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Dr. T. Flo

@tnflorvil.bsky.social

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Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/ https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · May 3

Happy Heavenly Birthday to May Ayim! She would have turned 65 years old today. Although we are not kin, I feel kinship with her. Next August 2026 will mark 30 years since her passing.

After all these years of studying her, I still do not consider myself an expert on her.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 4h

a woman is holding a glass of wine with the words cheers written on the bottom

ALT: a woman is holding a glass of wine with the words cheers written on the bottom

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h

You have made it!!! Teeheee

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h

I belieb in you. Godspeed!

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h

I am grading papers, and I have marked them up a lot.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. I can’t even use the money to pay my mortgage. lolololol

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h

You are rich!!! 😂🤑

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Dr. Marcel Strobel @marcelstrobel.bsky.social · Aug 26

My book chapter on #MagnusHirschfeld and #AndersAlsDieAndern in the edited collection Urban Discourses of Crises and Resistance by @springer.springernature.com is finally available! #Queer #Weimar #Germany

Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Queer Space: The Urban Crisis of Male Prostitution in Oswald and Hirschfeld’s Anders als die Andern

In 1919, one of the earliest cinematic landmarks that addressed homosexuality, Different from the Others, premiered in the Apollo Theater in Berlin. In their attempt to challenge the criminalization o...

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11h

Le sigh and Le weep.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11h

They are on to something about academia. teehee.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly. We are making bank with our books. 😂😂😂😂

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11h

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11h

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 11h

Hmm ...
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Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11h

I hear you. I read other pieces on her and completely forgot her loyalty to WA.

Yes, I am not perfect. People are not perfect. But I mean even Mia acknowledged her death. I don't want to excuse abuse apologism.

Let me also stay in my lane of life writing and teaching this semester.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

I read from my upcoming memoir for the first time. Everyone was very kind.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 12h

*apologism

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, grace is an amazing concept. But whew the abuse apologist feels like another level. We can acknowledge she was a fabulous actress while also noting that she was WA's abuse apologist, who told victims to get over it.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 12h

My condolences.

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 12h

Revisionist history...

Trump was president on January 6th 2021. The attempted coup launched by Trump and his supporters was an effort for him to stay in office after losing the election to Joe Biden

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 12h

While I liked her as an actress, I am sad to remember that Diane Keaton was an abuse apologist, and she thought "victim culture was a horrible shame." She held problematic views.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 14h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Hundreds of people have been doxxed, fired or threatened for social media posts that were seen as callous or celebratory after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In a Texas town, people flooded online feeds with attacks that spilled into the real world for a paramedic. nyti.ms/4n7CSND

A woman with tattoos and pink hair stands in front of green foliage. A headline reads: "She Despised Charlie Kirk. A Former Mayor Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay." Photo by Desiree Rios for The New York Times

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks for the tip.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 12h

It has been a sad fiesta. I also didn’t smell the green chiles as much either. Le sigh and le weep.

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