rachel ida
r-ida.bsky.social
rachel ida
@r-ida.bsky.social
writer of fiction and history and other things too, lots about migrant justice. history prof; happy in the classroom. some kinda commie jew, 🐈 lover, mom to two amazing grown women, i ❤️ joe. annie dirusso> ani de franco
alondra of milwaukee’s comité sin fronteras:” history doesn’t whisper, it repeats”
September 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
August 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
also we swim
and picnic in the holes left by resource extraction:
July 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
a lovely summer saturday @ white star quarry in northern ohio & i can’t but wonder about this scene + ICE and misery
July 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#caturday. i have had many many cats and this one is the rare soul cat:
July 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Talking Aime Cesaire,colonialism, fascism & continuous nakba. Robin DG Kelley, lucid and devastating AF. “the line between liberal democracy and fascism is porous.” how it’s done. #socialism2025
July 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
what books radicalized you? #socialism2025
July 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
July 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
at #socialism2025 w my love
July 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
really not done w the characters or the lush world created.
June 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
utica ny, represent!
June 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
senator chris larson addressing a crowd assembled to stand with #JudgeHannahDugan on a foggy Milwaukee morning. the need for justice shining bright as the sun.
May 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
just saying-
May 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
today i am writing about Shoney’s Big Boy which is, believe it or not, in part a Jewish story.
April 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
how is #CECOT not reminiscent of all such work camps, including the ones used for Jews, Roma people, queers and commies in WWII-era Europe?
April 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
aand- they just opened a new browser!!!
April 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
was in chicago for the @oah.org & took a little walk w like 30,000 other folks. exhilarating.
April 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
this lovely & unobjectionable rodent should not bear the unpleasant onus of the evil oligarch elon. we can come up with another worse nickname.
April 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
nothing to see here folks; freedom of expression is fine and good at UWM
March 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
who can concentrate when there are so many wolves at so many doors? (no shade to the actual animal wolf community)
March 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
outlining work
March 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
endangered signage #3: will
this hospital stand with non-English dominant patients?

i’m thinking about this all the time now: what will endure, as so much folds like chairs after a wednesday night bible study-
February 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
possibly endangered #2: i mean if they caved so easily on trans health care will they stand up for racial justice?
February 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
record of endangered things #1: restroom sign from Froedtert Medical which is connected to Wisconsin Children’s Hospital which has attempted to suspend gender affirming care- pending legal ruling
February 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
this little gift at my office door today made me feel v seen
February 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM