Rachel Mesch

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Upside of being dept chair is that you can plant an idea like this in your Spanish colleagues’ heads and then it happens!

@parisnoire.bsky.social @drsepinwall.bsky.social !?

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

My son did this too at one point last year! Did they see it on TikTok or something??

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

I love this! Gives me hope! I have been focused on shorter, slow reading due to current realities, but I love the idea of starting slow as cultivating a practice and building to more.

Fellow chairs, what are your practical tips for not spending all day everyday batting away emails? I need some strategies to get my actual work done

Brainstorming in class is a good idea. I am having them do in- class writing. I’m also going to try to work with them on an AI policy, which I think will help me understand better how they use it. There’s an extra level with teaching in French as they use it to translate & it’s very good now

And what are your secrets for actually preventing it from happening??

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 6_4 Justine De Young with Susan Hiner. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Justine De Young talks about her new book "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" with Susan Hiner (Bloomsbury, 2025)

NCFS Unbound returns 1/23 with @srocher.bsky.social Susan Hiner in convo with @addressingart.bsky.social Justine De Young about her fab new book The Art of Parisian Chic 🔥
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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

Bravo, Andrew. What a thoughtful - and helpful- essay!

Omg congrats Joe! A fun fact about me is that my bff and I dominated the all county HS social studies fair in 1989 with our original play written from perspective of Tom P’s housemaids. We still quote it.

Moral dilemma alert: I want to cancel my subscription but getting the paper version of the Sunday times on Saturday is how I know I’m a real New Yorker. Pls advise!
#NYTimes

#FrHistory #LGBTQ🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️

Between the Sheets by Hannah Frydman | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at growing...

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Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

frenchatbu on Instagram: "🇫🇷✨ “They say Boston isn’t Paris… but maybe Paris just hasn’t seen the BU French department yet. 💌 #EmilyInBoston #BUFrench” -Em…" 🇫🇷✨ “They say Boston isn’t Paris… but maybe Paris just hasn’t seen the BU French department yet. 💌 #EmilyInBoston #BUFrench” -Emily Cooper

I’m not on the social much these days but just need everyone to appreciate the skills of @kelliegiordano.bsky.social phd student and influenceuse ❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DN3EwoN2mF...

Just a reminder, for any of you kids who need to see it, good writing does not emerge seamlessly in the first draft. Feedback is the best and moving everything around is often part of the process.

File under things you can’t learn from chat GPT

T-Mobile: Stop Funding Musk When T-Mobile launches its “T-Satellite” program in partnership with Starlink this July, Elon Musk stands to gain billions. We’re calling on T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and the company’s Board of Direct...

Fascism so small it fits in your pocket?? When T-Mobile launches "T-Satellite" to the public in July, Musk could rake in billions. They don't expect anyone to make it a big deal. Oops. Sign our petition and tell them to drop Starlink #Starlinktakedown #teslatakedown actionnetwork.org/petitions/t-...

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Wrapping up our fifth season of NCFS Unbound with a conversation you don’t want to miss between Marlene Daut and Gregory Pierrot about MD’s new book, The First & Last King of Haiti. This Friday 2:30 EST 🗃️🎓#FrHistory

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I mean, it’s a great quote.

Yes exactly. Imagine asking me to prove the opposite: why did X female writer wear corsets if JD did not? Like, I’m just trying to talk about this one person & I’m glad it’s making you think but…
(also I hate to break it to them about some of these other 19th c pants-wearers !)

Thank you. This is monstrous behavior.

Question from a Fr editor : En quoi le port du vêtement masculin par Dieulafoy est-il dans ce cas précis l’expression d’une identification trans avant l’heure, quand cela n’est pas le cas d’autres individus portant le vêtement masculin à la fin du XIXe?
Ummmm where do I start

The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown.

Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.

Sitting at table during talk, slide with title Trans Orientalisms

Reading talk, slide of Missy and Colette’s Rêve d’Egypte

Happy to be at Harvard (our new hero??) on a beautiful spring day
Intellectual community is so precious- trying to just appreciate it and take advantage of it whenever I can #FrHistory 🗃️

Is social media part of the problem? I’m sick of electeds & leaders saying “we must stand up to this” as if by posting about it they are doing something.
besties, show, don’t tell! Like, we know it’s fascism, now lead us the way out!!