Erin Grievances
@erinbartram.bsky.social
Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
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reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:41 PM
reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
In a conversation with some first graders today about where food came from in the 19th century, I told them that cranberries were from Massachusetts. One kid responded, very skeptically: "What's a Massachusetts?"
It was a real #NutmegSky moment.
It was a real #NutmegSky moment.
January 29, 2026 at 1:28 AM
In a conversation with some first graders today about where food came from in the 19th century, I told them that cranberries were from Massachusetts. One kid responded, very skeptically: "What's a Massachusetts?"
It was a real #NutmegSky moment.
It was a real #NutmegSky moment.
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The immanent contradiction of dominance masculinity is that it both claims absolute authority and strength and also cannot countenance even the slightest challenge.
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The immanent contradiction of dominance masculinity is that it both claims absolute authority and strength and also cannot countenance even the slightest challenge.
I love that we're doing "which discipline is the best at knowing things" as tonight's discourse and every actual practitioner is saying "my discipline doesn't know SHIT and that's the way we like it."
January 29, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I love that we're doing "which discipline is the best at knowing things" as tonight's discourse and every actual practitioner is saying "my discipline doesn't know SHIT and that's the way we like it."
I can't believe we're doing "the money was just resting in my account" but as national policy.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I can't believe we're doing "the money was just resting in my account" but as national policy.
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I work in audiobooks and have had to tell so so...so many people that the romance genre is a huge tentpole in print, ebook, and audiobook sales. And yet is still treated like a shameful secret.
The assumption that all romance is trash for dumb people who like formulas -- that's still a thing in TV & film. A big thing. Also, like, I'm sorry, but a middle or upper class man is an asshole and is doing crimes or solving crimes? That's not a genre? MORE formulaic than a romance? HILARIOUS
January 29, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I work in audiobooks and have had to tell so so...so many people that the romance genre is a huge tentpole in print, ebook, and audiobook sales. And yet is still treated like a shameful secret.
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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"The danger is not in practicing revisionist history—it’s in constructing individual and collective lives around historical frameworks too shaky to be looked at again."
What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
contingentmagazine.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:09 AM
"The danger is not in practicing revisionist history—it’s in constructing individual and collective lives around historical frameworks too shaky to be looked at again."
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this is certainly what some people WANT you to believe, yes
Maths and physics are objective and humanities is subjective.
That's the difference.
That's the difference.
January 28, 2026 at 11:34 PM
this is certainly what some people WANT you to believe, yes
It's going to be a smaller subset of us, but the anger over the loss of Microsoft Publisher is going to build to a crescendo over the course of this year.
I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
January 28, 2026 at 7:22 PM
It's going to be a smaller subset of us, but the anger over the loss of Microsoft Publisher is going to build to a crescendo over the course of this year.
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I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
When a medicine says to take it in the "evening" or "just before bed" I always wonder what they want night owls to do.
January 28, 2026 at 1:17 AM
When a medicine says to take it in the "evening" or "just before bed" I always wonder what they want night owls to do.
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This is from the vice chair of the Iowa House's higher ed committee. State legislators have been pushing changes to higher ed for years, and actions in Washington make that a bit easier to do.
www.chronicle.com/article/anot...
www.chronicle.com/article/anot...
![Another bill would limit membership on presidential search committees to board members, eliminating the opportunity for students and instructors to serve. Martin said this would undermine the concepts of faculty governance, and Democratic legislators on the committee have expressed similar concerns.
Shipley said his experience in student government at Iowa State acquainted him with the “types” of people who tended to insert themselves in high-level decisions about university governance.
“No matter how smart these Ph.D.s think they are, it’s not a good idea to have them in the kitchen. It’s just been pretty outrageous to where these people, these academics, have disgraced themselves to the point where nobody can take them seriously and [they’re] actually causing serious damage to the culture of the state.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t246266smqkjxhwir7xpbl3o/bafkreie2guygha2gterkmdskbjnewm3ntnkli4hlt7sjebwxqgaxngdxuq@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
This is from the vice chair of the Iowa House's higher ed committee. State legislators have been pushing changes to higher ed for years, and actions in Washington make that a bit easier to do.
www.chronicle.com/article/anot...
www.chronicle.com/article/anot...
How did I miss this!? @mattseybold.bsky.social there are so many options.
I feel certain that bluesky could immediately compile a syllabus. Feel free to reply with it now in fact
It's at least partially the hard cider talking but now I really want to explore a degree in hater studies.
January 27, 2026 at 6:27 PM
How did I miss this!? @mattseybold.bsky.social there are so many options.
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I keep hearing "oh they weren't ready for Minnesota in the winter" / "if they couldn't handle Minnesotans, they sure can't handle Philly" / etc. And frankly, I think each of our 50 states has its own home turf advantage that's going to stymie ICE in its own unique way, and I think that's beautiful.
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I keep hearing "oh they weren't ready for Minnesota in the winter" / "if they couldn't handle Minnesotans, they sure can't handle Philly" / etc. And frankly, I think each of our 50 states has its own home turf advantage that's going to stymie ICE in its own unique way, and I think that's beautiful.
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me performing Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp.
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me by climbing a promontory in the front range, and making the call of the Loon at twilight.
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on my wife's bidet.
January 27, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me performing Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp.
How it started: Hux making a big angry speech in TFA
How it's going: Hux getting his hand bitten by Rose in the deleted scene
How it's going: Hux getting his hand bitten by Rose in the deleted scene
I think MAGA writ large is slowly realizing that successfully convincing a majority of the country to passionately hate you is not nearly as fun as they thought it was gonna be.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
January 27, 2026 at 2:43 AM
How it started: Hux making a big angry speech in TFA
How it's going: Hux getting his hand bitten by Rose in the deleted scene
How it's going: Hux getting his hand bitten by Rose in the deleted scene
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The power of Baked Potatoes and grassroots logistics will abolish ICE @hollyanderson.bsky.social @channel6.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 1:50 AM
The power of Baked Potatoes and grassroots logistics will abolish ICE @hollyanderson.bsky.social @channel6.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social
It continues to be baffling to both the White House and quite a few Bluesky users, apparently, that a given religion's views don't map perfectly onto the US political spectrum.
The public call may be surprising, sure, but the sentiment shouldn't be.
The public call may be surprising, sure, but the sentiment shouldn't be.
Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 AM
It continues to be baffling to both the White House and quite a few Bluesky users, apparently, that a given religion's views don't map perfectly onto the US political spectrum.
The public call may be surprising, sure, but the sentiment shouldn't be.
The public call may be surprising, sure, but the sentiment shouldn't be.
The last time we had snow like this I was quite a few years younger and I'm really feeling the difference tonight.
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
The last time we had snow like this I was quite a few years younger and I'm really feeling the difference tonight.
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
They'll do this, and while certainly organizers can learn from MN's experience, Maine is a different place and the same things won't be possible there in exactly the same ways. But other things will be!
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 AM
They'll do this, and while certainly organizers can learn from MN's experience, Maine is a different place and the same things won't be possible there in exactly the same ways. But other things will be!
I think my sister and I were the only two people who watched the late 90s Magnificent Seven TV show but the pilot deserves to be watched for Kurtwood Smith’s guest role alone. He is just so good in everything.
January 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I think my sister and I were the only two people who watched the late 90s Magnificent Seven TV show but the pilot deserves to be watched for Kurtwood Smith’s guest role alone. He is just so good in everything.
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I definitely think one element of this particular response is “we need to find the men who are really running all this.”
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I definitely think one element of this particular response is “we need to find the men who are really running all this.”