It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47...

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www.dukeupress.edu/reparations-... @dukepress.bsky.social is currently offering a 30% discount on David Eng's "Reparations and the Human" Use this code: E25DLENG

I was very pleased to review @riislover667.bsky.social's gorgeous volume _Feminism Against Cisness_ for @legacy1984.bsky.social . A great step toward trans studies as method and highly accessible for C19 practitioners!

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/
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In a scary, chaotic week, I'm feeling grateful for teaching. It's a rare privilege to walk alongside young folks willing to plant their feet and wrestle with hard ideas. The questions my senior thesis/I.S. students want to ask all have to do with justice, community, and connection.

Yes, we learned more about data privacy and got rid of our Alexa, even though it only ever set alarms and kept the grocery list.

Getting a library card!

When I was 12, on day 2 of rec center tennis camp they demoted me to the under-10s group based on skill. My 10yo brother was, however, promoted to the tween group. This was so normal for me that he didn't even think to tease me about it.

On day 3 I got heat sick and didn't have to go back.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Thank you for the inspiration!

We're especially inspired by Emma Heaney's (@riislover667.bsky.social) collection /Feminism Against Cisness/!

Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words to Eagan Dean and Will Younts by August 10.

Can we look at C19 gender as a rhizome––as a network of people and communities whose gender expressions bloom because of their submerged entanglements? What relationships underlie/are underground to what look like individual expressions of gender?

CFP: Rhizomatic Gender

Cisness, like many forms of normativity, defines itself through rejecting what it constructs as the abnormal. There are also, however, many nineteenth century American stories of entangled figures whose genders arise from shared roots.

CFP in C19 trans studies for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference!

#C192026 #transstudies #c19

A big WHOOPS—and congratulations—to Elizabeth James, who co-wrote "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives." Our social media coordinator missed the fact that James was the Recovery Hub consultant for the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Digital Archive. Great work, Elizabeth! #academicsky

You can read more about the #CriticalHealth conference on the @fullersociety.bsky.social website: margaretfullersociety.org/conferences/...

🤝my husband and I after our 8 hours of weekly commuting ft. Trixie & Katya

(mostly addressing the cat)

"This article does not argue that archiving is inherently radical, but rather that archiving collaboratively, and with a queer of color feminist ethic of care, is a kind of bridge work...[which] is organizing in that it embraces contradiction: the 'both/and." www.scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/lo...

What happens to the archives of our feminist elders? Walk alongside scholar Mich Ling as they work with Merle Woo--a contributor to /This Bridge Called My Back/ and an Ethnic Studies vanguard--to organize, analyze, and preserve her records.

Congratulations to Vassar Historian and head of Vassar Archives and Special Collections, Prof. Ron Patkus, who just received the AAVC's Outstanding Faculty Award.

So well-deserved!

If the dismantling of the ODH has impacted your work, sign up to give a lightning talk during the "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired Session" by Monday, June 9th: bit.ly/ach-inspirat...