Kylie M. Smith
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Assoc Prof. Making jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. From Eora Country, living on Muskogee Creek land. Un-American.
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Kylie M. Smith
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...
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Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
The best coffee in America is the one I make in my own kitchen with my Barazza, Aeropress, and single origin Guatemalan beans roasted by partners coffee (who, no coincidence, started as Australia’s Toby’s Estate in Brooklyn). At least coffee is not one thing I will miss here #coffeesnob
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The best coffee in America is the one I make in my own kitchen with my Barazza, Aeropress, and single origin Guatemalan beans roasted by partners coffee (who, no coincidence, started as Australia’s Toby’s Estate in Brooklyn). At least coffee is not one thing I will miss here #coffeesnob
It’s almost as if no one in this admin understands history, racism, capitalism, or the structural determinants of health 🙄
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It’s almost as if no one in this admin understands history, racism, capitalism, or the structural determinants of health 🙄
Tuesdays
How long is a minute?
a) a week
b) 1 month
c) 1-5 years
d) 5+ years
a) a week
b) 1 month
c) 1-5 years
d) 5+ years
What is black math?
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Tuesdays
Things I have no interest in watching: a documentary about the American revolution told by white men 🥱
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Things I have no interest in watching: a documentary about the American revolution told by white men 🥱
Call me “piggy” and “insubordinate” and you’re getting a punch to the throat.
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Call me “piggy” and “insubordinate” and you’re getting a punch to the throat.
Become ungovernable. Fuck ICE.
On November 18, 2025, at Olympic High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, students defied the principal and protested the ICE raids.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Become ungovernable. Fuck ICE.
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This is Scotty. He is not chasing his own tail's shadow. If you'll notice, he actually has it cornered. 13/10 (TT: lifewithscotty)
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is Scotty. He is not chasing his own tail's shadow. If you'll notice, he actually has it cornered. 13/10 (TT: lifewithscotty)
I feel like I could do quite well with an emotional support carrot
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I feel like I could do quite well with an emotional support carrot
christ america is exhausting
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
christ america is exhausting
Time for a Stranger Things rewatch. I’ve had the dubious pleasure of being inside “the Hawkins lab”!
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Time for a Stranger Things rewatch. I’ve had the dubious pleasure of being inside “the Hawkins lab”!
Two months, eight weeks, sixty days….
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Two months, eight weeks, sixty days….
This time in 8 weeks I will be landing back in Sydney…. 😬😱😍
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This time in 8 weeks I will be landing back in Sydney…. 😬😱😍
Weekend sweater knitting
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Weekend sweater knitting
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
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One of the books I’m proudest of. Congratulations, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social!
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
One of the books I’m proudest of. Congratulations, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social!
Thank you especially to @lucaschurch.bsky.social who believed in it before it was even a thing….
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thank you especially to @lucaschurch.bsky.social who believed in it before it was even a thing….
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
Fuck this shit
So much unnecessary cruelty and devastation. Medical libraries and museums are a treasure trove of information and history. Not to mention staff getting double RIFed.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.
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🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Fuck this shit
In today's "life goes on" moment, I stubbed my toe and split the nail right off the bed and now there is blood on my bathroom floor. Bodies, amiright?
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In today's "life goes on" moment, I stubbed my toe and split the nail right off the bed and now there is blood on my bathroom floor. Bodies, amiright?
I gave my last guest lecture in the school of public health today - for the last 5 years I’ve done a talk in the mental health policy class - and today was the best ever, so many questions and discussion, and two students were knitting which made me smile. It’s nice to go out on a good note.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I gave my last guest lecture in the school of public health today - for the last 5 years I’ve done a talk in the mental health policy class - and today was the best ever, so many questions and discussion, and two students were knitting which made me smile. It’s nice to go out on a good note.
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None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.