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This morning’s coffee also sponsored by PEM. “There is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends”

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Went to the Peabody Essex Museum with @feralresearch.org yesterday. Left with this Moby-Dick hat.

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Spent the week at the American Antiquarian Society for the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture seminar on Sex, Gender, and Print. Arrived a 19C Americanist, left wanting to write about Cotton Mather. Time to admit I've always been a bit of a closet early modernist.

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would play

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Yes. As a middle age man, I'd really like to know.

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One of these things will last another 100 years. #letterpress

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UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301... This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!

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📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15th September 2025. More info 👇 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

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Appreciation post! - Thank you to my #printmaking colleagues for donating to the Society of Early Americanists #letterpress portfolio fundraiser - @ryancordell.org @jsench.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social & Jessica Linker #vastearlyAmerica #SEA2025 #nokings Happy bidding!

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Cheers to the 19th century librarian at the Philadelphia Mercantile Librarian who put their library stamp over Wheatley's signature in this copy of the 1773 Poems. Possibly to prevent theft of the signature from cutting out the leaf?

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Excited to announce a new series from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'Book History for the Future', edited by Lisa Gitelman, Tom Mole and Sarah Werner. Now soliciting proposals, so drop me a line if you're working in the area and interested in learning more!

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The final print in the Society of Early Americanists fundraiser comes from @jsench.bsky.social - Do check out Jonathan's artist's statement in this thread, and please see all of the wonderful pieces in our portfolio via the auction form in the reposted link. I'm just so delighted!

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New acquisition inspired by @literaturegeek.bsky.social. I just couldn’t resist! Had to have it!

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Fuck Pride, it's Gemini Season!

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Good afternoon from your local PBSA editor, a bibliographical journal where we vet and edit everything with our own human brains!! bibsocamer.org/publications...

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Next up in our Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser is the #letterpress work of @transbookhistory.bsky.social whose work through @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social is committed to resisting trans and queer erasure through the power of print.

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Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech?

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First up in the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser are the protest posters of @ryancordell.org - Ryan directs @skeuomorphpress.org an experiential studio for research and teaching in book and information arts that is housed in the @Champaign-Urbana Community FabLab....

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Join us for our information session Tuesday, June 3 at 3 pm EST—registration link available in application link below!

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On the one hand, Awesome. Sir Ian McKellen is an awesome ally. On the other hand, please read Early Modern Trans Studies (#EMoTrans). 1/2 www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

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it's finally out! if you don't have access but would like it, please let me know :)

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Please check out this fundraiser for the Society of Early Americanists Travel Fund - we're conducting a silent auction of #letterpress prints that speak to our shared interests in #vastearlyamerica #c17 #c18 #c19 forms.gle/myBaLAw56apH...

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I was the youngest person in the group.

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2 weeks shy of my 47th birthday and I’ve registered for deep water aerobics at the local pool. Really leaning into midlife over here.

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🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣 Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen?? (I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)

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Feminist bibliography ( #fembib ) in progress!

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#New: There's a new, pop-up trans library in the Annex! It features about 300 books by trans authors or about the trans community. We spoke with the founder about their motivation for its creation. www.torontotoday.ca/local/arts-c...

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I also asked my trans lit students to name 3 modes of care from @hilmalatino.bsky.social's trans care and identify where those modes of care were at work throughout our readings this semester. A lot of students talked about the class itself as a care web and form of preservative love. 😭😭😭

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One of the best questions I asked trans lit students in their final reflections was to name three people in their lives and which texts from the course they would recommend to each of those people. I get to learn about the people my students care about through the trans literature they recommend.

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A quick question for manuscript people: can you think of any other examples where a scribe/translator notes per manum 'by the hand of' with a little drawing of a hand - as below?

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When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.

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Moby-Dick always finds you when you least expect it.

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I did not expect to be writing about Moby-Dick in this chapter on extra-illustration and it's entirely @18thcenturysam.bsky.social's fault.

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Anyone Chicago and/or C-U library/museum folks got a lead for @eireannmor.bsky.social? cc @jbrodefrank.bsky.social @bethlovesbollywood.bsky.social @ryancordell.org @lisalibrarian.bsky.social @panoptigoth.bsky.social @houseofwinds.bsky.social

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