Selena M Moon
@selenammoon.bsky.social
Disabled hafu Japanese American historian researching JA disability, mixed race, military hist, Smith College, UMass Public History. UMN American Studies PhD student, Accessibility consultant ♿ author; my posts. #DisabilitySky #AcademicSky, she/he
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1/2 Excited to announce this roundtable on #AsianAmerican #Disability: History, Archives, Methods with my amazing co-authors! March 26 4-5:30 pm Central (online) sponsored by the UMN Immigration History Research Center. We'll present on our articles Journal of American Ethnic History special issue.
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Yo resisters!
Listen up for an #altCitizen #altPride history lesson about Brent Nicholson Earle (b.1951).
In the early AIDS years, long before the internets, before cell phones, before most of you were born, Earle did larger than life things you never heard of to raise awareness and #Pride. #1
Listen up for an #altCitizen #altPride history lesson about Brent Nicholson Earle (b.1951).
In the early AIDS years, long before the internets, before cell phones, before most of you were born, Earle did larger than life things you never heard of to raise awareness and #Pride. #1
June 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Yo resisters!
Listen up for an #altCitizen #altPride history lesson about Brent Nicholson Earle (b.1951).
In the early AIDS years, long before the internets, before cell phones, before most of you were born, Earle did larger than life things you never heard of to raise awareness and #Pride. #1
Listen up for an #altCitizen #altPride history lesson about Brent Nicholson Earle (b.1951).
In the early AIDS years, long before the internets, before cell phones, before most of you were born, Earle did larger than life things you never heard of to raise awareness and #Pride. #1
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👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home
Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Given that my finals are all due the last week of class unlike the last year, this is not a break. 2 more weeks.... #AcademicSky #PhDSky
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Given that my finals are all due the last week of class unlike the last year, this is not a break. 2 more weeks.... #AcademicSky #PhDSky
The good news is the English newspapers with Japanese sections on this website include the pronunciation written in syllabary, so I can read it. The bad news is, I can't read it because everything is blurry. At least I know for later. #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Skystorians
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The good news is the English newspapers with Japanese sections on this website include the pronunciation written in syllabary, so I can read it. The bad news is, I can't read it because everything is blurry. At least I know for later. #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Skystorians
Am I the only one concerned about what happened in DC leading to martial law or the Insurrection Act or am I being paranoid?
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Am I the only one concerned about what happened in DC leading to martial law or the Insurrection Act or am I being paranoid?
Hope everyone had fun at the American Studies Association meeting in Puerto Rico. Looking ahead to next year in Chicago, anyone want to do a panel on disability? #ASA2026 #conference #DisabilitySky
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hope everyone had fun at the American Studies Association meeting in Puerto Rico. Looking ahead to next year in Chicago, anyone want to do a panel on disability? #ASA2026 #conference #DisabilitySky
Three more weeks of the semester. If my stress-vertigo (does anyone else get that?) would stop that'd be great. 2 more semesters of 2 classes (plus 1 TA class hopefully just next spring). #AcademicSky #PhDSky
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Three more weeks of the semester. If my stress-vertigo (does anyone else get that?) would stop that'd be great. 2 more semesters of 2 classes (plus 1 TA class hopefully just next spring). #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Headlines I never expected to see: Bald Eagle Drops Cat Through Driver's Windshield
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Headlines I never expected to see: Bald Eagle Drops Cat Through Driver's Windshield
I'm doing my first literature review/historiography. Anyone have any tips or examples, if possible about disability history? I've no idea what I'm doing. Thanks! #AcademicSky #PhDLife #DisHist
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I'm doing my first literature review/historiography. Anyone have any tips or examples, if possible about disability history? I've no idea what I'm doing. Thanks! #AcademicSky #PhDLife #DisHist
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
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Can anyone offer (in comments or DM) and estimate on indexing for a MSS around 75K words? Im trying to put a grant proposal together and idk how this works, but also feel bad bothering an indexer when I dont have $ to pay for a formal estimate rn #AcademicSky
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Can anyone offer (in comments or DM) and estimate on indexing for a MSS around 75K words? Im trying to put a grant proposal together and idk how this works, but also feel bad bothering an indexer when I dont have $ to pay for a formal estimate rn #AcademicSky
Excited for Abolitionist Futures: Migration, Belonging, and Resistance panel with friends from the Abolitionist Reading Group at the UMN!
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Excited for Abolitionist Futures: Migration, Belonging, and Resistance panel with friends from the Abolitionist Reading Group at the UMN!
Ugh another round of stress-induced vertigo. Thankfully mild so far. At least next semester will be easier. Can I have a semester without health issues? #PhDLife #AcademicSky
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ugh another round of stress-induced vertigo. Thankfully mild so far. At least next semester will be easier. Can I have a semester without health issues? #PhDLife #AcademicSky
1/x #HATM Gearing up for this, so excited! Scared of chili with spaghetti. Also @herberthistory.bsky.social is a fellow UMN alum! So excited to see @lizcovart.bsky.social again. We met once at an NCPH meeting a few years ago.
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1/x #HATM Gearing up for this, so excited! Scared of chili with spaghetti. Also @herberthistory.bsky.social is a fellow UMN alum! So excited to see @lizcovart.bsky.social again. We met once at an NCPH meeting a few years ago.
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
How many historians does it take to figure the technicalities out? :P
Alice Wong and her work sustains the disability community. While we never met, she asked me to write about my research on Japanese American disability history to write for her blog. Between Long COVID, and a PhD, I hadn't finished it yet. I really wish I had. Thank you so much for your support.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Alice Wong and her work sustains the disability community. While we never met, she asked me to write about my research on Japanese American disability history to write for her blog. Between Long COVID, and a PhD, I hadn't finished it yet. I really wish I had. Thank you so much for your support.
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AASLH-NCPH 2026 update! We have pushed back the final proposals deadline to Friday, December 5. Submit final proposals through @aaslh.org’s Submittable platform at: https://aaslh.submittable.com/submit/333312/2026-aaslh-ncph-call-for-proposals #WorkOfRevolution
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
AASLH-NCPH 2026 update! We have pushed back the final proposals deadline to Friday, December 5. Submit final proposals through @aaslh.org’s Submittable platform at: https://aaslh.submittable.com/submit/333312/2026-aaslh-ncph-call-for-proposals #WorkOfRevolution
Finally got to see northern lights!!!! Why are everyone's pictures so much brighter? #NorthernLights
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Finally got to see northern lights!!!! Why are everyone's pictures so much brighter? #NorthernLights
Dear academic, journals, books, and other publications: Please standardize using footnotes with the entire citation instead of endnotes in a Notes section in the back with partial citations and a bibliography with full citation
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Dear academic, journals, books, and other publications: Please standardize using footnotes with the entire citation instead of endnotes in a Notes section in the back with partial citations and a bibliography with full citation
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
Sincerely,
A busy PhD student
#AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky #WritingSky
Great! But it'd have been nice if they'd left Row v Wade alone too.
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
Supreme Court won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great! But it'd have been nice if they'd left Row v Wade alone too.
Finally a #HATM I can watch!
Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
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The American Revolution on PBS
A Historians At The Movies/Ben Franklin’s World Watch Party
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Finally a #HATM I can watch!
"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Fri temporarily halted a lower court order that would have req Trump admin to fund food stamps in full...Instead, she imposed a pause meant to give an appeals court more time to weigh the legal arguments raised by the govt..." WHY?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Curtail Food Stamp Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Fri temporarily halted a lower court order that would have req Trump admin to fund food stamps in full...Instead, she imposed a pause meant to give an appeals court more time to weigh the legal arguments raised by the govt..." WHY?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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The NCPH #AAPI Working Group fosters collaboration, identifies issues, and advocates for the AAPI community. Promote yourself or an organization, and join 60 connections in the AAPI #PublicHistory directories! Individuals, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PH-Form. Orgs, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PHOrgForm.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The NCPH #AAPI Working Group fosters collaboration, identifies issues, and advocates for the AAPI community. Promote yourself or an organization, and join 60 connections in the AAPI #PublicHistory directories! Individuals, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PH-Form. Orgs, join: https://bit.ly/AAPI-PHOrgForm.
Holocaust hist is full of non-Jews risking their lives to help Jews...Newsome feels the same cannot be said of most straight ppl for their LGBTQ+ neighbors. “I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person.”
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family
A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.
www.them.us
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Holocaust hist is full of non-Jews risking their lives to help Jews...Newsome feels the same cannot be said of most straight ppl for their LGBTQ+ neighbors. “I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person.”
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
Just submitted an internal fellowship application. Took longer than I thought because I applied to one center, got rejected and re-applied. Done now and can get into the things I've been ignoring while I wait. And start working on the next one. #PhDLife #AcademicSky
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Just submitted an internal fellowship application. Took longer than I thought because I applied to one center, got rejected and re-applied. Done now and can get into the things I've been ignoring while I wait. And start working on the next one. #PhDLife #AcademicSky