Hannah Palsa
@hannahpalsa.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Kansas State. Dogs for Defense. Hoosier. 😻 Mom. I really love cats. Museum Person. Disney. Horror. Britpop. Yellowjackets 🐝🐝
Charlie is the happiest kitty. Smokey’s momma forever 💔❤️🐾🌈
Charlie is the happiest kitty. Smokey’s momma forever 💔❤️🐾🌈
When the coworker that you don’t even like may have given you COVID. 😒
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
When the coworker that you don’t even like may have given you COVID. 😒
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As a prof, I do not care how quickly a student can write an answer under the stress of a timer.
I care about what they actually know, learned, & can analyze. It didn't change my online course grades when I went from timed to untimed.
I care about what they actually know, learned, & can analyze. It didn't change my online course grades when I went from timed to untimed.
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
As a prof, I do not care how quickly a student can write an answer under the stress of a timer.
I care about what they actually know, learned, & can analyze. It didn't change my online course grades when I went from timed to untimed.
I care about what they actually know, learned, & can analyze. It didn't change my online course grades when I went from timed to untimed.
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An emotional support dog is not a service dog.
Please know the law and the difference before talking about this so confidently
Please know the law and the difference before talking about this so confidently
You can see both at the grocery store. The service is usually cited as ‘emotional support’ though, I haven’t seen anyone insinuate that it’s an extensively trained animal.
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An emotional support dog is not a service dog.
Please know the law and the difference before talking about this so confidently
Please know the law and the difference before talking about this so confidently
I am working on an exhibit at the Beach Museum of Art that is pairing the drawings of California WPA artist, Evelyn Renfrew, and clothing from the K State Historic Costume and Textile Museum. Look at how adorable these little drawings are!
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am working on an exhibit at the Beach Museum of Art that is pairing the drawings of California WPA artist, Evelyn Renfrew, and clothing from the K State Historic Costume and Textile Museum. Look at how adorable these little drawings are!
Charlie is going to be a bumblebee this year for Halloween. Behold the cuteness.
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Charlie is going to be a bumblebee this year for Halloween. Behold the cuteness.
We had a costume party fundraiser at the art museum where I work. I was a beanie baby and my bestie was Ms. Frizzle. We embraced the 90s nostalgia clearly. (Another coworker was the Log Lady from Twin Peaks)
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We had a costume party fundraiser at the art museum where I work. I was a beanie baby and my bestie was Ms. Frizzle. We embraced the 90s nostalgia clearly. (Another coworker was the Log Lady from Twin Peaks)
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my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
boomer opinion i have is that there are way more young adults out there who legit don’t know how to take care of themselves in very basic ways than we’d probably be comfortable with knowing
July 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
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Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
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I posted about this last night, but will say here again there is nothing new here for the US, and it’s always been about white supremacy.
uncpress.org/book/9781469... Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
uncpress.org/book/9781469... Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...
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July 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I posted about this last night, but will say here again there is nothing new here for the US, and it’s always been about white supremacy.
uncpress.org/book/9781469... Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
uncpress.org/book/9781469... Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
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to all of you in the comments bringing up 1930s Germany, look first to American history. At the Ugly Laws, for instance, which allowed the state to criminalize unhoused people. Look at the histories of forcible incarceration in insane asylums, workhouses, epileptic colonies and more across the US
July 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
to all of you in the comments bringing up 1930s Germany, look first to American history. At the Ugly Laws, for instance, which allowed the state to criminalize unhoused people. Look at the histories of forcible incarceration in insane asylums, workhouses, epileptic colonies and more across the US
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"A Junior Ranger children’s booklet at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, will be reviewed for saying that Lee broke his promise to serve in the U.S. military and instead chose to fight for slavery." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War
Among the books flagged for possible removal were “The 1619 Project” and a book about former Interior secretary Deb Haaland.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"A Junior Ranger children’s booklet at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, will be reviewed for saying that Lee broke his promise to serve in the U.S. military and instead chose to fight for slavery." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
1940s dog owners, I am begging you to name your Dobermans something other than “Rex,” “Duke,” and “Prince.” I have 988 of these little USMC war dog service books to go through, and I’ve lost count of how many Dukes, Princes, and Rexes that I have encountered.
July 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
1940s dog owners, I am begging you to name your Dobermans something other than “Rex,” “Duke,” and “Prince.” I have 988 of these little USMC war dog service books to go through, and I’ve lost count of how many Dukes, Princes, and Rexes that I have encountered.
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I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...
www.historyrespawned.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
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“whatever you write, you are taking a stance on your subject and on the practice of history itself. the suggestion that other historians are not also interested in ‘show[ing] what happened’ is, at best, careless.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution
On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.
www.politico.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“whatever you write, you are taking a stance on your subject and on the practice of history itself. the suggestion that other historians are not also interested in ‘show[ing] what happened’ is, at best, careless.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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I wanted to give back by offering a GIVEAWAY, yay!! The winner will get a Pocket Pride Plush + Pin of their choice!
🏳️🌈 RULES 🏳️🌈
✨ Follow
✨ Share
✨ Comment which plush you would like (including stretch goals)
✨ International welcome!
Winner will be selected on July 25th!
🏳️🌈 RULES 🏳️🌈
✨ Follow
✨ Share
✨ Comment which plush you would like (including stretch goals)
✨ International welcome!
Winner will be selected on July 25th!
July 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wanted to give back by offering a GIVEAWAY, yay!! The winner will get a Pocket Pride Plush + Pin of their choice!
🏳️🌈 RULES 🏳️🌈
✨ Follow
✨ Share
✨ Comment which plush you would like (including stretch goals)
✨ International welcome!
Winner will be selected on July 25th!
🏳️🌈 RULES 🏳️🌈
✨ Follow
✨ Share
✨ Comment which plush you would like (including stretch goals)
✨ International welcome!
Winner will be selected on July 25th!
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Meet LIMBO!!
This stub-tailed tortie rescue is not grumpy... just sleepy! She is actually the snuggliest cat you've ever met, but she loves a noisy meow session too!!
This is our first tortie, based on my own rescue cat... hope you love Limbo!!!
Snuggle Paws campaign begins JULY! 🔗 in bio!
This stub-tailed tortie rescue is not grumpy... just sleepy! She is actually the snuggliest cat you've ever met, but she loves a noisy meow session too!!
This is our first tortie, based on my own rescue cat... hope you love Limbo!!!
Snuggle Paws campaign begins JULY! 🔗 in bio!
June 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Meet LIMBO!!
This stub-tailed tortie rescue is not grumpy... just sleepy! She is actually the snuggliest cat you've ever met, but she loves a noisy meow session too!!
This is our first tortie, based on my own rescue cat... hope you love Limbo!!!
Snuggle Paws campaign begins JULY! 🔗 in bio!
This stub-tailed tortie rescue is not grumpy... just sleepy! She is actually the snuggliest cat you've ever met, but she loves a noisy meow session too!!
This is our first tortie, based on my own rescue cat... hope you love Limbo!!!
Snuggle Paws campaign begins JULY! 🔗 in bio!
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I just don't get it.
The United States is doing every single step one would need to do for a soft genocide.
And this congresswoman goes "maybe the public just isn't ready for trans rights, we have to consider that"
NO.
THE FUCK.
WE DO NOT.
The United States is doing every single step one would need to do for a soft genocide.
And this congresswoman goes "maybe the public just isn't ready for trans rights, we have to consider that"
NO.
THE FUCK.
WE DO NOT.
June 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I just don't get it.
The United States is doing every single step one would need to do for a soft genocide.
And this congresswoman goes "maybe the public just isn't ready for trans rights, we have to consider that"
NO.
THE FUCK.
WE DO NOT.
The United States is doing every single step one would need to do for a soft genocide.
And this congresswoman goes "maybe the public just isn't ready for trans rights, we have to consider that"
NO.
THE FUCK.
WE DO NOT.
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“BU- BU- BU- FAIRNESS IN SPORTS!”
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
June 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“BU- BU- BU- FAIRNESS IN SPORTS!”
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
I’m not sure why this is in our collection at the HCTM, but I love it.
May 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I’m not sure why this is in our collection at the HCTM, but I love it.
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This week Historians At The Movies is on a mission from God. Join us on Netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, June 1 for THE BLUES BROTHERS #HATM
May 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This week Historians At The Movies is on a mission from God. Join us on Netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, June 1 for THE BLUES BROTHERS #HATM
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I really enjoyed talking to Dr. Grey Stafford on Zoo Logic.
We chatted zoos, war, whether I'm an "animal person" (I am), & how to turn empathy for specific animals into empathy for all animals.
I hope to chat w/ more zoo folks soon.
@ucpress.bsky.social
zoologic.libsyn.com/world-war-zoos
We chatted zoos, war, whether I'm an "animal person" (I am), & how to turn empathy for specific animals into empathy for all animals.
I hope to chat w/ more zoo folks soon.
@ucpress.bsky.social
zoologic.libsyn.com/world-war-zoos
Zoo Logic: World War Zoos
John M. Kinder is director of American Studies, professor of history at Oklahoma State University and author of the new book, . He chronicles the horrific effects of war on zoos throughout Europe...
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May 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I really enjoyed talking to Dr. Grey Stafford on Zoo Logic.
We chatted zoos, war, whether I'm an "animal person" (I am), & how to turn empathy for specific animals into empathy for all animals.
I hope to chat w/ more zoo folks soon.
@ucpress.bsky.social
zoologic.libsyn.com/world-war-zoos
We chatted zoos, war, whether I'm an "animal person" (I am), & how to turn empathy for specific animals into empathy for all animals.
I hope to chat w/ more zoo folks soon.
@ucpress.bsky.social
zoologic.libsyn.com/world-war-zoos