Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle Uni History. Working on 18thc leisure culture, costume, race, & empire (& masquerade gossip). Mother runner, coffee drinker.
Newcastle, UK
Joined November 2012
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Was having a decent morning working on lectures until I started this survey. I am so frustrated. On my own behalf, the behalf of my colleagues, and especially my students.
100% buying this for my personal library, requesting it for @LUCLibraries & adding to my syllabus. Looking forward to reading it!! Congrats @OlivetteOtele
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Calling for department chairs, deans, & univ admins to hold town halls with affected international students or meet them one-on-one to listen to their needs -- from their non-immigration status to fall course listing. This is the time we educators can ACTUALLY help. Please!
Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP): Allow F-1 and M-1 students to remain in the US with online-only classes - Sign the Petition! chng.it/RxBQzbXn via @Change
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Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly. 1/
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Last chance to sign up to our next reading group meeting. Viccy Coltman will join us to discuss ‘Art and Identity in Scotland: A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott’ & provide some tips on writing & publishing. Send us an email or DM
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A reminder that #TamirRice was killed for having a toy gun, while #PatriciaMcCloskey pointed a gun at peaceful protesters with her hand ON the trigger & is still practicing law + sits on the Missouri Bar Association’s ethics panel.
#BlackLivesMatter #Racist #America
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The fragility of folks who won’t wear a mask is truly breathtaking. I lived for four years inside two internment camps, and I heard less bitching and whining there than I do today.
