Love this post! My favorite part is in Parker’s conclusion, which mirrors a conversation I had with my dean this past winter:
“Respect. We cannot respect others if we cannot accurately recognize and understand how they self-identify. This is not ‘wokeism.’ This is basic respect for other people.”
Come hear me talk about queer & trans community archives! The meeting is open to all; advanced registration is required.
Ceding control of the queer press to national media corporations was a mistake.
She’s helping!
Arthur outside Gay’s The Word holding Jacob’s Transition Goals
Arthur inside Gay’s The Word holding a copy of Jacob’s Transition Goals
My book is out now!!
Jacob’s Transition Goals is a positive, hopeful story about an 8 year old transgender boy who loves football. In today’s political climate, trans joy is so needed - you should grab a copy!
You can buy Jacob’s Transition Goals in LGBTQ+ bookshops and online all over the world
Today is National Library Workers Day, celebrating the people who do the work. ALA can't lobby for worker's rights because of stupid non-profit reasons but ALA-APA can. This year we lost Mitch Freedman who helped create ALA-APA. May his memory be a blessing. 📚
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice...
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus as Mary Shelley’s response to/critique of the political philosophies exposed by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin through the lens of social and political justice.
On National Library Workers Day, a reminder that librarians & library workers serve in lots of institutions in addition to public libraries: schools, colleges, museums, historical societies, law firms, churches, prisons, hospitals, the military, and private companies, to name the most common.
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Ann Pellegrini's "After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp" (2007) in A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (eds. George E. Haggerty & Molly McGarry) might have what you're looking for, or if it doesn't, its citations look promising.
Check out a first look at Disney’s ASL re-animated songs from 'Encanto,' 'Frozen 2,' and 'Moana 2,' coming to Disney+ next week. The studio reworks key musical sequences using performance-driven signing.
www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...
It’s the first day of National Library Week 📚
Take some time to reflect on everything libraries do and stand for and the threats they are facing.
Then think about how you can help.
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Just made the bold* stance of emailing an academic publisher to ask if I can order a copy of a book in unbound sheets so I don't have to pay $60 for a shitty POD binding. Will update this space with any developments as they occur.
*"bold" = "Please I beg you I will literally bind it myself"
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
Weirdly enough, this is not a post about Stonewall.
Thinking about how much we lose as a community when we internalize New York City's LGBTQ+ history as representative of America's LGBTQ+ history & the world's LGBTQ+ history. This is not an anti-NYC post—their history is significant & important. But to focus ONLY on NYC erases a lot of other stories.
Accessibility & cost do matter, but when my English professors assigned print books I could go to the secondhand bookstore in my hometown & use my store credit to cover the $3-7 price per used book. One semester I ended up paying ~$1.50 for 12+ books. Which is to say print books can be cheaper.
Not I. The bulk of the materials I work with have not been digitized. I don’t need an LLM to tell me what’s in the finding aid.
i love him
hey if you're feeling mentally all over the place it's nice to read a book
This is infuriating. Imagine if they did this with any other treatment. Imagine the federal gov’t saying it would withhold Medicaid/Medicare funds from hospitals for performing dialysis on patients under 18—now imagine hospital administrators complying in advance.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
Two hands hold an open book with printed and handwritten text, accompanied by a promotional banner from The Bibliographical Society of America. Transcribed Text: Left Page: THE HIGH TREASVRE... (text continues further down) Imprinted at London, for Gabriell Simson and William White. Right Page: I hate not, having a real note book, but when you order one you, note write... Banner Text: We Need More Bibliographers
The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.
#TalkAboutHumanities
Good morning, Bess!
📢 Journalists: Have you used the Wayback Machine in your research or reporting? Share your story & support: ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/journalists/
This was how my ex and I ended up watching nearly all of the Defunctland videos the first time we caught covid.
did somebody forget to feed the hamsters in the bluesky server hamster wheels
Archaeopteryx buddies! High five!
