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Making women throughout history visible to all.

“The mission of The New Historia is to expose Historical Misogyny by remembering the unremembered women of the past. We regard such women as “missing matter,” as figures who generated knowledge that is still hidden, and as possessors of knowledge that has no obvious place in prevailing knowledge-ordering systems. Existing structures for organizing knowledge have routinely silenced women from every

corner of the globe, making it almost impossible for them to be regarded as ‘Knowers.’ We are dedicated to pursuing the cultural contributions made by earlier women, contributions that survived and then disappeared; that were resurrected and lost again through either intentional destruction or neglect. Our collective work is exposing women’s historic invisibility, reconstructing the lost knowledge of women’s experiences, ideas, and productions, and securing this emerging corpus for posterity.” - Nancy Kendrick, Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College, The New Historia Philosopher-in-Residence

06/12/2026

This week, we're reading feeld by Jos Charles.

Winner of the National Poetry Series, feeld challenges conventional ideas of language, gender, and identity, creating space for experiences that have too often been excluded from the stories we tell and the words we use to tell them.

Through inventive, boundary-pushing poetry, Charles reimagines language itself - asking who gets to be seen, who gets to be heard, and what becomes possible when new vocabularies emerge.

06/11/2026

This week, we're watching I'm Your Venus.

More than thirty years after her death, Venus Xtravaganza remains one of the most recognizable figures of ballroom culture and q***r history. This new documentary revisits her life, legacy, and the enduring impact she continues to have on generations of LGBTQ+ people, artists, and activists.

06/09/2026

What does q***rness sound like?

This week’s Emerging Voices project by Isabel Corp explores the work of SOPHIE and Pauline Oliveros - two groundbreaking experimental musicians whose approaches to sound challenged conventions of gender, identity, and artistic expression.

Separated by generations but connected through experimentation, both artists transformed personal experience into creative practice. Through hyperpop, deep listening, and sonic exploration, they used sound not only to make music, but to imagine new ways of being.

Sometimes the most radical stories are not told. They are heard.

🎧 Explore Q***r Sound: How SOPHIE & Pauline Oliveros Synthesized Their Lives.

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06/07/2026

Born into slavery, Frances Thompson survived the Memphis Massacre of 1866 and became the first Black transgender woman known to testify before Congress. Her courage helped expose racial and sexual violence during Reconstruction and ensured that these stories would not be forgotten.

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05/22/2026

What if friendship itself is political?

This Emerging Voices project by Nellianne Bateman reflects on the work of Audre Lorde through conversations about accountability, intimacy, feminism, and care.

Moving between personal experience and political thought, the project explores how relationships shape the ways we confront power - not only in institutions, but within ourselves and our communities.

Sometimes the most difficult forms of activism begin in ordinary conversations.

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📸Audre Lorde, Meridel Lesueur, Adrienne Rich 1980. via Wikimedia Commons

05/21/2026

What happens to a person’s capacity to love after surviving hatred?

This Emerging Voices project by Nikhil Shah reflects on the life and legacy of Holocaust survivor Rosalie Simon - not only through the history she carries, but through the warmth, compassion, and humanity with which she shares it.

Through testimony, memory, and reflection, this work asks us to consider what it means to remain open-hearted in the aftermath of unimaginable violence.

Some people preserve history not only through what they remember, but through the way they choose to move through the world.

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05/20/2026

History remembers the University in Exile. Far less often does it remember the women who helped shape it.

In 1933, The New School responded to Hitler’s rise to power by helping rescue displaced scholars and establishing what became the University in Exile.

Alongside this historic effort were women such as Frieda Wunderlich, Hannah Arendt, and Arien Mack — thinkers whose contributions continue to shape the institution’s intellectual legacy.

In partnership with the Women’s Legacy Project, we are helping bring these stories back into view.

Interviews with Gina Walker at her home in Rhinebeck, NY, and with Arien Mack were shot and edited by Will Lucas and Anomie Williams, and directed by Cecilia Rubino.

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05/18/2026

Standing at the center of late twentieth century feminist politics is the radical figure of Susan Brownmiller (1935-). Brownmiller used her voice to elevate discussions of both women’s rights and racial justice. Braving the threatening force of McCarthyism, she joined her voice with the efforts of New York Radical Women, and she used her position at the New York Times to tell the world that Women’s liberation is here.

In 1975, Brownmiller published Against Our Will: Men, Women and R**e, and ignited a long-overdue conversation about sexual violence and r**e culture in the United States. Brownmiller also became a symbol for feminism’s broader and enduring racial problems, as she was never content with the movement’s failures to invest in intersectional justice.

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05/15/2026

What does it mean to belong to a place, a body, a memory?

This Emerging Voices project by Elizabeth Miller explores the work and legacy of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist whose practice transformed exile, displacement, and femininity into ritual, performance, and earth-body art.

Through film, fashion, and material experimentation, What Keeps reflects on the fragile relationship between identity and the natural world, and on art’s ability to hold grief, memory, and presence all at once.

Some works disappear with time. Others continue to leave traces.

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05/14/2026

As the primary songwriter and founding member of the ‘70s rock band The Runaways, Kari Krome’s contributions to rock and roll history continue to go unrecognized since she was ousted from the group before they went mainstream.

The Runaways’ success is frequently attributed to their male manager, Kim Fowley. While Fowley was certainly instrumental in bringing the band together and promoting their career, the band would not exist without Krome.

This editorial by Isabel Corp tells the tragic story of Krome’s career and the abuses of Fowley. After signing fourteen-year-old Krome to a publishing deal, Fowley would later go on to claim credit for Krome’s songwriting after she left the group - an unfortunate but unsurprising revelation as so many brilliant women have been sabotaged by older, more powerful men in their circles.

👇🏻 Click the link in comments to learn more about Krome’s role in rock and roll history and how her spark set off the Cherry Bomb.

✨ Krome is still creating today and can be found on Twitter .

📸Kari Krome on stage (via Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

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