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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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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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kieranconnell.bsky.social
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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sethcotlar.bsky.social
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.
rebeccawynter.bsky.social
2:284 #3GoodThings

1) Sleep catch-up days
2) Autumn 🍂
3) Space to think
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juliaserano.bsky.social
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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lmacthompson1.bsky.social
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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crampell.bsky.social
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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fraying.bsky.social
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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rebeccawynter.bsky.social
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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rebeccawynter.bsky.social
2:283 #3GoodThings

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

CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
Chandrica Barua
Philip Tsang
Stefano Evangelista
Bassam Sidiki
Caylee Weintraub
Giles Whiteley
Tom Crewe
Kate Hext
Megan Girdwood
Neil Sammells
rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Oh, great! Conor's article on 19thc women coaches and women's fitness is fabulous.
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
Throwing this into the #skystorians feed - chance to win what is sure to be an excellent book.
physcstudy.bsky.social
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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tomhulme.bsky.social
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.
charlielynch.bsky.social
“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
www.cambridge.org
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ihr.bsky.social
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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nsunnews.bsky.social
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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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
On #WorldMentalHealthDay we're sharing a leaflet from the TUC archive encouraging nurses to take a break. The leaflet also highlights the dangers of work place stress and exhaustion. Be fair to yourself! #histnursing #histmed #archives #MRCArchives

mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/TUC/...
Page from 'Off Duty' dated 1937. Headed 'Self-sacrifice' it is illustrated with a picture of a stressed looking nurse alongside a patient. Part of the text reads 'be fair to yourself - and you will be fair to your patients'. There is also a photograph of nurses standing next to a statue of Florence Nightingale. Photograph of two nurses taking a well-earned tea break. Captioned 'Off duty'.
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thelabandfield.bsky.social
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
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whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
#WorldMentalHealthDay

Looking after our #mentalhealth is important every day

#MentalHealthMatters
#MentalHealthAwareness
#WMHD
#WMHD2025

The Mental Health Foundation was founded by Derek Richter (📷wiki) in 1949. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatric research Centre at Whitchurch Hospital
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hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.
rebeccawynter.bsky.social
💫New on the updated website for the Mental Health Humanities Research Network, our occasional 'Meet the Researcher' slot features Dr Grace Lucas💫

Want to join the Network and gain space for your own profile? Read on 👇

mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/meet...

#MHHums #MHHRN #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
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justinsalhani.bsky.social
Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.