Today on our site we have "Let a Thousand Parks Bloom" by Kera Lovell, Ph.D. This piece on the past & present of the People's Park movement in the first post in our Emotional Ecologies series edited by Dr. Jessica DeWitt & Sarah York-Bertram. niche-canada.org/2023/06/15/let… #envhist #parks

"These park creations became practices of political affect in which park creators used art, architecture, landscape design, and cooking to build emotional connections to one another and to these political issues." - Kera Lovell, Ph.D. #envhist niche-canada.org/2023/06/15/let… via @niche_canada

ICYMI: "When states attempted to reclaim parks, they frequently did so by removing, destroying, or replacing objects, like the free box or people’s stage, with a visual and material culture of defense." - Kera Lovell, Ph.D. niche-canada.org/2023/06/15/let… #envhist #histemotion #parks

Um, hey British Museum, it's come to my attention that your exhibit "China's hidden century" uses my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement! How are you going to fix this?? #NameTheTranslator

How academics avoid email requests from committees for new members: just play dead.

We are thrilled to announce our five Writers-in-Residence for 2023-24! Our writers will each contribute four essays over the year. We are excited to have them share their research expertise with us! nursingclio.org/2023/07/21/ann…

Listen to this episode of Think 100%: The Coolest Show on Stop Cop City: thecoolestshow.com/stop-cop-city-… Then read about the historical connection of Stop Cop City to the Peoples Park movement in this piece by Kera Lovell, Ph.D.: niche-canada.org/2023/06/15/let… #envhist #stopcopcity

This is your daily reminder to donate to the Stop Cop City Bail Fund via Action Network - let's do this! actionnetwork.org/fundraising/co…

Guys! Big Announcement! I am STOKED to debut the cover of my upcoming book, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance." Out in 2024, I'm hype! Basic Books Wellesley College This Day In Esoteric Political History You can pre-order here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kellie-…

Passed this "Korean queers and allies for Palestine" banner this morning in Seoul.

1/ Something very nasty, disturbing, and dangerous is happening in S. Korea: one of the few human rights charters that exist to protect children from discrimination is on the verge of abolition thanks to radical Christians who believe kids will become gay. yna.co.kr/view/AKR202312…

Learned today that when a man emails you, having read your published work, and asks for more info, they will not cite your work when they publish. 💫

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. His last piece of art, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.

"Isn't it great to be gay? Just think about the variety of our existence, the joys, the happiness, the strengths that each of us share just because of who we are." -David Kromer, from the Sept 1981 issue of the Alabama Forum, a gay publication published in Birmingham

Phenomenal work from Kera Lovell, Ph.D. for Nursing Clio tracing a half-century of queer teenage feminists in print (h/t @sarahbelle721): nursingclio.org/2024/04/10/que…

Woman free yourself, 1971, Faith Ringgold 💜

I give you the greatest use of AI in the classroom: making students use Chat GPT (whom I call George Paul Thompson) to create raps about parts of the syllabus they don't quite understand. "He likes being called George" 🤣