Ida L. Vos

Last week, team members @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @idalvos.bsky.social participated in the 'Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present' conference at @ucph.bsky.social, which was co-organised by Felicia, bringing together #academics and #artists from all over the world 🧵1/3

*Good news!* My PhD book will be available from 26 October, instead of December! Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice... Good to know: it will be available as open access too (free download).

Project scholar @feliciafricke.bsky.social is co-organising the conference 'Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present' with colleagues from PRIVACY and PASS @ucph.bsky.social on 21-23 October - attendance is free and you can sign up here: teol.ku.dk/privacy/even...

📣Project PI @silvaperez.bsky.social is hiring TWO PhD candidates for her new project "That's Women's Work!" on Pernambuco and Atlantic Africa. Apply by Sunday 20th September 📨 www.eur.nl/en/working-a... #history #Africa #Brazil #academia

*VACANCIES* Two very cool PhDs positions at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social on the Transimperial History of Women’s Work (1600-1900) within Natália da Silva Perez's project. 👇 www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞

Racialised Motherhood #PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social has written another #blog post about her research trip to #Cuba. She discusses systematic racialization visible in the documents of the Cuban National Archive's miscellaneous collection. Read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/04/20/r...

One sound that is very characteristic of Havana, is the shouts and whistles of street vendors. I love this installation by Megan Fawn Schlow about these "Street Hawkers", and I was very interested to learn about the connection between this Cuban tradition and the history of slavery

In our most recent #blog post, you can read about how project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social is experiencing the ongoing power crisis in #Cuba: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/03/09/r...

'Racialized Motherhood' project #PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social has arrived in #Cuba 🌎 where she is spending two months doing #archival #research about the implementation of Cuba's 1870 free womb law. Watch this space for updates on her important work!

Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has been looking at #newspapers from colonial #Barbados. In this blog post, you can read what he has noticed about how these sources conveyed colonial viewpoints on the #abolition of slavery: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/12/18/a...

My first blog post for Racialized Motherhood is online! Read about it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...

Last week, I went to #ABRE2025 with @silvaperez.bsky.social. We presented on the role of religion in discussions about free womb laws in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil. I found the other presentations during the panel about women in the transatlantic world very interesting and inspiring!

We are here at the #ABRE2025 conference in Salamanca with the @rm-project.bsky.social. Yesterday we caught an amazing talk by Mateusz Czarnota on Conceição Evaristo’s idea of #escrevivência: writing born from lived experience of Afro-descendent women. Inspiring for our work on #RacializedMotherhood

Project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social recently presented her research at the 9th Global Meeting of Slavery Past, Present and Future, which was held at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. She talked about the role of religion in Dutch and Spanish free womb discussions in the 1850s and 1870s.