Center Research Fellow Prof. Victoria Sanford on forced disappearances during the Guatemalan genocide and the struggle for justice that endures in their wake. @uscedu.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Really looking forward to this event!
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"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"
our beef:
our beef:
April 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"
our beef:
our beef:
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>> ICE appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status – an authority typically left to university staff. And some students and universities are not even being made aware of those revocations – setting students up to be taken by immigration agents without even knowing it was coming.
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
>> ICE appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status – an authority typically left to university staff. And some students and universities are not even being made aware of those revocations – setting students up to be taken by immigration agents without even knowing it was coming.
just requested my ballot for the canadian election 🇨🇦 to be mailed to los angeles
March 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
just requested my ballot for the canadian election 🇨🇦 to be mailed to los angeles
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getting absolutely bodied every day by canada was not on my bingo card
Salute to the Canadians for putting these ads up in downtown DC, they’re right and they should say it more 🫡
March 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
getting absolutely bodied every day by canada was not on my bingo card
so delighted by this
OMG you guys—Canada took out ad space on American billboards to teach people what tariffs actually are. This one’s in Georgia.
This is just … such a fucking awesome thing that is so quintessentially Canadian, I can’t even right now.
This is just … such a fucking awesome thing that is so quintessentially Canadian, I can’t even right now.
March 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
so delighted by this
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A great instance of an animal in probate frim @materialwills.bsky.social! You can see more on spit dogs and on early modern dogs-on-paper in our #BoxOfficeBears resource on the dog censuses of New Romney: boxofficebears.com/resource/a-c...
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A great instance of an animal in probate frim @materialwills.bsky.social! You can see more on spit dogs and on early modern dogs-on-paper in our #BoxOfficeBears resource on the dog censuses of New Romney: boxofficebears.com/resource/a-c...
sorting through some old papers at my parents house and found an essay from my first semester of undergrad for intro to canadian politics…. clearly always enjoyed flair in my titles 🏒
March 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
sorting through some old papers at my parents house and found an essay from my first semester of undergrad for intro to canadian politics…. clearly always enjoyed flair in my titles 🏒