Congratulations and may the next chapter be all happiness.

Researching Black women's internationalism...the more I learn about Jessie Fauset, the more I want to know. Novelist, editor, translator, diplomat, essayist, talent scout of the Harlem Renaissance and a huge talent in her own right . . . this book is going on the list #BlackWomensHistoryMonth #bwhm

Thanks for this--was just reading about Pauli Murray's rediscovery of "forgotten" anti-segregation laws in Washington DC--the laws that Mary Church Terrell and others used to challenge racial segregation in DC public establishments, ending with a 1953 Supreme Court victory. What a story.
#bwhm

You got me at "Wanderlusting Medics." Congratulations on approaching the finish line!

"A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight:" The Day the American President Threatened Genocide The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to enc...

Always glad to see philosophy being used to fight for human rights, this time by philosopher Mathias Risse reminding us that speech acts can be a crime.
#philsky

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Another text shout-out to honor Black Women's History Month- a classic work that I really appreciated in trying to understand a fuller story about suffrage than the one I was taught

#bwhm #herstory

Recently a friend emailed this sentence to me and it seems appropriate here: "Supposed to be on Orcas Island but otters got into the house and it was uninhabitable."

This is a categorical imperative I can get behind.

Discovering in LOC archives today the unbelievable breadth of Mary Church Terrell's education at 1800s Oberlin--essays on suffrage, Tennyson, humor, Benjamin Franklin, slavery, the French Revolution, prejudice, war...clearly a brilliant mind in the making.

Here's what she looked like then!
#bwhm

Grateful for this source during Black Women's History Month, edited by Tyina Steptoe--writings by Martina Simms, Mary Church Terrell, Aida Overton Walker, Ida B. Wells

#blackhistory #womenshistory

Would love to be there too—I feel better here already!

Growing up uber-Lutheran, the Diet of Worms was like the one thing we were allowed to joke about. Pure comic gold…

Congratulations!

Reading German pacifist Helene Stöcker today & this cry from the heart found an echo in my own.

#womenshistory #pacifism

So sorry I missed this—looks amazing. Since the world hasn’t quite ended, maybe there is a recording?

Fortunately it’s not too late to make the most of it!

It’s Black Women’s History Month, & I’ve been thinking about books that have helped me better understand Black women’s leadership on big questions of justice, rights, & peace.

First up: Keisha Blain on how Black women articulated international human rights through their thought & activism

#BWHM

Yes! In case you don't know these: can I also recommend Lee Chamber's "The Weston Sisters," Randall Fuller's essay on Lidian Emerson in "Bright Circle" and--at the risk of self-promotion, sorry!--the latest bio of Lydia Maria Child? Not about Concord but all about the abolition-feminism connection.

You will be GREAT at this and I can't wait to read!

True!

Jessie Fauset was also on the editing team & wrote one of its first poems.

Thank you for posting this wonderful article about the new edition recently published by Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer!

Thank you!

No research angle here—just my favorite children’s book for #ChildrensBookDay.

I swear this book is what made me go on to get a PhD in philosophy.

So. Many. Questions.

#philsky

After stumbling on a @archive.org book owned by W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday, I went looking for children’s books about him for #ChildrensBookDay today and can't find any. Help??

Instead: posting this 2026 Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner. Addams & Du Bois were allies, so this seems right!

When Rankin lost her seat after her vote against the US entry into WWI, she said:

“Never for one second could I face the idea that I would
send young men to be killed for no other reason than to
save my seat in Congress.”

Imagine that.

#pacifism #UShistory @lorissa.bsky.social

Thank you for this! Rankin was also a lifelong #pacifist, arguing against the militarization and national prejudice that lead to war.

Fortunately for us, there is a new biography of Rankin out by @lorissa.bsky.social called "Winning the Earthquake."

Ah apologies…I thought it would make at least some access access available. Happy to send a copy to you both if you DM me email addresses—and thanks for letting me know.

Oh WOW that is a serious find

Beautiful! So much powerful philosophizing about Stäel going on including by @kristingjesdal.bsky.social and in this @herplacepod.bsky.social podcast

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#philsky

Fabulous! Congrats. Can’t wait.

Researching US Black women's involvement in WWI, reading Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson's account of their time supporting Black soldiers in France ...

Sometimes @archive.org gives you any old scanned version of a book, and sometimes ... it belonged to W.E.B. Du Bois??

#archives #Blackhistory