Dr. T. Flo
@tnflorvil.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/ https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
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Happy Heavenly Birthday to May Ayim! She would have turned 65 years old today. Although we are not kin, I feel kinship with her. Next August 2026 will mark 30 years since her passing.

After all these years of studying her, I still do not consider myself an expert on her.
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arrianna-planey.bsky.social
Couple of thoughts:
(1) I miss Cora Harrington's presence, because she would have a thing or three to say about that header image
(2) Some of those historical illustrations of women with tiny corseted waists are actually fetish images
tnflorvil.bsky.social
yes!!
iansociologo.bsky.social
Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction
BIB L I OGRAPH Y 
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO 
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.) 
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876. 
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky. 
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. 
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic . 
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc· 
tion. 
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee. 
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana. 
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. 
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907. 
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina. 
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina. 
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 . 
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas . 
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850. 
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War. 
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas . 
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald 
Dunning. 
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson. 
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips. 
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith. 
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd. 
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de 
Roulhac Hamilton. 
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis. 
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson. 
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley. 
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction. 
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872. 
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.
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mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...
A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…
truthout.org
tnflorvil.bsky.social
Sadly, it will get worse. Ugh.
tnflorvil.bsky.social
Ginger beer is such a balm for me today with my stomach issues. Thank you for being a real one, ginger beer. Ich hab Dich lieb.
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible
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bombmag.bsky.social
AR:RANGE:MENTS explores grief through language and sound. Writer Jessica Lynne interviewed author Esther Kondo Heller. @fonografeditions.bsky.social

“That’s what makes an utterance an utterance. The person that I’m talking about is not here to respond.” —Esther Kondo Heller

tinyurl.com/3kzx8mhy
BOMB Magazine | Esther Kondo Heller by Jessica Lynne
A sonic and poetic exploration on grief, language, and the search for ritual after a mother's death.
tinyurl.com
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
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stephenwest.bsky.social
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
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jesshardie.bsky.social
When even Yglesias knows you are full of it.
Matthew Yglesias quote tweeting Sally Jenkins tweet of the “Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss” article

Sally: This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. 

Matt: I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
tnflorvil.bsky.social
Reclaim your time and disengage disingenuous foks!
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phillewis.bsky.social
Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died
A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself
tnflorvil.bsky.social
I have been resisting it, but I need to go ahead and accept it.
tnflorvil.bsky.social
True. This has been my new normal since the pandemic.
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seachanger.bsky.social
@thisamericanlife.org had a similar thought & re-ran their excellent episode from 1997 about Chicago’s first Black mayor. extra compelling because many of the people contributing oral history to the episode have now passed

www.thisamericanlife.org/869/harold
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
tnflorvil.bsky.social
It is week nine of sixteen in the semester. I remain behind and have resigned myself to this state of behindness.
tnflorvil.bsky.social
Sometimes it can be a superpower. For instance, I used pettiness to finish my book revisions and then called out my haters in my acknowledgments.