Charlotte Canning
@cmcanning.bsky.social
Performance historian. Reader. Teacher. Feminist. Views my own and represent no one else. She/hers
Aren’t you glad you don’t have to invent and explain a citation system every time you publish?
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Aren’t you glad you don’t have to invent and explain a citation system every time you publish?
I’m not linking to this piece. It’s so enraging. And it’s flat out wrong. He opens with conservative claims as if they were undisputed truths and goes downhill from there.
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’m not linking to this piece. It’s so enraging. And it’s flat out wrong. He opens with conservative claims as if they were undisputed truths and goes downhill from there.
He’ll say anything to own the libs. This piece (no link because it’s that bad) overlooks the law and fact to make its point. You think even the lickspittles at the NYT would have pushed him to be a bit more truthful….
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
He’ll say anything to own the libs. This piece (no link because it’s that bad) overlooks the law and fact to make its point. You think even the lickspittles at the NYT would have pushed him to be a bit more truthful….
Why, the 1937 Nazi exhibition “Degenerate Art” created by the Nazis in Munich, as I live and breathe!
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Why, the 1937 Nazi exhibition “Degenerate Art” created by the Nazis in Munich, as I live and breathe!
Who’s solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only.
Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Who’s solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only.
Right answers only.
Who’s solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only.
Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Who’s solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only.
Right answers only.
Yesterday I saw a sign at the #NoKings March in Manhattan with a quotation from Seamus Heaney’s 1991 play, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. “Don’t give up hope.” Don’t give up indeed.
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Yesterday I saw a sign at the #NoKings March in Manhattan with a quotation from Seamus Heaney’s 1991 play, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. “Don’t give up hope.” Don’t give up indeed.
Thanks to this administration I have to find another way to get the book….
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thanks to this administration I have to find another way to get the book….
Thanks to @empirepoduk.bsky.social for introducing me to How the World Made the West (2024) by @josephinequinn.bsky.social. It’s the perfect book for this moment.
October 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thanks to @empirepoduk.bsky.social for introducing me to How the World Made the West (2024) by @josephinequinn.bsky.social. It’s the perfect book for this moment.
I want to give out a heartfelt recommendation for @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social The People’s Project. It’s funny and heartwarming while also being incisive, rigorous, and galvanizing. It’s the book for this terrifying moment.
September 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I want to give out a heartfelt recommendation for @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social The People’s Project. It’s funny and heartwarming while also being incisive, rigorous, and galvanizing. It’s the book for this terrifying moment.
No need to go to other countries to describe what happening in the US now. Here’s Charles Dickens on what he saw in Washington DC in 1842 (quotation thanks to the terrific book Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy on the Nation’s Capital).
September 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
No need to go to other countries to describe what happening in the US now. Here’s Charles Dickens on what he saw in Washington DC in 1842 (quotation thanks to the terrific book Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy on the Nation’s Capital).
I watched both of these this week and can’t recommend them highly enough. These are terrific films about timely histories. Check them out now!
September 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I watched both of these this week and can’t recommend them highly enough. These are terrific films about timely histories. Check them out now!
The book absolutely fits the course description.
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The book absolutely fits the course description.
Not all Texans joined the Confederacy
September 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Not all Texans joined the Confederacy
Example of AI rocking it: Siri described the below image as “a black swan and a white swan swimming in a lake.”
August 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Example of AI rocking it: Siri described the below image as “a black swan and a white swan swimming in a lake.”
Fixed it:“Trump’s Ideal Picture of America is Racist.”
August 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Fixed it:“Trump’s Ideal Picture of America is Racist.”
Seen on lamp post on a small island off the coast of Maine.
August 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Seen on lamp post on a small island off the coast of Maine.
“I’m in a ⬇️ state of mind….”
August 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“I’m in a ⬇️ state of mind….”
Finally reading @sethrockman.bsky.social Plantation Goods! I can’t recommend it enough. One of its many strengths is the deft way the book connects infrastructure with the moral, spiritual, and political challenges of the slave economy.
August 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Finally reading @sethrockman.bsky.social Plantation Goods! I can’t recommend it enough. One of its many strengths is the deft way the book connects infrastructure with the moral, spiritual, and political challenges of the slave economy.
I am so honored to have my article on how HBCU Prairie View A&M supported resistance and learning on the face of violence and segregation in Texas. The whole issue is amazing and you should read all the articles!
July 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I am so honored to have my article on how HBCU Prairie View A&M supported resistance and learning on the face of violence and segregation in Texas. The whole issue is amazing and you should read all the articles!
Czeslaw Milosz, “You Who Wronged” (1950).
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
July 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Czeslaw Milosz, “You Who Wronged” (1950).
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Michael Lind was prescient. From 2003:
July 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Michael Lind was prescient. From 2003:
They are happening.
July 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
They are happening.