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researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently between Edinburgh & the US currently Bibliography Fellow @ The Linda Hall Library
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very excited about the mail today:

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5 things i did last week: 1. Overset my raft, & all the goods...upon it; but recovered many 2. Covered & secured the goods which I had saved 3. Walked about the shore, to find out a place to fix my habitation 4. Went out with my gun & killed two fowls like ducks 5. Went to work to make me a table.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

trans rights forever

submitted 30 days ago • 46 comments

few things more painful than train wifi

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

every single day, another reason why I couldn't practically return home for longer than, say, a week: i take zoloft, i take adderall/ritalin. as i learned from years of trying to go without, i cannot do so and still basically function.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

do I know anyone in DC who might be willing to take just a couple of pictures of something at LoC for me? (there's a digitization that indicates something interesting - but the digitization isn't good enough to tell exactly what that interesting thing is.....)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Humanists: is there any collective action happening around the new NEH guidelines? By which I mean anything collective: conversations, sharing of info about grant apps related to race and gender studies, discussion about boycotting? Anything happening?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke] THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

My latest New Acquisition highlight: lichen, moss, and female scientific researchers! Click through for the glass tubes of lichen specimens preserved in the book structure (!!), stay for the tangible history of women in science. #HistSci 📜 📚 www.lindahall.org/about/news/l...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

year of glad

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

💔

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

i’m pretty sure there’s a direct line between my intense childhood obsession with Seek and Find books and my bibliographical, archival, proofreading etc. skills now - but I suppose this tracks with how valued those seem to be now

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

every time i feel bad about not having written/presented/etc. enough during my academic career, i remember that I started my PhD in 2016, started my dissertation writing fellowship in 2020, and then, well, yeah

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

every day, my plans to go back to the States at the end of the month seems less and less wise....

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

(not including a few things in e-editions)

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

"Fix your hearts or die" IS absolultely fire but also huge shoutout to David Lynch for writing a trans character into the OG run of Twin Peaks in fucking 1990 who was cool, and confident, and who was treated with the utmost respect and dignity by her former colleague the instant he meets her

submitted 43 days ago • 23 comments

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store. A catnap in your office chair. Or two cups of good, hot black coffee. Like this.

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

this isn’t, at all, how I think quinoa should really be cooked - but nevertheless I tried it: youtu.be/uSP-ewdJYJc?...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

i literally carry this with me

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RIP, king

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

I walked into a pharmacy in Edinburgh today, & picked up 2 brand-name epipens, no cost at purchase. These would have cost me 650$ in the US—or about half of total yearly healthcare surcharge I paid when coming to the UK, for just that one medication.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

makes me proud to once have been a cadet 🫡. now go support trans and nonbinary scouts and get the best cookies:

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

my version of this was AP-testing out of first-year writing, which seemed great at the time. It was only about 8 years later, when I started *teaching* first-year writing that i realized what I missed

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment