The next SHAW seminar paper is coming soon! 10th May 2023: Shannon Eaves, College of Charleston, “Sexual Violence and American Slavery” 2-3pm, Online via Zoom. Sign up here: history.ac.uk/events/sexual-…

After leaving his lab of my own volition, a former adviser started making extreme claims about me out of nowhere in a seemingly retaliatory way. I spent four years trying to have those claims and his conduct investigated, largely unsuccessfully. Read more: yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/04/2…

Johanna Mellis Dr. Mara Keire New York only went to No Fault divorce like 10ish years ago. And proving fault is a long lengthy process in which you need to prove a lot which means you also need to provide the courts with lots of money during this process, including lawyers. x.com/marakeire/stat…

Blood on the judge’s hands.

Can someone send me the text of the letter from the Chronicle of Higher Education in support of John Comaroff?

And what an amazing paper it was! We are so excited for a full day of discussion of Humour and Sexual Violence, and we hope to have more to share with time!

"The personal is also pedagogical" -Dr. Mara Keire, on the importance of positionality inside discussions of humour and sexual harassment

Still time to sign up for what promises to be a superb paper.

NEW on Wonkhe: "Listen to survivors" is often a rallying cry of anti-sexual misconduct work, but Sunday Blake argues that universities can do so in a way which limits their agency and privileges the voices of others buff.ly/3MeyJqX

The amount of time, energy, and money being putting into defending the right to shag students. Everyone sit down, reconsider the core mission of a university, and someone point out to where fulfilling staff's sexual desires comes into it.

And, anyway, students don't want to shag you! So leave them alone!

Join our ONLINE panel where experts from research, practice, and activism will explore the topic of sexual harassment and gender-based violence in Universities in South Africa against the backdrop of the broader African context Date: 6 June Time: 1-2.30 UK eventbrite.co.uk/e/sexual-haras…

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You can listen to an interview that Christopher Phelps, Robin Vandome, Dr. Mara Keire & I did with @cat__gold for New Books Network 📚 / NB Intellectual History 📚 about the book. #USIH #twitterstorians newbooksnetwork.com/marxism-and-am…

Great range of papers on how US leftists have use Marxism both for organising and cultural analysis. I’ve got a chapter, “class, commodity, consumption” on the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.

Now I’m blushing. I couldn’t imagine a better way to spend a Friday afternoon than with Dr Anna Hájková talking about anything and everything with such an ever perceptive friend.