Julia Friedman
@juliafriedman.bsky.social
She/her. Archivist and historian. Fields of study include Jewish feminist history, LGBTQ+ history, and media and pop culture history. Talk to me about film, tv, and horror 🖤
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Julia Friedman
@juliafriedman.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Nice Jewish Girls Fight Back: Lilith and Ms. Magazines' Responses to Antisemitism in the Battle for Body Autonomy and LGBTQ+ Rights, 1972-1989
This thesis is a comparative study of the Jewish feminist magazine, Lilith, and the secular feminist magazine, Ms., from 1972 to 1989 and their responses to antisemitism. Although the two magazines...
scholarworks.calstate.edu
I am pleased to share my open-access thesis, "Nice Jewish Girls Fight Back," which explores Lilith and Ms. magazines' response to secular and Jewish feminist topics during the second wave.
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Are there any company/corporate archivists on here? I'm new-ish to the field and looking to make some new friends to connect with 😊 #archives #archivists #corporatearchives
October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Are there any company/corporate archivists on here? I'm new-ish to the field and looking to make some new friends to connect with 😊 #archives #archivists #corporatearchives
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Wishing all of my Jewish community a Shanah Tovah. May it be a sweet and joyful holiday.
And may it be the beginning of a year of more safety and justice for all of us in every community.
And may it be the beginning of a year of more safety and justice for all of us in every community.
September 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Wishing all of my Jewish community a Shanah Tovah. May it be a sweet and joyful holiday.
And may it be the beginning of a year of more safety and justice for all of us in every community.
And may it be the beginning of a year of more safety and justice for all of us in every community.
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What's the closest you can get to digital time travel? The #WaybackMachine.
🌐⏳ A trillion pages of history, preserved so the web’s past is never lost.
📝 Tell us why the Wayback Machine is important to you ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
#Wayback1T #InternetArchive #digitalpreservation
🌐⏳ A trillion pages of history, preserved so the web’s past is never lost.
📝 Tell us why the Wayback Machine is important to you ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
#Wayback1T #InternetArchive #digitalpreservation
August 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What's the closest you can get to digital time travel? The #WaybackMachine.
🌐⏳ A trillion pages of history, preserved so the web’s past is never lost.
📝 Tell us why the Wayback Machine is important to you ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
#Wayback1T #InternetArchive #digitalpreservation
🌐⏳ A trillion pages of history, preserved so the web’s past is never lost.
📝 Tell us why the Wayback Machine is important to you ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
#Wayback1T #InternetArchive #digitalpreservation
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actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share
July 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share
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PEOPLE: “A former employee of Donald Trump claimed in a new interview that the president and Jeffrey Epstein were once caught bringing girls into Trump's casino who were not old enough to gamble.” people.com/ex-casino-bo...
Ex-Casino Boss Claims Trump and 'Best Friend' Jeffrey Epstein Were Once Caught Bringing Underage Girls to Casino Floor
A former executive at Trump's Atlantic City casino claimed he once had to confront Donald Trump and 'best friend' Jeffrey Epstein about bringing three young women to the gambling floor despite that th...
people.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
PEOPLE: “A former employee of Donald Trump claimed in a new interview that the president and Jeffrey Epstein were once caught bringing girls into Trump's casino who were not old enough to gamble.” people.com/ex-casino-bo...
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7 Hotlines You Can Still Call After Trump Shuts Down 988's LGBTQ+
Youth Services
Youth Services
July 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
7 Hotlines You Can Still Call After Trump Shuts Down 988's LGBTQ+
Youth Services
Youth Services
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Trump is threatening to kill you and your family. Everyone who supports Trump supports these threats to you and your family. Everyone in the media who helps Trump supports hurting you and hurting your family.
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Trump is threatening to kill you and your family. Everyone who supports Trump supports these threats to you and your family. Everyone in the media who helps Trump supports hurting you and hurting your family.
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Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E
June 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E
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Look at the query for a second.
A librarian would ask what they mean by "top" books. A librarian would ask in what genre.
A librarian would actually have a conversation, rather than shit out useless garbage that doesn't ACTUALLY ANSWER THE QUESTION.
A librarian would ask what they mean by "top" books. A librarian would ask in what genre.
A librarian would actually have a conversation, rather than shit out useless garbage that doesn't ACTUALLY ANSWER THE QUESTION.
This shit is embarrassing
Tell Envisionware to GTFO, literally trying to sell an AI agent to libraries
#alaac25
Tell Envisionware to GTFO, literally trying to sell an AI agent to libraries
#alaac25
June 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Look at the query for a second.
A librarian would ask what they mean by "top" books. A librarian would ask in what genre.
A librarian would actually have a conversation, rather than shit out useless garbage that doesn't ACTUALLY ANSWER THE QUESTION.
A librarian would ask what they mean by "top" books. A librarian would ask in what genre.
A librarian would actually have a conversation, rather than shit out useless garbage that doesn't ACTUALLY ANSWER THE QUESTION.
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For 30+ years, Camins Bretts has lived publicly as a man. Now he's been given a passport that says he’s a woman.
It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.
It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.
Jewish Americans feel echoes of history in transgender passport restrictions
Many transgender Americans now hold passports that out them as being trans. LGBTQ+ Jewish people see this as part of a familiar playbook from the Holocaust.
19thnews.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
For 30+ years, Camins Bretts has lived publicly as a man. Now he's been given a passport that says he’s a woman.
It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.
It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.
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The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und...
The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery
Trump’s National Park Service is quietly whitewashing Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
The National Park Service edited its website to replace key facts about Harriet Tubman and slavery with phrases like “Black/White cooperation.”
www.whatimreading.net
April 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und...
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Check this out, historians!
DEADLINE FOR 2025 AWARDS IS JUNE 15, 2025
CCWH supports women in history and women's history <<
It works hard to provide these resources <<
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
CCWH supports women in history and women's history <<
It works hard to provide these resources <<
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
Awards | The Coordinating Council for Women in History
The CCWH offers awards to support scholars and professionals dedicated to the field of women's history.
theccwh.org
April 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Check this out, historians!
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I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion
South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*
jessica.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
Please join me and #SavetheNEH! Tell your reps that funding for education, cultural centers, and public history is on the line!
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URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
p2a.co
April 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Please join me and #SavetheNEH! Tell your reps that funding for education, cultural centers, and public history is on the line!
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Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order that attempts to dictate what history is shared at the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service sites. Read our statement on this political interference in the practice of history.
Defending Our Full, Shared History at the Smithsonian and National Park Service
Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order that attempts to dictate what history is shared at Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service sites. The order seeks to replace evidence-based history with a deceptive, exclusionary narrative at some of our nation’s most important cultural and historical
aaslh.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order that attempts to dictate what history is shared at the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service sites. Read our statement on this political interference in the practice of history.
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You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL?
Defend it by defending IMLS.
Defend it by defending IMLS.
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL?
Defend it by defending IMLS.
Defend it by defending IMLS.
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Underfunding of public goods like public libraries requires many to apply for grants to agencies like IMLS.
IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.
IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Underfunding of public goods like public libraries requires many to apply for grants to agencies like IMLS.
IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.
IMLS does important work that enables libraries, archives, and museums to serve us all.
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Firing half the staff at the Department of Education and decimating the Office for Civil Rights harms the students who need protection the most: low-income children, LGBTQ+ students, children with disabilities, and minority students.
March 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Firing half the staff at the Department of Education and decimating the Office for Civil Rights harms the students who need protection the most: low-income children, LGBTQ+ students, children with disabilities, and minority students.
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"I've stopped all government censorship"
Sir you literally erased the word Transgender from every website and Stonewall National Monument itself.
Sir you literally erased the word Transgender from every website and Stonewall National Monument itself.
March 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"I've stopped all government censorship"
Sir you literally erased the word Transgender from every website and Stonewall National Monument itself.
Sir you literally erased the word Transgender from every website and Stonewall National Monument itself.
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A nonprofit organization called Casa de Luz is offering a new safe haven for LGBTQ+ refugees at the border. The shelter opened Friday afternoon and will provide 23 rooms, six bathrooms, and mental health and medical assistance.
New safe haven for LGBTQ+ refugees opens in Tijuana
Casa de Luz operates two nonprofits: One in Mexico that oversees the shelters and one in the U.S. that manages fundraising and finances.
www.10news.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A nonprofit organization called Casa de Luz is offering a new safe haven for LGBTQ+ refugees at the border. The shelter opened Friday afternoon and will provide 23 rooms, six bathrooms, and mental health and medical assistance.
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The Senate is voting today to ban women & girls who are trans, nonbinary, & intersex from playing on women & girls’ sports teams in schools. Take action now to urge your senator to vote NO on this discriminatory legislation: www.ncjw.org/act/action/t...
March 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Senate is voting today to ban women & girls who are trans, nonbinary, & intersex from playing on women & girls’ sports teams in schools. Take action now to urge your senator to vote NO on this discriminatory legislation: www.ncjw.org/act/action/t...
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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
Post a female character that you love
February 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Post a female character that you love
AI is not in any way a "living library." Please go out and support your local library instead.
February 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
AI is not in any way a "living library." Please go out and support your local library instead.
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Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.
"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."
"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."
February 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.
"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."
"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."