Kelly Therese
@feministkelly.bsky.social
Univ admin by day. Knitter & Podcaster by night. Feminist mom in Chicago always. Lover of mystery novels, espresso, sauv blanc & kittens. She/her.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
My husband is playing MLB The Show, and I assumed Johnny Bench was a made-up fake baseball name.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My husband is playing MLB The Show, and I assumed Johnny Bench was a made-up fake baseball name.
My husband just threw out a package of steel-cut oats that expired in 2015. Follow me for more housekeeping tips.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My husband just threw out a package of steel-cut oats that expired in 2015. Follow me for more housekeeping tips.
My mom agreed that we could have a potato dish on Thursday that's something other than mashed potatoes. Hit me with your best potato recipes!
Other than being vegetarian, I'm an adventurous eater, but several guests are not.
Other than being vegetarian, I'm an adventurous eater, but several guests are not.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My mom agreed that we could have a potato dish on Thursday that's something other than mashed potatoes. Hit me with your best potato recipes!
Other than being vegetarian, I'm an adventurous eater, but several guests are not.
Other than being vegetarian, I'm an adventurous eater, but several guests are not.
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My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
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With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #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 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #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...
I produce/host a history podcast & work in a university division that includes a history department, so I type the word history rather a lot. And yet my phone just autocorrected "history" to "diaper," a word I haven't typed since my youngest (who is now 11) was a toddler. Good job, robot overlords.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I produce/host a history podcast & work in a university division that includes a history department, so I type the word history rather a lot. And yet my phone just autocorrected "history" to "diaper," a word I haven't typed since my youngest (who is now 11) was a toddler. Good job, robot overlords.
The strangest part is that when I saw the videos of trump with MBS all I could think is that I've never seen trump that genuinely happy before (which is terrifying). But then today he seemed that happy again with Mamdani. 🤷🏼♀️
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The strangest part is that when I saw the videos of trump with MBS all I could think is that I've never seen trump that genuinely happy before (which is terrifying). But then today he seemed that happy again with Mamdani. 🤷🏼♀️
I'm running for president of the world. My platform has one plank: ban all leaf blowers.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'm running for president of the world. My platform has one plank: ban all leaf blowers.
Yes. Please, people, let's fight like we will win. A week ago nobody predicted a near unanimous vote on the release of the Epstein files. There will be bumps in the road, but the dark future Stephen Miller and company want is not ordained.
Reading the comments this morning could give a person the impression that average Dems WANT to lose.
Enough with the naysaying, my lord. We are having a really good week. Every crack in the foundation of MAGA will lead to its eventual demise.
Enough with the naysaying, my lord. We are having a really good week. Every crack in the foundation of MAGA will lead to its eventual demise.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yes. Please, people, let's fight like we will win. A week ago nobody predicted a near unanimous vote on the release of the Epstein files. There will be bumps in the road, but the dark future Stephen Miller and company want is not ordained.
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New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social #MSWMedia
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social #MSWMedia
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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LISTEN: Author Jordan B. Smith discusses his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which offers a history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, on the Unsung History podcast with @feministkelly.bsky.social!
The History of Rum
Global rum sales are expected to reach nearly $28 billion USD by the year 2033, making it one of the ten most popular alcoholic beverages in the world. In this epis…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
LISTEN: Author Jordan B. Smith discusses his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which offers a history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, on the Unsung History podcast with @feministkelly.bsky.social!
Is there anything more annoying than going to the eye doctor, ordering new glasses, and then having to wait 7-10 business days to get said glasses, the whole time wondering if you made a decent choice in selecting frames, a difficult task with your already terrible vision made worse with dilation?
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Is there anything more annoying than going to the eye doctor, ordering new glasses, and then having to wait 7-10 business days to get said glasses, the whole time wondering if you made a decent choice in selecting frames, a difficult task with your already terrible vision made worse with dilation?
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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! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#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 ...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
At least the MRIs I've had, the whole body doesn't even go in the machine, so it's pretty obvious what they're looking at. When I get brain MRIs it's only my head and shoulders that go in. When I got an ankle MRI, it was just my feet.
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
At least the MRIs I've had, the whole body doesn't even go in the machine, so it's pretty obvious what they're looking at. When I get brain MRIs it's only my head and shoulders that go in. When I got an ankle MRI, it was just my feet.
The next episode of Unsung History is on the history of rum, and I thought, hey I should sip some rum while preparing the episode. So you don't make the same mistake I did, please know that Trader Joe's Rum of the Gods is one of the most vile things I've ever tasted.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The next episode of Unsung History is on the history of rum, and I thought, hey I should sip some rum while preparing the episode. So you don't make the same mistake I did, please know that Trader Joe's Rum of the Gods is one of the most vile things I've ever tasted.
I'm always up to host 1-12 more podcasts.
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I'm always up to host 1-12 more podcasts.
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
When your eyes have been dilated every streetlight looks like the Aurora Borealis.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
When your eyes have been dilated every streetlight looks like the Aurora Borealis.
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
I'm going to need @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's take on these picks.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm going to need @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's take on these picks.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
My kid is playing some kind of world domination video game, and he told me he was building a pointillist empire. I said I didn't think Daniel Immerwahr's book was meant to be an instruction manual, to which he replied: "Then he shouldn't have called it HOW TO Hide an Empire." Touché.
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
My kid is playing some kind of world domination video game, and he told me he was building a pointillist empire. I said I didn't think Daniel Immerwahr's book was meant to be an instruction manual, to which he replied: "Then he shouldn't have called it HOW TO Hide an Empire." Touché.
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I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
I don't even drive, and I know this is a lie.
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I don't even drive, and I know this is a lie.
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing