Jen Manion
@manionjen.bsky.social
Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
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1. I recommend @manionjen.bsky.social's work as well as Transgender History by Susan Stryker.
2. Lincoln (2012)
3. SNEH is handling a premade pot roast & mashed potatoes while I host. 🗃️#HATM
2. Lincoln (2012)
3. SNEH is handling a premade pot roast & mashed potatoes while I host. 🗃️#HATM
August 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
1. I recommend @manionjen.bsky.social's work as well as Transgender History by Susan Stryker.
2. Lincoln (2012)
3. SNEH is handling a premade pot roast & mashed potatoes while I host. 🗃️#HATM
2. Lincoln (2012)
3. SNEH is handling a premade pot roast & mashed potatoes while I host. 🗃️#HATM
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1. Female Husbands written by @manionjen.bsky.social
2. Judas and the Black Messiah
3. BBQ chicken with macaroni salad
#HATM
2. Judas and the Black Messiah
3. BBQ chicken with macaroni salad
#HATM
August 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
1. Female Husbands written by @manionjen.bsky.social
2. Judas and the Black Messiah
3. BBQ chicken with macaroni salad
#HATM
2. Judas and the Black Messiah
3. BBQ chicken with macaroni salad
#HATM
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"Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it."
Important historical framing of the current attacks on trans people and LGBTQ+ history by @manionjen.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
@oah.org 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 #lgbtq #queerhistory
Important historical framing of the current attacks on trans people and LGBTQ+ history by @manionjen.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
@oah.org 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 #lgbtq #queerhistory
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
newrepublic.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it."
Important historical framing of the current attacks on trans people and LGBTQ+ history by @manionjen.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
@oah.org 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 #lgbtq #queerhistory
Important historical framing of the current attacks on trans people and LGBTQ+ history by @manionjen.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
@oah.org 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 #lgbtq #queerhistory
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In my contribution to @newrepublic.com's issue on Trump and history, I argue that Trump has wrapped himself in the mantle of the American Revolution while undermining its principles.
Trump Is the Enemy of the American Revolution
He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In my contribution to @newrepublic.com's issue on Trump and history, I argue that Trump has wrapped himself in the mantle of the American Revolution while undermining its principles.
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The Trump assault on international students and researchers ignores the collaboration necessary—economically, politically, and intellectually—for success, if not survival, in our hyper-connected global world. trib.al/49ZgGg6
The High Price of Barring International Students
Global collaboration is necessary for success, if not survival, in our hyper-connected world.
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August 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Trump assault on international students and researchers ignores the collaboration necessary—economically, politically, and intellectually—for success, if not survival, in our hyper-connected global world. trib.al/49ZgGg6
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Heading to the top of the list of start of semester readings for my students.
Historians fight back. "Ten steps forward. Five steps back. We face a mean-spirited, lie-fueled campaign that aims to make our lives as rights-bearing citizens untenable. Learning our history is a radical & righteous form of resistance & any one of us can do it."
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
newrepublic.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Heading to the top of the list of start of semester readings for my students.
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Excellent blog here by leading scholar @manionjen.bsky.social on the importance of queer and transhistory in the current political climate (with reference to the USA)
My thoughts on the power of queer history in these times…
Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it.
trib.al/mpThXI7
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August 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Excellent blog here by leading scholar @manionjen.bsky.social on the importance of queer and transhistory in the current political climate (with reference to the USA)
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Thank you
My thoughts on the power of queer history in these times…
Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it.
trib.al/mpThXI7
trib.al/mpThXI7
August 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thank you
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Really appreciated this!! I have a piece coming out soon(!) that answers the ‘what use trans history in these times’ Q slightly differently (and from the other side of the Atlantic) but there’s a lot here that resonated with me:
August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Really appreciated this!! I have a piece coming out soon(!) that answers the ‘what use trans history in these times’ Q slightly differently (and from the other side of the Atlantic) but there’s a lot here that resonated with me:
Historians fight back. "Ten steps forward. Five steps back. We face a mean-spirited, lie-fueled campaign that aims to make our lives as rights-bearing citizens untenable. Learning our history is a radical & righteous form of resistance & any one of us can do it."
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
newrepublic.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Historians fight back. "Ten steps forward. Five steps back. We face a mean-spirited, lie-fueled campaign that aims to make our lives as rights-bearing citizens untenable. Learning our history is a radical & righteous form of resistance & any one of us can do it."
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
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Trump has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with official triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present. trib.al/OsKGbr7
What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Trump has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with official triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present. trib.al/OsKGbr7
My thoughts on the power of queer history in these times…
Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it.
trib.al/mpThXI7
trib.al/mpThXI7
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
trib.al
August 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My thoughts on the power of queer history in these times…
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It is not unusual for presidents to have an interest in history. And until now, no president has tried to directly intervene in what Americans learn about history.
Yet, despite showing little inclination for history, Trump claims to know what Americans are learning in classrooms.
trib.al/SlCk6zJ
Yet, despite showing little inclination for history, Trump claims to know what Americans are learning in classrooms.
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August 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It is not unusual for presidents to have an interest in history. And until now, no president has tried to directly intervene in what Americans learn about history.
Yet, despite showing little inclination for history, Trump claims to know what Americans are learning in classrooms.
trib.al/SlCk6zJ
Yet, despite showing little inclination for history, Trump claims to know what Americans are learning in classrooms.
trib.al/SlCk6zJ
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It’s critical to examine the longing behind Trump’s master slogan for ourselves: In a nation racked by bitter cultural and partisan divisions, widespread fears about an AI-driven economy, and a despotic leader in the White House, the desire for better times is understandable.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It’s critical to examine the longing behind Trump’s master slogan for ourselves: In a nation racked by bitter cultural and partisan divisions, widespread fears about an AI-driven economy, and a despotic leader in the White House, the desire for better times is understandable.
trib.al/N5JpXhJ
trib.al/N5JpXhJ
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New! the @newrepublic.com's Sept issue features a great symposium "Trump vs. History," for which I asked the great @dblight.bsky.social to assemble colleagues to reflect on Trump's war on our history. We posted the first four (incl. David's) today; others coming soon! newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
Trump Against History
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
newrepublic.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New! the @newrepublic.com's Sept issue features a great symposium "Trump vs. History," for which I asked the great @dblight.bsky.social to assemble colleagues to reflect on Trump's war on our history. We posted the first four (incl. David's) today; others coming soon! newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
Honored to have an essay in this special issue of @newrepublic.com organized by David Blight about why we must defend our profession from the Trump administration attack on U.S. history.
Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it.
trib.al/mpThXI7
trib.al/mpThXI7
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
trib.al
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Honored to have an essay in this special issue of @newrepublic.com organized by David Blight about why we must defend our profession from the Trump administration attack on U.S. history.
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How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
Read the new TNR series here: trib.al/QQRtp9n
Read the new TNR series here: trib.al/QQRtp9n
Trump Against History
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
trib.al
August 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
Read the new TNR series here: trib.al/QQRtp9n
Read the new TNR series here: trib.al/QQRtp9n
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In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin.
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
March 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin.
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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Wonderful event tonight at Bookends Florence: a celebration of reissue by Sinister Wisdom of S/he by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Love the book. Love the dyke/trans warmth. Andrea Lawlor, Jen Manion & Jack Gieseking read great selections and had thoughtful things to say. The q&a got me fired up! #westernma
February 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Wonderful event tonight at Bookends Florence: a celebration of reissue by Sinister Wisdom of S/he by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Love the book. Love the dyke/trans warmth. Andrea Lawlor, Jen Manion & Jack Gieseking read great selections and had thoughtful things to say. The q&a got me fired up! #westernma
What a lovely event! Congrats Bruce!
Great thrill to be in conversation with Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social at the Charles River Museum @charlesrivermuseum.bsky.social for the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize celebration, awarded by the Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
What a lovely event! Congrats Bruce!
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All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.
February 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.
Just can’t get over the hubris of the NYT editorial board support for trans people today after five years of reckless,
Ill-informed, reactionary journalism that MADE this an issue in the first place.
Ill-informed, reactionary journalism that MADE this an issue in the first place.
February 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just can’t get over the hubris of the NYT editorial board support for trans people today after five years of reckless,
Ill-informed, reactionary journalism that MADE this an issue in the first place.
Ill-informed, reactionary journalism that MADE this an issue in the first place.
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A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system.
There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.
There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.
February 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system.
There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.
There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.
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All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.
February 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.