The person who was once the most powerful man in the world, and who is trying to be so again, announced he plans to enact a transgender genocide if he does so. Check you trans friends, and know that we need you to not just be caring, but stand and fight alongside us.
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Public Historian. Archivist. Embroider. Editor at . Strong thoughts about tea and Doctor Who. Settler. (They/Them)
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Yes, the internet is ephemeral. Yes, people have been writing about a "digital dark age" for 30+ years. Yes, people are archiving digital materials. No, not just the Internet Archive. Welcome to a discourse community that you didn't know existed but has been around for decades.
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Why don’t rare book professionals wear white gloves when handling books? Short answer: to protect them! 🙌 To learn more about why – and where the white glove myth came from – check out my new episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory 📚
youtu.be/cDMpuIlxKPg
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New blog post:
Remembering Anna Clutterbuck-Cook:
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Market employees getting busted in their secret nap spot. digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonw
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animal dance, flanders, 14th century
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Indigenous drum group on Broad Street in Regina, Saskatchewan, around 1890. Indigenous presence (permanence) in Canadian urban centres is not transitory in nature but permanent, but its erasure fits an agenda. For an upcoming project (TBA) I am seeking photographic images…
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If you want archivists to take care of your documents, you have to hire and pay some archivists.
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This is what Indigenous librarianship looks like in O'odham territory! I am stoked to share the news below. Thank you to all those who have continuous supported me and the Labriola Center along the way. Sape'o!
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Pleased to share that I'm giving this free virtual talk with about Lessons in Legitimacy and the history of schooling and settler capitalism in British Columbia on Tuesday at 7PM EST. Hope to see you there! Register in the link below. twitter.com/OttawaHA/statu
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Apply by Feb 15! I’m one of the Landback Universities Project organizers and we’re convening a group of leading scholars, administrators, staff, & students for an in-person meeting April 17-18 to explore what Landback looks like at colleges & universities docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI
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In just 5 minutes, Montana will hold a hearing that will determine if all trans youth there are forcibly medically detransitioned by withdrawing them from their medication.
I will cover this closely - this is where my focus is today. Stay here for the live twitter thread.
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“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
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Big news! We're seeking Writers-in-Residence for ! Interested in writing about gender, medicine, etc., for a broad audience? We're looking for candidates for our 2023-2024 cohort. Please share & consider applying! DM or email me with any qs.
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#DYK that if you can't watch the videos, we're available on & ? Get the links: anchor.fm/histoire-sourc
Saviez-vous qu’en attendant la sortie de nos vidéos, vous pouvez accéder à nos conversations par le biais d’ et de
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Then Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep.
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INCREDIBLE!!!
The Provincial Freeman is digitized + online for FREE!
just made it happen >>>
colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-
Shadd Cary was one of the first Black women to start a newspaper. Easily one of the most iconic newspapers of all time. This is a very, very big deal.
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After releasing the CFP a year ago (!), and I are very pleased to announce that the special issue of , “This Feature Has Been Disabled: Critical Intersections of Disability and Information Studies,” is now out!
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/
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"If you’ve ever wanted to read an academic journal article, though, you may have noticed that it costs money to download it—anywhere between $5 and $90. The article’s author isn’t getting that money."
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Happy to share that there are now 270 high resolution images from the McCurdy fonds available for download from the . These are wonderful resources for Black History Month. #OpenGLAM #blackhistory #Blackhistorymonth twitter.com/Aburgfreedom/s
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For at least five years, has been talking about doing an oral history of Vancouver’s 2000s-era 99 cent pizza slice price war.
That history and much more is recounted here:
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I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up.
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Tea and Friday Midsomer Murders vibes.
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National Library of Australia’s free digital archives may be forced to close without funding #Trove #saveTrove #fundTrove
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The last day to submit your Federal Indian Day School Claim and Extension Request Form is Friday, Jan 13th, 2023.
Questions? Contact the Class Council: 1-855-539-3815
Anishinabek Nation member First Nations can access individual assistance via s.goulais.deering@anishinabek.ca.
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One of the most beloved free-to-use photos in the Library's collection is of Brünnhilde, for obvious reasons. We're happy to report that 2023 comes with a freshly digitized photograph of Brünnhilde from another angle. 😻
More of our free-to-use photos: go.loc.gov/mlqO50MhxCu
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For those who might have missed it in the lead-up to Christmas, and I wrote about Trove's latest funding woes for >Trove's funding runs out in July 2023 – and the National Library is threatening to pull the plug theconversation.com/troves-funding #libraries
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here's the report. big themes this year: the papal apology not completing CtA 58; the concerns of the commodification of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. it's an easy read, and it's fantastic and informative:
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sharing from a couple of weeks ago: says 2 more Calls to Action were completed in 2022 -- which brings the total to 13 in 7 years. and on the themes of this year's report:
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when you realize it’s time to “circle back after the holiday break”
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here’s an easy guide on how to draw black cats
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Was optimistic that we'd make it more than three days into a brand new baby year before seeing yet another "just digitize it" take that ignores human + technical infrastructure, archivist expertise, and the very existence of digital preservation as ongoing, but here we are.
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So the not feeling well thing, ends up I have covid.
I'm back under the quilt watching more Midsomer Murders.
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Not feeling well, starting a Midsomer Murders rewatch to go alongside my Doctor Who rewatch.
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I want everyone to be able to celebrate wins. I also want people to know that productivity doesn't have anything to do with your individual worth or your belongingness in the academy. 4/4 #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
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I wish we had a limitation on how many pieces a person could publish in a single year. Hyperproducticity leads to impossible work standards for everyone. And some groups are never going to be able to meet the new standards being set. 2/4
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Bizarre Victorian & Edwardian New Year cards, a thread
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We're told to go, go, go, achieve, achieve, achieve in an unreasonable, unnatural, impossible way, and we need to stop sometimes, look at those feelings, and recognize them as lies.
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