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Posts by Karen Weingarten

Yes, please do!

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All my CUNY colleagues should check out this thread, and the report @zachsamalin.bsky.social links to below. It's CUNY history worth remembering. @cadhe.bsky.social This will be of interest especially!

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This report looks worth reading! Thank you. Coincidentally, one of the authors is giving a talk this spring in a series I'm organizing on campus.

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Woah. That's a piece of Queens College history I haven't come across yet. The next line in that excerpt is even better!

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Abortion Stories is included in Ms. Magazine’s Top Feminist Books of 2025. An honor to be part of this incredible list! I can't think of a better new year's resolution than a promise to read more feminist books in 2026.

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Excited to listen to this conversation about the Nursing Clio Reader. I have no doubt that it will be good!

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@johannawinant.bsky.social I'm looking forward to reading it! So much has changed since it was published, and yet so much has also remained the same...

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This looks amazing! I'm presenting on a panel at MLA on 40 years since Johnson's "Abortion, Animation, and Apostrophe."

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This is fascinating research!

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This was such a good conversation! Knowing the history of the pregnancy test--and pregnancy testing more generally-- is more important than ever in today's reproductive climate. The pregnancy test continues to be overlooked as an important technology when it comes to individual AND state control.

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CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.

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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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Statement on the President's Announcement of Austerity Measures November 18, 2025 Dear Colleagues, We are writing with deep dismay over yesterday’s announcement of austerity measures made without meaningful, representative consultation with faculty, staff, or stud...

And the response from their faculty union: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Important Update on University Planning and Finances <p>A Message from Joel Towers, President and University Professor Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students, I’m writing to you today to provide updates on academic and operational planning and the university...

I think so given all their austerity measures: blogs.newschool.edu/community-me...

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Lader's 1966 book argued that abortion should be completely legal with no restriction. His follow-up book, Abortion II, published in 1973, told the story of the movement that formed to repeal all abortion laws.

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I shared my essay with Lader's widow, and she wistfully responded that if her husband were still alive we'd have an organized fight against Dobbs today.

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I wrote about a 1966 book that radically transformed the American abortion rights movement. I wish it wasn't out of print, but I've also discovered that you can find copies at most libraries. It's hard to exaggerate its importance at the time; for example, Roe v. Wade cited it 9 times.

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The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).

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USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE!

That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted.

Stay tuned! 🍿

#DefendHigherEd
#StandUpFightBack

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Here’s the simple resolution UFS passed that undergirds the Executive Committee statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact for higher education in/and America.

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An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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I hope faculty, students, and alumni at these nine universities do everything they can to make sure their administrations don't agree to these so-called compacts. Otherwise, those of us at poorer university systems will be fighting an uphill battle.

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The Trumpist higher ed agenda is to shut down most institutions and control the rest.

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Can't decide what's more contemptible: trading the university's most precious assets, its institutional integrity and intellectual freedom, for cash, or selling out the rest of higher education by rewarding the divide-and-rule tactics of a corrupt government

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We should all be watching what's happening in Texas very closely (and supporting our colleagues there).

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And we also hope that other states don't fall in line, one after another, esp. since the Trump administration has threatened to pull federal funding from any university that follows decades of research and scholarship acknowledging that sex is not a binary. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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The next NYC mayor stands for reproductive justice! (And knows his history.) Believing that every person should get to choose whether or not they want to be a parent and have access to free healthcare if they proceed with their pregnancy shouldn't be controversial. And yet, sadly, in 2025, it is.

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This workshop should not be missed!

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‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south

#MADC #CADHE #HigherEd

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