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I'm a public historian who moonlights in the archives. I'm a UMBC alum & deeply proud Baltimorean. I adore my cats, nature brings me joy, and I eat plants. I miss my grandmoms every day and I'm always fighting for a better world. Join me? ♓ [hyper-empath]

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Homewood Museum at JHU - Decision Points at Homewood House From 1936 to 1971, five presidents of Johns Hopkins and other top administrators worked in offices at Homewood House. There, they made impactful and often surprising decisions, setting Hopkins on a di...

Andrew Jewett, a teaching professor at JHU and co-author of the forthcoming book "Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years", will trace those fraught decades and the decisions made in Homewood that still reverberate today.

homewood-museum.vbotickets.com/event/decisi...

27.02.2026 20:34 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

Thanks for this, history professor.
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

23.02.2026 15:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Restore the Source: A Community Call to Preserve Tom Miller’s Murals However Far the Stream Flows, It Never Forgets Its Source (1991) is the first public mural created in Baltimore by artist Tom Miller. More than a work of art, it is a cornerstone of Baltimore’s cultur...

A dear friend, Deyane Moses is leading the charge to restore this amazing Tom Miller mural (that I drive by so often - so I know you do too!) Let's lend our names to support and funds if you've got'em! actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

20.02.2026 14:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Raw video: Renee Good's brothers testify at Capitol Hill hearing
Raw video: Renee Good's brothers testify at Capitol Hill hearing YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota

🖤
youtu.be/giYI9NbUkvY?...

04.02.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yes! please find my husband's IG and message us :) - www.instagram.com/jeremysbeesa...

29.01.2026 20:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

imma calibri girl, aptos can suck it

29.01.2026 20:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
student with long dark hair and blue shirt looks at a large historic book on a green book cradle in a special collections reading room with wooden bookshelves in the background

student with long dark hair and blue shirt looks at a large historic book on a green book cradle in a special collections reading room with wooden bookshelves in the background

*Hopkins library users* - Special Collections will temporarily close at the end of spring semester (May 18) and reopen in the Brody Learning Commons on a different floor in July. We'll then reopen in the renovated Eisenhower Library in January 2027!
Deets here: www.library.jhu.edu/library-hour...

21.01.2026 14:52 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fall Tree Against a Backdrop of Blue Skies and Construction at Bank & Caroline I had the time, energy, and weather for a bike ride today, and wow, it had been a long time since I got to do that. I started with a quick ride down the hill to meet friends for brunch, in celebrat…

Kate, always with the wisdom. I love you and your writing so much! ♥️ @kdrabinski.bsky.social
whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/11/02/f...

03.11.2025 14:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

tinyurl.com/5n6my48p “The majority of our members are working-class people...Many of them live paycheck to paycheck. These reckless actions are disrupting and destroying the lives of everyday working people who are constantly being used as bargaining chips.” AFGE Local 2883 President Yolanda Jacobs

15.10.2025 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope it actually turned out to be funnnn and enriching! I'm so proud!!!!

15.10.2025 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

living in the bizarro world where employers send out what is "permissible" and "impermissible" for programs and activities and how we must be in "compliance with legal and regulatory anti-discrimination requirements." what a time to be alive.

08.09.2025 18:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

🥹🥰♥️

08.09.2025 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am so excited for Wally Lamb's new book!!!!

10.06.2025 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Georgia O’Keeffe could see the dramatic geological formation known as the White Place, or Plaza Blanca, from a window in her home near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Composed of white stone that provides a stark contrast to the colors of the surrounding terrain, the White Place was whittled and smoothed by water and wind over centuries into a striking formation resembling columns, cliffs, and spires. O’Keeffe painted it a number of times, and in The White Place in Sun, she selected a view that emphasizes a deep cleft in the formation. The V-shaped composition enabled her to focus on the interplay between the brilliant blue sky, the eerie white color, and horizontal striations of the carved rock.

Bequest of Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum

Georgia O’Keeffe could see the dramatic geological formation known as the White Place, or Plaza Blanca, from a window in her home near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Composed of white stone that provides a stark contrast to the colors of the surrounding terrain, the White Place was whittled and smoothed by water and wind over centuries into a striking formation resembling columns, cliffs, and spires. O’Keeffe painted it a number of times, and in The White Place in Sun, she selected a view that emphasizes a deep cleft in the formation. The V-shaped composition enabled her to focus on the interplay between the brilliant blue sky, the eerie white color, and horizontal striations of the carved rock. Bequest of Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum

The White Place in Sun https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158752/

04.06.2025 14:19 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🤣 when the new therapist tells you she saw your eye roll

04.06.2025 14:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm a big fan of mindfulness exercises but let me tell you, there aren't enough for the onslaught of thoughts I have about -gestures wildly - ALL the things.

19.05.2025 20:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

having a hard time today. <insert Taking Back Sunday lyric>

13.05.2025 17:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a tall peony plant with five unopened buds showing

a tall peony plant with five unopened buds showing

Hopping on to brag that I am on #PeonyWatch2025 and it is marvelous. My plants are super tall this year and there are so many buds. I AM SO EXCITED.

02.05.2025 14:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A pulled back photo of three woman sitting in chairs at the front of an auditorium. A fourth woman is on a large projected screen above them on a Zoom screen.

A pulled back photo of three woman sitting in chairs at the front of an auditorium. A fourth woman is on a large projected screen above them on a Zoom screen.

Martha S. Jones sits in a wooden chair, speaks into a microphone, and balances a book in her lap.

Martha S. Jones sits in a wooden chair, speaks into a microphone, and balances a book in her lap.

"Life can't be reduced to whether we breathe...all the ways that we do to collect our pasts, to collect our ancestors, is what turns out for many of us is life giving, life sustaining." - @marthasjones

05.04.2025 17:29 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

my favorite bartender told me something when 'he who shall not be named' won the presidency that I can't stop thinking about. He said that we were about to enter "another 4 years of Mondays" and it's so accurate - a sensation that we can all recognize -

14.03.2025 22:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Black & Gold Rush Join me in supporting UMBC during Black & Gold Rush!

Here's the link! give.umbc.edu/black-gold-r...

05.03.2025 17:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In moments like the current one, UMBC needs our support more than ever. I'm proud today to contribute to the History department, the Honors College, the Women's Center, and Special Collections! 🖤💛Thank you for shaping me into the human I am today! #BlackAndGoldRish #UMBC

05.03.2025 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

thanks friend 🥹

24.02.2025 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

probably not the best time to read the incredible Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," but here I am...

24.02.2025 15:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bunch of copies of the love and sex issue of Baltimore Beat

A bunch of copies of the love and sex issue of Baltimore Beat

❤️❤️❤️

11.02.2025 19:37 👍 90 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
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a close up of a person holding a cat 's nose with the word cope above it ALT: a close up of a person holding a cat 's nose with the word cope above it

Two good blogs I read this week: @kdrabinski.bsky.social's reflections resonate & make my heart feel better: whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/02/11/c... and Tracy's run recap, reminding me of the highs/lows of running thoughts & what bodies are capable of: poetsthatsweat.com/2025/02/09/t...

12.02.2025 16:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

depressed, depressed, what's a girl to do

12.02.2025 16:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yes please BGE tell me about what less electricity I used this week while trying to protect myself from the world careening to its end around me. love those emails. 🫠

30.01.2025 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't mean to be unfaithful to what community we can build here, but I'm not digging the ways connecting only online makes me feel. I need face to face. I've been on a social break for a bit and logged on here today to see all of the harm already done...it's a growing list and I need to step away.

24.01.2025 15:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is my favorite podcast! so stoked they worked on this!!!

06.12.2024 20:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0