Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
@einavrfox.bsky.social
Historian. Curator. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
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Very proud to get this very small credit line #TheGildedAge
My book just turned 4, but it’s still kicking, and is also 50% off for Black Friday.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My book just turned 4, but it’s still kicking, and is also 50% off for Black Friday.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=87...
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=87...
As we gear up to the holiday, here is my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social on Black Friday, which like everything in pop culture can be traced to the Great Depression 🗃
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Common Threads: The Origins of Black Friday | The Saturday Evening Post
For 100 years, retailers and politicians have made sure that Americans were primed to spend their money in the days after Thanksgiving.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As we gear up to the holiday, here is my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social on Black Friday, which like everything in pop culture can be traced to the Great Depression 🗃
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www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/comm...
Nothing against this group or the clip, but I find it really interesting that Americans can’t comprehend fascism in color.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Nothing against this group or the clip, but I find it really interesting that Americans can’t comprehend fascism in color.
Talked with @brittanywong.bsky.social on the conservative/fascist turn in today’s fashion. Fashion can be a tool of control, but it can also be a form of resistance. Don’t buy into the fascist trends.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Era Is Influencing Fashion In Some Pretty Depressing Ways
We asked fashion experts to share all the ways Trump 2.0 is influencing what we wear.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Talked with @brittanywong.bsky.social on the conservative/fascist turn in today’s fashion. Fashion can be a tool of control, but it can also be a form of resistance. Don’t buy into the fascist trends.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
“What’s interesting now is that, while during Trump’s first administration we saw more resistance and backlash from the fashion industry, now we see more compliance,” said professor @einavrfox.bsky.social.
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Era Is Influencing Fashion In Some Pretty Unsettling Ways
We asked fashion experts to share all the ways Trump 2.0 is influencing what we wear.
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“What’s interesting now is that, while during Trump’s first administration we saw more resistance and backlash from the fashion industry, now we see more compliance,” said professor @einavrfox.bsky.social.
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the bleak fashion trends beat today! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
116 years ago a bunch of working class women changed the world because they got together and fought for their rights. Their fight is still our fight.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
116 years ago a bunch of working class women changed the world because they got together and fought for their rights. Their fight is still our fight.
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Now that it's official, I'm happy to announce that starting today I am the managing editor at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I didn't choose to leave academia, but I'm very excited to begin this new chapter, in this dream job and keep doing the things I love to do, surrounded by art and beauty.
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Now that it's official, I'm happy to announce that starting today I am the managing editor at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I didn't choose to leave academia, but I'm very excited to begin this new chapter, in this dream job and keep doing the things I love to do, surrounded by art and beauty.
Happy 250th #ScholarSunday thread! This is such a valuable resource and thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for all his amazing work! Give him a follow
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy 250th #ScholarSunday thread! This is such a valuable resource and thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for all his amazing work! Give him a follow
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Coordinating Council for Women in History CCWH
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Coordinating Council for Women in History CCWH
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Couldn’t get a better fortune today than this one. Details to come.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Couldn’t get a better fortune today than this one. Details to come.
Always happy to comment on First Ladies fashion, especially when the occasion is a new book on Michelle Obama. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Martha Washington to Melania Trump: How US first ladies through history have harnessed the power of fashion
As Michelle Obama's The Look is published, we dissect first-lady fashion through the decades. From "mother of the nation" to Flotus fashionistas, what have their styles signalled?
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November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Always happy to comment on First Ladies fashion, especially when the occasion is a new book on Michelle Obama. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 248 (11/2/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add ...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Happy Halloween! Great time to repost my latest #CommonThreads column on WITCH
Just in time for spooky season, my latest #CommonThreads column for the @satevepost.bsky.social is a reminder that a witch is not just a costume but a powerful political statement. Check it out 🗃️
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/comm...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/comm...
Common Threads: When Women BeWITCHed Wall Street | The Saturday Evening Post
Feminists have used the figure of a witch to protest the patriarchy, beauty pageants, the president, and even public transportation costs.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy Halloween! Great time to repost my latest #CommonThreads column on WITCH
To echo this, part of the reason that unions were so powerful in the 1930s is that they understood the power of connecting different people for a common goal. Pins and Needles, the ILGWU musical celebrated just that - diversity - and why it was important not only to labor but to democracy
One problem with Vance's argument is that it was not immigration restriction in 1924 that led to rapid union growth--indeed that coincided with a fiercely anti-union decade of Republican governance--but the New Deal's National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
To echo this, part of the reason that unions were so powerful in the 1930s is that they understood the power of connecting different people for a common goal. Pins and Needles, the ILGWU musical celebrated just that - diversity - and why it was important not only to labor but to democracy
I know Sean Penn didn’t base his character in One Battle After Another on one person, but I can’t help but thinking of him every time I see a picture of Bovino.
why is everything so shit, example 34567890
DHS posted this video two hours after I asked about the viral photos of Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino.
The portion where he does hand signals is from Bovino leaving court in Chicago yesterday.
The portion where he does hand signals is from Bovino leaving court in Chicago yesterday.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I know Sean Penn didn’t base his character in One Battle After Another on one person, but I can’t help but thinking of him every time I see a picture of Bovino.
What a great joy on the Sunday before Halloween to read great Halloween-themed not not themed scholarship from @americanstudier.bsky.social, including yours truly on the feminist organization WITCH
Here it is, my 247th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 247 (10/26/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 247th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy,...
blackwhiteandread.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What a great joy on the Sunday before Halloween to read great Halloween-themed not not themed scholarship from @americanstudier.bsky.social, including yours truly on the feminist organization WITCH
This image is particularly interesting if you also consider the uniforms of the Proud Boys, the Patriot Front, and the Three Percenters. I dare you to tell the difference.
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This image is particularly interesting if you also consider the uniforms of the Proud Boys, the Patriot Front, and the Three Percenters. I dare you to tell the difference.
Yes, there are more important atrocities with this administration than the demolition of the east wing. But fascism thrives on image and aesthetics, and symbols matter. Don’t underestimate the power of visual symbols- they are used to control, but can also be used to resist.
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Yes, there are more important atrocities with this administration than the demolition of the east wing. But fascism thrives on image and aesthetics, and symbols matter. Don’t underestimate the power of visual symbols- they are used to control, but can also be used to resist.
In my research today I learned that in the 1920s and 1930s there were summer camps for adults where one could do theater, dancing, singing and other arts - and I think we should bring back this tradition. Let's institutionalize summer camps for all.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In my research today I learned that in the 1920s and 1930s there were summer camps for adults where one could do theater, dancing, singing and other arts - and I think we should bring back this tradition. Let's institutionalize summer camps for all.
Reposted by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
“Witches have always been women who dared to be: groovy, courageous, aggressive, intelligent, nonconformist, explorative, curious, independent, sexually liberated, revolutionary.”
Common Threads: When Women BeWITCHed Wall Street | The Saturday Evening Post
Feminists have used the figure of a witch to protest the patriarchy, beauty pageants, the president, and even public transportation costs.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Witches have always been women who dared to be: groovy, courageous, aggressive, intelligent, nonconformist, explorative, curious, independent, sexually liberated, revolutionary.”
Just in time for spooky season, my latest #CommonThreads column for the @satevepost.bsky.social is a reminder that a witch is not just a costume but a powerful political statement. Check it out 🗃️
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/comm...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/comm...
Common Threads: When Women BeWITCHed Wall Street | The Saturday Evening Post
Feminists have used the figure of a witch to protest the patriarchy, beauty pageants, the president, and even public transportation costs.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just in time for spooky season, my latest #CommonThreads column for the @satevepost.bsky.social is a reminder that a witch is not just a costume but a powerful political statement. Check it out 🗃️
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/comm...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/10/comm...
290 words in a new chapter. We'll take progress where we can have it. #amwriting
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
290 words in a new chapter. We'll take progress where we can have it. #amwriting
in the midst of all of the #NoKings reporting, check out @americanstudier.bsky.social sunday thread that would give a context to it all. And as always, thanks for the mention.
Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 246 (10/19/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & ...
blackwhiteandread.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
in the midst of all of the #NoKings reporting, check out @americanstudier.bsky.social sunday thread that would give a context to it all. And as always, thanks for the mention.