Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
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Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My most recent book that has actually been published is Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion 2022). (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL)
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
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It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC
www.niwrc.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
My mom and I had been trying to figure out the recipe for my grandma's noodle kugel, and turns out it's on the side of the Manischewitz medium-thickness noodle package (and requires specifically those noodles).
It took me many decades to get over the snobbery of not using back-of-the-box recipes, but y'all, they're printed there for a reason. I used Karo's pecan pie recipe this year and it was, by far, the best I've ever made.
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My mom and I had been trying to figure out the recipe for my grandma's noodle kugel, and turns out it's on the side of the Manischewitz medium-thickness noodle package (and requires specifically those noodles).
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
“What’s your relationship with cycling?”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
The French artist who turned himself into a bicycle
Jeremy Barzic's striking rideable sculpture of himself highlights the humanity of cyclists.
escapecollective.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“What’s your relationship with cycling?”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
Remember, tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day, as it is every year. Go for walks! Sleep in! Play board games! Read books! Eat leftovers!
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Remember, tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day, as it is every year. Go for walks! Sleep in! Play board games! Read books! Eat leftovers!
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Not all who are lost, wander.
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not all who are lost, wander.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Bringing the war home
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Bringing the war home
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
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.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Bowser on injured National Guard members: "These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families"
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Bowser on injured National Guard members: "These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families"
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
#OtD 27 Nov 1981 300 mostly migrant women at Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia, went on strike after union officials missed a meeting about their pay claim. They organised a mass picket, spread the strike, fought police, and won a pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9952...
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#OtD 27 Nov 1981 300 mostly migrant women at Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia, went on strike after union officials missed a meeting about their pay claim. They organised a mass picket, spread the strike, fought police, and won a pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9952...
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring – up to 1,500,000 trips, a more than 40% increase on 2019.
Easy riders: Dockless e-bikes responsible for one in 10 cycle trips in London
Five per cent of all journeys in the capital are now made by bike
www.standard.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring – up to 1,500,000 trips, a more than 40% increase on 2019.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The last fluent speakers of Arapaho are all over the age of 70. Linguists have created a comprehensive digital archive that could help younger generations learn the language and keep it alive. buff.ly/FvsZIop
A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone
Many Native American languages only have a few native speakers left.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The last fluent speakers of Arapaho are all over the age of 70. Linguists have created a comprehensive digital archive that could help younger generations learn the language and keep it alive. buff.ly/FvsZIop
Still picking fresh tomatoes off the curtain rods in my kitchen. Only a few left now.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Still picking fresh tomatoes off the curtain rods in my kitchen. Only a few left now.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Tiktok: Heaven pahsetopah
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Tiktok: Heaven pahsetopah
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Ich have not yet read eny thinge of the Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK storye, and thys must be how celestial and serene angels feele as thei rotate peacefullye yn their crystal spheres
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Ich have not yet read eny thinge of the Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK storye, and thys must be how celestial and serene angels feele as thei rotate peacefullye yn their crystal spheres
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One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
You know what makes a great gift for a #swimming enthusiast?
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
You know what makes a great gift for a #swimming enthusiast?
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here: