Meghan Cope (she/her)
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Meghan Cope (she/her)
@mcope.bsky.social
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Geography prof @ University of Vermont. Striving for thriving, socially just, healthy cities. Also: early 20th C. US geographies of childhood, qualitative research methods, geo-humanities. #MappingAmericanChildhoods https://blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childhoods/
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Repping our professions - me on the right, and my daughter, who is a medical assistant at a GYN clinic while she applies to med school. #nokings
Two women at a protest, the younger one holds a sign saying "Gender affirming health care saves lives". The other woman, dressed in academic regalia, has a sign saying "Proud to teach DEI".
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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August 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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You know it's bad when the librarians show up. Great signs, rubber duckies, and upbeat vibes (except for the 'Die-In"!) in #BTV
#NoKings #50501movement
Vermont Librarians pop up tent at No Kings protest 6/14/2025 Tombstone signs protesting administrative cuts Rubber ducky rebellion
June 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Burlington, VT says NO KINGS!
Mohsen Mahdawi just finished speaking to our Vermont crowd #NoKingsProtest. Will @sanders.senate.gov be next?
Happy vibes at No Kings protest on a beautiful day in Burlington, Vermont Middle aged white gal in BLM ally t-shirt holding a sign saying "GenX says: we didn't survive the Cold War just to play Russian roulette with democracy"
June 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Excited to be presenting my work, Mapping American Childhoods, to the amazing Geography department @uwmadison.bsky.social today at 3:30 CDT!
Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm, July, 1915. Lewis Hine, photographer. https://lccn.loc.gov/2018677823 Mapping American Childhoods Building a Critical Historical Geography of Childhood with Geo-Visualization & Story-Telling Meghan Cope (she/her) Professor Dept. of Geography & Geosciences University of Vermont, USA mcope@uvm.edu @mcope.bsky.social Child labor. Orphanages. One-room schoolhouses. Childhood diseases and infant mortality. Crowded cities and remote rural spaces. Children’s spaces of the early 20th century can illuminate broader social trends of a place and time through examining the cultural and material production of spaces, as well as children’s experiences of such spaces. The project shared here explores geographic variation of childhoods across the US, the ways that everyday spaces were imagined and enacted for and by children, the movement of children across space, and the production of meaningful places through recursive interactions of social-cultural practices and the built environment. The presentation draws from work done through the Mapping American Childhoods project, which is based on combining archival research with comics, geo-visualization, and digital story-telling. Topics include Burlington, Vermont’s Home for Destitute Children; state- and national-level policies on child labor and compulsory schooling; the emotional geographies of mothers who wrote to the US Children’s Bureau; and exploring the material culture of children’s lives through everyday objects and media representations of the early 20th century.
May 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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It's absurd to fund one per county when Chittenden Co. has over a quarter of the total state population.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Jericho, representing
Protestors along a street
April 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Only a few "F*ck yous" and 2 pick-up trucks rolling coal at ~300 us here in rural Jericho, Vermont!
Mob Tactics: destroy livelihoods, demand protection money, consolidate power. STOP Dumb Old Guy Energy (DOGE) People holding signs along a street. "Hands off" protest in tiny Jericho, Vermont
April 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Fired up, ready to go!
Hands off universities, Social Security, taxpayers money, environmental protection, our immigrant neighbors Mob Tactics: destroy livelihoods, demand protection money, consolidate power. STOP Dumb Old Guy Energy (DOGE)
April 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Jericho, Vermont checking in. Waterproof and everything
Hands off universities, social security, taxpayers' money, environmental protection, our immigrant neighbors MOB TACTICS: Destroy livelihoods, demand protection money, consolidate power. STOP Dumb Old Guy Energy (DOGE)
April 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Oh, hey, JD, thanks for bringing your positivity to Greenland. Maybe Bernie can lend you his mittens next time. @sanders.senate.gov
J. D. Vance in Greenland wearing a pussy hat, holding a pride flag, with Black Lives Matter and a trans heart on his coat.
March 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Not a legal scholar, but my urban geography brain noticed the Dear Colleague letter cited Village of Arlington Heights v. Metro Housing Devt Corp (1977), saying zoning with discriminatory impacts was OK if there was no proof of "intent". Isn't that the reverse of what this buffoon *thinks* it says?
Screen capture of a section of a 'dear colleague' letter by the acting assistant secretary of the US dept of education's office for civil rights. The key sentence citing the court ruling is: "Although some programs may appear neutral on their face, a closer look reveals that they are, in fact, motivated by racial considerations"
February 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Only a few of these #climatechange links on the US #DoT site still work tonight. Most go to the default "results not found". 😩
Screen shot of US Department of Transportation website showing multiple results of searching on "climate change" Screen shot of US Department of Transportation website message: "The requested page could not be found."
January 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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I feel like we need a #Geography version of this book -- anyone up for it?
Front cover of a book called Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology with a photo of Stonehenge and the Milky Way.
January 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM