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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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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · May 3

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 Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 11h

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

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 10h

yes!!

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 11h

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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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 10h

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.”…

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 10h

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 13h

Sadly, it will get worse. Ugh.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 13h

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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h

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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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 14h

This is terrible.

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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 20h

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

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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.

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14h

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.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17h

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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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 1d

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

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

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 21h

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.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 20h

Reclaim your time and disengage disingenuous foks!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 21h

I have been resisting it, but I need to go ahead and accept it.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 21h

And my child is home from school!! Party time with the kid!!!

a man in a plaid shirt is standing in a grocery store next to a shelf of cereal .

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is standing in a grocery store next to a shelf of cereal .

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 22h

a woman wearing glasses is reading a book and says " nuh uh " at the bottom

ALT: a woman wearing glasses is reading a book and says " nuh uh " at the bottom

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 22h

True. This has been my new normal since the pandemic.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 1d

@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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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23h

It is week nine of sixteen in the semester. I remain behind and have resigned myself to this state of behindness.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23h

Teehee, oh yes.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23h

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.

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