Olivia Castetter ✍️🏽🌈
@historian-olivia.bsky.social
Public scholar ✒️ Autistic
Currently researching the history of reproductive rights in America 💪🏽
My pups are my research assistants 🐕
https://open.substack.com/pub/historyandherstory?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4g1pvd
Currently researching the history of reproductive rights in America 💪🏽
My pups are my research assistants 🐕
https://open.substack.com/pub/historyandherstory?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4g1pvd
Tonight is my first night of homework for a Constitutional Law course I'm taking, courtesy of Yale.
If anyone had ever told me *this* is where my life would ever be, I'd have laughed.
I love being wrong about myself. 💗
If anyone had ever told me *this* is where my life would ever be, I'd have laughed.
I love being wrong about myself. 💗
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Tonight is my first night of homework for a Constitutional Law course I'm taking, courtesy of Yale.
If anyone had ever told me *this* is where my life would ever be, I'd have laughed.
I love being wrong about myself. 💗
If anyone had ever told me *this* is where my life would ever be, I'd have laughed.
I love being wrong about myself. 💗
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Two kindergartners who are “extremely critical” after a man opened fired at a school in Northern California. The Sheriff’s Office said they believe the gunman targeted the school due to its affiliation with the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
2 kindergartners in 'extremely critical' condition after Northern California school shooting
Two young boys were critically wounded in a shooting at a Christian elementary school in Oroville that may have been religiously motivated, officials say.
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Two kindergartners who are “extremely critical” after a man opened fired at a school in Northern California. The Sheriff’s Office said they believe the gunman targeted the school due to its affiliation with the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Growing up along the Ohio River, just a few miles from the launch site of the Corps of Discovery at the Falls of the Ohio in Clark County, Indiana, the tale of Meriwether Lewis & William Clark was one I heard often throughout my childhood, the way some children know the story of Cinderella.
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Growing up along the Ohio River, just a few miles from the launch site of the Corps of Discovery at the Falls of the Ohio in Clark County, Indiana, the tale of Meriwether Lewis & William Clark was one I heard often throughout my childhood, the way some children know the story of Cinderella.
I'm currently watching the 2018 @netflixus.bsky.social documentary Reversing Roe.
i.e., I've got a bad winter cold and cannot stop my initial dive into my current research project.
i.e., I've got a bad winter cold and cannot stop my initial dive into my current research project.
December 1, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I'm currently watching the 2018 @netflixus.bsky.social documentary Reversing Roe.
i.e., I've got a bad winter cold and cannot stop my initial dive into my current research project.
i.e., I've got a bad winter cold and cannot stop my initial dive into my current research project.
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The stunning new rose window in Notre Dame Cathedral is revealed.
November 29, 2024 at 11:28 PM
The stunning new rose window in Notre Dame Cathedral is revealed.
Okay y'all, I've decided to table my Victorian women's mental health research until at least summertime.
With the state of things now, and the harrowing prospects on the horizon in the US, I'm turning my full attention to #reproductiverights and #abortion history. 💪🏽
With the state of things now, and the harrowing prospects on the horizon in the US, I'm turning my full attention to #reproductiverights and #abortion history. 💪🏽
November 30, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Okay y'all, I've decided to table my Victorian women's mental health research until at least summertime.
With the state of things now, and the harrowing prospects on the horizon in the US, I'm turning my full attention to #reproductiverights and #abortion history. 💪🏽
With the state of things now, and the harrowing prospects on the horizon in the US, I'm turning my full attention to #reproductiverights and #abortion history. 💪🏽
#AcademicSky, #HistorySky,
I'm new here & need to ask:
Do you ever get burnt out on a research project & feel the need to table it & pick something else for a season?
I'm closing year 3 of my research on #Victorian women and, given current US events, feel an urge to switch to #abortion history.
I'm new here & need to ask:
Do you ever get burnt out on a research project & feel the need to table it & pick something else for a season?
I'm closing year 3 of my research on #Victorian women and, given current US events, feel an urge to switch to #abortion history.
November 29, 2024 at 1:39 PM
#AcademicSky, #HistorySky,
I'm new here & need to ask:
Do you ever get burnt out on a research project & feel the need to table it & pick something else for a season?
I'm closing year 3 of my research on #Victorian women and, given current US events, feel an urge to switch to #abortion history.
I'm new here & need to ask:
Do you ever get burnt out on a research project & feel the need to table it & pick something else for a season?
I'm closing year 3 of my research on #Victorian women and, given current US events, feel an urge to switch to #abortion history.
I get so excited when my pen matches my notebook which matches the book I'm reading for a research project/potential next book 🤗
#RoevWade #womensrightsarehumanrights #abortion #reproductiverights
#RoevWade #womensrightsarehumanrights #abortion #reproductiverights
November 28, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I get so excited when my pen matches my notebook which matches the book I'm reading for a research project/potential next book 🤗
#RoevWade #womensrightsarehumanrights #abortion #reproductiverights
#RoevWade #womensrightsarehumanrights #abortion #reproductiverights
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
As an educator, I understand when fellow educators are swamped with assessing work.
As a student, it drives me bananas NOT to get any feedback on an essay, just a score.
As an educator, I feel some sort of commentary is our obligation to our students.
What say you, #educationsky?
#Education
As a student, it drives me bananas NOT to get any feedback on an essay, just a score.
As an educator, I feel some sort of commentary is our obligation to our students.
What say you, #educationsky?
#Education
November 27, 2024 at 1:52 PM
As an educator, I understand when fellow educators are swamped with assessing work.
As a student, it drives me bananas NOT to get any feedback on an essay, just a score.
As an educator, I feel some sort of commentary is our obligation to our students.
What say you, #educationsky?
#Education
As a student, it drives me bananas NOT to get any feedback on an essay, just a score.
As an educator, I feel some sort of commentary is our obligation to our students.
What say you, #educationsky?
#Education
Executive creative director at Lucasfilm Dave Filoni once said, “I love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.” Speaking of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Filoni succinctly expresses how many of us feel about the towns from which our stories began.
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
All about New Albany
Executive creative director at Lucasfilm Dave Filoni once said, “I love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.”
open.substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Executive creative director at Lucasfilm Dave Filoni once said, “I love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.” Speaking of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Filoni succinctly expresses how many of us feel about the towns from which our stories began.
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
Headed to my local library for some holiday reading options!
#HistorySky, what should I try to grab for the holiday season?
#HistorySky, what should I try to grab for the holiday season?
November 26, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Headed to my local library for some holiday reading options!
#HistorySky, what should I try to grab for the holiday season?
#HistorySky, what should I try to grab for the holiday season?
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The ecosystem of writers, editors, copyeditors, illustrators, book cover artists, and agents that AI could harm is mind-boggling. Please continue to buy books by real authors, and art by real artists. We are going to need your support.
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 26, 2024 at 10:57 AM
The ecosystem of writers, editors, copyeditors, illustrators, book cover artists, and agents that AI could harm is mind-boggling. Please continue to buy books by real authors, and art by real artists. We are going to need your support.
Currently working my way through no less than a thousand cemetery photos from this year.
New writing project on the horizon? Of course.
#cemeteryphotography
#writingcommunity
New writing project on the horizon? Of course.
#cemeteryphotography
#writingcommunity
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Currently working my way through no less than a thousand cemetery photos from this year.
New writing project on the horizon? Of course.
#cemeteryphotography
#writingcommunity
New writing project on the horizon? Of course.
#cemeteryphotography
#writingcommunity
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25 November 1942 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children deported from the ghetto in Grodno arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
November 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM
25 November 1942 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children deported from the ghetto in Grodno arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
After the arrival selection, 305 men and 128 women were registered in the camp. The remaining Jews, probably 1,567 people, were murdered in gas chambers.
I’ve often joked that I grew up in a #Victorian museum. Although the house was, in fact, just a residence and didn’t offer tours, so perhaps the comment is hyperbolic, it certainly was furnished like a museum.
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November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I’ve often joked that I grew up in a #Victorian museum. Although the house was, in fact, just a residence and didn’t offer tours, so perhaps the comment is hyperbolic, it certainly was furnished like a museum.
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Do you know what Project Esther is? It’s a plan to crush Palestine solidarity, smear activists as terrorists, and revive McCarthyism—wrapped in the guise of fighting antisemitism. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...
Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” claims to combat antisemitism but in fact, aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade against all domestic dissent in the...
mondoweiss.net
November 25, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Do you know what Project Esther is? It’s a plan to crush Palestine solidarity, smear activists as terrorists, and revive McCarthyism—wrapped in the guise of fighting antisemitism. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...
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As the Israeli gov cuts all advertising to Haaretz, and calls on private companies to do the same, it's a good time to remember an attack on one of us is an attack on all journalists.
That's not a catchphrase; it's why the lack of solidarity for Palestinian journalists is disturbing and frightening
That's not a catchphrase; it's why the lack of solidarity for Palestinian journalists is disturbing and frightening
November 25, 2024 at 12:05 PM
As the Israeli gov cuts all advertising to Haaretz, and calls on private companies to do the same, it's a good time to remember an attack on one of us is an attack on all journalists.
That's not a catchphrase; it's why the lack of solidarity for Palestinian journalists is disturbing and frightening
That's not a catchphrase; it's why the lack of solidarity for Palestinian journalists is disturbing and frightening
"The health of the mother" is an interesting take, Texas, considering how many women are dying.
Is a mother's death enough reason yet?
#womensrightsarehumanrights
Is a mother's death enough reason yet?
#womensrightsarehumanrights
As they seek for further restrict reproductive care, they will invoke "the health of the mother" but the reality is that people who cared about women's health would not allow these policies.
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
"The health of the mother" is an interesting take, Texas, considering how many women are dying.
Is a mother's death enough reason yet?
#womensrightsarehumanrights
Is a mother's death enough reason yet?
#womensrightsarehumanrights
Someone chastised me recently for my "claim" that I love my Jewish friends but wearing a #FreePalestine necklace.
Being anti-genocide is not the same as being antisemitic.
Also, my Jewish friends support Palestine.
Guys. It's not that hard.
Don't kill innocents. That's it.
End the occupation 🍉
Being anti-genocide is not the same as being antisemitic.
Also, my Jewish friends support Palestine.
Guys. It's not that hard.
Don't kill innocents. That's it.
End the occupation 🍉
November 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Someone chastised me recently for my "claim" that I love my Jewish friends but wearing a #FreePalestine necklace.
Being anti-genocide is not the same as being antisemitic.
Also, my Jewish friends support Palestine.
Guys. It's not that hard.
Don't kill innocents. That's it.
End the occupation 🍉
Being anti-genocide is not the same as being antisemitic.
Also, my Jewish friends support Palestine.
Guys. It's not that hard.
Don't kill innocents. That's it.
End the occupation 🍉
One of my goals as an educator and, you know, a human being, is to stay loud through the next 4 years.
My children were born during the first Trump Administration.
My daughter my hit puberty during the next 4 years.
I'm terrified for her. #womenshealthcare #womensrightsarehumanrights
My children were born during the first Trump Administration.
My daughter my hit puberty during the next 4 years.
I'm terrified for her. #womenshealthcare #womensrightsarehumanrights
a woman is sitting on the floor holding a sign that says we shall overcome
ALT: a woman is sitting on the floor holding a sign that says we shall overcome
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:56 PM
One of my goals as an educator and, you know, a human being, is to stay loud through the next 4 years.
My children were born during the first Trump Administration.
My daughter my hit puberty during the next 4 years.
I'm terrified for her. #womenshealthcare #womensrightsarehumanrights
My children were born during the first Trump Administration.
My daughter my hit puberty during the next 4 years.
I'm terrified for her. #womenshealthcare #womensrightsarehumanrights
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals is challenging...and it's difficult to see them fall short.
I started History & Her Story to help fund my return to university. So far, I only have 2 followers who aren't friends; total is 7 free.
I'd love to hit 10 by Friday.
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
I started History & Her Story to help fund my return to university. So far, I only have 2 followers who aren't friends; total is 7 free.
I'd love to hit 10 by Friday.
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
History & Her Story | Olivia Castetter | Substack
Uncovering the layers of history, with a particular fascination for women's stories, cemeteries, and mysterious tragedies. Click to read History & Her Story, by Olivia Castetter, a Substack publicatio...
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November 25, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals is challenging...and it's difficult to see them fall short.
I started History & Her Story to help fund my return to university. So far, I only have 2 followers who aren't friends; total is 7 free.
I'd love to hit 10 by Friday.
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
I started History & Her Story to help fund my return to university. So far, I only have 2 followers who aren't friends; total is 7 free.
I'd love to hit 10 by Friday.
open.substack.com/pub/historya...
The early to mid nineteenth century in the US, from Jefferson through Jackson, is a period of history I struggle to study.
I know it's important. I understand the weight of it.
But damn, my #autism just doesn't care.
Any book or documentary suggestions that are highly engaging? Captivating?
I know it's important. I understand the weight of it.
But damn, my #autism just doesn't care.
Any book or documentary suggestions that are highly engaging? Captivating?
November 25, 2024 at 2:34 PM
The early to mid nineteenth century in the US, from Jefferson through Jackson, is a period of history I struggle to study.
I know it's important. I understand the weight of it.
But damn, my #autism just doesn't care.
Any book or documentary suggestions that are highly engaging? Captivating?
I know it's important. I understand the weight of it.
But damn, my #autism just doesn't care.
Any book or documentary suggestions that are highly engaging? Captivating?