Jennifer Le Zotte
@lezotte.bsky.social
Historian of dress, race, sex, gender, and capitalism. Author of From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. Writing about more dress stuff, at balls and brothels, on Wall Street and in night clubs.
I work full time and have 9 and 13 yo boys. I’m so sandwiched!
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I work full time and have 9 and 13 yo boys. I’m so sandwiched!
Going on the sixth year as the main familial care giver for my 91 and 100 yo parents who live independently five minutes from me. Fortunately my brother pays for visiting care several days a week, but the management of their healthcare, home, finances, declining cognition, meals, is exhausting. . .
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Going on the sixth year as the main familial care giver for my 91 and 100 yo parents who live independently five minutes from me. Fortunately my brother pays for visiting care several days a week, but the management of their healthcare, home, finances, declining cognition, meals, is exhausting. . .
The structural details, the intricate planning, is the hardest for me (I am fortunate to have a wealthy brother handling those aspects). I’m caring for my 91 and 100 yo parents while raising 9 and 13 yo boys (and maintaining an academic career). It’s exhausting.
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The structural details, the intricate planning, is the hardest for me (I am fortunate to have a wealthy brother handling those aspects). I’m caring for my 91 and 100 yo parents while raising 9 and 13 yo boys (and maintaining an academic career). It’s exhausting.
Oh, no! Alison was so kind to me when I was a baby grad student. She chaired my first conference panel ever, ASA.
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Oh, no! Alison was so kind to me when I was a baby grad student. She chaired my first conference panel ever, ASA.
Aging parents is a whole ‘nother thing
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Aging parents is a whole ‘nother thing
‘Sell’ history. Hahaha !
September 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
‘Sell’ history. Hahaha !
I mean, I’ll give it a try
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I mean, I’ll give it a try
I hear you, but this fashion historian says they are not inexplicable, we just can’t yet decode how their clothes are resolving the current paradoxes of changing society.
September 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I hear you, but this fashion historian says they are not inexplicable, we just can’t yet decode how their clothes are resolving the current paradoxes of changing society.
It’s possible it’s an oppsy roo— a young chick who’s just outed himself as a rooster. I have chickens, zoned for no roosters (and I don’t want one). One of my new ‘chickens’ started crowing and it took me a week to find a farm that would take him without immediately ‘processing’ the sweet guy.
August 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
It’s possible it’s an oppsy roo— a young chick who’s just outed himself as a rooster. I have chickens, zoned for no roosters (and I don’t want one). One of my new ‘chickens’ started crowing and it took me a week to find a farm that would take him without immediately ‘processing’ the sweet guy.
He had to talk to his grandson, abruptly, about a fact of life. Sounds like being around kids?
August 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
He had to talk to his grandson, abruptly, about a fact of life. Sounds like being around kids?
All my historian peeps certainly have!
August 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
All my historian peeps certainly have!
This is the sort of failure that will/is bringing us down. If the mainstream ‘left’ (really, center) can’t counter lies with truth, we’re so screwed.
August 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is the sort of failure that will/is bringing us down. If the mainstream ‘left’ (really, center) can’t counter lies with truth, we’re so screwed.
Ugh, that’s such frustrating sloppiness, too! And we wonder why context is sometimes hard for students to fully get
August 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ugh, that’s such frustrating sloppiness, too! And we wonder why context is sometimes hard for students to fully get
I teach about this Rosie every year.
August 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I teach about this Rosie every year.
That’s why being a historian is so fun!
August 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
That’s why being a historian is so fun!
Once, a friend living in Nashville who I knew from my small home town reposted a post from a doggy day care (in that small hometown) about a dog they’d JUST found— it was my elderly parents’ dog! They didn’t even realize it was missing
August 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Once, a friend living in Nashville who I knew from my small home town reposted a post from a doggy day care (in that small hometown) about a dog they’d JUST found— it was my elderly parents’ dog! They didn’t even realize it was missing
I could have written this same post, but my biographies are more like 130 years old
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I could have written this same post, but my biographies are more like 130 years old
I would be so noisy
May 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I would be so noisy
Man, it’d be great to see y’all! I’m thinking of quick Cville trip this summer— so many memories
May 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Man, it’d be great to see y’all! I’m thinking of quick Cville trip this summer— so many memories
Exactly! Stay and help, maybe?
May 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Exactly! Stay and help, maybe?
It’s also not a frivolous service when I go with my dad, who’s 99 and can’t reach his feet anymore and doesn’t want his daughter to do it.
May 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It’s also not a frivolous service when I go with my dad, who’s 99 and can’t reach his feet anymore and doesn’t want his daughter to do it.