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Kate Adams
@professorkate.bsky.social
I research, write, and teach about gender and race in early US culture. Lover of dogs and cats. Hater of piety in any ideological inflection.
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On the one hand, AI will destroy what we have left of nature. On the other hand, it will also destroy what we have left of culture.
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"have you been reading the news again?"
#CatsofBlueSky
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Feminist Theory Seminar end-of-the-semester party: when everyone wants to hug good-bye and everyone asks permission first. 💖💖
#academicsky
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"have you been reading the news again?"
#CatsofBlueSky
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Understandably, it's been slow going for this project this year. They need at least 75 more toys for parents at Cook County Jail to give to their kids: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship.

We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.
December 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Jesus
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is the Christmas miracle I needed.
GOOGLE MAPS: We removed your post because it contains explicit content

ME: 👀
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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According to this form you can upload 5Gb files.
FBI is soliciting tips on threats to the immigration enforcement operation codenamed "Catahoula Crunch"
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Anyway pretty neat that Cabinet meetings and Oval Office events are just Klan rallies now
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
And enraging times, too.
We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies

These are very troubling times
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Lovely NOLA
church sign spotted in new orleans

“ICE: WHATSOEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST. YOU DO UNTO ME.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A long time ago, my department's administrator one explained to me why I might not be a good dept chair: "you're the same person in every situation."
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Latosha Brown: “ This Thanksgiving, I’m taking power back…I invite all Americans who are fed up to do the same.”

I don’t know about you, but “I’m Not Buyin’ It!”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
@blackvotersmatterfund.org
We're not buying what Trump enablers sell this Black Friday | Opinion
This holiday season, we're launching the 'We Ain't Buying It!' campaign – a call to action redirecting our spending, and resisting authoritarianism.
www.usatoday.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Support the boycott!
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.

Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Fuck.
This New Orleans operation is going to closely resemble what we just went through in Chicago.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Feels like it all hangs in the balance again. Ukrainians are doom posting. Russians are doom posting. Russia is burning and Ukraine's defences are slowly breaking up in some parts.
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Alan Dershowitz is an evil piece of shit.
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Wow.
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM