Has anyone written about the implications for the history of sexuality of our increasingly forced use of AI as a research tool? Historians of sexuality can't really access a lot of AI tools because of content prohibitions. What does that mean for the field, if anything?

I can't with this. Weird to say this as a gender historian, but sometimes I really wish that gender history felt less relevant as a field.

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

A handful of academic charlatans provided cover for the four justices most associated with "originalism" to vote against the plain text meaning of the 14th Amendment -- and put them on the wrong side of one of the easiest originalism calls the court has ever had to make. Racism is a hell of a drug.

The fact that this was nowhere near an unanimous decision is further proof that America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

THIS. Historians working on queer topics and sexuality topics in general so often get their work ripped off by people claiming to have uncovered "hidden" histories. (1/2)

Errol 🦇🏳️‍🌈@eerieseymour.bsky.social · last mo.

This especially hurts to read in a world where people are still pushing the “historians will say they’re roommates” narrative. Total erasure of very, very hard work.

This especially hurts to read in a world where people are still pushing the “historians will say they’re roommates” narrative. Total erasure of very, very hard work.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

[Exit Murderer.]

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Welp, rolled into the thrift on my way back from an errand. Found a Lincoln bust that looked interesting and old, and it has a rock embedded in the back so I figured it was something.

Anyone know someone who reads Dutch and has decent skills at deciphering old handwriting? I have two court records from the 1880s (~7 pages total) that I'm dying to read, but deciphering old handwriting in a language you're not very familiar with is tough! Willing to compensate.

Historian friends, I'm trying to organize an AHA panel that uses haunting as a way to think through issue of the dead's consent to have their memories repurposed. Do you have material that might work? If so or if you want more info, message me!

today’s tech barons get compared to the robber barons (I’ve done it myself) but it’s notable how the current generation has responded to the philanthropic and cultural legacy of Carnegie et al with their own campaign of wanton destruction of cultural institutions

These people are definitely the intellectual descendants of James Henry Hammond (and fellow sex pests to boot!).

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6mo ago

stephen miller just a few posts away from recreating the "mudsill" theory from first principles

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Bear down, Arizona!

Tim Steller@timsteller.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The University of Arizona has rejected the proposed compact offered to it and eight other universities by the Trump administration. tucson.com/news/local/e...

University of Arizona says no to the Compact, albeit very nicely with lots of conciliatory language. Just waiting to hear from UVA and Vandy. I can't imagine what's taking them so long... president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

The two narratives about colleges right now are: 1.) College professors are so charismatic and convincing that students are completely hypnotized into doing whatever they want. 2.) Students are writing all their papers with AI because they don’t give a shit outside of a degree.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12mo ago

DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.

This guy got a job at Yale, and that seems like a much bigger indictment of the academy than the existence of humanities disciplines.

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities. “scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

When did college-aged folks start describing everything as x-coded (e.g. "those pants are so millenial-coded")? Did this happen abruptly or am I just experiencing a frequency illusion?

all anyone needs to do is tell him he didn't do a very good job with the drawing

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.