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Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow
@esharrow.bsky.social
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Scholar of gender politics + Title IX // Coauthor, Equality Unfulfilled (Cambridge UP) // APSA, AERA & Choice ALA book awards Professor of Public Policy & History at UMass Amherst +Dir of Faculty Research, UMass Institute for Social Science Research .. more

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Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social · 29d
After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · Sep 11
The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · Sep 2
I encourage anyone affiliated with the U of MN to contact President Cunningham- here is what I sent her
Dear President Cunningham – A colleague shared with me that the university career services administration is sponsoring a webinar on border patrol recruitment tomorrow. The university hosted webpage extols the service as protecting us from fentanyl and providing “humanitarian aid to those in need”. Not to mention, are the illegal renditions to other countries, the chance to ignore court orders, and the illegal racial profiling that the courts have found the border patrol engages in. I am dumbfounded that university resources are promoting this agency at a time when many of the university’s students and staff see them as a threat to liberty and safety. The border patrol is remarkably well funded; let them do their own work to recruit, and do not use the funds or the name of our institution to steer students into this deeply troubled agency. With profound disappointment Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA Professor of medicine, University of Minnesota
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · Aug 29
What a muted headline. "Citizens of supposed democracy aren't sold on military occupation of major transit hubs." www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
Boston commuters aren't sold on a federal takeover of South Station
A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.
www.wbur.org
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 29
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.
www.forbes.com
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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Aug 27
Conservatives are going to use this as justification for further violence against us - trans women especially. They won't listen to us, but they might listen to you. At the very least, you have to try.
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Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow @esharrow.bsky.social · Aug 27
*I* feel seen to learn we’ve seemingly handled the intellectual space of migraine in similar ways 😂
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Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow @esharrow.bsky.social · Aug 27
Thanks for sharing this! I’m sorry to learn you too suffer from migraines; they’re life-altering.

JHU Press also published a history that might interest you. I’m going to track down your rec today! www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/mig...
Migraine: A History
www.press.jhu.edu
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15
teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
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AGAINST AI
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Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Stacie B. Dusetzina

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JAMA @jama.com · Aug 15
Targeted grant terminations by the #NIH have affected 694 grants totaling $1.81 billion, disproportionately impacting larger grants and the #NIMHD across various institutions.

ja.ma/415YUZ5
Table 1. Terminated National Institutes of Health Grants by Institute or Center
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Aug 15
The Slavery North initiative at UMass Amherst is hiring a Director of Curriculum & Outreach; great opportunity for someone with training in art history; application deadline is 8/24. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️
Details - Director Curriculum & Outreach (Slavery North) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Aug 14
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 12
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
www.propublica.org
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · Aug 4
Trump’s attempt to restrict life-saving healthcare for trans youth is cruel and illegal, and we won’t stand for it.
 
My office will keep fighting to protect these rights and the safety of our LGBTQ+ youth.
AG Campbell poses with a woman holding a sign that reads, “Protect queer, non-binary, and trans youth”
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jul 30
Many factors, in addition to moral cowardice and ideological agreement, explain why universities have capitulated. As teachers and students learn just how little control they have over campus, we need not just a defense of academic freedom but a more specific defense of the right to protest.
The Right to Be Hostile - Boston Review
Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.
www.bostonreview.net
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 25
i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Jul 25
🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · Jul 25
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
www.nytimes.com
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Dec 2
‘They discussed replacing her but saw at once that it was impossible: her upper lip, for one, and the light in her eyes. So then the show becomes about something else: what if a woman were irreplaceable?’

@tricialockwood.bsky.social on The X-Files:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Encounters with Aliens
‘How do you know you’re not mistaking me for someone else?’ Scully asks in wild disbelief, looking like God’s...
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Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social · Dec 3
This is Brian and Samantha Williams. Their daughter, L.W., is trans. Tomorrow, they will take her to the Supreme Court to fight for her right to receive transition care in her home state, Tennessee. All week, Sam has been trying to prepare herself for the very big thing tomorrow will be.
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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · Dec 13
🙌 2024 has been a year of achievement for our authors.

7 Nobel Prize winners
46 @choicereviews.bsky.social 'Outstanding Academic title' awards
22 @apsa.bsky.social awards

Plus many highlights named 'Books of the Year'.

We're excited to be part of their journey 🏆

Find out more 🔗 cup.org/4gdN3gP
Graphic with a Cambridge dark blue background featuring a shield design, with text that reads 'A year of excellence for our authors.'
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Tiffany Barnes @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · Dec 17
Hot off the press today: Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars, by Meredith Maloof Loken

Download for free for the next week!! 🥳🥳🥳

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars
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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · Mar 8
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📩 Text (877) 565-8860
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We’re here for you. 💜🏳️‍⚧️ #PeerSupport
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