Kristyn Scorsone, PhD
@ykristyn.bsky.social
PhD in American Studies @rutgers_newark. LGBTQ+, African American, urban, & public history; @QueerNewark, they/them🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio
In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
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Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
Per multiple reports, as of June, 70% of the people ICE has arrested have no criminal history. What ICE is doing is meeting their DAILY QUOTA of arresting 3,000 people, which is a disgusting quota set by the White House. This has included US citizens, green card holders, & those protected by DACA.
August 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Per multiple reports, as of June, 70% of the people ICE has arrested have no criminal history. What ICE is doing is meeting their DAILY QUOTA of arresting 3,000 people, which is a disgusting quota set by the White House. This has included US citizens, green card holders, & those protected by DACA.
I’m so honored to receive the 2025 Rutgers-Newark SASN Dean’s Undergraduate Teaching Award!
This is def one of the best awards I’ve ever been given tied with awards I got from Newark’s LGBTQ+ community. 💜 I’m truly honored that my RUNB & RUN students wrote such kind letters in support of me 🥹
This is def one of the best awards I’ve ever been given tied with awards I got from Newark’s LGBTQ+ community. 💜 I’m truly honored that my RUNB & RUN students wrote such kind letters in support of me 🥹
July 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’m so honored to receive the 2025 Rutgers-Newark SASN Dean’s Undergraduate Teaching Award!
This is def one of the best awards I’ve ever been given tied with awards I got from Newark’s LGBTQ+ community. 💜 I’m truly honored that my RUNB & RUN students wrote such kind letters in support of me 🥹
This is def one of the best awards I’ve ever been given tied with awards I got from Newark’s LGBTQ+ community. 💜 I’m truly honored that my RUNB & RUN students wrote such kind letters in support of me 🥹
Watching Mamdani’s speech now and it’s so powerful and uplifting. So happy he won!! 🥹🥳
June 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Watching Mamdani’s speech now and it’s so powerful and uplifting. So happy he won!! 🥹🥳
“There are thirty million acres of cornfield in the U.S. that are used for growing ethanol, and in the process providing about one percent of our energy needs. Scientists estimate those thirty million acres, covered in solar panels, would provide all the power the country requires…
June 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“There are thirty million acres of cornfield in the U.S. that are used for growing ethanol, and in the process providing about one percent of our energy needs. Scientists estimate those thirty million acres, covered in solar panels, would provide all the power the country requires…
I’m so honored & excited to be accepted as a post-doctoral fellow for the 2025-2026 Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) seminar on “Black Power and White Supremacy: The Cyclical Dialectics of Power!” Led by the amazing Dr Kimberly Butler & Dr Leslie Alexander! 💜
@ruhistorydept.bsky.social
@ruhistorydept.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m so honored & excited to be accepted as a post-doctoral fellow for the 2025-2026 Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) seminar on “Black Power and White Supremacy: The Cyclical Dialectics of Power!” Led by the amazing Dr Kimberly Butler & Dr Leslie Alexander! 💜
@ruhistorydept.bsky.social
@ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Yesterday was my hooding ceremony at @rutgersgsn.bsky.social! I will always look back at grad school as one of best times of my life. I got to work on Queer Newark, HAL, and most importantly meet some of the most brilliant, warm, funny, and supportive people in the world!! Love my RUN fam!! 💜🥳🥂
May 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yesterday was my hooding ceremony at @rutgersgsn.bsky.social! I will always look back at grad school as one of best times of my life. I got to work on Queer Newark, HAL, and most importantly meet some of the most brilliant, warm, funny, and supportive people in the world!! Love my RUN fam!! 💜🥳🥂
Free Mayor Ras Baraka!! He wasn’t even trespassing. This is cruel theater.
May 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Free Mayor Ras Baraka!! He wasn’t even trespassing. This is cruel theater.
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I’m watching additional video and the woman in the red jacket at the ICE facility in Newark who tried to stop ICE from arresting Ras Baraka and was shoved and pushed and assaulted is my rep, LaMonica McIver.
Abominable.
Abominable.
May 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I’m watching additional video and the woman in the red jacket at the ICE facility in Newark who tried to stop ICE from arresting Ras Baraka and was shoved and pushed and assaulted is my rep, LaMonica McIver.
Abominable.
Abominable.
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Robert Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law … And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable? To anyone in this country? How is this acceptable?
May 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Robert Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law … And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable? To anyone in this country? How is this acceptable?
This after ICE physically ripped a mother and her baby apart in Massachusetts while she screamed in terror.
NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.
Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.
May 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This after ICE physically ripped a mother and her baby apart in Massachusetts while she screamed in terror.
These are gifts I just got from one of my #publichistory students! One is an album from my favorite band (Sleater-Kinney) AND, most importantly, he gave me a USB drive that contains an archived version of the Queer Newark Oral History Project’s website so the government can’t ever erase it!! 🥹💜
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
These are gifts I just got from one of my #publichistory students! One is an album from my favorite band (Sleater-Kinney) AND, most importantly, he gave me a USB drive that contains an archived version of the Queer Newark Oral History Project’s website so the government can’t ever erase it!! 🥹💜
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Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1760. In 1782, Sampson dressed as a man, adopted the name Robert Shirtliff, enlisted in the Continental Army, and fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War.
To read more, head to the link in our bio.
To read more, head to the link in our bio.
April 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1760. In 1782, Sampson dressed as a man, adopted the name Robert Shirtliff, enlisted in the Continental Army, and fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War.
To read more, head to the link in our bio.
To read more, head to the link in our bio.
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Who all is going out today for the nationwide "hands off" protests? We at @motherjones.com will be covering them in a number of cities and talking to folks, including people who voted for Trump and feel buyers remorse. Reply with photos of your signs.
April 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Who all is going out today for the nationwide "hands off" protests? We at @motherjones.com will be covering them in a number of cities and talking to folks, including people who voted for Trump and feel buyers remorse. Reply with photos of your signs.
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Good morning all!
Rise and Resist!
If you can protest safely today, do so. We are working to save our democracy and to save what we hold dear.
PBS needs us and so does the rest of our country.
Together, we can do it!
Rise and Resist!
If you can protest safely today, do so. We are working to save our democracy and to save what we hold dear.
PBS needs us and so does the rest of our country.
Together, we can do it!
April 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Good morning all!
Rise and Resist!
If you can protest safely today, do so. We are working to save our democracy and to save what we hold dear.
PBS needs us and so does the rest of our country.
Together, we can do it!
Rise and Resist!
If you can protest safely today, do so. We are working to save our democracy and to save what we hold dear.
PBS needs us and so does the rest of our country.
Together, we can do it!
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While Trump is gutting the office that helps Americans afford their heating and electric bills, New Jersey is answering with reliable utility relief for our taxpayers.
The BPU's Universal Service Fund is filling the gap and helping families across our state pay their bills. Sign up now!
The BPU's Universal Service Fund is filling the gap and helping families across our state pay their bills. Sign up now!
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April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
While Trump is gutting the office that helps Americans afford their heating and electric bills, New Jersey is answering with reliable utility relief for our taxpayers.
The BPU's Universal Service Fund is filling the gap and helping families across our state pay their bills. Sign up now!
The BPU's Universal Service Fund is filling the gap and helping families across our state pay their bills. Sign up now!
Power to the Jewish students at Columbia University who have chained themselves to the gates of the university! 💜
April 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Power to the Jewish students at Columbia University who have chained themselves to the gates of the university! 💜
I’m honored to be one of the recipients of the 2025 LGBTQIA+ History Association’s Research Support Grants! I am so grateful b/c this grant will enable me to conduct new & important oral histories of LGBTQIA+ Newarkers as I shape my dissertation into a book. 🏳️⚧️💜🏳️🌈
Thank you @lgbtqhistorya!
Thank you @lgbtqhistorya!
Please read our email from March 31, 2025 for the list of our recipients!
Special thanks to our selection committee!
Special thanks to our selection committee!
April 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’m honored to be one of the recipients of the 2025 LGBTQIA+ History Association’s Research Support Grants! I am so grateful b/c this grant will enable me to conduct new & important oral histories of LGBTQIA+ Newarkers as I shape my dissertation into a book. 🏳️⚧️💜🏳️🌈
Thank you @lgbtqhistorya!
Thank you @lgbtqhistorya!
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Tea kettles are so dramatic
March 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Tea kettles are so dramatic
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I'm convinced that at least some of the cultural resentment at academia is rooted on the completely mistaken belief that we all are have permanent job security, make six figure salaries to teach 4 hours a week with summers off, and get to spend all our time Thinking, capital-t.
I told my sister-in-law my salary last night & she was totally shocked. she was like, “I was sure you were in the six-figures.” she works in medical administration & makes 20K more than me a year
just so everyone knows—assistant professors in English lit DO NOT make six figures.
just so everyone knows—assistant professors in English lit DO NOT make six figures.
March 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'm convinced that at least some of the cultural resentment at academia is rooted on the completely mistaken belief that we all are have permanent job security, make six figure salaries to teach 4 hours a week with summers off, and get to spend all our time Thinking, capital-t.
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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.
March 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.