Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
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Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
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Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
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Footnote came to check on me.
Footnote the dog (big fluffy white and brown perfect angel) looking over my new couch at me.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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It's in Country Club mall near the drive through pharmacy!
A hand lettered sign with a wee lamb on it. "Fall is my second favourite f word."
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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These are the only pics I have on my laptop so they are not recent - Index (the black one) is much bigger now.
Footnote on her birthday! She looks very unimpressed with the world but she's got a cute birthday kerchief on Wee baby Index! She was under 6 months at this point and she looks so tiny and soft!
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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It's pouring rain so here's some pics of the dogs from previous years.
Wee baby Index lying on a spooky grave! (It's a plastic decorative grave) Footnote as an angel and Index as the devil.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Church sign God does not pick sides but we do Let's Go Blue Jays
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Every so often when teaching my women's history class I put up a pic of Megan Follows as Anne of Green Gables and today I just decided to have a picture of Megan Follows as Catherine de Medici to see if they notice.
Megan Follows as Catherine de Medici in the absolutely bonkers show Reign. Megan Follows as Anne of Green Gables
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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The deer are not helping in my quest to teach Footnote she is not a deer temporarily inconvenienced to be a dog.
Footnote and Index staring at a deer. The deer is calmly staring back.
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Put on this fun little outfit to finish the lecture in because it's the closest thing I have that looks like something a Victorian would swim in and I've got to get all the kicks I can because we only do this scene once.
I'm wearing a dress from torrid that is a little skirt with some short pants under it and I basically look like if Miss Frizzle had gone mad at some point.
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Getting to the point in my lecture where I'm talking about comparing "beauty" to the Venus di Milo and I'm so tired I want to assure my students "You can be beautiful with or without arms."
It's a classical greek statue but her arms fell off. She's allegedly the ideal of beauty because you know, Venus. (Is she roman? Am I getting my dead empires wrong? I don't know, I've been awake for 100 years. Maybe it's a roman statue because I think Greek was aphrodite. Whatever, we're all fine.)
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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How can we tell if dogs are happy? Asking for my dogs.
Footnote on the ferry Index on the ferry
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Footnote & Index 4ever
Index and Footnote posing with Santa. Footnote looks thrilled to be here. Index looks like she'll kill everyone in the room if anything happens to Footnote. Santa looks like he's not paid enough.
October 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Footnote is feeling suspicious.
Footnote the dog is looking worriedly at a large ghost hanging from a tree on our morning walk.
October 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Good night, blueskies. May you have whatever puppy dreams make you happy.
Index has her tiny puppy head on my knee.
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I don't know why but this is the funniest lie I've seen today.

Anyway we should all block jl29 here. Also he is only following the troll accounts.
Jl29 at bluesky posting "That's funny. I just joined bluesky TODAY and have seen 3 ICE recruitment ads."
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Yes it's my dogs. Footnote even wears a disguise! Footnote and Index looking just happy to be here.
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I took the dogs out last night for a walk around the very tame pond. It was not quite the right time - too early for the stars to be really visible, too late to hear the happy birbs who were tucked in their wee birb bed. But listening very carefully I could hear the tinkle of wind chimes.
Not a great photo of the very tame pond with light spilling over the darkness to highlight the rushes.
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I'm going to go outside and then support a small business in my neighbourhood here in my city not argue with people online who think posting is praxis. Maybe I will pet a dog, like Bonnie here who offered me her stuffy for a treat.
Bonnie is an older golden retriever with the gentle face of a dog who is so well loved. She's slowed down a lot.
October 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Footnote and Index pictured with the founder of Antifa.
I had somehow forgotten how great this photo is. Footnote and Index are pictured with The Grinch, who is lying on the floor with them both. Footnote is looking off camera because someone is trying to convince her to be calm. Index is flopped on the floor where she is waiting for her moment to cause chaos. Not shown is that Index peed on the grinch right after this pic.
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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This is the face of a dog who is trying not to say "I told you so" about going for a walk making me feel better.
Footnote the dog, some sort of husky mix, is impressed with my ability to avoid walks.
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Hashtag mood
Footnote looking like she's on the moors. It looks sad but she's happy because just off screen is a bunny.
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I've just added a slide to my lecture about how just because we're focusing on marriage & motherhood in this lecture doesn't mean a woman's worth historically was in her womb, since we all know it's actually in how many dogs love you before you die.
Obviously.
Footnote in a flower crown looking extremely confused by this turn of events, but happy to be here because she's a good go who is always game. Index is also in a flower crown and her happy expression is hiding that she is plotting mischief. She did not like the flower crown.
October 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Dogs!
Footnote and Index
October 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I record my lectures at night which means I'm incredibly tired & know I'm super funny. since it's about being a ~~~star~~~ in the 1910s I decided to wear my sparkly star dress and this is the only way I could think for you to see it and tell me I'm very witty and deserve to get paid for being so.
This is not actually a sexy view of me flopped on the bed because I'm too tired but I'm flopped on my bed wearing a serious expression and a dress made of stars.
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Hashtag mood
The dogs are on a dreary path in the rain. Everything looks sad.
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Inside you there are two dogs.
One of those dogs is Index, who is rolling in the grass with a blissed out look. The other one is Footnote, who is sitting properly. Don't worry, they both got treats.
October 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM