Join us TODAY for my research talk on domestic workers in Brazil! If you’re in the U.S., the talk begins at 11 AM EST. I unpack the criminalization of domestic workers, fears of inversion, and evaluate the possibility of Black women turning sexual racism tropes on its head. See you soon :)

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for our talk with Dr Cassie Osei, titled 'Mammy’s Tricks: Maids & Madames, Buckling Hierarchies, and the Badger Thief ‘Panic’ in Urban Brazil, 1948–1954' ⏰: The seminar will take place on Tuesday 4th August 2026, 4pm-5pm BST Sign up via our website: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

I will presenting research from my book manuscript-in-progress, currently titled "Maid Rank and File: How Black Women Spearheaded Brazil’s Domestic Worker’s Labor Movement." Can't wait to see everyone there!

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for our talk with Dr Cassie Osei, titled 'Mammy’s Tricks: Maids & Madames, Buckling Hierarchies, and the Badger Thief ‘Panic’ in Urban Brazil, 1948–1954' ⏰: The seminar will take place on Tuesday 4th August 2026, 4pm-5pm BST Sign up via our website: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

As frustrating and often humbling writing feels (especially as a first-book author in progress), I will never feel so useless by anything (racism, misogynoir, w/e) that I would ever consider letting an AI write on my behalf. Never ever.

Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In fact, the speaker admitted to "working very closely with Claude", to the point where he's currently "writing" a book entirely written by AI. People in the amphitheater gasped. The speaker - a scholar from France - then shared that his "experiment" has led him to feel useless as an intellectual.

are you just going to do this for every generation

The Economist@economist.com · 4mo ago

The next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV

If there's only one member left of Milli Vanilli wouldn't it be Millus Vanillus

Two historians give us their take on Ryan Coogler’s 2025 film Sinners. @cndhistassoc.bsky.social historyjournal.ca/forum/sinner...

That email from the AHA Executive Council asking members to vote for their pre-vetted slate of candidates in the name of saving the discipline from scholars opposed to genocide in Gaza is not doing the work they think it is.

there was an internet before search functionality as front door, there will be one after.

"Racial apologists would have us believe that Black children have to sit in a room with White children to learn anything [...] in spite of the fact that the New York Times is written and has always been written at a 6th grade level." - Toni Morrison in 1975 at Portland State University

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Honestly don’t want anyone getting in my fucking face again about how Black people don’t understand how awful the New York Times can be

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Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zohran Mamdani is going to use Arturo Schomburg's copy of the Quran for his swearing in ceremony. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

Greetings! Long time no see. Happy to share my appearance on the Black Studies podcast, where I talk Afro-Latin America, the Black Feminist studies boom in Brazil, why Black studies can't be solely an Anglophone enterprise, and more. Available where you listen to podcasts. Out now!

Cassie Osei - Department of History, Bucknell University

Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 09/10/2025 · 1h 15m

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One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

It’s weird how we’ve memory holed the fact that Obama entered his first term with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House and McConnell’s response was “We’re going to make Obama a one-term president,” not “there’s little we can do”

Sylvia Rivera

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

She is also responsible for the first compiled English language bibliography of everything related to Afro-Brazilian studies: Afro-Braziliana, published in 1978.

Mychal Threets@mychal3ts.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵