writer, historian, feminist scholar | firstgen to PhD | Latina daughter of immigrants | many languages spoken | co-directing the Mary Eliza Project & writing about women's suffrage movements across U.S. empire
Laura R. Prieto
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The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas."
I am delighted to be in historic Buffalo for #AAHM2026. I felt especially welcome when Emma Wathen mentioned #OurBodiesOurselves at the very first panel I attended (a session on Disability and Reproduction in the US).
image: view of downtown Buffalo
I think one thing the AI age has taught me is how many of my colleagues:
1. genuinely hate writing.
2. are bad at writing.
3. are bad at assessing writing.
4. really do not care about how the writing gets done.
Which seems bad, because writing=thinking.
I’ve enjoyed eating at Clover Food Lab since it was a wee truck parked at lunchtime on a side street near my campus. It thrived & spread thru Boston. Bringing fresh farm-to-table to fast casual eating. Now the whole business is suddenly closing & leaving a hole in my heart & stomach.
🔥 “the encyclical importantly reframes technological power as part of a much larger struggle over who gets to define and control human lives… AI as a grave threat to human dignity and the latest point on a much longer timeline of domination,” dependent on a new slave labor to function. #mustread
I would be remiss not to note here that the violence suffragists faced from hecklers and the police was part of what motivated many (especially the suffragettes in Britain) to study jiu-jitsu and boxing. #HATM
Do you have a favorite red? (Do you know its Pantone number?) Submit it for inclusion in The Second Color of Printing, an exhibition opening this fall in NYC: secondcolor.org
All accepted entrants will receive an honorarium!
The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas."
Putting the call out to the Historians at the Movies community (& to all who love #cinema). Ideas re more female-led, female-centered films & shows we could watch on Sunday nites? Last nite's viewing of #SUFFS & the conversation were amazing. #HATM #skystorians @academic-chatter.bsky.social #movies
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Laura R. Prieto
Explore Memorial Exhibit Printing services honoring Michael Josefowicz, featuring the color red in unique designs.
Clover Food Lab will close Thursday
Inflation, supply chain costs doom restaurant after 17 years. Founder "devastated."
an absolute delight to collaborate with @roopikarisam.bsky.social on this smart piece for @religiondispatches.org about the pope linking AI to histories of enslavement and exploitation
check it out!
religiondispatches.org/2026/05/26/l...
Judith A. Miller
ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
More women’s history movies please! Can I suggest “Iron Jawed Angels” with its star-studded cast of Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Angelica Huston, Frances O’Connor, Patrick Dempsey, Vera Farmiga, and Julia Ormond? 😁 #HATM youtu.be/raulPMuHkc8?...
Inflation, supply chain costs doom restaurant after 17 years. Founder "devastated."
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical this week, on the 135th anniversary of his eponymous predecessor’s landmark Rerum Novarum, or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor. And like Leo XIII befor...
