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Crystalina Mae (she/they)
@thewitchyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of Transatlantic empire and microhistories.
Intersectional progressive advocate with free mom hugs for anyone who needs them 🖤🤎🩵🤍🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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A week from today, @historians.org is holding a History Behind the Headlines webinar on the history of government shutdowns and the budget. Free and open to the public, so please share with friends, family, students, and whoever else wants to know how we got to this point in Washington. 🗃️
History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and the Federal Budget – AHA
Threats of a US government shutdown have become a staple of the federal budget process during the past few decades. In this hour-long History Behind the Headlines webinar, hear leading scholars discus...
www.historians.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The one question academics can never answer:
New Girl or Canucks as background noise while I study?
October 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Justene Hill Edwards on making the list of finalists for the 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize! It was such a pleasure working on this project - congratulations, Justene!
List of 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Are there any Black educators that have a classroom wishlist?

If so, please drop it in the comments!

Please help share, donate, do whatever you can!

#blackedusky #edusky #blacksky
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
If Tamara Petkevich claims to have been proposed to by one more man after they've known her for less than a week, I am going to scream.
This memoir is insufferable.
July 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Statement from the King family on the release of 230,000 files related to their father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
July 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Know their names: ‘Since October 7, 2023, Israeli attacks have killed at least 16,800 children, according to Palestinian officials. That is one Palestinian child killed every 30 minutes, or about one out of every 65 children in the Gaza Strip.’

interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/isr...
Know their names: Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
One out of every 65 children in Gaza has been killed by Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.
interactive.aljazeera.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Do not purchase anything on ETSY until they remove alligator alcatraz merchandise off their website
July 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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we’ve totally normalized that he’ll interfere with private business if he’s not paid off. every legal expert said this suit was meritless.
July 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth! Let's not forget what the flag represents, how it represents us all, how hard we fight to be here, how hard they fought to get us here.
#Spoonie #DisabledWitch #DisabilityAdvocate
July 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
19th-century court records: "Offence: Cruelty to dumb brute"
Me, a historian of race, gender, and empire: *raises eyebrow* One guess who this guy and his victim were.
July 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something...

My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
June 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Cat tax for those who require a soul hug
June 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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WTF?
WE HAVE QUESTIONS…

This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they?

ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants.

How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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AS PART OF reorganization of State Department, Trump is creating an Office of Remigration - an immigration policy embraced by extremists calling for removal of all migrants including “non-assimilated” citizens w/ goal of creating white ethnostates in Western countries.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’ to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...
www.wired.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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White men are the biggest threat to America. Always have been. Always will be.
June 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Ya know how there's that one person at the nursing home who just talks and talks to everyone and nothing they say relates to the conversation but they just keep talking anyway?

Anyway, I just watched another White House press conference.
June 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
First-time/inexperienced white protestors get really upset when experienced Black and POC protestors and activists share best practices with them, and then aren't there to drag them out when they don't follow best practices. Maybe if you left when we did you wouldn't get caught up.
June 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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the 2024 student encampments on college campuses had movement discipline and the state still beat them, tear gassed them, expelled them, and in some cases deported them
June 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM