Charlie O'Malley
@charlesomalley.bsky.social
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writer, dramaturg, queer historian, scorpio, dad, union member books: toward a just pedagogy of performance (2023); shakespeare's margaret (2026) current project: theatre for a new age: queer performance in 1970s san francisco cwbomalley.com
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check out scott's latest in @nybooks.com -- reviewing a history of a women's prison in indiana written by those currently incarcerated there. beautifully written and devastating.

in the oct. 9 print edition!
nybooks.com
Our 10/9 issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Charlotte Brontë, @harikunzru.bsky.social on Adolescence, @scottwstern.bsky.social on women’s prisons, Dorothy Sue Cobble on home work, Joshua Hammer on Prigozhin & the Wagner Group, and much more.
October 9, 2025 Issue
Table of Contents
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charlesomalley.bsky.social
fun home came on in the car this morning so i am starting this day emotionally destroyed
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callanjd.bsky.social
This afternoon, I’m retracing the steps of a Curtain playgoer from the early 1610s, a young domestic servant. On 13th May, he came here to see the Duke of York’s men and then headed back to his mistress’s house in St Bartholomew’s hospital. #CurrainBook
Old map showing route across north London Photo of metal structure in piazza surrounded by platw hlass buildings and flowerbeds Secretary hand writing Map of Smithfield with faint red oblong marker
charlesomalley.bsky.social
who will buy this wonderful morning
charlesomalley.bsky.social
omg my microsoft word just autocorrected "governor" to "gov'ner" no idea how that happened but thrilled nonetheless
charlesomalley.bsky.social
this had oscar buzz, the film comment podcast, the izzy and murtada picture show, the big picture, and of course prestige junkie. but none are as focused as LGM was. i'll miss the VF pods (and general coverage!)
charlesomalley.bsky.social
yeah, it just really bummed me out. i can't imagine that happening with any of the previous hosts, or on any other peer podcasts...
charlesomalley.bsky.social
Congratulations, from one CAC to another! 🎉
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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karimwafa.bsky.social
Humanities are the antidote to the empire’s greatest weapon: ignorance. They expose how history is weaponized to justify conquest, and how culture is polished to erase resistance. When you attack the humanities, you attack the very tools people use to unlearn oppression.
charlesomalley.bsky.social
scott's book gets a rave in the new york times !!
scottwstern.bsky.social
Beyond thrilled to receive a glowing review in today's @nytimes.com!!! THERE IS A DEEP BROODING IN ARKANSAS is a "powerful new history"!

An enormous thanks to @alexiscoe.bsky.social for her deep engagement with my work! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Is the Supreme Court the Best Way to Get Justice?
www.nytimes.com
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bayareacurrent.bsky.social
It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈

bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
charlesomalley.bsky.social
giving my 10 month old eye drops just as he's perfecting the word dada -- heartbreaking
charlesomalley.bsky.social
Rest in peace Justice David Souter, the only correct vote in NEA v. Finley, a disastrous decision for art and speech.

Karen Finley claimed that after the decision came down and all those represented in the case were devastated, she received a bouquet of flowers from "An Anonymous Souter". Legend.
charlesomalley.bsky.social
libraries are so great. thank you library of congress and your wonderful staff. ily.
charlesomalley.bsky.social
and then please enjoy this picture of julie, dick, and robert goulet (?) rehearsing for the ed sullivan show as sullivan, alan jay lerner and frederick loewe sit offstage.
charlesomalley.bsky.social
greetings from the library of congress, nerds 🤓

please enjoy these beautiful negatives of julie andrews and richard burton recording the cast album for "camelot"
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cinementalist.bsky.social
Squinting to see the prisoners who were actively fighting the LA fires.
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shakespeare.lol
would have walk’d barefoot to Palestine
charlesomalley.bsky.social
my twitter / x account was hacked 2 months ago and today, after weeks of attempting to get back into it (rip actual customer support) i finally regained access.

first thing i did? deleted the account. feels pretty good!