Rachel Mesch
@rmesch.bsky.social
I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
Realizing that I haven’t shared this gorgeous new French pub here: Allures Dissidentes: Apparences Queer & Représentations de soi du 19e à aujourd’hui ed by Magali Le Mens, Elizabeth Fischer & nonbinary poet Klimte. Put together in a highly original choose your own adventure way 🏳️🌈
Madness! Highway robbery!
Marni Kessler@marnikessler.bsky.social · 2w agoIn addition to being a contributor to this special issue, I needed, as @rmesch.bsky.social knows, T&F’s permission to republish a 2021 essay from the same jrnl & they wanted to charge me @ $2000! I haggled and they gave me a50% “discount.” For my own work! Needless to say, not republishing it!
Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with
If you are moved by the BU pride flags story, please take a moment to support our WGS program which is currently the leader in BU’s Giving Day! There’s matching $ for high participation. Even a $5 helps send a message about how vital this work is to education& students 🏳️🌈 give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
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Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags
Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...
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Ravie de partager mon article en open access: “Les jambes de l’orientaliste: photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy” - première publication en français de mes recherches sur la transitude avant la lettre #FRHistory 🌈🗃️ publications-prairial.fr/theia/index....
Les jambes de l’orientaliste : photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy – Théia
Cet article examine l’écrivain·e et archéologue Jane Dieulafoy sous l’angle de la transidentité, plutôt que par le biais du cadre féministe traditionnel à travers lequel iel a le plus souvent été évoq...
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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
Upside of being dept chair is that you can plant an idea like this in your Spanish colleagues’ heads and then it happens!
@parisnoire.bsky.social @drsepinwall.bsky.social !?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
Fellow chairs, what are your practical tips for not spending all day everyday batting away emails? I need some strategies to get my actual work done
NCFS Unbound returns 1/23 with @srocher.bsky.social Susan Hiner in convo with @addressingart.bsky.social Justine De Young about her fab new book The Art of Parisian Chic 🔥 Register here! southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 6_4 Justine De Young with Susan Hiner. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Justine De Young talks about her new book "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" with Susan Hiner (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France
Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I
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Moral dilemma alert: I want to cancel my subscription but getting the paper version of the Sunday times on Saturday is how I know I’m a real New Yorker. Pls advise! #NYTimes
Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I’m not on the social much these days but just need everyone to appreciate the skills of @kelliegiordano.bsky.social phd student and influenceuse ❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DN3EwoN2mF...
frenchatbu on Instagram: "🇫🇷✨ “They say Boston isn’t Paris… but maybe Paris just hasn’t seen the BU French department yet. 💌 #EmilyInBoston #BUFrench” -Em…"
🇫🇷✨ “They say Boston isn’t Paris… but maybe Paris just hasn’t seen the BU French department yet. 💌 #EmilyInBoston #BUFrench” -Emily Cooper
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Just a reminder, for any of you kids who need to see it, good writing does not emerge seamlessly in the first draft. Feedback is the best and moving everything around is often part of the process. File under things you can’t learn from chat GPT
Fascism so small it fits in your pocket?? When T-Mobile launches "T-Satellite" to the public in July, Musk could rake in billions. They don't expect anyone to make it a big deal. Oops. Sign our petition and tell them to drop Starlink #Starlinktakedown #teslatakedown actionnetwork.org/petitions/t-...
T-Mobile: Stop Funding Musk
When T-Mobile launches its “T-Satellite” program in partnership with Starlink this July, Elon Musk stands to gain billions. We’re calling on T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and the company’s Board of Direct...
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Wrapping up our fifth season of NCFS Unbound with a conversation you don’t want to miss between Marlene Daut and Gregory Pierrot about MD’s new book, The First & Last King of Haiti. This Friday 2:30 EST 🗃️🎓#FrHistory southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 7: Marlene Daut with Gregory Pierrot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Marlene Daut discusses her book The First and Last King of Haiti with Gregory Pierrot
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Question from a Fr editor : En quoi le port du vêtement masculin par Dieulafoy est-il dans ce cas précis l’expression d’une identification trans avant l’heure, quand cela n’est pas le cas d’autres individus portant le vêtement masculin à la fin du XIXe? Ummmm where do I start
The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown. Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.The Trump administration continues to ignore the courts. 278 men are still in CECOT prison without a trial, sentence, or any form of due process. Here's one of their stories. Dad is in CECOT. Mom, deported to Venezuela. Their beautiful toddler, in foster care in the US, whereabouts unknown.
Happy to be at Harvard (our new hero??) on a beautiful spring day Intellectual community is so precious- trying to just appreciate it and take advantage of it whenever I can #FrHistory 🗃️
Is social media part of the problem? I’m sick of electeds & leaders saying “we must stand up to this” as if by posting about it they are doing something. besties, show, don’t tell! Like, we know it’s fascism, now lead us the way out!!
