Deb Gussman
@debgussman.bsky.social
Prof of American Lit and WGSS at Stockton U. Editor of The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters: https://www.primarysourcecoop.org/cms/
Feminist-Mom-Reader-Writer-Jewish-Human figuring things out.
#feminism #Woolfer #pedagogy #digitalhumanities
Feminist-Mom-Reader-Writer-Jewish-Human figuring things out.
#feminism #Woolfer #pedagogy #digitalhumanities
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Exciting news: the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters was awarded the 2025 Recovery Hub’s Digital Edition Prize by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers! We (Deb Gussman, Pat Kalayjian & Lucinda Damon Bach) are thrilled and honored.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Exciting news: the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters was awarded the 2025 Recovery Hub’s Digital Edition Prize by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers! We (Deb Gussman, Pat Kalayjian & Lucinda Damon Bach) are thrilled and honored.
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are holding joint symposium, June 24-27, 2026, at the College of William & Mary!
Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely!
cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...
Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely!
cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...
2026 Joint Symposium
Call for Papers for a joint symposium to be hosted by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society Williamsburg, Virginia June 24-27, 2026 The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society…
cmsedgwicksociety.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are holding joint symposium, June 24-27, 2026, at the College of William & Mary!
Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely!
cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...
Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely!
cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...
Thanks for the great story and helping to spread the word about the CMSOL project! @stocktonuniversity.bsky.social and @markmelhorn.bsky.social !
We’re happy to share this Stockton University news story about our recent NEH award and some of the Stockton students who have worked with us on the CMSOL project. @nehgov.bsky.social
Nearly $300K Grant to Preserve American Author’s Letters
Professor heads project to create online collection on Catharine Maria Sedgwick
stockton.edu
September 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thanks for the great story and helping to spread the word about the CMSOL project! @stocktonuniversity.bsky.social and @markmelhorn.bsky.social !
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We are thrilled to announce that the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters has been awarded a grant from @nehgov.bsky.social to
continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.
continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.
August 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We are thrilled to announce that the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters has been awarded a grant from @nehgov.bsky.social to
continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.
continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.
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New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
July 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
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NEH Lawsuit Update: On Friday, Judge Colleen McMahon issued a temporary injunction regarding the grant terminations.
"But agency discretion does not include discretion to violate the First Amendment. Nor does not give the Government the right to edit history.“ (1/2)
"But agency discretion does not include discretion to violate the First Amendment. Nor does not give the Government the right to edit history.“ (1/2)
July 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEH Lawsuit Update: On Friday, Judge Colleen McMahon issued a temporary injunction regarding the grant terminations.
"But agency discretion does not include discretion to violate the First Amendment. Nor does not give the Government the right to edit history.“ (1/2)
"But agency discretion does not include discretion to violate the First Amendment. Nor does not give the Government the right to edit history.“ (1/2)
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Important piece from @marthasjones.bsky.social on the history of our Constitution’s broad birthright citizenship guarantee — and the long advocacy of free Black Americans in antebellum America to make it so.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The fight for birthright citizenship started with these Black Americans
We have endured years, decades, even centuries of confusion about citizenship.
www.msnbc.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Important piece from @marthasjones.bsky.social on the history of our Constitution’s broad birthright citizenship guarantee — and the long advocacy of free Black Americans in antebellum America to make it so.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
I'm attending Cooper River Indivisible's event, “No Kings South Jersey” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...
No Kings South Jersey · Cooper River Indivisible
Donald Trump is planning a fascist military parade on his birthday the likes of which would make North Korea blush. He's spending our tax money to throw himself a birthday party while he's cutting our...
www.mobilize.us
June 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm attending Cooper River Indivisible's event, “No Kings South Jersey” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...
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posters going up in Philly and some other cities
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
posters going up in Philly and some other cities
No kings, no fascists, no idiots.
See you at the march.
See you at the march.
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
No kings, no fascists, no idiots.
See you at the march.
See you at the march.
A Muzak version of Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing in my doctor’s office. Is this the soundtrack from heaven or hell? Not sure.
June 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A Muzak version of Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing in my doctor’s office. Is this the soundtrack from heaven or hell? Not sure.
💚🦅💚🦅💚🦅💚
The Chiefs have totally collapsed. Karma is real.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
💚🦅💚🦅💚🦅💚
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Trump has rescinded refugee status of Black and Brown people fleeing violence in their home countries and extended it to...white South Africans, who previously exercised total, brutal, control of that country.
My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
The refugees who lived with me did more for America than the Trumps ever will
And so did my mom.
www.motherjones.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump has rescinded refugee status of Black and Brown people fleeing violence in their home countries and extended it to...white South Africans, who previously exercised total, brutal, control of that country.
My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
More arrests and deportations coming. Keep calling and protesting. Keep the pressure on.
February 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
More arrests and deportations coming. Keep calling and protesting. Keep the pressure on.
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Some images from #50501 protest against in Philly. Early days - I hope the movement and momentum will keep growing! #resist #protectdemocracy #stopproject2025
February 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Some images from #50501 protest against in Philly. Early days - I hope the movement and momentum will keep growing! #resist #protectdemocracy #stopproject2025
Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
February 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Hi, friends. Here's what I want you to do: four simple things. It's not going to take long. Let's go. werd.io/2025/i-want-...
I want you to do these four things right now
Four simple steps to keep yourself safe online.
werd.io
February 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hi, friends. Here's what I want you to do: four simple things. It's not going to take long. Let's go. werd.io/2025/i-want-...
Orbital is a beautiful, awe-inspiring book. I read most of it on a plane — as close as I’ll get to orbiting the Earth — hurtling in a metal tube through the sky. I loved the book’s insistence on the global: one earth – one humanity. That planetary view seems more. essential now than ever. #booksky
January 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Orbital is a beautiful, awe-inspiring book. I read most of it on a plane — as close as I’ll get to orbiting the Earth — hurtling in a metal tube through the sky. I loved the book’s insistence on the global: one earth – one humanity. That planetary view seems more. essential now than ever. #booksky
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God granted you a fully formed conscience so you can make decisions that are right for your body and life.
January 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
God granted you a fully formed conscience so you can make decisions that are right for your body and life.
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Waiting for House or Senate Republicans to introduce a bill to lower the cost of groceries now that they have a majority in both houses.
a black and white drawing of a person sitting in front of a computer with the website pebbieoni.com written on the bottom
ALT: a black and white drawing of a person sitting in front of a computer with the website pebbieoni.com written on the bottom
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January 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Waiting for House or Senate Republicans to introduce a bill to lower the cost of groceries now that they have a majority in both houses.
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I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.
December 17, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I think one reason why a lot of women resist feminist insights about the extent and vehemence of men’s misogyny is that they can’t accept how stupid it is.