Historian. Author of Unspeakable, 2020. Charity & Sylvia, 2014. Reign of Terror in America, 2009. Next up: "A Sinner's Guide to Food and Sex in Time."
Nov 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Today's #Mastodon pitch: @torstenkathke's open-access spreadsheet of historians who've made the leap now has more than 350 names. There are similar lists of lit scholars, philosophers, astronomers, etc. going around. See next tweets for sign-up tips: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…@torstenkathke First time I looked at Mastodon I found it visually confusing. I'm 46, not an internet native. I needed to go to preferences and adjust the appearance before it made sense. For me that meant: 1)site theme: light, advanced view, and ( vital) SLOW mode so it didn't auto-scroll +
Oct 30, 2022 • 68 tweets • 15 min read
Retweeting #twitterstorians mastodon handles this Sunday morning, to encourage migration away from this site, which is unleashing violent hate speech and seeding violence in the real world #ScholarSunday
Hate to say it, but Foucault was not alone. Tunisia was a destination for child prostitution in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can read about the history of the eroticization of Arab boys in Joseph Allen Boone's work or in my recent book Unspeakable. thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
Norman Douglas, subject of my new book, wrote all about his travels in Tunisia and the beauty of the naked boys who jumped into the Baths of Gafsa in his 1912 book "Fountains in the Sand."
Oct 16, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Should I work on the article I have due, or should I post historic French food-related terminology for sexual acts?
Thread. The people have spoken. 1. aller au beurre: <to take in the cream> to copulate
One of several terms involving beurre. There's also: 2. aller de son beurre: to orgasm more than once, of women #foodandsex
