Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
@jlphistory.bsky.social
Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
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Teenagers, Deaf People, & Archives! - A Book Haul for Teaching History (I know ALL the historians)
YouTube video by Joanna Loves History Books!
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Why do historians buy so many books? Is there an "end" to Canadian history? What does it mean to "do history" and why are edited collections an important part of that? What my first book haul video and find out!
#History #c19th #HistoryBookChat #disHist #HistChild 🗃️📚💙
#History #c19th #HistoryBookChat #disHist #HistChild 🗃️📚💙
Trying to find the exact right version of Bread & Roses for class tomorrow is just like finishing the lecture on women workers, right? right?
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Trying to find the exact right version of Bread & Roses for class tomorrow is just like finishing the lecture on women workers, right? right?
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
Despite my best effort I have not been productive today. OTOH it's only 5 pm and I could turn it around. But it's dark and there are wolves and the wolves are all in my brain and eating my soul.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Despite my best effort I have not been productive today. OTOH it's only 5 pm and I could turn it around. But it's dark and there are wolves and the wolves are all in my brain and eating my soul.
I got out of bed, I put on clean clothes, I prepped for and had both of my student meetings and they were both fine. I am going for coffee before I dive back into cleaning up the mess I've made.
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I got out of bed, I put on clean clothes, I prepped for and had both of my student meetings and they were both fine. I am going for coffee before I dive back into cleaning up the mess I've made.
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I continue to be deeply unwell. I convinced myself that telling my boss would make it better and it did in the sense that someone knows but it's awful because I'm not magically cured like I hoped.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I continue to be deeply unwell. I convinced myself that telling my boss would make it better and it did in the sense that someone knows but it's awful because I'm not magically cured like I hoped.
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After having another run on our archaeologists, we put out calls on social media and emails, and once again, against all odds, got every damn LEGO team matched with an archaeologist.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
After having another run on our archaeologists, we put out calls on social media and emails, and once again, against all odds, got every damn LEGO team matched with an archaeologist.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
I did talk to my boss about the mental health crisis and how far behind I am and how I'm caught in the shame spiral. He was extremely understanding and also emphasized that they're more concerned about my being okay than they are about anything else. I'm going to keep it at that for now. 💕💕💕💕
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I did talk to my boss about the mental health crisis and how far behind I am and how I'm caught in the shame spiral. He was extremely understanding and also emphasized that they're more concerned about my being okay than they are about anything else. I'm going to keep it at that for now. 💕💕💕💕
My mother decided Footnote needed her own bed. Not Index though, because Index gets the couch.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My mother decided Footnote needed her own bed. Not Index though, because Index gets the couch.
So many great Kate Beaton strips in this thread but I think all the time about how I want to go to the moon and blow up the earth, like all proper feminists.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
So many great Kate Beaton strips in this thread but I think all the time about how I want to go to the moon and blow up the earth, like all proper feminists.
As I am once again struggling to write a lecture (tomorrow is about women immigrants to Canada - they have wombs, as you know, which could make great Canadian babies or could make terrible foreign babies [1910]), I am wondering how people write lectures. I feel this is something no one talks about.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
As I am once again struggling to write a lecture (tomorrow is about women immigrants to Canada - they have wombs, as you know, which could make great Canadian babies or could make terrible foreign babies [1910]), I am wondering how people write lectures. I feel this is something no one talks about.
Ok, I'm going to my boss tomorrow to tell him I'm in a mental health crisis and I've been shitty at my job for the past few weeks because of it. I am terrified even though my boss has given no indication that he'll be a monster about this, but shame is a huge part of it and I'm so scared.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ok, I'm going to my boss tomorrow to tell him I'm in a mental health crisis and I've been shitty at my job for the past few weeks because of it. I am terrified even though my boss has given no indication that he'll be a monster about this, but shame is a huge part of it and I'm so scared.
I'm not doing well.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I'm not doing well.
If you're wondering how it's going I'm listening to the 988 hold music. Please clap because this is hard.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If you're wondering how it's going I'm listening to the 988 hold music. Please clap because this is hard.
My brain is extremely actively trying to kill me and I would like it to stop. This is unbearable.
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My brain is extremely actively trying to kill me and I would like it to stop. This is unbearable.
Wrote the first bit of the lecture, decided the lecture was terrible, threw it all out and now I'm starting a different lecture. I am going to cry.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Wrote the first bit of the lecture, decided the lecture was terrible, threw it all out and now I'm starting a different lecture. I am going to cry.
pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put dino in to ro/ar! inside very Soft and Comfort dino ro/ar soundly put dino in Pelican Mouth. Put roar In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth. friend pelican
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put dino in to ro/ar! inside very Soft and Comfort dino ro/ar soundly put dino in Pelican Mouth. Put roar In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth. friend pelican
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
headed by a bubble van and a dude from the Netherlands.
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
headed by a bubble van and a dude from the Netherlands.
I appreciated Justin's way of explaining what's happening with the budget in Vancouver.
In an interview this week, Ken Sim said that he had a list of all the times he said no to the Vancouver Police Department, and said a lot of their budget increases were out of the city's control.
We got the list. We looked at the budget.
Here is a fact check.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We got the list. We looked at the budget.
Here is a fact check.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I appreciated Justin's way of explaining what's happening with the budget in Vancouver.
Just had a long chat with one of my senior students about what I think is the difference between "doing history" and "being an historian" and I sound like such a pompous ass. And yet I still think that there's a difference in these things.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just had a long chat with one of my senior students about what I think is the difference between "doing history" and "being an historian" and I sound like such a pompous ass. And yet I still think that there's a difference in these things.
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Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶
This adorable retriever mix — this brave, good-natured glutton for love — entered our lives on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. We found him half dead from a broken hip and a mangled paw, but now look at him: full of life and ready to play at a moment's notice, still very much a pup at 2½ ... /1
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶
Right now Index is making me feel guilty by licking her empty bowl and then looking at me like she didn't just eat a whole meal.
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Right now Index is making me feel guilty by licking her empty bowl and then looking at me like she didn't just eat a whole meal.
It's always fun when I'm wondering why this scholar's name sounds so familiar and then i realise I'm following them on the blueskies. (In a good way!!!)
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It's always fun when I'm wondering why this scholar's name sounds so familiar and then i realise I'm following them on the blueskies. (In a good way!!!)
just randomly scrolling the internet like if i make the pictures/text move really fast that's the same as thinking about anything. I may need to take a walk.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
just randomly scrolling the internet like if i make the pictures/text move really fast that's the same as thinking about anything. I may need to take a walk.