Assistant Prof @Wesleyan_u | History Ph.D. @RutgersU | Black Women | 19th C. | Slavery, Sexuality and Empire | Grandchild of the Windrush generation 🇯🇲
Joined May 2019
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15 Dec 2022
So honoured. Thank you to the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize Committee. And, thank you to @ABWHTruth for lifting and sustaining Black women historians and history. So thrilled to join a collection of such esteemed scholarship.
13 Dec 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Kaisha Esty (@professoresty), winner of the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the best article in African American women's history! #ABWH2022 #ABWHMakingHistory
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31 Dec 2022
To end the year, please watch our final new episode of ABWH-TV in 2022! A Legends in the Field conversation between Dr. Sharon Harley and Dr. Tracey Johnson (@drtraceyjohnson).
youtube.com/watch?v=bVbOVkjW…
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31 Dec 2022
My article is among @LaborOnline's top 5 most-read essays for 2022! Check it out for free until Jan 31st, 2023.
30 Dec 2022
See the most-read essays of the journal Labor and access them for free until January 31, 2023 lawcha.org/2022/12/30/the-mo… @professoresty @eileen_boris @AnneliseOrleck1
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29 Dec 2022
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Pele, an extraordinarily gifted footballer who transcended our sport and inspired millions throughout his remarkable career.
Our thoughts and sincere condolences go to Pele’s family and friends.
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15 Dec 2022
Thanks so much, Mara! Pleased to have been part of such a fantastic workshop.
14 Dec 2022
Amazing article. So thrilled @professoresty‘s research is getting the recognition she deserves!
(I participated in the workshop on labor history and sexual consent where she first presented the paper, and it blew all of us away.)
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13 Dec 2022
Dr. Esty won the Woods Brown article prize for: "I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me': Black Women and Girls and the Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent in Union-Occupied Territory."
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/is…
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Kaisha Esty retweeted
13 Dec 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Kaisha Esty (@professoresty), winner of the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the best article in African American women's history! #ABWH2022 #ABWHMakingHistory
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Kaisha Esty retweeted
12 Dec 2022
Congratulations, @professoresty! @wesleyan_u
12 Dec 2022
Congrats to my @wesleyan_u colleague @professoresty for winning @ABWHTruth’s 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for Best Article!🔥🔥🔥 “Black Women & Girls & the Battle over Labor & Sexual Consent” was published in the March 2022 issue of Labor, the official journal for @lawcha_org.
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Kaisha Esty retweeted
12 Dec 2022
Congrats to my @wesleyan_u colleague @professoresty for winning @ABWHTruth’s 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for Best Article!🔥🔥🔥 “Black Women & Girls & the Battle over Labor & Sexual Consent” was published in the March 2022 issue of Labor, the official journal for @lawcha_org.
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11 Mar 2022
Listen to @ProfessorEsty discuss her fabulous essay in the new issue of Labor, and download the essay for free. lawcha.org/2022/03/11/kaisha… See also the intro to the special issue. #laborhistory #sexualviolence @lawcha_org @DukePress
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Kaisha Esty retweeted
8 Mar 2022
Great issue. We'll be posting a featured free essay this week by @professoresty . Meanwhile, it looks like the introduction by Christopher Phelps is available for free for now.
8 Mar 2022
"Class and Consent," fascinating double issue now out, edited by our own Christopher Phelps with many revealing new perspectives on history read.dukeupress.edu/labor/is…
@LaborOnline @HOTCUS @lawcha_org @MaraKeire @eileen_boris @cfeimster @professoresty @anxiousannieb @AnneliseOrleck1
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Kaisha Esty retweeted
8 Mar 2022
"Class and Consent," fascinating double issue now out, edited by our own Christopher Phelps with many revealing new perspectives on history read.dukeupress.edu/labor/is…
@LaborOnline @HOTCUS @lawcha_org @MaraKeire @eileen_boris @cfeimster @professoresty @anxiousannieb @AnneliseOrleck1
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27 Apr 2021
Check out my babes @blkatlanticCDN in this 🔥🔥🔥piece!!
S/O to my @RUHistoryDept homie, @blkatlanticCDN, on her newly released @GothamCenter piece She Wiggled Her Body In The Most Suggestive And Obscene Manner”: Sexuality And Respectability In The West Indian Labor Day Parade. LOVE YOU!!! #Blktwitterstorians
gothamcenter.org/blog/she-wi…
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18 Mar 2021
What a day, indeed!!! Yes, thank you @CrystalNEddins and @zchsll for organizing this symposium. It was a pleasure to read and discuss so much incredible work. Still buzzing!
18 Mar 2021
Many thanks to @CrystalNEddins & @zchsll for organizing @SlaveryJustice’s SSWE Symposium, & a special shout-out to my @wesleyan_u colleague @professoresty for her brilliant paper on “Enslaved Women, Virtue & the Sexual Economy of US Slavery.” Looking fwd to Aisha Finch’s keynote!
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22 Feb 2021
Just upgraded my Zoom license. Now I can host up to 1,000 participants!🤣 Already 300 registrants for our upcoming salon, which is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Don’t miss out! #BlackFeministEcologies🔥Register now: tinyurl.com/4ayfgnw2. T-minus 3 days... Help spread the word!✊🏾
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20 Feb 2021
Join tonight's @ujamaa_wesu #BHM Black Comedy Night!! Honored to have Dr. Mark Anthony Neal @NewBlackMan open with a talk on Black comedy and activism, and a fantastic lineup featuring @marinayfranklin @zainabjohnson and @toneBell. Starts 7 PM EST linktr.ee/ujamaawesu
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Kaisha Esty retweeted
Join some of America's funniest comedians for a night of laughs!
(This event is open to community members, students, alumni, and faculty)
Date: 2/20/2021
Time: 7 PM (The lecture starts promptly at 7 PM)
Meeting information: RSVP in bio!
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6 Feb 2021
One of many exciting events this #BHM at Wesleyan U. Big up my colleague, @Garry_Bertholf for organizing. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!
@ujamaa_wesu @wesleyan_u #ABWHtruth
#Blktwitterstorians
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