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hello my historian friends. What kind of assignments would you propose to require in a class on an aspect of 20th century history with about 30 students?
(When I say "an aspect," the aspect is queer Indigenous history. Just to specify it's not just 20C in general. But any ideas are welcome)
(When I say "an aspect," the aspect is queer Indigenous history. Just to specify it's not just 20C in general. But any ideas are welcome)
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
hello my historian friends. What kind of assignments would you propose to require in a class on an aspect of 20th century history with about 30 students?
(When I say "an aspect," the aspect is queer Indigenous history. Just to specify it's not just 20C in general. But any ideas are welcome)
(When I say "an aspect," the aspect is queer Indigenous history. Just to specify it's not just 20C in general. But any ideas are welcome)
Incredible notification I just got from one of my habit apps
December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Incredible notification I just got from one of my habit apps
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anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
When you are hungry, so you preheat the oven, and bake something for 20 minutes, and then it comes out completely inedible 😭 I ended up going through the Culver’s drive thru I was so mad
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
When you are hungry, so you preheat the oven, and bake something for 20 minutes, and then it comes out completely inedible 😭 I ended up going through the Culver’s drive thru I was so mad
The update about proposed anti-trans changes to the Prison Rape Elimination Act made me actually stop in my tracks for a minute. I am not even posting it bc it’s so heinous that I don’t want to retraumatize people following me, but if you have the capacity, please look it up
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The update about proposed anti-trans changes to the Prison Rape Elimination Act made me actually stop in my tracks for a minute. I am not even posting it bc it’s so heinous that I don’t want to retraumatize people following me, but if you have the capacity, please look it up
But ofc settler colonialism isn’t happening in the US anymore amirite lads
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
But ofc settler colonialism isn’t happening in the US anymore amirite lads
Was walking down a random hall in the math building and heard a drum beat. Weird. I peered into a classroom and saw a class of students watching a video of a Native guy singing with a hand drum. Not a special performance, just a guy. Not sure why they were watching it but it was a nice moment.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Was walking down a random hall in the math building and heard a drum beat. Weird. I peered into a classroom and saw a class of students watching a video of a Native guy singing with a hand drum. Not a special performance, just a guy. Not sure why they were watching it but it was a nice moment.
This reminds me of Leanne Simpson’s reflection in Theory of Water on a similar photo of children at residential school, witnessing both the structures of violence implied behind the photo yet also the possibility of those children “dreaming beyond their present moment.”
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This reminds me of Leanne Simpson’s reflection in Theory of Water on a similar photo of children at residential school, witnessing both the structures of violence implied behind the photo yet also the possibility of those children “dreaming beyond their present moment.”
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‘Girl at bat.’ Photographed likely at a residential school in B.C., 1940s/50s. From the Ian Eisenhardt collection at Archives and Special Collections, Western University, London, Ontario. An NFB Photo, possibly commissioned by Indian Affairs.
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
‘Girl at bat.’ Photographed likely at a residential school in B.C., 1940s/50s. From the Ian Eisenhardt collection at Archives and Special Collections, Western University, London, Ontario. An NFB Photo, possibly commissioned by Indian Affairs.
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Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
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The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil
The native people, who fear the social and environmental impact of the project, accuse the company of not consulting them about installing multi-billion dollar infrastructure on their traditional land...
english.elpais.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...
My tentative learning outcomes for Queer Indigenous Studies are like
1. Convince a hypothetical organization 2spirit people matter
2. Fix a hypothetical org’s problematic plan of action
3. Engage in an actual act of praxis
4. Interact with a 2spirit person in a respectful and nonweird way
1. Convince a hypothetical organization 2spirit people matter
2. Fix a hypothetical org’s problematic plan of action
3. Engage in an actual act of praxis
4. Interact with a 2spirit person in a respectful and nonweird way
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My tentative learning outcomes for Queer Indigenous Studies are like
1. Convince a hypothetical organization 2spirit people matter
2. Fix a hypothetical org’s problematic plan of action
3. Engage in an actual act of praxis
4. Interact with a 2spirit person in a respectful and nonweird way
1. Convince a hypothetical organization 2spirit people matter
2. Fix a hypothetical org’s problematic plan of action
3. Engage in an actual act of praxis
4. Interact with a 2spirit person in a respectful and nonweird way
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#NotiTrans 🏳️⚧️🇨🇴 Desde 2026, Colombia incluirá categorías trans y no binarias en cédulas y registros 🏳️⚧️✊. Un avance histórico hacia la dignidad y la participación democrática.
👉 www.elpais.com.co/colombia/la-...
👉 www.elpais.com.co/colombia/la-...
La Registraduría Nacional incluirá las categorías ‘No binario’ y ‘Trans’ en cédulas
Se implementará este cambio en más de 1220 oficinas del país, donde las personas podrán registrar su identidad de género según su autodefinición.
www.elpais.com.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
#NotiTrans 🏳️⚧️🇨🇴 Desde 2026, Colombia incluirá categorías trans y no binarias en cédulas y registros 🏳️⚧️✊. Un avance histórico hacia la dignidad y la participación democrática.
👉 www.elpais.com.co/colombia/la-...
👉 www.elpais.com.co/colombia/la-...
Guyssssss it’s only 26 more days until I get top surgery
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Guyssssss it’s only 26 more days until I get top surgery
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Woman Gets in Festive Mood by Pretending Pill Sorter Is Advent Calendar: https://reductress.com/post/woman-gets-in-festive-mood-by-pretending-pill-sorter-is-advent-calendar/
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Woman Gets in Festive Mood by Pretending Pill Sorter Is Advent Calendar: https://reductress.com/post/woman-gets-in-festive-mood-by-pretending-pill-sorter-is-advent-calendar/
It should be illegal to make movies & books about cis people & white people for 100 years. That will give us some time to make up for their vast overrepresentation in media. After we have 100 years of just trans people of color we can talk about maybe letting cis & white people have stories again
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It should be illegal to make movies & books about cis people & white people for 100 years. That will give us some time to make up for their vast overrepresentation in media. After we have 100 years of just trans people of color we can talk about maybe letting cis & white people have stories again
#DecemberTransReadathon day 1 achieved (via kind of cheating by rereading Oscar Upperton’s The Surgeon’s Brain. Which is a fantastic poetic exploration of the life of James Barry)
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#DecemberTransReadathon day 1 achieved (via kind of cheating by rereading Oscar Upperton’s The Surgeon’s Brain. Which is a fantastic poetic exploration of the life of James Barry)
In 1889, one of the 5 batée on the Crow Reservation told a white physician the number of Two-Spirit trans women she knew of in nearby communities: "Flatheads, four; Nez Perces, two; Gras Ventres, six; Sioux, five; Shoshonis, one." The physician also mentions other communities with Two-Spirit people.
Been really thinking a lot lately about how in the Great Plains and US Southwest, trans women went from being widely visible in supported roles in their tribal communities as late as the 1850s to being recorded as "the last berdaches" by 1900. In 50 years. That's genocide, gendercide, transfemicide.
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In 1889, one of the 5 batée on the Crow Reservation told a white physician the number of Two-Spirit trans women she knew of in nearby communities: "Flatheads, four; Nez Perces, two; Gras Ventres, six; Sioux, five; Shoshonis, one." The physician also mentions other communities with Two-Spirit people.
I'm so not cut out for a reading-every-day challenge (I read every day but it's all different books, lol, no consistency) but there's a bunch of trans books I'd like to get to so maybe I will try this?
It's December, which means that it's time for reading trans books!
The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷
The December Trans Readathon is a challenge to read a trans book every day for the whole month! If you do, you can track your progress with this official calendar, or use the hashtag #DecemberTransReadathon to share your progress 🩷
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I'm so not cut out for a reading-every-day challenge (I read every day but it's all different books, lol, no consistency) but there's a bunch of trans books I'd like to get to so maybe I will try this?
hmm maybe for "christmas" I will buy myself paper copies of Never Angeline Nørth's books
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
hmm maybe for "christmas" I will buy myself paper copies of Never Angeline Nørth's books
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You can find all my books here: never.horse/books
Never Angeline North books
never.horse
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
You can find all my books here: never.horse/books
Sea-Witch and Rainbear!!!!!!!!! changed like, my entire understanding of what literature could look like
Read Sara. Read sea witch and rainbear and her other books
You can find all my books here: never.horse/books
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sea-Witch and Rainbear!!!!!!!!! changed like, my entire understanding of what literature could look like
Today's dinner is: a slice of pecan pie approximately 1/3 of the entire dish
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Today's dinner is: a slice of pecan pie approximately 1/3 of the entire dish
Been really thinking a lot lately about how in the Great Plains and US Southwest, trans women went from being widely visible in supported roles in their tribal communities as late as the 1850s to being recorded as "the last berdaches" by 1900. In 50 years. That's genocide, gendercide, transfemicide.
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Been really thinking a lot lately about how in the Great Plains and US Southwest, trans women went from being widely visible in supported roles in their tribal communities as late as the 1850s to being recorded as "the last berdaches" by 1900. In 50 years. That's genocide, gendercide, transfemicide.
Just thinking about how when I was in grad school, those of us who were visibly queer and trans literally would sit together brainstorming how to deal with students who attacked our right to teach based on our identities. I started grad school in 2016, election of Trump happened two months in
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just thinking about how when I was in grad school, those of us who were visibly queer and trans literally would sit together brainstorming how to deal with students who attacked our right to teach based on our identities. I started grad school in 2016, election of Trump happened two months in