Family members after asking about my dissertation:

Storygraph is so much better! I’ve been using it for years. Also! Fun visualizations.

Deciding to focus this dissertation on reproductive health and birth control was a really good idea and definitely not terrifying.

(cw slightly graphic historical medical descriptions)
(Brought to Bed: Judith Walzer Leavitt)

My South Carolina ballot made me sad with all the candidates running unopposed but we did the damn thing.

Trying to connect with the youth but I teach early US History

Without downloading a new pic, where are you now mentally?

unlike you I get my news from a reliable source

I’m #currentlyreading Mona Awad’s All’s Well and it is 1) the first novel I’ve managed to read in months 2) the best thing I’ve read since Bunny 3) so incredibly weird 4) so so sad 5) magical realism dark academia brain candy (but like… jawbreakers, not m&ms??)

I’m only halfway through tho so 🤫

Someone casually asked me for “more stuff about West Virginia, etc” book recommendations and I… was not casual in my response.

A preview of my digital seminar presentation tomorrow: