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@mselibrary @UVALibrary Register and learn more here:

Dr. Emily McGinn, DH Specialist @mselibrary and one of LifexCode’s digital mentors, will be presenting on “Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy” with the University of Virginia Library @UVALibrary on February 21! This event is virtual, FREE, and open to the public!

@BrookeLansing @TheHuntington @SHEARites In light of this, I would like to share a GoFundMe that will aid a family who lost their Altadena home with whom I have a personal connection. Please consider donating if you are able: .

@BrookeLansing @TheHuntington @SHEARites And a note from Brooke: “While I am grateful that the Huntington Library remained unharmed by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, I am deeply sorrowful for those who experienced devastation in the city. .

@BrookeLansing @TheHuntington @SHEARites You can also read her recent article “‘The helpless French girl’: Seduction narratives in a nineteenth-century abortion trial” in the July 2024 issue of Gender & History:

@BrookeLansing @TheHuntington Brooke is at work on a book under contract with University of Virginia Press, which she won through the 2024 Best Dissertation Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic @SHEARites.

@BrookeLansing @TheHuntington She was part of a line-up of 12 scholars working on the history of abortion in the United States who gave public-facing talks in response to Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

On January 17, Dr. Brooke Mai @BrookeLansing (LifexCode Project Manager) presented a paper entitled “‘Endangering the Life of the Mother: Social Implications of Medical Theories of Abortion in the 1830s” @TheHuntington in Los Angeles, CA.

@dslprojects @blkwomenradical and rebellion of its people. Read the blog post here: More on After the Storm: More on Black Women Radicals:

@dslprojects @blkwomenradical Entitled “A Daughter’s Love Note: Decolonial Love Across the Greater Caribbean,” the blog interrogates the teachings of the Combahee River Collective and bell hooks to make visible Afro-Diasporic bonds across the Caribbean and bear witness to the survival, restoration. .

The members of After the Storm, a collective of Black and Latinx feminists, scholars, organizers, and teachers of the Greater Caribbean & seed lab of @dslprojects, published a blog post for @blkwomenradical this week!

@remainsarchive @artbma @jmjafrx The event is free and open to the public. Read full details about the event on @artbma's website:

@remainsarchive @artbma Each work conveys an aspect of Molia’s life through a variety of visual, poetic, and sonic mediums. The conversation will feature the Remains team (Jessica Newby, Kevin Ah-Sen, and Samantha Stephens), the artists listed above, and closing remarks by @jmjafrx.

@remainsarchive @artbma Featuring works by artists Romaine McNeil, Tatiana Esh, Sha-Shonna Rogers, and Julia Mallory, the collection explores Molia’s story through lenses of motherhood, fugitivity, resistance, grief, and the relationships she built with other enslaved people.

On Jan 16 from 6:30-9 PM EST, join @remainsarchive @artbma for a conversation on Slavery in Motion, a multimedia art collection interpreting the life of Molia, an African woman and mother who was enslaved in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica in the 18th century.

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Guess what? Who Owns Black Data is COMING BACK!!!!. WOBDII: May 15, 2025, hosted by Yale University. Learn more: Sponsored by Black Beyond Data Ecosystem, a Mellon-funded Black studies computational humanities and social sciences lab.

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the collection explores Molia’s story through lenses of motherhood, fugitivity, resistance, grief, and the relationships she built with other enslaved people. Each work conveys an aspect of Molia’s life through a variety of visual, poetic, and sonic mediums.