Dr. Sarah Handley-Cousins
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I wrote about getting - and giving up - a tenure track job. Many thanks to
@lmansley
and the rest of the staff for their thoughtful feedback. Today in Perspectives for
@AHAhistorians
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If I have to type "the punctuation goes inside the quotes" one more time today I might scream
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@Chad_G101
Not a Holocaust scholar and I’ve never seen the movie. Do you have something that might explain why it’s so terrible? I’m curious!!
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I cannot believe I’m saying this, but: my book is on Amazon, and you can preorder it:
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Things have felt so bleak since Dobbs. And while it’s no replacement for federal protection, this is a reminder that most Americans support the right to abortion.
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When I was a little girl, my grandma predicted that I would be a writer. She was right.
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Anyone who knows anything about Civil War memory knows that history is not always written by the winners.
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Turns out it’s pretty hard to do class prep for newly virtual/hybrid classes with a newborn and also three other kids while the democracy is crumbling during a global pandemic.
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I was once in a very serious seminar discussing something very heavy, and, channeling my Dad, I said “jeepers” in a quiet moment. The extremely brilliant scholar facilitating nodding and gravely said, “yes, jeepers.”
What's a word that is not a curse word, that is super fun to say like it's a curse word?
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Every time we’ve had a baby, my husband schedules some sort of house project for the same week the baby arrives. Two kitchen renovations, a big move, and now a complicated window install. So I’m stuck in the bedroom with Brooklyn 99 and this. Could be worse.
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The piece deserves to be dragged. But I hope we can also remember that the AHA is also made up of a whole bunch of staff who are trying to do their day-to-day jobs, like run social media. They’re also your history colleagues.
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Today in "slides I never thought I'd make" - what we can learn about battle wounds from The Iliad.
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There is a dude in the airport right now very comfy stretched out and napping in a sunny spot. This, to me, is where I see gender difference most starkly: what men can do with ease, many women would consider very unsafe.
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I ran into the liquor store lookin a mess after a sweaty morning at the barn & grocery shopping. The young cashier asked if I was a professor - then told me that she had taken 2 of my classes and I was her fave teacher. So kind & so needed. Thank you student. ❤️
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Scrambling to put together a course on
#RoeVWade
for your students? Trying to read up on the history of repro health? We offer the
#ReproHealthSyllabus
, built by
@nursingclio
with help from you! This will live on our site soon but in the meantime: 1/2
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I'm happy to announce that next year, I'll be Clinical Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Disability Studies at
@UB_History
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Big news! We're seeking Writers-in-Residence for
@nursingclio
! Interested in writing about gender, medicine, etc., for a broad audience? We're looking for candidates for our 2023-2024 cohort. Please share & consider applying! DM or email me with any qs.
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@ContraPoints
@UpstreamPodcast
Right! This is ahistorical. Emancipation doesn’t happen without a sympathetic or interested president (Lincoln); suffrage in the US was the result of a long campaign to influence elected officials at all levels. It literally required elected officials because it was a *law.*
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The gender flop Bill has done in this speech is very, very interesting. Highlights her career, his emotions.
#DemsInPhilly
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If the way we write history did not change as our times change, we would literally not have women’s history, African American history, queer history, or any number of other disciplines.
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Well, that was an emotional rollercoaster of an evening. I’ve never been so thankful for my conference tradition of keeping a box of wine in my room. Yikes on bikes.
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I will never not find it hilarious that there was a civilian group to raise money for artificial limbs for Confederate amputees called the Assoc. for the Relief of Maimed Soldiers, or ARMS. ARMS! It was called ARMS!!!! (It gets better! They only supplied prosthetic legs!!)
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Erin nails it. Historian discourse is happening in the modern day equivalent of the 18th c coffee shop - Twitter. Those that are decry it think they’re rising above the rabble, but they’re actually missing critical parts of the conversation and are therefore out of touch.
In every aspect of my professional life, being on Twitter has meant being aware of the nuances of cultural, intellectual, and political discourse in ways that evade non-online colleagues. At this point, it’s bordering on irresponsibility to have leadership that disconnected.
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Listen, it’s been a long day and I’m over it. But can I just say that it is absolutely exhausting to work as hard as we do
@nursingclio
and
@dig_history
- paired with the many indignities I’ve faced inside the academy - to be constantly told that our work is unimportant.
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When your baby just won't be quiet while you're recording a lecture. (She enjoyed listening to me talk about a dude who was court martialed for performing an autopsy on a soldier's head in his private quarters at midnight in a rainstorm.)
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If any disability scholars out there are as pissed off as me about the way Fetterman's accessibility needs are being framed and want to write about it for
@nursingclio
, I'll happily fast track it. Transparently ableist garbage.
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I can think of no better day for my book's birthday than July 1, the anniversary of the first day of the battle of Gettysburg. My dad gave me his copy of The Killer Angels, and we visited the battlefield several times through high school. It's where I met my husband.
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Every time I teach the Civil War class, I struggle with how to end it. There's so much at stake - it seems so critically important that they leave understanding the Lost Cause, and modern conflicts over Confederate flags and statues. Here's what I did this year.
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@jackiantonovich
Something I noticed early this semester was that when a student asked a question, I often missed the opportunity to have the class brainstorm an answer first, to think critically about the issues and try to piece things together on their own. Now I turn it back on them regularly!
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My beloved alma mater,
@wellscollege
, announced its closure this morning. I am gutted. I had to force myself to stop crying so I could get ready for work without looking a mess. That strange, tiny women's college, its faculty and its students, were so profoundly impactful for me.
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#Twitterstorians
, I'm hoping to create a playlist of songs about American wars to use in class. I'm looking specifically for ones that have shaped, or were shaped by, our collective memory of American wars. Open to any US armed conflict. What would you include?
#milhist
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Wouldn't it be great if the treasure was something other than gold and art? What would you want to it to be? "My god, it's the ... 1890 census!"
#HATM
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I am so excited that I'm able to share my book cover! Grateful to the editors, including
@Mickodopolous
, and designers at
@UGAPress
who did such a great job. Coming in 2019!
#dishist
#histmed
#CivilWar
#womenalsoknowhistory
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I'm never happier than when I'm talking about the Civil War. And yes,
#ILookLikeAHistorian
!
#womenalsoknowhistory
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Spent way too long this afternoon compiling stats, but it was worth it - discovered that
@nursingclio
essays are used in classes at least 142 colleges & universities across the US, UK, CAN, Australia, Germany & the Netherlands (!!!!)
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If I have had any teaching triumphs this semester, one of them is surely the fact that I convinced some percentage of my students that MASH is great.
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Listened to
@annehelen
on
@yourewrongabout
and I’m seriously considering taking all my e-mail off my phone. Has anyone done this?
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Still seems unreal to be on this list, but excited to have a year to dedicate to this project! And so grateful to the
@ACLS1919
for making research & writing possible for non-tenure track faculty like me.
ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 ACLS Fellowships:
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Hey profs! What are you favorite first day of class introduction icebreakers? I often ask fave tv show, something fun they did over break, weird fact, etc. but looking for new ideas!
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Two weeks ago I was certain I could not write my promised chapter for a edited volume. I sat staring, depressed, at my computer for days. I even wrote the editors to apologize … then I wrote the whole damn thing in 5 days. I’m back, baby! (Now to hope it’s actually good!)
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I would absolutely have taken a job somewhere else but I literally couldn’t while also getting to keep my family. I’ve had people laugh when I say I’m from NYS & also work here, like that proves I’m not TT material. No, just…. didn’t want to get a divorce & lose my kids, thanks!
One reason many people in academia might want to stay on the East Coast, separate from bodily autonomy and other things, is that lots of them are from here and want to be closer to family. It doesn't mean they can't/won't move, but this is a legit reason to focus a job search.
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When getting an IUD inserted, patients are often told "it's just a pinch" but many are using TikTok to share it was way worse.
@historian_tweet
says this is consciousness-raising like that of the 60s & 70s Women's Health Movement, today for
@nursingclio
!
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Negative! 🎉
This peanut came down with a fever just as a cluster of positives closed down her daycare. Perfect timing. Spending the last week of classes quarantining in the bedroom from the rest of the family while waiting for test results.😕
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If you had told me in 2013 when I was first here, sifting though Alice Rains Trulock’s papers and contemplating Chamberlain’s wounds, I would be back here signing books for that same history center to sell in their gift shop, I would have laughed in your face.
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Teaching US II (Reconstruction-presentish) for the first time in a long while & I'm more excited than I should be. I love these big idea classes - when done well, they can hook students on history. One hook I'm trying this year is weekly theme songs. Here's my playlist! 🧵
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Today,
@agnesjuliet
reflects on the nostalgia that surrounds pregnancy and childbirth - a strange emotional pull that even a historian of medicine wasn't immune to!
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I don’t think we talk enough about how brilliant the movie Clue is.
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Hm, so weird, I wrote a book about the military and am currently teaching a class on military history at a university. I must be invisible? Oh, that’s right, I’m a *girl.* (And, of course, my military history don’t count.)
“Military history” is only in decline if you—like the author & experts in this obnoxious piece—see the subject as a narrowly defined, white dude-oriented, guns & bayonets approach. The field is 1000% better off w/today’s diversity of topics & historians.
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When I was 20, I was prepping for an intensive program in Civil War studies when the condom broke. I thought I was anti-abortion. I got Plan B, but knew if it didn’t work the only way to keep my education (& the life I wanted) was abortion. Thinking about that a lot right now.
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Excited for another day of liberally indoctrinating the youth with socialist anti-American revisionist history propaganda!
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Victoria Woodhull would like a word.
Even if Marianne Williamson is polling at less than two per cent, she represents something that feels new: the entrance of the spiritual movement into electoral politics.
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First, obvs, I think this is wrong. But also: so what? Who cares? What if I just want to watch things that are pretty, sweet, happy? My life is stressful! I have no bandwidth for difficult shows most of the time!! Fluff is soothing!!! Let people like stuff jfc
bridgerton is cocomelon for adult women (bright colors, pretty sounds, absolutely zero stakes)
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When my brother was born, my dad took me to see this, my first ever movie. The movie & song "Somewhere Out There" became a major part of our family. I played that song at my brother's funeral, then again at my dad's.
Love that you all are watching this tonight.
#HATM
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It interesting that the people telling me not to vote for
@ewarren
, and calling for her to drop out, are men. I wonder if it is reflective of something larger? 🤔
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Talk to me about your attendance policies, profs. Mine are student centered & flexible, but I do want students present. This year I had processes for making up missed classes, but it was messy & class is 2x bigger next year, so not feasible. What are your creative solutions?
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The
@nursingclio
#ReproHistorySyllabus
is live, currently only available through this link. Our team will continue to edit & add materials as you send them. Thanks to all who sent suggestions so far, and to our crew for their hard work! I hope it's useful!
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I just read this to my 6 year old. She thought for a minute, then said: “I will get the vaccine too.” (She already has an appointment, but she doesn’t like shots so was nervous. Thanks Big Bird!!!!)
I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it'll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.
Ms.
@EricaRHill
even said I’ve been getting vaccines since I was a little bird. I had no idea!
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I've spent 6+ hours teaching the military history of the early Civil War in the past two weeks, which is a lot considering "we don't teach military history anymore."
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I've found that the only way I can copy edit my page proofs is to read the whole damn manuscript out loud. In other news, my dogs will be experts on Civil War disability in no time.
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People! I need a pep talk from folks who are working on/have published their second book. It all feels VERY HUGE and while the research is exciting, it also feels pretty impossible?! What advice do you have for not freaking out?
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As some of you might have heard, I recently accepted a new job. But in the past few weeks, all my plans to move our family and start a new chapter fell apart, and I had to make the heartbreaking decision to back out. The school did nothing wrong! They were, and are, wonderful. 1/
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I have a PhD and I still need to read 18 different Wikipedia pages whenever I watch an Avengers movie.
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@RottenInDenmark
For a while we had a guy who gave us a terrible review but then kept listening so he could periodically update his shitty review with new, more relevant details. That’s commitment.
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A student submitted an assignment typed on a typewriter and I am utterly charmed.
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Our kids schools just went virtual bc our infection rate is uncontrolled. Now I have 7th, 3rd, and K virtual classes to oversee, plus asynch assignments. Plus baby. We had just gotten back some of their activities; most now cancelled. They are sad. I am drained.
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It was an intense way to end, but it inspired thoughtful discussions during & after class. Who knows, maybe none of it worked - but then again, maybe it did. Either way, I know this: I really love my job.
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Writing an episode for
@dig_history
about the US military's long fight against VD, and I'm extremely curious about current soldiers' and vets' experience with military sex ed and military sex culture in general. Any stories you care to share? I may share them on the pod!
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I missed all the
#ModestAcademic
nonsense yesterday, but I will say this: when I was uncomfortably pursued at a conference, I was covered literally chin to toes, so something tells me it had less to do with my clothing choices and more to do with the dude
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Sometimes the sexist reviews
@dig_history
gets are just too great. We literally sell ourselves as feminist history, my dude, so I guess I'm sorry we're so great at our brand? And "not sure what toxic masculinity has to do with 1800s slavery" is just ... *chef's kiss*
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In August, I had a very frustrating interaction in an academic setting w/ a man who disagreed with my statement that the Confederacy fought to protect slavery. He absolutely insisted that 'most Confeds' went to war to protect 'hearth & home' & wouldn't consider anything else. 1/2
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It’s hard to state just how important Nursing Clio has been in my personal and professional life, and how much I have learned from Jacki. Big shoes to fill - but a tremendous honor.
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I love my job, but I’m at the point in the semester where my weekends are just laundry and lecture prep and I really just want to lay on the couch and watch GBBO in pajama pants.
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I'm looking for a reviewer for
@Sacrobosco2013
's important new book *Policing Pregnant Bodies* for
@nursingclio
. If you're interested, get in touch and we'll get you a copy of the book!
@JHUPress
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We’re writing a book about feminism, spirituality, and the weirdness of New York State (and the weirdness of us) centered on the spiritualist community of Lily Dale, NY!
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And we're BACK!
@nursingclio
is back in action with a thoughtful reflection from on pregnancy and precarity, in Victorian novels and in our modern day lives.
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A year or so ago, I decided I was probably done with large scale, single-authored writing projects. I’m contingent & in a teaching position, burnt out & frustrated with a stagnated project. But this fall I was invited to join a writing group of women disability historians …
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My kid's been fighting her middle school dress code for months & recently got fed up with being told it was "necessary" but also seeing certain kids 'get away' with banned items like crop tops. So she wore a crop top to school today like she was setting up an ACLU test case!
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"none of you women will know this"
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I submitted my final manuscript this morning.
Then I got my hair done.
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I’m tired of this silly line. I grew up in an actual small town - not a hypothetical one - and while the people were good, it wasn’t a pretty place. Virtually no diversity. No places to work. Impossible to get around without a car. Closing factories. Immense poverty.
Buttigieg, at his Nashua rally, really leaning into the small town mayor thing... i.e. (slightly paraphrasing) "we need Washington to look more like our small towns, not the other way around". This is one reason it's not entirely clear if the Biden attacks will work.
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How a 1905 letter about a wet nurse, worried for her own sickly babies while working breastfeeding the infant of a wealthy woman, made history come alive for
@anna_danzi_halp
. A moving
#ArchivalKismet
today for
@nursingclio
.
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With my book launch around the corner (July!) I'm starting to think about how I can promote. Do any
#twitterstorians
have tips for how they booked talks, etc? (Also, side note: want me to come give a talk for you???)
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We're proud to spread the word about the abortion books
@RutgersUPress
has made free to provide context in our post-Dobbs reality. Today at
@nursingclio
, an interview with Katrina Kimport on her extremely important book, No Real Choice.
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Today's
@nursingclio
drop-everything must read: this achingly beautiful meditation on flowers, medicine, militaries, and grief. Thank you so much for entrusting this with us,
@mimoyd1
.
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I explained dozens of historians have deeply researched this, but he was adamant he knew better. Over the past couple weeks I've re-read
@smccurry3
, Confederate Reckoning & Thavolia Glymph, The Women's Fight for my CW&Recon grad class and I'm all pissed off about this afresh. 2/2
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Nooooo no gloves with the old letters! Folks think it's necessary, but it's actually worse for the paper because it catches rough edges & can tear.
#HATM
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2020 has been dark and full of horrors. I refuse to criticize GBBO. They could have the bakers recreate sitcom sets with Victoria sponge made out of wheat they had to personally grind and I would still watch with delight. Let me just have this, k?
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At
@nursingclio
, we're leaning into our "radical scholarship." We think some of you are too. And as promised, here are some ways you can show it off.
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I am not 1 in 4 but came damned close. I was about to go study the Civil War in an amazing, intensive program. A baby would make that impossible & end my dreams of being a historian. I took Plan B & had a plan for an abortion if it didn’t work. That changed my life.
#youknowme
1 in 4 women have had an abortion. Many people think they don't know someone who has, but
#youknowme
. So let's do this: if you are also the 1 in 4, let's share it and start to end the shame. Use
#youknowme
and share your truth.
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I’ve been considering writing an article on exactly this - after laborious tracking primary sources, I found a very different version of a generally accepted story. Do your homework, folks!
Oh boy I am chasing down a primary source cited all over the place which clearly everyone is just citing from the first guy who cited it and the primary source does not say what everyone thinks it says
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Just a thought: you don’t actually need to contact a podcaster - who is researching, writing, recording, and producing a product for you for free - to tell them you don’t like the way they pronounce things. Just … do something else with your time.
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