Erin Bartram

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Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator. Founder & editor at www.contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. She/her.

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There is particular power in such an ideologically diverse coalition rejecting the French right because fascists should be reminded often that they’re repugnant to a broad swath of society, not just getting outmaneuvered by the wily left

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Bro if France resists the tide of fascism and we don’t it will be so fucking embarrassing

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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again i say: they could have called any religion department in the US. this is 101 stuff. yes, i know the graphic depicts most popular by affiliation and christianity is the most popular religion in the US. i know multiple christianities exist. this graphic + headline is still problems.

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What's your best dish not requiring the use of an oven?

Searching my camera roll for dishes not requiring an oven. -Burrata, prosciutto, white peach, basil salad -Lucas Sin's cold sesame noodles tinyurl.com/22ya5edy -Sriracha deviled eggs w/ ikura + fresh shiso leaves -Osaka style okonomiyaki savory pancake tinyurl.com/yf7nwty3 What are your faves?

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"My students and I had an opportunity with the assigned textbook to do the hard work of analyzing authority and breaking down the power structures which can be perpetuated by the academy. This is a first step in making knowledge actionable."

Textbook Orientalismcontingentmagazine.org In the classroom, all knowledge is actionable.

If you, like me, find yourself with some chard, the replies here have lots of ideas.

Is this a place for recipe ideas yet? I got a bunch of chard from the CSA this week and all of my chard recipes are soup or oven-based. Any ideas for what to use it in? I'd like to do more than just sauté it.

"Disclosure About Your Retirement Plan" as a subject line makes me sure the email's gonna say "Sorry, we lost it all."

I'd heard of this growing up, but not till I worked in Hartford did I really understand the scope of it. 80 years ago today.

Hartford circus fire - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Brokeback Mountain's still a real punch in the gut, isn't it

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Subtle. Very subtle.

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Hard side eye for any academics blorping on about using AI, it’s an ethical disaster in every dimension and the failure to acknowledge that vs trying to look shiny & clever for the bandwagon is frankly embarrassing.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

(Am I wrong in thinking it would be a very bad to willingly have no sitting vice president and Mike Johnson next in line in an age of political violence?)

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Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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bleak as hell

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

I heard someone apologize for being short with a colleague saying they were just really anxious because of the state of the country. I suppose the only silver lining about doing this again is that we can identify what is happening to us.

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In retrospect, the NYT Spelling Bee’s blithe refusal to care about words that are in the dictionary should have struck more word nerds as symptomatic.

I would feel better if I thought the Democratic Party and the media would go this hardcore about anything else involved in the election between now and November.

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People who don't talk in front of people for a living have no idea how difficult it is to sound coherent

If anyone recorded me speaking extemporaneously, I’d have dementia x100: I can’t get through three sentences without mangling my words.

I took that as Biden has asked people to stop scheduling events that start after 8 PM which no one on this site should disagree with

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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maybe we could have a news story about a policy proposal some day. as a treat.

Someone actually asked me today about my research from when I was an academic and man it was just like riding a bicycle and then remembering they took your bicycle away.

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Their inability to focus on the stakes of this election is just dumbfounding

An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.

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mise, en THIS scène?

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The John Brown Wax Museum is closing. Find out why Allison Horrocks thought it was an uncanny and effective interpretive space. "It is probably only right that something feels wrong while walking through a wax museum about an invasion and execution." contingentmagazine.org/2020/03/24/w...

When John Brown’s Body Is Waxcontingentmagazine.org What better place to think about authenticity than a wax museum?