Anne Gray Fischer

Historian and author of The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification. On Twitter hiatus but I get DM notifications.

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

How (why?) make feminist demands for the equitable distribution of care on a state that unequally distributes violence, immiseration, and death?

CFP: Feminists Confront State Violence
@RadHistReview w/ the brilliant @marisollebron
and @fairyprofessor

https://t.co/rvGjwD48UP

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@QuinnLester Thank you so much!!

[UHA @UrbanHistoryA]

MotW @annegrayfischer hypes work by @divafeminist @murchnik @DrHeatherBerg @Hugh_Ryan. And advises young urbanists to focus on "exactly where you are. Our research is very often determined by our own context, circumstances, and material capacity": https://t.co/u3meXz1JCK

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@DrBrandonJett1 Thanks Brandon! I loved Policing in the Jim Crow South.

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

Accidentally preordered @Hugh_Ryan’s book twice!

This is so good: “Long before our current struggle over Roe v Wade, a forced-birth agenda was deeply rooted in the criminal legal system’s approach to women and trans men.” @madebyhistory

https://t.co/urTwdh9Cy7

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

There is a shortage in the “domestic supply of infants” in the US.

For decades, the adoption industry has filled this gap disproportionately with children from communities of color—first through international adoption and now foster care.

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@soggypebble @UrbanHistoryA Hi Brian, dm or email me and I can send you some primary sources!

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@anya_jabour @SAWH1970 This panel looks so good! 🔥🔥

[dr. pliley @pliley]

The leaked decision ignores 50 years of rigorous research in women’s history. According to Alito, women’s rights don’t exist and neither does women’s and gender history. @womnknowhistory @BerksConference @TheCCWH

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@willtchak Thanks so much, Will! Hope we can think together soon.

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

Thread on top of thread unraveling the weaponization of sex politics in service to hate, capital, and state violence.

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@JuliaLaite One of my graduate students, George Morgan, published a biography of his mother: https://t.co/fv4wQ0KRBL

Also, Beryl Satter powerfully used her father's history in Family Properties.

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

@DrMireille @SAShistorian @TheAtlantic Thank you so much Mireille! 💖

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

Whoa this is so cool! @SAShistorian reviewed my book in @TheAtlantic 🤯🔥

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

In a revelatory new history, Anne Gray Fischer argues that the sexual policing of Black women laid the foundation for the broad discretionary powers that law enforcement has today, @SAShistorian writes:

https://t.co/8HfHFuu6Mf

[Sowande' Mustakeem @somustakeem]

I'm pretty stoked to be offering the 1st ever 'Women & Crime in History/Herstory' class at WashU this fall! These students are hungry for more where #women are! #crime @WashUHistory @AFASWashU @madameclair08 @KaliGrossPhD @JAAHistory @ASALH @hthompsn @WashUHumanities @CRE2_WashU

[Anne Gray Fischer @annegrayfischer]

Thanks, Stevie!