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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 8d

#FrHistory #LGBTQ🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️

Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 8d

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 8d

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Between the Sheets by Hannah Frydman | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at growing...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 8d

southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 6_1 Hannah Frydman with Raisa Rexer. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

southalabama.zoom.us

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 8d

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m not on the social much these days but just need everyone to appreciate the skills of @kelliegiordano.bsky.social phd student and influenceuse ❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DN3EwoN2mF...

frenchatbu on Instagram: "🇫🇷✨ “They say Boston isn’t Paris… but maybe Paris just hasn’t seen the BU French department yet. 💌 #EmilyInBoston #BUFrench” -Em…"

🇫🇷✨ “They say Boston isn’t Paris… but maybe Paris just hasn’t seen the BU French department yet. 💌 #EmilyInBoston #BUFrench” -Emily Cooper

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Jul 1

Just a reminder, for any of you kids who need to see it, good writing does not emerge seamlessly in the first draft. Feedback is the best and moving everything around is often part of the process.

File under things you can’t learn from chat GPT

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · Jun 19

Fascism so small it fits in your pocket?? When T-Mobile launches "T-Satellite" to the public in July, Musk could rake in billions. They don't expect anyone to make it a big deal. Oops. Sign our petition and tell them to drop Starlink #Starlinktakedown #teslatakedown actionnetwork.org/petitions/t-...

T-Mobile: Stop Funding Musk

When T-Mobile launches its “T-Satellite” program in partnership with Starlink this July, Elon Musk stands to gain billions. We’re calling on T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and the company’s Board of Direct...

actionnetwork.org

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · May 14

Wrapping up our fifth season of NCFS Unbound with a conversation you don’t want to miss between Marlene Daut and Gregory Pierrot about MD’s new book, The First & Last King of Haiti. This Friday 2:30 EST 🗃️🎓#FrHistory

southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 7: Marlene Daut with Gregory Pierrot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Marlene Daut discusses her book The First and Last King of Haiti with Gregory Pierrot

southalabama.zoom.us

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · May 9

I mean, it’s a great quote.

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 29

Yes exactly. Imagine asking me to prove the opposite: why did X female writer wear corsets if JD did not? Like, I’m just trying to talk about this one person & I’m glad it’s making you think but…
(also I hate to break it to them about some of these other 19th c pants-wearers !)

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you. This is monstrous behavior.

Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 29

Question from a Fr editor : En quoi le port du vêtement masculin par Dieulafoy est-il dans ce cas précis l’expression d’une identification trans avant l’heure, quand cela n’est pas le cas d’autres individus portant le vêtement masculin à la fin du XIXe?
Ummmm where do I start

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 29

The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown.

Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.

Mother and young baby wearing a pink hat

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 25

Happy to be at Harvard (our new hero??) on a beautiful spring day
Intellectual community is so precious- trying to just appreciate it and take advantage of it whenever I can #FrHistory 🗃️

Sitting at table during talk, slide with title Trans Orientalisms

Reading talk, slide of Missy and Colette’s Rêve d’Egypte

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 17

Is social media part of the problem? I’m sick of electeds & leaders saying “we must stand up to this” as if by posting about it they are doing something.
besties, show, don’t tell! Like, we know it’s fascism, now lead us the way out!!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 15

Unfortunately not as far as I know

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 15

Boston area folks, I will be speaking on Thurs 4/24 on what I call “trans orientalisms” at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center

mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/trans-...

Trans Orientalisms: Home Theater and Cultural Cosplay at the Fin de Siècle | Mahindra Humanities Center

mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 11

Oh no! Recording will be up eventually

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 10

1910s ish

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 10

Dress on top of dress? #layering Perhaps the top one from one of her visits to North Africa?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 7

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.

I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible.

This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory.

And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · Apr 7

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com

#humanities #neh #education #highered

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 7

This is horrible!!!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 6

Safe to assume that’s also what he’s doing with DOGE, then….?

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thanks for this one bit of good news!!

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