Susan Ferentinos
@historysue.bsky.social
Public Historian of LGBTQ+ history and women's history. Museums, Interpretation, Historic Preservation. Post-ac. https://susanferentinos.com
Busy day ahead at #AASLH2025. My public history research and consulting firm is the sponsor of today’s Historic House Museum Luncheon, and I’m part of a 2:00 session, “Sharing LGBTQ+ Stories through Historical Markers & Monuments.” !!!!
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Busy day ahead at #AASLH2025. My public history research and consulting firm is the sponsor of today’s Historic House Museum Luncheon, and I’m part of a 2:00 session, “Sharing LGBTQ+ Stories through Historical Markers & Monuments.” !!!!
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Know an amazing digital librarian or archivist? Share this job opportunity to help preserve & digitize access to the 🌎 most important collection on sexuality, relationships, & intimate culture 📚📰📑
📍On-site at IU Bloomington. Salary $70-95k + benefits.
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📍On-site at IU Bloomington. Salary $70-95k + benefits.
🚨 Apply by Sept 30!
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(Visiting) Digital Librarian
The Kinsey Institute houses one of the world’s most comprehensive research collections on human sexuality and relationships, encompassing over 700,000 items spanning more than 2,000 years of human his...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Know an amazing digital librarian or archivist? Share this job opportunity to help preserve & digitize access to the 🌎 most important collection on sexuality, relationships, & intimate culture 📚📰📑
📍On-site at IU Bloomington. Salary $70-95k + benefits.
🚨 Apply by Sept 30!
knsy.in/job101311
📍On-site at IU Bloomington. Salary $70-95k + benefits.
🚨 Apply by Sept 30!
knsy.in/job101311
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I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
August 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
I’m spending this morning with my local LGBTQ+ Pride campers, 12-14 year olds. It’s a highlight of my year!!
August 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I’m spending this morning with my local LGBTQ+ Pride campers, 12-14 year olds. It’s a highlight of my year!!
Joint statement from multiple professional organizations decrying the federal government’s efforts to sanitize (ie, lie about) the nation’s past. aaslh.org/trust-americ...
Trust Americans to Learn from the Past
A joint statement by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), Organization of American Historians (OAH), Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), As...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Joint statement from multiple professional organizations decrying the federal government’s efforts to sanitize (ie, lie about) the nation’s past. aaslh.org/trust-americ...
Honestly, I’m a little sad this one’s (almost) over. Any archives or museums out there want to do something similar? ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org/event/ridgef...
Event: Ridgefield Oral History Project Celebration & Conversation
Ridgefield LGBTQIA+ Oral History Project culminates with a community gathering led by historian Dr. Susan Ferentinos, exploring identity, legacy, and lived experience through storytelling.
ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Honestly, I’m a little sad this one’s (almost) over. Any archives or museums out there want to do something similar? ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org/event/ridgef...
Expanding #Queer Narratives in #Museums, @aaslh.org webinar, July 10, learn.aaslh.org/products/exp...
AASLH Learning: Expanding Queer Narratives in Museums - Live Webinar
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June 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Expanding #Queer Narratives in #Museums, @aaslh.org webinar, July 10, learn.aaslh.org/products/exp...
On a ferry, drinking coffee. Feeling very PNW as I head to Seattle for a week of research.
May 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
On a ferry, drinking coffee. Feeling very PNW as I head to Seattle for a week of research.
Breaking out my new mug from the Smithsonian. Let’s not forget its message.
May 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Breaking out my new mug from the Smithsonian. Let’s not forget its message.
I’m spending the day reading LGBTQ+ newspapers from the 1980s and 1990s. I’d forgotten how much we all used to talk about sex!
May 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I’m spending the day reading LGBTQ+ newspapers from the 1980s and 1990s. I’d forgotten how much we all used to talk about sex!
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At the risk of screaming into the void: if you care about American history, you should care about the 250th. This is a rare chance to reintroduce history to broad swaths of the American public, to redefine public engagement with history for a generation. Don’t cede the whole thing to Trump.
I’ve been helping the U.S. history community prepare for the 250th for EIGHT YEARS now. AASLH was getting people to think about this before there was a congressional commission. Seeing it all get hijacked and derailed this way at the last moment is so gutting.
May 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
At the risk of screaming into the void: if you care about American history, you should care about the 250th. This is a rare chance to reintroduce history to broad swaths of the American public, to redefine public engagement with history for a generation. Don’t cede the whole thing to Trump.
@engagingplaces.bsky.social consultant Mary Van Balgooy wrote a good blog post about the Historic House Museum Summit I co-facilitated last week. engagingplaces.net/2025/04/29/i...
Interpreting Historic House Museums Today: Reflections on the 2025 AASLH Summit
By Mary A. van Balgooy, Vice President, Engaging Places LLC Last week, I attended the 2025 AASLH Historic House Museums Summit, “Interpreting Historic House Museums Today,” held at the Edsel and El…
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May 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@engagingplaces.bsky.social consultant Mary Van Balgooy wrote a good blog post about the Historic House Museum Summit I co-facilitated last week. engagingplaces.net/2025/04/29/i...
At the @aaslh.bsky.social museum summit last week, MC @michellenmoon.bsky.social had us each write a note of encouragement to an anonymous colleague. Then she gave each of us a note as we left. I just read mine & cried. Take care of each other out there!
April 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
At the @aaslh.bsky.social museum summit last week, MC @michellenmoon.bsky.social had us each write a note of encouragement to an anonymous colleague. Then she gave each of us a note as we left. I just read mine & cried. Take care of each other out there!
In Detroit, prepping to co-facilitate the @aaslh summit on interpreting historic house #museums! aaslh.org/annualconfer...
Interpreting Historic House Museums Today
Interpreting Historic House Museums Today
April 22 - 23, 2025
Ford House
Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
Sponsored by the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation and the Ford House
Registration closed Apr...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In Detroit, prepping to co-facilitate the @aaslh summit on interpreting historic house #museums! aaslh.org/annualconfer...
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
I was trying to get at thing that’s been bubbling around me at #NCPH2025 and I hit on “solidarity.” Turns out that’s this year’s conference theme. So, well done program committee! Mission accomplished.
March 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I was trying to get at thing that’s been bubbling around me at #NCPH2025 and I hit on “solidarity.” Turns out that’s this year’s conference theme. So, well done program committee! Mission accomplished.
En route to #ncph2025 in Montreal!! Looking forward to convening with my #PublicHistory peeps and envisioning a better world
March 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
En route to #ncph2025 in Montreal!! Looking forward to convening with my #PublicHistory peeps and envisioning a better world
Thank you @ptfilmfest.bsky.social for this weekend’s mini-fest “Black Film in the PNW.” I needed that break from the news, that camaraderie, and that creative inspiration.
March 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Thank you @ptfilmfest.bsky.social for this weekend’s mini-fest “Black Film in the PNW.” I needed that break from the news, that camaraderie, and that creative inspiration.
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Celebrating Women’s History Month! From the Process archives, Anne Parsons interviews Finn Enke on researching, teaching, and writing with transfeminist perspective: www.processhistory.org/transfeminis...
Transfeminist Perspectives on History and Pedagogy
This interview with Finn Enke was conducted by Anne E. Parsons, assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and chair of the OAH’s Committee on the Status of Lesbi...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Celebrating Women’s History Month! From the Process archives, Anne Parsons interviews Finn Enke on researching, teaching, and writing with transfeminist perspective: www.processhistory.org/transfeminis...
. @oah.org has started collecting information on historical research and sources that are at risk of being removed from the Internet or from collections. Share what you know at www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r...
OAH | Records at Risk Data Collection InitiativeOAH | Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative
www.oah.org
March 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
. @oah.org has started collecting information on historical research and sources that are at risk of being removed from the Internet or from collections. Share what you know at www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r...
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📜 How we remember matters. What happens when records become harder to access? OAH has launched the Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative to track changes in the availability of historical sources & their impact on public history.
🔎 Read about it: ow.ly/c9A950VgxWt
🔎 Read about it: ow.ly/c9A950VgxWt
March 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
📜 How we remember matters. What happens when records become harder to access? OAH has launched the Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative to track changes in the availability of historical sources & their impact on public history.
🔎 Read about it: ow.ly/c9A950VgxWt
🔎 Read about it: ow.ly/c9A950VgxWt