Eileen Boris
@eileenboris.bsky.social
Feminist historian of intimate labors, race and gender, home as a workplace and domestic labor. Activist scholar on care. UCSB Hull Chair.Vice-President of LAWCHA
Likes yoga, hiking, and fashion
Likes yoga, hiking, and fashion
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Nate Holdren revisits Matewan and memory at a recent screening at the Iowa Labor History Society. Read about it at LaborOnline.
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Save Our History: Matewan, Memory, and the State Historical Society of Iowa | LAWCHA
I know you’re busy, dear labor history colleagues, so I’m going to put this ask right at the top even though it messes up the flow of my essay a little:
lawcha.org
September 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Nate Holdren revisits Matewan and memory at a recent screening at the Iowa Labor History Society. Read about it at LaborOnline.
lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...
lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...
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@wendymink.bsky.social @sarahfrose.bsky.social @noahzatz.bsky.social @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social @eileenboris.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @kaaryngustafson.bsky.social @brycecovert.bsky.social
How the GOP bill in Congress would ensure poverty: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...
History Teaches . . . GOP Policy In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
"Work Requirements" to make money available for guns aimed at ourselves
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May 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
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Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
March 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike
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They are trying to prevent research on racial equity and universities are just like we’ll just stop doing research on racial equity instead of calling this out for the existential threat to academic freedom that it is.
I was shown a letter from one grantee who was specifically flagged for non-compliance because their grant application includes the term "racial equity." They must now literally certify they are not doing any racial equity-related work. Crazy, totalitarian, racist conduct by the feds right now.
February 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They are trying to prevent research on racial equity and universities are just like we’ll just stop doing research on racial equity instead of calling this out for the existential threat to academic freedom that it is.
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UDW Executive Director, Doug Moore added:
"I urge all of our followers on social media, especially unions and other social justice organizations to do the same. Stop feeding the beast that trying to kill you off!"
"I urge all of our followers on social media, especially unions and other social justice organizations to do the same. Stop feeding the beast that trying to kill you off!"
Today, we're announcing our plans to leave X/Twitter because of our concerns over its role in amplifying hate, disinformation, and authoritarian influence.
We will stop posting today, and in the coming days remove our account completely.
www.udw.org/press-releas...
We will stop posting today, and in the coming days remove our account completely.
www.udw.org/press-releas...
UDW Leaves Elon Musk’s X Over Platform’s Role in Spreading Hate and Disinformation - UDW – Fighting for Workers and Our Communities
SAN DIEGO – Today, the United Domestic Workers (UDW) announced its decision to leave the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, citing concerns over its role in amplifying hate, disinform...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
UDW Executive Director, Doug Moore added:
"I urge all of our followers on social media, especially unions and other social justice organizations to do the same. Stop feeding the beast that trying to kill you off!"
"I urge all of our followers on social media, especially unions and other social justice organizations to do the same. Stop feeding the beast that trying to kill you off!"
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So, basically, the equivalent of announcing a nearly $1 billion cut to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's budget.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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February 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So, basically, the equivalent of announcing a nearly $1 billion cut to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social's budget.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Just added my name to this @histpeace.bsky.social petition urging the @historians.org Council to rescind its veto of the scholasticide resolution. Please consider doing the same. www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...
Historians for Peace and DemocracyPetition to Members of the AHA Council
[To sign this petition please complete this form.] We urge you to rescind your veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza and put theresolution to a vote of all AHA members. The Council’s ...
www.historiansforpeace.org
February 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Just added my name to this @histpeace.bsky.social petition urging the @historians.org Council to rescind its veto of the scholasticide resolution. Please consider doing the same. www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...
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As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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Mike Davis in 1998: "Two kinds of Californians will continue to live with fire: those who can afford (with indirect public subsidies) to rebuild and those who can’t afford to live anywhere else." longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads
Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
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January 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Mike Davis in 1998: "Two kinds of Californians will continue to live with fire: those who can afford (with indirect public subsidies) to rebuild and those who can’t afford to live anywhere else." longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
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Obsessing over the deficit has curtailed progressive priorities for decades.
@davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
@davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
January 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Obsessing over the deficit has curtailed progressive priorities for decades.
@davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
@davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
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USC so anti union it is trying to misclassify 85% of all faculty, ALL of whom are lecturers, as "managerial employees and/ or supervisors."
It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."
It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."
January 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
USC so anti union it is trying to misclassify 85% of all faculty, ALL of whom are lecturers, as "managerial employees and/ or supervisors."
It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."
It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."
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Arise Chicago is distributing an immigrant worker toolkit that has all sorts of useful information, including this infographic about what to do if ICE shows up at your workplace. assets.nationbuilder.com/arisechicago...
January 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Arise Chicago is distributing an immigrant worker toolkit that has all sorts of useful information, including this infographic about what to do if ICE shows up at your workplace. assets.nationbuilder.com/arisechicago...
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Doubling union density is the best and fastest way to defeat Trumpism
January 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Doubling union density is the best and fastest way to defeat Trumpism
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The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
December 21, 2024 at 1:36 AM
The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
Subject: I just signed -- will you?
I just signed this petition asking President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Please join me and add your name.
www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel
I just signed this petition asking President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Please join me and add your name.
www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel
Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg
Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg The RFC joins Rosenberg sons Michael and Robert Meeropol in calling on President Biden to exonerate their mother, Ethel Rosenberg, following the release of formerly classifie...
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December 13, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Subject: I just signed -- will you?
I just signed this petition asking President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Please join me and add your name.
www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel
I just signed this petition asking President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Please join me and add your name.
www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel
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hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A note on AI usage
A note on AI usage I genuinely want you to succeed in this class. One of my very favorite things about my job as a professor is when students are succeeding and I feel like I helped. I want you to suc...
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December 12, 2024 at 2:25 AM
hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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This is not a good time of year for a city on Lake Superior to insult its snowplow drivers.
Duluth’s snowplow drivers, others in large union authorize strike, citing ‘crushing’ workloads
Nearly 500 members of AFSCME Local 66, which includes snowplow drivers and water line maintenance workers, could strike in mid-January.
www.startribune.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:59 PM
This is not a good time of year for a city on Lake Superior to insult its snowplow drivers.
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Our collection will not be officially out until February 2025 but Publisher's Weekly seems to like it: www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978818
Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today by
Seventy years of reporting capture the ebb and flow of American labor power in this robust collection of articles from Dissent, ...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Our collection will not be officially out until February 2025 but Publisher's Weekly seems to like it: www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978818
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Grateful this thanksgiving for the workers who grow and harvest our food. Pssst: many are immigrants!
Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family.
Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Grateful this thanksgiving for the workers who grow and harvest our food. Pssst: many are immigrants!
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For@hpe-project.bsky.social's first blog, @quinnslobodian.com & I discuss how “globalism” has been understood by scholars & far-right activists, how concerns about “sovereignty” stoked grassroots opposition to the UN, & what all this means for Trump’s 2nd term.
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www.hpeproject.org/blog/globali...
Globalism, Sovereignty, and Resistance — History & Political Economy Project
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Quinn Slobodian in conversation
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November 26, 2024 at 2:59 PM
For@hpe-project.bsky.social's first blog, @quinnslobodian.com & I discuss how “globalism” has been understood by scholars & far-right activists, how concerns about “sovereignty” stoked grassroots opposition to the UN, & what all this means for Trump’s 2nd term.
www.hpeproject.org/blog/globali...
www.hpeproject.org/blog/globali...
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Stripping people of their Medicaid benefits would leave many low-income enrollees, especially those in nonexpansion states, without any affordable coverage options, forcing them to forgo essential medical care and undermining their ability to work.
Project 2025 Medicaid Lifetime Cap Proposal Threatens Health Care Coverage for up to 18.5 Million Americans
If enacted, lifetime Medicaid caps would strip benefits from low-income populations, particularly in states that have not expanded Medicaid.
www.americanprogress.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Stripping people of their Medicaid benefits would leave many low-income enrollees, especially those in nonexpansion states, without any affordable coverage options, forcing them to forgo essential medical care and undermining their ability to work.
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Chris Newfield on "What are the Humanities For? Academic Thought after the Neoliberal Era."
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What Are the Humanities For? Academic Thought After the Neoliberal University
YouTube video by UMassHistory
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November 22, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Chris Newfield on "What are the Humanities For? Academic Thought after the Neoliberal Era."
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"I call myself a public historian or a fashion historian, because most people know what that means. But in my head I’m a dress historian, because not all dress is fashion." 🗃️
How Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Does History
“I didn’t know my quirky obsession could be a job in its own right.”
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November 23, 2024 at 2:00 AM
"I call myself a public historian or a fashion historian, because most people know what that means. But in my head I’m a dress historian, because not all dress is fashion." 🗃️