Eleanor Courtemanche

I put my VISAWUS talk about suffragette violence up on my blog -- in an attempt to answer the question "Why was the British women's suffrage movement more violent than the American one?" eleanorcourtemanche.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/w...

I just like the picture

somebody just needs to tell them a Black Harvard professor was involved

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Mombat & wombaby timeline cleanse.

Periodically wowed by the range of courses we teach And just as often struck by how much important work there is to be done, and how a band of slack-jawed troglodytes in DC go to work every day to try to stop us

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

This is wild 😅

In case anyone’s still wondering why certain parties are doing all they can to keep young people away from the ballot box…

"America was pushed into its second nadir by a well-funded anti-democratic movement that spent several decades building the social and legal infrastructure of American fascism. Digging ourselves out of the competitive authoritarian pit will likely be a slow process."

Good news alert

Yesterday, USC's football team lost on the road to unranked Wisconsin as is their wont Meanwhile, yesterday USC's Cinema & Media Studies grad conference was un-fucking-stoppable That’s right—that IS Eugenie Brinkema keynoting on Anora and Henri Michaux and rolling up the score

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

Every year this one house in Ann Arbor has the largest pumpkins for Halloween

Michigan Hannah does things past Hannahs wouldn’t have, like bike 10 miles (each way) to the ol’ cider mill so she can have a steaming cup of spiced cider by the river 🍎

We developed the capacity to visually encounter the cosmic background radiation from the creation of the universe and we mostly find it annoying.

okay lmao

This article is incredible: it’s so rare to see any media cover a new book in the humanities not just as new knowledge 😮 but as a contribution to an urgent public debate about the material conditions of knowledge 😮😮

This is a good thread, but not enough people are saying, "The Soviet Union collapsed." So many good things are downstream of that. Maybe it's just the age range of Bluesky people, because if you're 38, this is something that happened when you were so young you don't remember it.

Last night, I finally met the Great Kahn himself, JB Pritzker. We talked about how he'd renamed Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois. I told him he should rename Wisconsin and Indiana Illinois as well, and that it'd be a great platform for 2028. He replied, I shit you not, "Why wait that long?"

The Four Horsemen of the Bropocalypse: Power and Culture Under a Tech Oligarchy Conference in Bloomington, IN, March 25-27 Submissions due December 1. Please circulate!

BIG JET TV IS LIVE, PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE STORM HAS HIT LONDON.

Hello everyone -- I'm belatedly leaving Meta where I stayed because of the Sinologists group and friends that I don't get to see often enough in real life. Tell me whom I should follow on Bluesky and what communities I can learn from!

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This is what winning looks like. Eventually, the stigma will get so big that it will be like Germany in the 1950s where everyone's dad "was forced into the army and just had some support role."

my lowest stakes conspiracy theory is that the artist drawing the little thumbnails clearly hates the people in these focus groups

@joshuajfriedman.com is the best and actually cares and imo one of the best hires we've ever made

Will watch 😌

Trying to explain British culture to Midwestern teens “See they’re spies, but they’re also losers, and it’s very important to the audience that they ARE losers, even though they save London in every season: then everyone forgets and they go back to being losers again”