Kylie M. Smith
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Assoc Prof. Making jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. From Eora Country, living on Muskogee Creek land. Un-American.
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Kylie M. Smith
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...
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Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
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One of the books I’m proudest of. Congratulations, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social!
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
One of the books I’m proudest of. Congratulations, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social!
Thank you especially to @lucaschurch.bsky.social who believed in it before it was even a thing….
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thank you especially to @lucaschurch.bsky.social who believed in it before it was even a thing….
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
Fuck this shit
So much unnecessary cruelty and devastation. Medical libraries and museums are a treasure trove of information and history. Not to mention staff getting double RIFed.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
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🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Fuck this shit
In today's "life goes on" moment, I stubbed my toe and split the nail right off the bed and now there is blood on my bathroom floor. Bodies, amiright?
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In today's "life goes on" moment, I stubbed my toe and split the nail right off the bed and now there is blood on my bathroom floor. Bodies, amiright?
I gave my last guest lecture in the school of public health today - for the last 5 years I’ve done a talk in the mental health policy class - and today was the best ever, so many questions and discussion, and two students were knitting which made me smile. It’s nice to go out on a good note.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I gave my last guest lecture in the school of public health today - for the last 5 years I’ve done a talk in the mental health policy class - and today was the best ever, so many questions and discussion, and two students were knitting which made me smile. It’s nice to go out on a good note.
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None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.
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just checking are there any rich powerful white dudes not in these emails
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
just checking are there any rich powerful white dudes not in these emails
I find this little excerpt from the Epstein emails particularly interesting
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I find this little excerpt from the Epstein emails particularly interesting
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Trump Asks Staff for List of Potential Countries To Bomb To Distract From Epstein Emails
Trump Asks Staff for List of Potential Countries To Bomb To Distract From Epstein Emails — The Shovel
President Donald Trump has immediately initiated standard distraction protocols, after new emails were released tying him to Jeffry Epstein.
theshovel.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Trump Asks Staff for List of Potential Countries To Bomb To Distract From Epstein Emails
So, to send a box TO Australia FROM the US I was going to have to pay $285 in extra duties on top of the $125 postage fee so fuck you and your stupid tariffs Trump et al. Fucking stupid country.
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
So, to send a box TO Australia FROM the US I was going to have to pay $285 in extra duties on top of the $125 postage fee so fuck you and your stupid tariffs Trump et al. Fucking stupid country.
It’s so…. interesting…. watching some peoples reactions when I say I’m leaving Emory and maybe also academia. It’s almost as if I have stated my intention to leave a cult or something 👀
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s so…. interesting…. watching some peoples reactions when I say I’m leaving Emory and maybe also academia. It’s almost as if I have stated my intention to leave a cult or something 👀
Dear employer lol no I am not filling out your multiple surveys on well being, attitudes towards AI or arts+health initiatives given you never paid attention to what we had to say about complying with fascism
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Dear employer lol no I am not filling out your multiple surveys on well being, attitudes towards AI or arts+health initiatives given you never paid attention to what we had to say about complying with fascism
Well, I told my students this was my final formal lecture and class and there was a collective gasp and groan of noooo so that’s nice well done Emory.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Well, I told my students this was my final formal lecture and class and there was a collective gasp and groan of noooo so that’s nice well done Emory.
Today is the last day I’m giving a formal lecture to undergrads at Emory. The rest of the semester we working on our final project and performance so that part will be fun. Tomorrow I give a guest lecture in public health, December 4 an ethics talk. Then I’m done here. Done.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Today is the last day I’m giving a formal lecture to undergrads at Emory. The rest of the semester we working on our final project and performance so that part will be fun. Tomorrow I give a guest lecture in public health, December 4 an ethics talk. Then I’m done here. Done.
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The party exists to fundraise off sustained mediocrity. Nothing else.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The party exists to fundraise off sustained mediocrity. Nothing else.
Christ on a cracker 🤦🏻♀️
Trump: "I was recently at an event and I saw that France was celebrating Victory Day, but we didn't. And I saw France was celebrating another Victory Day for World War 2. And other countries were celebrating. They were all celebrating. We're the one that won the wars."
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Christ on a cracker 🤦🏻♀️
Woke up on on Wednesday wondering if I’d made a mistake. Woke up this morning glad I still have a plane ticket out of here in 67 days.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Woke up on on Wednesday wondering if I’d made a mistake. Woke up this morning glad I still have a plane ticket out of here in 67 days.
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Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
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This captures so well the feeling of trying to do scholarly work right now, to maintain and communicate the joy of it publicly. It feels embarrassing to care so much about the thing itself when all people will do is sort it into two bins, for and against.
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This captures so well the feeling of trying to do scholarly work right now, to maintain and communicate the joy of it publicly. It feels embarrassing to care so much about the thing itself when all people will do is sort it into two bins, for and against.