When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
Me trying to explain to a new friend why I work on research every day even though no one is "paying" for me to do it anymore… (probably weirder to explain how when I was getting paid for it, my job didn't actually allow me the time or focus to do it)
It was great to see you, even if just for a moment and just on the jumbotron!
Screen of 13 book covers with presenter with mic speaking below the screen
Such an impressive group of finalists for the @sharpweb.org book history prize…
…and extra congratulations to prize recipient Martin Paul Eve for his “Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History”!
#SHARP2025
A slide featuring the book cover, showing that I had won
Wow! I won the SHARP Book History Prize for my last book with Stanford University Press, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History!
#SHARP2025 people! If you use #BookHistory in your posts, it will show up in the Book History feed (which you should also add to your feeds!)
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Excellent first #SHARP2025 keynote by Katie Mitchell, author of “Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores.” Mitchell conducted deep research in archives & communities, & interviewed 1960s+ bookstore owners & their families. Fascinating & varied stories!
www.prosetothepeople.com
The BOOK HISTORY editors are here in Rochester at the @sharpweb.org conference and ready to answer your questions or help you with any issues you might have missed! #bookhistory #sharp2025
nothing has made me lose more hope for the future recently than seeing how many people who claim left wing politics were unable to pass the "is it ethical to stay on the nazi brainwashing site" test. smallest possible sacrifice being asked, and so many people can't even manage it.
Prose to the People by Katie Mitchell book cover
This is the book! Check it out. #SHARP2025
And this is what keynotes are for! 💖
Answering my (recurring) question about working with non-dead people, Katie Mitchell has provided wonderful advice about working on dead people:
- you need to love them
- you need to treat them like they are still alive to be able to tell their story
#SHARP2025
Make sure to tag us in your @sharpweb.org Rochester posts! We wanna see it what ya'll are up to!
Safe travels to everyone heading to Rochester. We hope you have a blast!!
#BookHistory
#SHARP2025
book cover for prose to the people
#sharp2025 first keynote is Katie Mitchell's Prose to the People, an incredible book of Black book history
If you’re at #SHARP2025 this week and you’re interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! We’re going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon!
#BookHistory
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This is dark
i have come to love all the old grandmas with their homemade signs about protecting democracy or immigrants. it's so heartwarming. goals honestly
The gorgeous front cover of Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas. It shows a pixelated cursor half of it is made of binding stitches.
The spines of ten copies of the book.
Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print!
Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...
If you work at a university remind your bosses that there's no such thing as an illegal protest.
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
Trump said "Social Security would not be touched."
Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees.
This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Legislation HB2037 (Bulova) progressed to the Governor's desk. ALLOW localities to require Solar canopies! #DillonRuleState
In France, we have a specialty. We like to cut off crowned heads.
We can help you.
Screen shot, which reads, As required by the Administration’s Executive Orders, NEH awards may not be used for the following purposes: promotion of gender ideology; promotion of discriminatory equity ideology; support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities; or environmental justice initiatives or activities.
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
Cars were the worst invention in human history and I cannot be moved off that opinion
Congratulations! We need moments of light in these tumultuous times.
Goodnight (brain) mush
The folks overseeing the General Services Administration have disabled the spoon emoji on its videoconferencing platform because employees were using the symbol yesterday to mock the Elon Musk-influenced "Fork in the Road" resignation offer.
Goodnight 🥄.
Aww thank you for making that happen! And I agree about @wordsmith.bsky.social 's book: it's one I *always* cite.
