#histodons

Alessa Giampaolo Keener @alessa_ed@mstdn.social

I love the description - from a forthcoming article by a colleague - of Upper Canada (today's southern Ontario) when created in 1791 as a haven for refugees from the US tax revolt.

#histodons

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**Alessa Giampaolo Keener** @alessa_ed@mstdn.social · 11 h

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@sbourne Harriet Tubman was the 1st woman to pop in my mind. Her legacy and inspiration are strong. She was absolutely a warrior force to be reckoned with, but she did not lead a country or even an entire rebellion force and her Emancipation impact only effected 70 people from one state. That is a noble feat and I am not belittling it, but I feel like she does not quite meet the Warrior Queen definition put forth by the author. #histodons

**Sharad Mohan** @ssharadmohhan@mastodon.social · 13 h

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Sharad Mohan @ssharadmohhan@mastodon.social

A good-natured pandemonium breaks loose in the Zenana during the festival of #Holi, the #Hindu Festival of Colours

A princess stands watching behind the crowd, identifiable by her red Halo

(I too would be doing the disappearing act!)

c1800 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Rajasthan, #India (Property of Cleveland #Museum of #Art) sold by Sothebys (March 15, 2017)

#HappyHoli

#ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #MastoArt

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**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 14 h

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Update: I've dug a little more. It seems the Canadian Research Knowledge Network was acting on a request from the Mississauga Public Library when it removed the newspapers. Torstar will no longer allow the Library to make the papers available to the public via a third party source. This is a drag, because, while it's far from perfect, CRKN has better infrastructure and interface than the Library's site, all, I imagine, for less money. 7/

https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2407976

**IHC** @IHChistory@masto.pt · 14 h

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IHC @IHChistory@masto.pt

The preliminary results of the #SEXLAVES project, coord. by Xurxo Ayan Vila and Carlos Otero, have been published in World Archaeology.

The project focuses on the archaeological study of materials found in #brothels in NW Spain that were in operation at the end of the 20th century.

@archaeodons
@histodons

Print screen of part of the webpage of the paper at the World Archaeology website, published online on 4 October 2024. Title: "Microhistories of an invisible punishment. For an archaeology of sexual exploitation in Spain". Authors: Xurxo Ayán Vila and Carlos Otero Vilariño. Abstract: "This article collects the preliminary results of the SEXLAVES project focused on the archaeological study of the materialities generated by the sexual exploitation of women in the northwest of Spain. Using landscape archaeology and the archaeology of architecture, we study ruined brothels that were in use between the 1980s and the 2000s. These archaeological remains show in all their crudeness the impunity of a mafia and criminal business that it is based on the kidnapping, coercion and control of women. This archaeology of the recent past makes public spaces originally intended to be made invisible, searches for the material trace of women who are truly socially disappeared, and denounces a model of capitalist predation that exploits bodies, landscapes and territories in the same way." Keywords: "Archaeology of the recent past, sexual exploitation, brothels, gender violence, archaeology of architecture"

#Archaeodons #Histodons #ContemporaryArchaeology

**The Conversation U.S.** @TheConversationUS@newsie.social · 15 h

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The Conversation U.S. @TheConversationUS@newsie.social

Rev. Jesse Jackson, hand in hand with fellow Black leaders, crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 9, marking 60 years since “Bloody Sunday.”

His has been a momentous journey through the history of Black Americans and their struggle for equality and inclusion https://theconversation.com/how-jesse-jackson-embodied-southern-politics-and-changed-american-elections-247435 #CivilRights
@histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

**CarveHerName** @CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 16 h

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CarveHerName @CarveHerName@mstdn.social

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

Photo of Ertha Pascal-Trouillot in front of Haiti's flag. She is a Black woman with black hair.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History

**Ministerratsprotokolle** @MinisterratCis@fedihum.org · 16 h

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Ministerratsprotokolle @MinisterratCis@fedihum.org

Seit einem halben Jahr wird offenbar das Wort "cis" auf der "Plattform X als beleidigende Äußerungen gewertet".
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000220259/x-behandelt-cisgender-nun-als-beleidigende-aeusserung
Die "Protokolle des Cisleithanischen Ministerrates" sind schon lange nicht mehr dort.
Ein weiterer guter Grund.

#eXit #transgender #Musk

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**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 1 j

https://www.mississauga.ca/apps/mediagallery/#/agency/Library

After corresponding with staff at the Mississauga Public Library, I'm hopeful they'll be able to make these newspapers available in some way, shape, or form on their website (worth checking out below for the historical images). We'll see.

Anyways, this really underlines the fragility of the subscription model for access. At least microfilm, once paid for, would remain accessible to anyone who could get in front of a reader. 6/

City of MississaugaMississauga Historic images galleryThe Historic images gallery with centralized access and online searchable database, enables us to bring together the image collections of multiple institutions.

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**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 1 j

My students and I will be fine. We are at a major research institution that will fork over whatever Torstar asks. And Torstar will use the additional 6 papers in its database to squeeze more from us and other universities. This rankles me. The papers were full-text searchable and available to everyone for years. The Mississauga Library and a federal grant paid for the digitization. And, seriously, virtually no one who isn't in Mississauga cares about its decades-old papers. 5/

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**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 1 j

Back issues of defunct local newspapers are a key primary source we draw on. Today I learned that Torstar - the conglomerate that now holds copyright to virtually all of the Mississauga papers that have been digitized - recently ordered the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a nonprofit dedicated to the dissemination of historical print sources, to remove the entire run of 6 papers published across most of the 20th century so that it can place them behind a paywall. 4/

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**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 1 j

While we rely on the often excellent work of local historians, the aims of the course are necessarily more academic. So we end up doing much of the research needed to understand this history ourselves, in class and in assignments. This is great, it lets us pop the hood on historical research and gives first-year students an opportunity to poke around that they wouldn't otherwise have. But, for this to work, we rely on accessible evidence, especially digitized sources. 3/

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**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 1 j

In recent years, there's been a move to digitize and making freely available online whatever people can get there hands on. Some of this is legally dubious, but most is totally legit.

For the past few years, I've taught a course on the history of #PeelRegion - #Mississauga, #Brampton & #Caledon, a mainly urban area that, if it were one city, would be the third largest in #Canada, just behind Montreal. There exists a minuscule body of academic histories of the region.

**Brian Gettler** @brian_gettler@mas.to · 1 j *

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Over the past several decades, as mainstream media has struggled to make ends meet, a small number of conglomerates have bought up many independent newspapers. Sometimes they shut them down, sometimes they continue to publish but generally with vastly reduced local coverage. Anyone who's been paying attention knows this.

What you may not know is that these conglomerates also acquire copyright to the papers they buy, even when they shut them down. 1/

**Alessa Giampaolo Keener** @alessa_ed@mstdn.social · 1 j

Alessa Giampaolo Keener @alessa_ed@mstdn.social

Just started Antonia Fraser's The Warrior Queen. She asserts the USA is the lone culture to **not** have a historical Warrior Queen we can look to w pride. I'm sitting here trying to think of 1 woman fr ~400yrs of #history who could qualify as a national power and force to be reckoned with. #histodons #sschat

**Today On Screen** @todayonscreen@xoxo.zone · 1 j