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Isabel Machado
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Cultural historian interested in Gender & Sexuality and Celebration Studies.
https://www.machadoisabel.com/
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Witch Studies Reader," edited by Soma Chaudhuri & Jane Ward @gentlemanjane.bsky.social , which brings together scholars & practitioners who examine witchcraft from a perspective that decenters Europe and departs from exoticizing and pathologizing studies.
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Cover of The Witch Studies Reader, edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward. The cover features a grainy, gray illustration of a forest against a black background on the top half of the cover, with its vertical mirror image on the bottom half. The edges of the forest illustration blur and fade into the black background. The white title text is centered at the top of the cover.
March 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“A grave robber is hardly a morally reliable person, right?” Viva João Reis!
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Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years
The remains were taken to the US during a revolt led by Muslim slaves
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March 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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OUR HISTORY WILL NOT BE ERASED. We will not stand by in silence as the federal government attempts to erase LGBTQ history.

Read our full statement on National Park Service's erasure of transgender and queer identities.

Read: bit.ly/stonewallera...
Participants of the Stonewall uprising in front of the Stonewall Inn, June 29, 1969. Gift of The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Accompanies a statement about the National Park Service's removal of mentions of transgender and queer identities from the digital record of Stonewall, multiple National Register of Historic Places webpages, and links to countless LGBTQ history resources; more acts of digital erasure are yet to come.
February 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The LGBTQ+ History Association statement on our outrage and call to update National Park Service (NPS) websites after the removal of reference to the Transgender (T) and Queer (Q) communities and history.

Please read our full statement: tinyurl.com/LGBTQHistory...
February 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Feb 8
No one lets go of anyone’s hand.
Drawing of two hands clasping over a flower and the Portuguese phrase “NIN GUEM SOLTA A MAO DE NIN GUEM”
February 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Reminder that we have a free zine called How to Archive a Protest that is a guide for activist and organizers interested in saving their work. When we beat back this wave of American fascism, we’ll want to remember how we did it.

Full Zine: bit.ly/protestarchive
February 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️
AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”
The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooli...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM