Kara A. P. (she/her)
@kara-p.bsky.social
Voracious reader.
Liverpool is Red.
Swiftie.
New Englander.
Assistant Professor of History & WGS, UMaine.
Working on my book Suffrage Mediterranean Style (under contract with NYU Press).
Profile pic: cover of Mujer (27 January 1926)
Liverpool is Red.
Swiftie.
New Englander.
Assistant Professor of History & WGS, UMaine.
Working on my book Suffrage Mediterranean Style (under contract with NYU Press).
Profile pic: cover of Mujer (27 January 1926)
In case @kenjennings.bsky.social was wondering, my parents paid the bar bill at my watch party on Friday! The tab was lower than my twin sister’s but not for lack of trying. Hope you all can tune in on Monday to watch my second game of @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social!
May 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In case @kenjennings.bsky.social was wondering, my parents paid the bar bill at my watch party on Friday! The tab was lower than my twin sister’s but not for lack of trying. Hope you all can tune in on Monday to watch my second game of @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social!
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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
For some shameless self-promotion, I'm going to be on the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social episode airing on Friday, May 9th! It was one of the best experiences of my life. My university was kind enough to write up a story!
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
#jeopardy #trivianerds
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
#jeopardy #trivianerds
UMaine faculty member competing on ‘Jeopardy!’ - UMaine News - University of Maine
For $200 under the category of “Black Bear Pride:” Which University of Maine faculty member is going to be a contestant on “Jeopardy!” one of America’s most beloved Q&A game shows? The answer: Kara Pe...
umaine.edu
April 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For some shameless self-promotion, I'm going to be on the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social episode airing on Friday, May 9th! It was one of the best experiences of my life. My university was kind enough to write up a story!
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
#jeopardy #trivianerds
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
#jeopardy #trivianerds
I went to the Ripped Bodice in LA a few weeks ago and picked up a copy of Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. WHAT A BOOK. Exceeded all hype #romancelandia #romancebooks
March 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I went to the Ripped Bodice in LA a few weeks ago and picked up a copy of Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. WHAT A BOOK. Exceeded all hype #romancelandia #romancebooks
been off socials for a while but popping in to see if anyone is attending #NWSA2025? My panel on new & forthcoming books in Middle East women's history is looking for a chair. Please reach out if you're interested!
#historians #MESA
www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
#historians #MESA
www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
2025 Annual Conference - National Women's Studies Association
www.nwsa.org
March 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
been off socials for a while but popping in to see if anyone is attending #NWSA2025? My panel on new & forthcoming books in Middle East women's history is looking for a chair. Please reach out if you're interested!
#historians #MESA
www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
#historians #MESA
www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
Showed my Mediterranean history class "The Battle of Algiers" to finish the semester. One student already turned in their film review and said it's in their top 10 movies of all time now
a man in a suit and tie says yes on his face
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says yes on his face
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December 14, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Showed my Mediterranean history class "The Battle of Algiers" to finish the semester. One student already turned in their film review and said it's in their top 10 movies of all time now
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November 23, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I lead the River Bend Bookshop Fantasy Book Club and we've been going strong since November 2019. We read some reallyyyyy great books in 2024 and I wanted to share in case you're looking for titles to add to holiday shopping lists or your library holds! #fantasybooks #booksky #bookclub (1/4)
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I lead the River Bend Bookshop Fantasy Book Club and we've been going strong since November 2019. We read some reallyyyyy great books in 2024 and I wanted to share in case you're looking for titles to add to holiday shopping lists or your library holds! #fantasybooks #booksky #bookclub (1/4)
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If you are able to, support your local independent businesses. @curiouscatbookshop.bsky.social outlines exactly why in this thread but it comes down to this: the money you spend at stores owned and operated by members of your community benefits your community!
Even if it's *slightly* less convenient (though that's debatable--you can order online and pick up in store for many!) and *slightly* more expensive, your extra dollar or so STAYS in your community. It gets donated to the local school. It gets paid in local taxes. It builds your streets.
November 19, 2024 at 4:48 AM
If you are able to, support your local independent businesses. @curiouscatbookshop.bsky.social outlines exactly why in this thread but it comes down to this: the money you spend at stores owned and operated by members of your community benefits your community!
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In lieu of an elusive peace in the Middle East, I will take shared outrage over this, for now.
November 19, 2024 at 2:27 PM
In lieu of an elusive peace in the Middle East, I will take shared outrage over this, for now.
Friendly reminder to pencil in the book cover launch of THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by @isabelcanas.bsky.social for THIS Friday November 22nd! #booksky #horrorbooks
November 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Friendly reminder to pencil in the book cover launch of THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by @isabelcanas.bsky.social for THIS Friday November 22nd! #booksky #horrorbooks
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If you read historical romance why? What draws you to it? If you don’t, why don’t you? #rombktalk
November 15, 2024 at 4:47 PM
If you read historical romance why? What draws you to it? If you don’t, why don’t you? #rombktalk
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Everyone is welcome here. Much love to everyone. Except fascists. They can fuck all the way off and stay away from this place.
November 16, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Everyone is welcome here. Much love to everyone. Except fascists. They can fuck all the way off and stay away from this place.
I still think about Jana Goes Wild at least once a week.
Next week: Our best of 2024 list!
Here are our picks from 2019-2023.
Here are our picks from 2019-2023.
Best Romance Novels of The Year: 2019-2023 — Fated Mates Podcast
fatedmates.net
November 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I still think about Jana Goes Wild at least once a week.
I'm still thinking about how not a single historical romance novel was nominated in 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards for romance. Of the 144 books I've read this year, 33 were historicals that came out this year, and you better believe some of them should have been considered (1/8)
November 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I'm still thinking about how not a single historical romance novel was nominated in 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards for romance. Of the 144 books I've read this year, 33 were historicals that came out this year, and you better believe some of them should have been considered (1/8)
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Holy shit they did it
November 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Holy shit they did it
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Next week is this amazing panel with contributors to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Come and join us on November 20th at 6 pm EST!
November 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Next week is this amazing panel with contributors to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Come and join us on November 20th at 6 pm EST!
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I've told this story before on the bird site, but I'll share it here.
Ask local candidates for office if they have a library card. In a past job, none of them had library cards, and consequently, and unsurprisingly, kept trying to cut library funding.
Ask. Ask if they use the library at all.
Ask local candidates for office if they have a library card. In a past job, none of them had library cards, and consequently, and unsurprisingly, kept trying to cut library funding.
Ask. Ask if they use the library at all.
I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
November 10, 2024 at 2:02 AM
I've told this story before on the bird site, but I'll share it here.
Ask local candidates for office if they have a library card. In a past job, none of them had library cards, and consequently, and unsurprisingly, kept trying to cut library funding.
Ask. Ask if they use the library at all.
Ask local candidates for office if they have a library card. In a past job, none of them had library cards, and consequently, and unsurprisingly, kept trying to cut library funding.
Ask. Ask if they use the library at all.
One of the perks of teaching at UMaine is that the School of Food and Agriculture often looks for taste testers. Of course, I’ll try squid dumplings🦑
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
Seafood consumers needed to sample squid dumplings for research - UMaine News - University of Maine
Researchers at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture seeking taste testers for a new seafood product that utilizes squid wings, a byproduct of squid processing, on Nov. 13 at the Sens...
umaine.edu
November 12, 2024 at 2:28 PM
One of the perks of teaching at UMaine is that the School of Food and Agriculture often looks for taste testers. Of course, I’ll try squid dumplings🦑
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...
umaine.edu/news/blog/20...