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Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Skystorian #HistPsych #HistSTM

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · Apr 16

Taps the sign 👉 Nobody's free till everybody's free.

fannie lou hamer singing into a microphone with the words if i fall i 'll fall freedom

Alt: fannie lou hamer with microphone, with the words if i fall i'll fall - five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1h

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1) Downloaded All The Reading
2) Downloaded All The Audiobooks
3) Downloaded All The Podcasts

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1h

This would be GREAT paired with my article in doctors in the Klan in the 1920s.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 5h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 17h

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 9h

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 8h

On this day in 1654 a gunpowder store with 90.000 pounds of powder exploded in the Dutch city of Delft.
Over 500 houses were demolished, thousands were injured and at least 100 people died, although that number was likely much higher.

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Painting by Egbert van der Poel:

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 12h

These Brummies are working to challenge the likes of Jenrick and Yaxley-Lennon. They've a fundraiser - consider donating if you haven't already gofund.me/f5ccdf61e

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 13h

Handsworth legend Apache Indian is everything Robert Jenrick claims to want — he’s a symbol of the diversity of modern Britain.

But instead of celebrating voices like his, our leaders cling to Union Jacks like toddlers at a funfair.
My piece in today’s Observer👇

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Apache Indian could teach Jenrick a thing or two about in...

Growing up in diverse Birmingham defined my world view. What other city could have inspired Apache Indian’s mash-up?

observer.co.uk

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

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ORIENTATION
FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

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1) Sleep catch-up days
2) Autumn 🍂
3) Space to think

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 1d

Storyville has some amazing documentaries atm, centred on brilliantly brave women. If you haven't already caught The Librarians and Black Box Diaries, make time to view them.

thelibrariansfilm.com/about/

Black Box Diaries - Official UK Trailer

YouTube video by Dogwoof

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 2d

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1) Physiotherapists
2) Just absolutely lovely colleagues going out of their way to support me
3) WEEKEND!

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · Sep 12

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2

CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, great! Conor's article on 19thc women coaches and women's fitness is fabulous.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d

Throwing this into the #skystorians feed - chance to win what is sure to be an excellent book.

Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social · 2d

To mark the release of my new book, When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2025), I’m giving away a copy.

To enter:
💪 Repost
🌍 Comment with your favorite strength tradition

I’ll pick a winner next week.

#StrengthHeritage #SportHistory

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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 2d

The universities’ warning comes as the government prepares new legislation to limit internationalisation, including rules requiring most degrees to be taught in Dutch.

"Cutting foreign student numbers will hit Dutch economy hard" - DutchNews.nl

Limiting the number of international students coming to the Netherlands for a degree course could cost the Dutch economy up to €4.8 billion, five major universities have warned. Erasmus University in…

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 2d

New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.

Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 2d

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 2d

Today is World Mental Health Day. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can research the history of mental health. BBIH’s free reading list on the history of emotions highlights some recent scholarship on the history of mental health in the UK and Ireland buff.ly/OK5HSbu

Engraving of an 18th century building in a pastoral landscape

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 2d

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we once again ask whether sanitised awareness days are truly the solution to decades of chronic underfunding of statutory services, and the social and material conditions that continue to drive distress.

www.nsun.org.uk/when-world-m...

When World Mental Health Day is over, we will still be Mad

Each year, NSUN and its members witness the fleeting spark of attention which awareness days attract quickly fizzle back into inaction.

www.nsun.org.uk

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