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Hollie Marquess
@holliem.bsky.social
Historian of women, gender, sexuality, and queer history.
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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the rootin, tootin terrific @holliem.bsky.social about her research into sex work on the American frontier.

Listen whenever you get your podcasts.
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen!

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Inside a Wild West Brothel
Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 10/14/2025 · 42m
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October 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A student told me today that his favorite historical time period to study is the 1990s -2000s. I have never felt so old.
August 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My newest article is out now- “The Foundation of a Movement: Kansas City's Role in Homophile Activism, 1966–1971" is in the Middle West Review’s special edition on the Midwest since 1965. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54929 @univnebpress.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Happy #caturday from Sophie, Queen of our house, long may she reign. #catsofbluesky
February 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Infuriating. @wendylrouse.bsky.social is spot on- this is abhorrent and utterly unacceptable indeed.
February 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Last weekend, we honored anti-gay preacher Anita Bryant on National Pie Day by canonizing Tom Higgins, the gay activist who pied her face in 77. We made it official, and now Tom shall forever be known as Saint Banana Cream Comeuppance, Patron Saint of Slapstick Justice. Then, we ate pie.
January 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I’d like to share @annickell.bsky.social ‘s and my #DH project that mapped Holocaust survivors who settled in the Kansas City area using oral histories from Fortunoff.

www.mwholocaustmap.com
Through Hell to the Midwest: Mapping the Holocaust | Research
Bringing history, technology, and testimony together in a powerful format, "Through Hell to the Midwest" maps Holocaust survivors' oral testimonies using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). These ma...
www.mwholocaustmap.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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To all trans people: Your lives matter. Every step you take toward living as your true self is a testament to the strength & resilience within you. You are deserving of love, respect, & kindness. Never forget that you are valid, worthy, & more than enough, just as you are. Keep shining! ♥️🙏🏻♥️
January 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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we must remember anita bryant as she lived
January 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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May she bathe for eternity in the gayest hot tub in Hell.
January 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Happy Christmas from Sophie and her new Stanley.
December 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
The floofiest of floofs.
December 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Final grades are posted! Here’s hoping I never have another semester where I teach 7 classes because this one was…a lot.
a white cat is standing on its hind legs on a wooden floor .
ALT: a white cat is standing on its hind legs on a wooden floor .
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December 11, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article:

“The Phoenix Society’s publishing efforts and the attempts to collaborate amongst organizations at NACHO meetings, like those in Kansas City, made the national efforts to respond to events like Stonewall possible.”
December 8, 2024 at 5:54 PM
My kid just casually making a half-court shot like it is no big deal.
December 7, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Women end up doing the academic housework
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April 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM
My mother, who claims to hate cats, made my cat her own couch complete with a hand-made pillow and a throw blanket she specifically crocheted for the cat couch.
December 27, 2023 at 2:19 AM
My sister just pulled a ham out of the oven only to realize she wrapped it in plastic instead of foil.
December 25, 2023 at 12:14 AM
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YOU: please act normal you need these people to like you

Me: ok!

People: hi

Me: in WW2 Britain gave tea higher shipping priority than ammo. In the Blitz, the ENTIRE London tea industry was relocated to secret emergency blending hubs in Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Dundee & Leith
you: please act normal Ed you need these people to like you

me: ok!

people: hi Ed nice to meet you

me: There is a genus of spiders called Predatoroonops and every species in it is named after one of the characters in Predator (1987)
November 12, 2023 at 8:32 AM
This was a fun episode to record-https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-e-history/id1604442564?i=1000632320254
October 25, 2023 at 7:38 PM