This is all I’ve got. And WTF.
Posts by Deb Gussman
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
Exciting news: the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters was awarded the 2025 Recovery Hub’s Digital Edition Prize by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers! We (Deb Gussman, Pat Kalayjian & Lucinda Damon Bach) are thrilled and honored.
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are holding joint symposium, June 24-27, 2026, at the College of William & Mary!
Read the complete call for papers on the Sedgwick Society website. Please circulate widely!
cmsedgwicksociety.org/2026-joint-s...
Thanks for the great story and helping to spread the word about the CMSOL project! @stocktonuniversity.bsky.social and @markmelhorn.bsky.social !
We are thrilled to announce that the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters has been awarded a grant from @nehgov.bsky.social to
continue our work. This kind of support will help get us to the finish line! Thank you NEH for supporting scholarship that honors the contributions of American women.
New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
Important piece from @marthasjones.bsky.social on the history of our Constitution’s broad birthright citizenship guarantee — and the long advocacy of free Black Americans in antebellum America to make it so.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
I'm attending Cooper River Indivisible's event, “No Kings South Jersey” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...
posters going up in Philly and some other cities
No kings, no fascists, no idiots.
See you at the march.
A Muzak version of Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing in my doctor’s office. Is this the soundtrack from heaven or hell? Not sure.
💚🦅💚🦅💚🦅💚
Trump has rescinded refugee status of Black and Brown people fleeing violence in their home countries and extended it to...white South Africans, who previously exercised total, brutal, control of that country.
My piece on the Trumps and refugees and me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
More arrests and deportations coming. Keep calling and protesting. Keep the pressure on.
*protest against Project 2025 and the Trump/Musk chaos (is what I meant to say 😊).
Some images from #50501 protest against in Philly. Early days - I hope the movement and momentum will keep growing! #resist #protectdemocracy #stopproject2025
Thank you, @kim.senate.gov
from a grateful NJ constituent! #resist