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Toe to toe, dancing very close
Barely breathing, almost comatose
Wall to wall, people hypnotized
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in rapture
Pope with microphone singing Rapture by Blondie
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Ad for wives from a totally Equal Opportunity Employer in 1967
May 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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May 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Faculty Wives research
April 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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From the amazing Piper Bly, “A Clippings Scrapbook: Passports”
It's worth noting that it wasn't until 1977 that gender was even listed on passports--explicitly, according to a memo from the Dept. Of State themselves that was submitted as evidence by the Dept. in Zzyym V. Pompeo, due to the "rise of unisex attire and hairstyles" in the. 1960s and 1970s. According to an order filed by Judge R. Brooke Jackson in the same case, the Dept. also "admitted that in some systems the gender field isn't even used or reliable". Despite its questionable utility, the current administration has made the legal status of trans folk the target of several executive orders and policies, requiring the passport gender marker to reflect the bearer's AGAB regardless of presentation--ironically rendering the field useless as a reliable method of identification.
April 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Picture of book by Johanna Hedva, entitled How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom. Pink cover with detail from The Reward of Cruelty by William Hogarth
March 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A woman invented the rape kit. A man took credit for it.
Picture of a book called THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT - А - TRUE CRIME STORY by PAGAN KENNEDY. A picture of Marty Goddard, who conceived of the kits, is on the cover
January 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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"I TEACH MYSELF IN OUTLINE," NOTES, JOURNALS, SYLLABI & AN EXCERPT FROM DEOTHA by Audre Lorde Contributors: lemanja Brown, Miriam Atkin "I teach myself in outline," Notes, Journals, Syllabi, & an Excerpt from Deotha, is a collection of Audre Lorde's teaching materials from her time as an instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Hunter College, which spanned the years of 1970- 1985. The volume also includes a chapter of Lorde's unpublished novel Deotha, and an editors' introduction that elucidates Lorde's teaching philosophy through an in-depth look at her classroom docu-ments.
December 21, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Can anyone recommend anthropology on academia such as Solnit’s suggestion below? (Aside from Graeber’s 🔥 2017 account of tenure)
regret he never did a full anthropological analysis of academia, with its strange initiation rites, entrenched hierarchies, dysfunctional systems, absurdist rules, and use of language as a means of exclusion as well as inclusion and communication.
December 15, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Current book project: tentatively entitled Married to the Job: Faculty Wives, Feminism, and Academic Labor.

An intellectual, social, and cultural history. +economics and erotica!
December 3, 2024 at 8:35 PM