Sandie Holguín

Weren’t we just having a conversation in my office? Bloody hell!

“It took a bit, but then the gasp of realization: They were looking at “Gugusse and the Automaton,” a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company. The 45-second film, made around 1897…”

And today the site no longer exists. Any idea what might have happened?

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It's laid out like a slave ship on land. As I said, a concentration camp.

I meant to include the TOC! Please see below.

Congratulations, Cindy!

😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)

A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭

Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

💯this: “That is why a defense of gender studies is not a parochial feminist project, but a vital stand that extends to the ‘validity of the entire American system’ as a democracy, one based on aspirations for equality and justice for all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Manuscript from 18th century Mexican Inquisition records listing a midwife by name.

New post to #FindTheMidwife! Gaby Baez talls with me about her research on 18th century Mexican midwives in Inquisition records. www.findthemidwife.com/eighteenth-c...

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They will be warehousing people.

And treating them as objects.

These are concentration camps.

Solidarity, Melissa. Hope you’re holding up.

Why ppl really should read/learn at least some Shakespeare. Sir Ian McKellen is amazing here. Savor this moment.

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Women's History Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2025   CONTRIBUTORS Sandie Holguín, Jennifer J. Davis, Rikke Andreassen, Madeline Burghardt, Katrine Rønsig Larsen, Karen Vallgårda, Kai Wan Kwan, Jincao Li, Marya Hannun, Inbal Ofer, and Alison Lefkovitz


NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Women's History
Vol. 37, No. 4, Winter 2025
tinyurl.com/aaanx76r
 
CONTRIBUTORS
Sandie Holguín, Jennifer J. Davis, Rikke Andreassen, Madeline Burghardt, Katrine Rønsig Larsen, Karen Vallgårda, Kai Wan Kwan, Jincao Li, Marya Hannun, Inbal Ofer, and Alison Lefkovitz


And another open access article from our most recent issue:

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"'About the New Women'" Seclusion and Schooling in 1920s Afghanistan" by Marya Hannun (@maryahannun.bsky.social)

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Check out this open access article from our latest issue:

"Historicizing the Emotional Experiences of Family Violence" by Katrine Rønsig Larsen and Karen Vallgårda (@kvallgarda.bsky.social) is available to read now: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

The UK's Independent gives the film one star out of five, saying: "[The] First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda ... Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving - with the country on the verge of an irreparable schism - the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring's staring up at his looted Monet." The publication continued: "The "film" is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact - like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will - of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly."

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

SO worth reading.

ICE facility planned for Oklahoma City warehouse will not move forward Plans for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at a warehouse in Oklahoma City are not moving forward.

The community reaction to this was swift and loud.

www.koco.com/article/ice-...

OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN Dear Editors, We write in reference to a recent article published in the UK online edition of The Guardian on Friday, 23 January 2026, which carried the following misleading headline: "British crown was world's largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals." The article in question, by Chris Osuh, showcases a new book by Dr. Brooke Newman, The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy (Harper Collins, 2026). But Newman's book is not the original source of that claim. That claim derives from earlier scholarship, the painstaking archival work of a Black historian of Caribbean heritage: the late Roger Norman Buckley. It is unfortunate that the silencing of his original scholarship appears in the profiling of a book advertised as uncovering silences. While it is great to see public attention brought to the history of the Crown's involvement in slavery through the new book and its profiling in The Guardian, the headline compromises The Guardian's efforts to address the legacies of slavery generally and its own institutional links when it extracts and reframes earlier work by a Black scholar as a revelation new to this book. The relevant passage in The Crown's Silence draws on original scholarship by Roger Norman Buckley in Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (1979). Dr. Brooke Newman repeats Buckley's figures, which she cites (referencing page 55 of Buckley's book, see attached) while changing his "British government" to "Crown." She then converts his careful "perhaps the largest individual buyer" to a more conclusive claim, changing his "British government" to "king" but without citing Buckley for that claim which is on page 56 of his book (see attached) and which, uncited in Newman's book, is the Guardian headline. There is room for popular histories that rely largely on the secondary scholarship of other historians. But other historians have not been silent.

Page from Buckley’s 1979 book

2nd page from Buckley’s 1979 book

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

LA art powerfully depicting how the regime is murdering the US democracy.

Fuck ICE
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Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

The sprayer is not masked and so should be fairly easy to ID.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.