Excited to announce that Christian Imperialism is now (finally!) available on audio! Perfect listening for those late-summer road trips... I've got 10 free download codes to share (only available in the US). Free to the first 10 students who reach out! www.audible.com/pd/Christian...

Christian Imperialism

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the Unite...

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"trans rage" found by chance in a Hamilton wood type specimen book from 1895

Today I found a trove of previously unnoted coroner’s inquests from early nineteenth century Boston. The witness depositions are rich in the detail of everyday life but utterly heartbreaking. I left the archive feeling emotionally drained 🗃️

First trailer for ‘WICKER’ starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki and Peter Dinklage. In theaters October 30. #Wicker #OliviaColman

So delighted to have a physical copy of this. Thanks so much @hsmurphy.bsky.social !!!!

New crochet bags for the niblings. The butterfly and rocket designs are adapted from designs by Pacific Knit Co.; the fish is my own design.

It's fun to work in a huge, incredible, sprawling collection because every once in a while I'll be like, "What is in that envelope that has clearly not been opened in decades" and the answer will be something like a first-day printing of the United States Constitution from Sept. 1787

If you are anywhere near the Bronte Parsonage... I am going to be doing an all-day seminar day there on 18th August. Come and explore the Bronte Juvenilia with me! www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

Brontë Juvenilia Seminar Day | The Brontë Parsonage Museum

This workshop series explores the Brontë siblings' relationship to the Gothic. We’ll explore the Gothic influences that shaped their fiction, dive into the

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Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

If you happen to know someone at Harvard who’d like to take my creative nonfiction workshop this fall, here’s the application. Part of what’s fun is I can accept students from any part of the college, undergrad and graduate students: hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

September 1776: The town of Reading, Mass. calls all free men over age 21 to a meeting to discuss giving consent to the current MA legislature and Council to draft a state constitution. They are called, "In the Name of the Independent States of America." www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2356923...

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

If you think that receipts from C19 Boston blacksmiths, plasterers, painters, and glazers were dull, think again! Here they are putting prisoners in chains, building whipping posts, and repairing holes the inmates cut in walls attempting to escape. These bills are the only record of those episodes 🗃️

Apparently this is a chamber horse. Incredible. wesleysheritage.org.uk/object/chamb...

Discovery: I think Catherine Talbot may have been the first documented owner of a peloton? In 1744, she complains that the weather has been too wet to walk or ride - 'For exercise I have a Chamber Horse, tho I must confess I for the most part content myself with the consciousness of having it only’

I wouldn’t normally give airtime to Linehan, but just note this is the second tweet in tweet days from straight TERFs claiming trans people are a terrible problem for gay people. Any idiot knows this is a nope, but this is clearly their next plan of attack. Arm yourselves. So much bullshit incoming.

Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi @michaelnugent.bsky.social, defending people like your friend Graham Linehan this week you wrote, "We should engage with the content of ideas we disagree with, not accuse the people who express them of malign motivations." How do I engage with him using "airborne AIDS"? Is this not malign? 1/

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FOR REAL THERE ARE SO MANY I did a queer history lecture at my church and there were literally too many transmasc monk saints to fit in the PowerPoint with the time we had

Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 2w ago

Niche post but if you want to write a story about a queer person in Europe c. 500-1000 CE your best bet is researching transmasc monks because there are surprisingly a lot of them.

Yet more reason to stay masked up, I guess!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive.”

I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Page One. @nytimes.com

Absolutely loving this new merch design from New Bedford Whaling Museum store.whalingmuseum.org/en-gb/produc...

I have a young poet here who wants to find an Indian poet who wrote a contemporary response to Kipling (for the purposes of a golden shovel) in English/in translation. Anyone have some thoughts about who I can point him to?

The flapjack octopus is reminding me of last fall's discourse re: flapjack (US/CAN, pre-1600) vs. flapjack (UK ca.1920). Crunchy, crunchy octopus.

Please, call me by my stage name

this Word Suitcase is about reading a romance novel with my kid

Having a ball

balls, blushing, nonbinary ladybugs, and my kid's first romance novel

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one thing I didn't mention in this newsletter is that there are illustrations of a cemetery and grave stones in this book, and my kid asked what they were, which was how I realized he has never been in a cemetery before

Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · 3w ago

this Word Suitcase is about reading a romance novel with my kid

The story of a trans girl who tried to fight Idaho's anti-trans laws, and died to suicide earlier this year, is only now coming to light. Our hearts are broken, but we need to tell these stories and mourn our dead, because the media is barely bothering to look for the victims of trans genocide.

Idaho didn’t want May Pollard to live. Now she’s dead by her own hand. - Assigned Media

A trans teen tried to fight Idaho's bathroom ban in court, but hate prevailed.

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At this point, I feel like hearing “On the Nature of Daylight” in a movie score makes me feel nothing other than “oh it’s On the Nature of Daylight again.”

I still think the new Massachusetts license plate format (#ABC##) is weird. Sometimes it spits out a date and sometimes it’s 1 His Royal Highness 69.

Help a Boston family struggling after their loved one was snatched by ICE:

Donate to Support Maribel’s Fight to Keep Her Family Together, organized by Maribel Hernandez

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