Monica L. Mercado
@monicalmercado.bsky.social
so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, feminist interventions in the museum, upstate utopias, and convent road trips 🎀 📚 👩🏻💻 🚗 | she/her
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everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light
Great 24 hours in arts & culture for a me: Rosalía’s new album drops with a wimple and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE trailer reveals a Christmas Day release 🙏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Great 24 hours in arts & culture for a me: Rosalía’s new album drops with a wimple and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE trailer reveals a Christmas Day release 🙏🏻
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Repro wins so far:
- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion
- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)
- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion
- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Repro wins so far:
- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion
- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)
- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion
- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)
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bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains
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Remember to add our annual off-site panel, Blurred Lines: Catholic Flirtations, when registering for the ACHA 2026 Annual Meeting at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago! To register and add the event, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Remember to add our annual off-site panel, Blurred Lines: Catholic Flirtations, when registering for the ACHA 2026 Annual Meeting at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago! To register and add the event, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.
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I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
🤞🤞
I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?
They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.
Is this just me or are others seeing it?
They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.
Is this just me or are others seeing it?
September 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🤞🤞
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NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus
My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.
It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
September 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus
Stunned by this news. I've long been an admirer of Durba Mitra's scholarship, her advocacy for the Schlesinger Library, and her vision for what WGSS history (and teaching!) can be. Harvard, of course, disagrees.
Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
www.thecrimson.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Stunned by this news. I've long been an admirer of Durba Mitra's scholarship, her advocacy for the Schlesinger Library, and her vision for what WGSS history (and teaching!) can be. Harvard, of course, disagrees.
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Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls
September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls
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I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government
Thrilled to see Aaron Robertson (whose Black Utopians is on my summer reading pile!) named the Commonweal Centennial fellow. He'll spend some of his time on a novel-in-progress, "which imagines a fictional Black Catholic priest leading a revolt against the closure of Detroit parishes in 1989."
We're pleased to announce Aaron Robertson as recipient of the inaugural Commonweal Centennial Fellowship! During this fellowship, Robertson will explore Black Catholic life, along with alternative and secular Black spiritual traditions.
Welcome, Aaron!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/aaron-robert...
Welcome, Aaron!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/aaron-robert...
Aaron Robertson Receives Inaugural Commonweal Centennial Fellowship
Throughout the yearlong fellowship, Robertson will explore Black Catholic life, along with alternative and secular Black spiritual traditions.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thrilled to see Aaron Robertson (whose Black Utopians is on my summer reading pile!) named the Commonweal Centennial fellow. He'll spend some of his time on a novel-in-progress, "which imagines a fictional Black Catholic priest leading a revolt against the closure of Detroit parishes in 1989."
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NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
every day is another what the absolute fuck
Emergency press conference after Homeland Security and Immigration agents target the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago
July 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
every day is another what the absolute fuck
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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has any sitting Dem politician Locked In as much over the last 6 months as Kathy Hochul?
July 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
has any sitting Dem politician Locked In as much over the last 6 months as Kathy Hochul?
“I am stomach acid in the Body of Christ.” — Sister Simone Campbell at the final night of my favorite triennial gathering, CHWR (Conference on the History of Women Religious) 🙏🏼
June 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“I am stomach acid in the Body of Christ.” — Sister Simone Campbell at the final night of my favorite triennial gathering, CHWR (Conference on the History of Women Religious) 🙏🏼
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☀️ Catholic Sisters showed up on Capitol Hill today to pray and speak out for immigrants and a just economy.
Echo Events happening across the country.
Full recap + photos coming soon.
Echo Events happening across the country.
Full recap + photos coming soon.
June 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
☀️ Catholic Sisters showed up on Capitol Hill today to pray and speak out for immigrants and a just economy.
Echo Events happening across the country.
Full recap + photos coming soon.
Echo Events happening across the country.
Full recap + photos coming soon.
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I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.
things are indeed getting worse. but we are going to win.
“No Kings Day”: A compilation
June 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.
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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
June 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
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Reading the candidate statements in the AHA election & hoping some of the members of the alternative slate get through!!!! Look at Annelise Oreck's statement - not more of the same at all!
June 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reading the candidate statements in the AHA election & hoping some of the members of the alternative slate get through!!!! Look at Annelise Oreck's statement - not more of the same at all!
Peeking out from my book revisions hidey hole to yell about how much I love this @religiondispatches.org interview format!
had an amazing time learning more about @ahmadgreene.com's gorgeous new book!
religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...
religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...
Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and busy but also like to learn about new books!
I’m claiming to have made up this game, but if you’ve ever showed up for class wit...
religiondispatches.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Peeking out from my book revisions hidey hole to yell about how much I love this @religiondispatches.org interview format!
It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️
May 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️
everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light
May 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light
Friends, keep dishing up the pope memes, but take a minute for a thread too 🧵
What I’ve learned in my travels, talking with so many of us about #thetroubleofcolor is that the new Pope’s family story is a very American, as in U.S., story. The branches of our family trees are twisted, dense, and not always easy to see or to know. (3)
May 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Friends, keep dishing up the pope memes, but take a minute for a thread too 🧵