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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4d

This kind of misogyny and sense of entitlement starts early and the fact that no one involved did anything about the clear red flags is disturbing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 5d

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Eleanor Johnson, whose horror substack is terrific, has been writing about dv and I highly recommend her eloquence, pragmatism, wit, and courage.

Winter Sleep (2014): The Domestic Horror Film that No One Called Horror

Recently, I screened the Cannes Palme D’Or winning film Winter Sleep (2014).

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 22d

a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump sympathizes with the man accused of domestic violence.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · Sep 8

JUST IN from @ashleymurray.bsky.social

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld that President Donald Trump must pay an $83 million penalty for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Trump penalty of $83M in E. Jean Carroll case upheld by appeals court

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld that President Donald Trump must pay an $83 million penalty for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, rejecting Trump’s argument that president...

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Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hi Bluesky,
The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now.
a.co/d/a0qeZeh
I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial

Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial [Garcia, Manon, Kronic, Maya B.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 1

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ivanka not Ivana.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yes—typed too quickly. Thanks, Colleen.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yes—it’s maximally creepy.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 28

Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnson’s (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epstein’s home in 1994. She was 13 and wore a blonde wig that Trump allegedly said made her look like Ivana, who was 13yo at the time.

The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein

It’s not what you think it is.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 14

Proud to remain demoted to feminist theory/gender studies shelf

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · Jul 12

Monstrous. Noem failed to renew contracts and let hundreds of FEMA contractors be fired DURING the TX flood response, leaving thousands of victims unable to reach help. The acting head of FEMA has no disaster management experience and has been MIA since his appointment—all per NYT report

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Jul 12

It is a crisis.

Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 11

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 7

#MeToo cases like Diddy, Lively-Baldoni, and Depp-Heard are important because of what they say about money. Juries still see procuring (paying for), and settlements (paying off) about sexual violence as sex.

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · Jun 22

See you soon!

[Call for Papers] Feminist life writing today: A masterclass with Leigh Gilmore - Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)

25 June 2025 | Amsterdam Gilmore’s recent work, in short, charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethi...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 15

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs

NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff spe...

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · Jun 14

Trump throwing a military parade for himself despite never serving in the military is a metaphor for his entire existence.

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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · Jun 13

Donald Trump is not protecting women by attacking our rights. That's why we're tracking all the way's that he's coming after women and families over the last 100+ days. Check out our report here: nwlc.org/press-releas...

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Teagan Bradway @teaganbradway.bsky.social · Jun 10

I wrote this piece 2 years ago, much closer to the start of my transition, when my struggle for self-acceptance was more raw. I'm in a different place now, but writing this essay was an important step in getting here. Excited to share it just in time for Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ www.academia.edu/129873399/_G...

"Gateless Gates in Trans Memoir"

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · May 23

F everything and come see me Nate talk about Pym in July! Harvard bookstore. Embrace your inner Penguin! (Link below)

Event poster for me and Nate Wolff talking about Poe’s novel at the Harvard bookstore, July 28, 7pm. Details in the next post

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Leigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · May 30

Paternalistic authoritarianism, then and now
@wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social

Reducing women’s rights — in the name of protecting them — is central to Trump’s agenda

To sustain itself, authoritarianism dismantles women’s autonomy, writes Leigh Gilmore. The frequent consequence is that women are confined to domestic roles and at the mercy of male heads of household...

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · May 26

Enjoyed the film Anatomy of a Fall? @englishanu.bsky.social 's own Rosanne Kennedy and Leigh Gilmore analyse how the mother and son navigate the courtroom and learn to become increasingly authoritative witnesses in a new article in Gender & Justice:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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