Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
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Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My most recent book that has actually been published is Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion 2022). (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL)
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The whole "you shouldn't be required to get vaccines because you might think they're not safe" thing is so weird to me. We know they're safe. If you harbor a deep fear that wearing a seatbelt is somehow dangerous, you still legally have to wear one when driving.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The whole "you shouldn't be required to get vaccines because you might think they're not safe" thing is so weird to me. We know they're safe. If you harbor a deep fear that wearing a seatbelt is somehow dangerous, you still legally have to wear one when driving.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
#OtD 28 Nov 1971 Jewish anti-fascists of the 62 Group shut down a fascist meeting at the Royal Pavillion Hotel in Brighton, UK. Present were National Front members and former Nazi SS officers, some of whom were hospitalised. More on Jewish anti-fascism: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#OtD 28 Nov 1971 Jewish anti-fascists of the 62 Group shut down a fascist meeting at the Royal Pavillion Hotel in Brighton, UK. Present were National Front members and former Nazi SS officers, some of whom were hospitalised. More on Jewish anti-fascism: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
i mean! i'm sittin here on the group W bench!
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
i mean! i'm sittin here on the group W bench!
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The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
Among other crimes, this explicitly repudiates the written agreement NW made two years ago with protesters to provide space for Muslim students to meet and work towards building a Muslim special program house.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Among other crimes, this explicitly repudiates the written agreement NW made two years ago with protesters to provide space for Muslim students to meet and work towards building a Muslim special program house.
Buy-Nothing Day, people, it's just one day! your house is already jam-packed with food! you don't need any exceptions! Just don't buy anything.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Buy-Nothing Day, people, it's just one day! your house is already jam-packed with food! you don't need any exceptions! Just don't buy anything.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Perfection
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Perfection
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⭕Quand la police nationale exhibe fièrement une banderole féministe à l’envers
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
⭕Quand la police nationale exhibe fièrement une banderole féministe à l’envers
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC
www.niwrc.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
My mom and I had been trying to figure out the recipe for my grandma's noodle kugel, and turns out it's on the side of the Manischewitz medium-thickness noodle package (and requires specifically those noodles).
It took me many decades to get over the snobbery of not using back-of-the-box recipes, but y'all, they're printed there for a reason. I used Karo's pecan pie recipe this year and it was, by far, the best I've ever made.
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My mom and I had been trying to figure out the recipe for my grandma's noodle kugel, and turns out it's on the side of the Manischewitz medium-thickness noodle package (and requires specifically those noodles).
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
“What’s your relationship with cycling?”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
The French artist who turned himself into a bicycle
Jeremy Barzic's striking rideable sculpture of himself highlights the humanity of cyclists.
escapecollective.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“What’s your relationship with cycling?”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
Remember, tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day, as it is every year. Go for walks! Sleep in! Play board games! Read books! Eat leftovers!
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Remember, tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day, as it is every year. Go for walks! Sleep in! Play board games! Read books! Eat leftovers!
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Not all who are lost, wander.
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not all who are lost, wander.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Bringing the war home
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Bringing the war home
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.