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Kylie M. Smith

@drkyliesmith.bsky.social

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Historian. Assoc Prof. Making jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. From Eora Country, living on Muskogee Creek land. Un-American.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · Apr 25

Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 48m

The final approved files for my book got sent to the printer on Friday. It’s a bittersweet note to end my American journey on.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2h

you are also, as my follower, legally required to tell me the name the Indigenous people of the land you are occupying called themselves!

please do not forget, you have until 9PM CST to turn in your submission

Black and Latine folks are exempt from the homework

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1h

I was born on the unceded territory of the Eora people, educated on Dharawal
Country, currently live and work on Muscogee Creek land, and am soon returning to Meanjin!

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 18h

Ugh no

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

honestly pretty tired of seeing man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Same as it ever was

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. It’s a real act of bravery calling someone a communist from under your white sheet while you burn a cross….

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

I have to laugh when people think communist is an insult tho. Says a lot.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

This is how she gets what she wants

A little tri color border collie sits politely, one ear cocked, waiting for her stupid hoomin to give her a treat.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

The so called attorney general just bald faced lying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear I still would rather gauge my eyes out with a spoon than be in the same room as her

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Well I know I’m dead and hell has frozen over because MTG is out there making sense

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Uhh it’s awful. I started on lexapro because of it but I still feel nauseous all the time.

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

I’m at the “is it a heart attack” or “is it the daily news” stage

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

Elevating today’s ICE arrest of a journalist and American citizen in Chicago

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Obsessed with my current knitting project

I am holding up the body of a sweater that’s being knit in pink and shimmering yellow yarn together with a pink ribbed border

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

These people are absolutely pathetic in their subservience to Trump

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Huge shout out to my brain that sent me a dream last night where none of my current US friends would talk to me because they were angry I’m leaving. Thanks brain. Good job.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a lot, it’s going to cost me at least $10,000 just to go home… but I’m lucky - I have a car to sell and a home to go to.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 3d

It sure is!