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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn

@kvmfinn.bsky.social

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Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello, new followers! There are a bunch of you all of a sudden. I'll be up front and admit that I'm mostly lurking at this stage, but that may change. I'm a recovering academic currently working freelance as an editor and indexer. Details: kvmfinn.wordpress.com/editing/

Also, 2 recent publications:

Editing & Indexing Work

I offer a variety of services, including different types of editing for article- and book-length manuscripts, indexes for academic and nonfiction books, as well as fact-checking and sensitivity rea…

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve had one for awhile and like it.

Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon of mulan says i came out to have a good time

Alt: Animated gif from the Disney film Mulan with a young, dark-haired Chinese girl (Mulan) speaking. Dialogue tag reads "I came out to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now."

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 6d

SHUTDOWN: Resources Available to Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Civilian Workers — USNI News
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SHUTDOWN: Resources Available to Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Civilian Workers - USNI News

The partial U.S. government shutdown threatens to leave thousands of sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and women and civilian workers without pay, while non-essential operations grind to a halt due to...

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 7d

DOL employees got the same email in yet another Hatch Act violation. We encourage every federal employee who was told to blame Democrats in their OOO message to submit a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel. Here's how ⬇️

WIRED @wired.com · 7d

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11d

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 15d

Yes please. More of this.

Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 15d

STERILIZING IMMUNITY

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15d

Researchers in Spain have developed a new intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that eliminates the virus in mice.

One dose gave 60% protection, but two intranasal doses achieved 100% protection with no detectable virus in nasal or lung tissue, suggesting sterilizing immunity.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15d

autistic lives are beautiful and worth living on their own terms and if you require a demonstration of relatability from someone to determine that are a human being who deserves to live a rich and full life, it is you who is the monster

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 15d

Any chance of a court transcript? 🤣

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15d

Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,
For in this rapture I shall surely speak
The thing I shall repent.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 16d

Friends in Cambridge/Boston - check this out a week from today at @portersqbooks.bsky.social!

Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 16d

Massachusetts/Boston folks: One week from today, next Tuesday 9/30 at 7 pm, I’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge to talk about how YOU can fight book banning and advocate for the passage of a Freedom to Read bill in MA. Please join us! portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Be the Change Workshop: Act to Support the Freedom to Read

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 16d

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.

Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.

It's like his work never happened.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16d

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 16d

So, this just got a whole lot more real...☠️⚔️🌹

Title page for Oxford World's Classics edition of William Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth Part Two with an introduction by Kavita Mudan Finn, text edited by Rory Loughnane

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19d

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 26d

So accomplished so early in his career!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26d

💉🧵PSA 🚨 We don’t know for sure but are very worried RFKJ’s ACIP is about to restrict access to RSV monoclonal immunization for babies (nirsevimab and clesrovimab). If your baby is eligible, get them vaccinated asap. RSV season starts late Oct-early Nov. See below for immunization recommendation info

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 26d

In the tradition of the op-ed that prompted the government's scandalous effort to deport Rümeysa Öztürk (link in next post), the Tufts Daily has published a new letter from alumni calling on Tufts to take specific steps in response to Israel's actions in Gaza:
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

Op-ed: Tufts' Deafening Silence - The Tufts Daily

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University

www.tuftsdaily.com

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 28d

Today I was attempting to type the word "bolgia" (as in Dante's Inferno), but my computer immediately autocorrected to Borgia. This truly is peak me.

Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just went in the mail. I heard somewhere that if you send them in hard copy, someone actually has to read them?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · Sep 7

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Then we sensible people within NH need to be louder. I'll send her a sternly worded letter tomorrow.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · Sep 7

I really hope she caves to pressure from literally every angle, since all the surrounding states (and Canada) are being sensible.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · Sep 5

It does have amaro, though! Amaro, blood orange, fizz.