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Leah Redmond Chang
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Writer * Historian * Author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Bloomsbury; FSG, 2023). She/Her leahredmondchang.com
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Leah Redmond Chang @leahredmondchang.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hello! I’m a former professor turned full time writer. American. Latest book is Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (2023) I will be writing about women, gender, and power - past and present - for the foreseeable future. Nice to meet you all!

#womeninhistory #skyhistorians
Book with black cover and portraits of 3 women Book with teal cover and portraits of three women
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I happened upon this yesterday, and I keep looking at it. 13th-century Flemish manuscript. I really want to know the context that inspired the illuminator to make this particular marginal drollery.

#medieval #medievalists
July 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#nokings
Mass Bridge Banner Drop To Mock Trump’s War March Party
YouTube video by DC Media Group
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June 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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An excellent essay by @leahredmondchang.bsky.social on standing up to tyrants: open.substack.com/pub/leahredm...
No King can Rule our Conscience and our Heart
So believed Sir Thomas More
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June 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Breaking: Visibility Brigades sting Trump on “No Kings Day” across 50 bridges in Virginia. #NoKings #VisibilityBrigades

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Mass Visibility Brigades To Counter Trump’s War March Party - DCMediaGroup
Washington DC—Local grassroots groups have been rehearsing their measured response to Trump’s Stalinesque military ruck march slated for June 14. The military parade will tear up DC streets with Army ...
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June 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Breaking: Visibility Brigades sting Trump on “No Kings Day” across 50 bridges in Virginia. #NoKings #VisibilityBrigades

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June 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Free online courses from Harvard University

“American Government: Constitutional Foundations

“U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy”

“We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy”

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May 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I agree with this guy!
May 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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As for so much about this regime - if it weren’t so tragic and terrifying it would be hilarious.

AND WHAT IS WITH THE ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME?
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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⚠️ Warning: Flashing lights or patterns

🚨 On May 1, 2025, in cities across the U.S., we will honor the legacy of the workers who gave everything for the eight-hour day—and we will carry their struggle into today’s fight for a country that serves the many, not the few.

JOIN US at www.FiftyFifty.one
April 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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MAY DAY - DAY OF ACTION

Actions all over the country THIS THURSDAY, at different times.

I'm going to RT a bunch of posts+you can follow @50501movement.bsky.social, which is aggregating what looks like All The Posts. Pls spread the news!

CHICAGO
Union Park
Thurs @ 11am

I'll be there! Come on out!
April 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I have been a guest on @vulgarhistory.bsky.social twice and I love my conversations with Ann Foster. This one was about a particular hero of mine, Olympe de Gouges - a radical feminist of 18th-century France.

#womeninhistory
#women’shistory
#feministscholars
vulgarhistory.bsky.social Vulgar History @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · Apr 16
For the next seven weeks, we’re looking at women who were actively involved on the Revolution side of the French Revolution, starting with Olympe de Gouges. Guiding our discussion this week is friend of the podcast @leahredmondchang.bsky.social — listen wherever you get podcasts pod.link/1489560920
April 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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How do they not understand that to vote “no” is a way of saying “we don’t trust this regime no matter how ‘reasonable’ your candidate seems, and we are not going along with this?” A regime that pulled Bondi et al is not a regime to be trusted. As for Fetterman, I think that’s a bait and switch.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Apr 10
✅Confirmation of Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada:

9 Democrats join Republicans:

Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
April 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Jess should be our Governor: She ran for office in 2022 for State Rep. HD1 NW Missouri. She was not successful but used the experience to organize Progressives in Rural Mo. “Dirt Road Democrat ” @piperformissouri.bsky.social Love her Substack jesspiper.substack.com / @iquitcigs.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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That’s interesting. And also, presumably, the social conditions that led to the wet nurses’s poor health, indeed the impoverished conditions that likely led her to having milk at all as a wet nurse (perhaps because her own child had died?) were also rarely considered.

#skyhistorians
emory-f8.bsky.social Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · Apr 3
Did you know?

In the Victorian era, wealthy mothers often hired wet nurses to breastfeed their babies.

However, the health of the wet nurse was rarely considered, which, unfortunately, led to some infants contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and syphilis.

#Victorian #history
A wet nurse breastfeeding an infant.
April 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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On Substack, I wrote about the latest proclamation recognizing Women's History Month. It's alarming to see the shifts over the years.This administration is focused on the future in frightening ways. Not surprising, perhaps, but the language is revealing.

#womenshistory
#skyhistorians
The 2025 Presidential Proclamation on Women's History Month
Not surprisingly, it erases the concept of women’s history
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March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Louis, son of Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici, dead on October 24, 1550, of the measles. He was not yet two years old.

#skyhistorians
#womeninhistory
#historyofmedicine
#earlymodern
A sixteenth-century portrait of a toddler boy wearing a crown
February 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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2/16/1945 — Elizabeth W. Peratrovich, a native Tlingit civil rights activist, won her long civil rights fight for the First People in Alaska with the passage of the territory’s Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the U.S. #womenshistory #civilrights #DEI #OTD
February 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Sir Lady Java. Entertainer. Activist. Absolute legend. Trailblazer for #transgender rights. Sadly, we lost her in November 2024, but we will honor her memory and continue to work toward a better future.

#BlackHistory #LGBTQIAHistory #WomensHistory
Sir Lady Java: Iconic Black Trans Woman
Discover the legacy of Sir Lady Java, a pioneering Black trans entertainer and activist who broke barriers in the 1960s and beyond.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Or any knowledge of history….
February 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Along with ignorance about history…..
jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · Feb 16
The hatred of critical thinking is killing us.
February 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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mweinstock.bsky.social mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · Feb 15
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Over on Substack, I wrote about arming myself for this next political phase. And finding my writing voice again because, woah, it has been crazy here in the US, and for weeks I have hardly been able to write a word.

leahredmondchang.substack.com/p/artemisias...

#skyhistorians
#earlymodern
Artemisia's Struggle and Our Own
Making Justice Visible in the World
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February 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM