IUPUI retired historian
@grrlherstorian.bsky.social
Living in a parallel universe of IUPUI, "Loyal to you we’ll always be"
Older than Norma Desmond.
Feminist AF.
RPs=FYI.
New York style for pizza.
Chicago style for citations.
Childless Cat Lady living with Esperanza, the Empress.
Older than Norma Desmond.
Feminist AF.
RPs=FYI.
New York style for pizza.
Chicago style for citations.
Childless Cat Lady living with Esperanza, the Empress.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Are you a college student at an Indianapolis school? Do you need some help finding food?
Your school might have a food pantry you can use. Check out the schools that do and if you need to make an appointment: https://bit.ly/49bVSaz
Your school might have a food pantry you can use. Check out the schools that do and if you need to make an appointment: https://bit.ly/49bVSaz
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Are you a college student at an Indianapolis school? Do you need some help finding food?
Your school might have a food pantry you can use. Check out the schools that do and if you need to make an appointment: https://bit.ly/49bVSaz
Your school might have a food pantry you can use. Check out the schools that do and if you need to make an appointment: https://bit.ly/49bVSaz
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𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡☀️
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡☀️
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It remains to be seen what happens in the Senate, but I will not vote in the House for a government funding measure that doesn't protect healthcare.
Without extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, millions will see health insurance costs double. Hardworking Americans just can't afford that.
Without extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, millions will see health insurance costs double. Hardworking Americans just can't afford that.
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It remains to be seen what happens in the Senate, but I will not vote in the House for a government funding measure that doesn't protect healthcare.
Without extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, millions will see health insurance costs double. Hardworking Americans just can't afford that.
Without extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, millions will see health insurance costs double. Hardworking Americans just can't afford that.
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The first sight visitors may get on their way into Bloomington is a billboard accusing Indiana University of a coverup. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social
Free speech group launches Bloomington billboard critical of IU
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has squared off against the university multiple times before, ranking IU near the bottom in the nation on First Amendment rights.
www.ipm.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The first sight visitors may get on their way into Bloomington is a billboard accusing Indiana University of a coverup. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social
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I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
![The vagueness and nonspecificity that characterize “Did women ruin the workplace?” are hallmarks of right-wing rhetoric, says Moira Donegan, a Guardian columnist and writer-in-residence at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research who co-hosts the podcast “In Bed With the Right.” “One revealing thing about the conversation is that you can tell these people are in an epistemic bubble where they’re not being challenged on what they’re saying. [They] presume a kind of intellectual entitlement where these are not words you have to make your audience understand. It’s one thing to do that when you’re at the National Conservatism Conference; it’s another when you’re in The New York Times.” Donegan adds one more term to the list, pointing out that the conversation “uses ‘feminism’ as a euphemism for ‘women,’ rather than defining feminism as a set of political commitments or ideals. [When] it’s espoused by a woman and is about gender, that’s presumed to be sufficient to define it as feminism.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sdu4rudzew7rtf26u5o4bdf7/bafkreiewwm3xmwvvxkqspo6ao6seoro5bcmynxh4imtcfhtbr54gxb7bgm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/v2EPTEcu
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/v2EPTEcu
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To help transfer and adult students navigate college, IU Indy has a new program this semester that pairs them with another transfer or adult student who can relate to their experience.
Hear what students currently in the program have to say about the impact it has had: https://bit.ly/43YdR0u
Hear what students currently in the program have to say about the impact it has had: https://bit.ly/43YdR0u
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
To help transfer and adult students navigate college, IU Indy has a new program this semester that pairs them with another transfer or adult student who can relate to their experience.
Hear what students currently in the program have to say about the impact it has had: https://bit.ly/43YdR0u
Hear what students currently in the program have to say about the impact it has had: https://bit.ly/43YdR0u
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My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
Alumni For a Better IU
Connecting alumni to save IU
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October 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
forms.gle/vbsHAGUH6JHa...
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CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
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"There is no such thing as conservative feminism. … It borrows feminist words—’choice,’ ‘agency,’ ‘strength’—but drains them of their radical meaning, using them to defend inequality."
When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is
When I saw the headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And if So, Can Conservative Feminism Fix It?” in The New York Times, my heart sank.
msmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"There is no such thing as conservative feminism. … It borrows feminist words—’choice,’ ‘agency,’ ‘strength’—but drains them of their radical meaning, using them to defend inequality."
Mercury has gone into retrograde.
And it's snowing.
And the sun sets very soon.
And it's snowing.
And the sun sets very soon.
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Mercury has gone into retrograde.
And it's snowing.
And the sun sets very soon.
And it's snowing.
And the sun sets very soon.
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Haha my dad used to do this when my friends would call me and asked "can I speak to Imani?" I am a pedant raised by pedants
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Haha my dad used to do this when my friends would call me and asked "can I speak to Imani?" I am a pedant raised by pedants
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'Repossessions,’ an exhibit reimagining antebellum relics—Confederate dollar bills and ledgers, with names of enslaved people as art, at Spelman, fuels artifact-driven conversation on reparations www.uatl.com/news/2025/11...
Spelman exhibition fuels artifact-driven conversation on reparations
“Repossessions” reimagines authentic antebellum relics like Confederate dollar bills and ledgers with names of enslaved people as art, while building a case for reparations.
www.uatl.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
'Repossessions,’ an exhibit reimagining antebellum relics—Confederate dollar bills and ledgers, with names of enslaved people as art, at Spelman, fuels artifact-driven conversation on reparations www.uatl.com/news/2025/11...
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View of Autumn 2025 in Chicago
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
View of Autumn 2025 in Chicago
Memos of Blood and Fire www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Homage to public universities.
"Working conditions are learning conditions."
Homage to public universities.
"Working conditions are learning conditions."
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Memos of Blood and Fire www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Homage to public universities.
"Working conditions are learning conditions."
Homage to public universities.
"Working conditions are learning conditions."
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I’m thinking a lot about all of these airline cancellations, and how they might affect students trying to leave for the Thanksgiving holiday. If this continues on, I’m going to be very graceful to students who tell me they need to leave a day or two earlier.
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m thinking a lot about all of these airline cancellations, and how they might affect students trying to leave for the Thanksgiving holiday. If this continues on, I’m going to be very graceful to students who tell me they need to leave a day or two earlier.
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My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
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Some Heroes Don't Wear Capes. This past week the crew from A Safe Haven planted almost 140,000 bulbs along Chicago's Michigan Avenue. One of my favorite moments is hearing people driving by and saying "thank you" to workers. We'll see the results of their work in 6 months!
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Some Heroes Don't Wear Capes. This past week the crew from A Safe Haven planted almost 140,000 bulbs along Chicago's Michigan Avenue. One of my favorite moments is hearing people driving by and saying "thank you" to workers. We'll see the results of their work in 6 months!
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Boosting. Esp to @dansinker.com
Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win.
Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?
Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?
a hologram of obi-wan kenobi is displayed on a disney+ screen
Alt: a hologram of obi-wan kenobi is displayed on a disney+ screen
Wow. That AI is bad. It’s LEIA, In all white, ASKING for Obi-wan.
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Boosting. Esp to @dansinker.com
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If the workplace has been ruined I'm pretty sure it's because of corporate greed and, in the case of higher education, the intrusion of corporate values into a space that should be dedicated to research, teaching, and learning.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If the workplace has been ruined I'm pretty sure it's because of corporate greed and, in the case of higher education, the intrusion of corporate values into a space that should be dedicated to research, teaching, and learning.