My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

🌱✨Actually so excited and honored to help open this amazing program✨🎉

Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...

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“Just don’t talk shit about Seiji, all right? You come up here and you try to talk shit about Seiji.”

Join @atbw.bsky.social for our next series of webinars about the human costs of AI. We want to create a space where cultural memory workers can engage in critical and caring discussions about the broader impact of AI technology development. Register here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/

sewers are data centers.

As you know, Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of our wonderful staff & faculty colleagues are facing sudden job loss without severance. Hampshire staff & faculty have launched an Emergency Relief Fund—if you’re able, please donate or share! www.helphampshireworkers.com

Edible Books! I don't have any real books to share today, so here is the glorious lineup of faux-folios from April 1! Most photos were by Ben Greer, and featured on @newberrylibrary.bsky.social instagram. First up, The Poison Princess, by Conservation, a Swedish Princess cake with a dire twist! 1/?

Folks, don’t miss Dorothy Arzner’s WORKING GIRLS next month on @criterionchannl.bsky.social! An incisive feminist critique of the sexual double standard and sexual harassment in the workplace — all in a snappy pre-Code frame.

Boy do we have some news for you … www.propublica.org/series/the-r...

still a few spots left for the house archives built in baltimore ~ @dorothyjberry.bsky.social in conversation with savannah wood at good neighbor 4/30, 7p. the evening includes a cash bar, complimentary snacks, and now sold out books available for purchase 🌹 luma.com/n9l7cchr

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Fangirling @dorothyjberry.bsky.social so much right now!!

Oooooh! @dorothyjberry.bsky.social + Black Metropolis Research Consortium Director Sumayya Ahmed in conversation at the Smart Museum!!!

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Agnes Martin’s list of every job she ever had masoncurrey.substack.com/p/agnes-mart...

I had a really elaborate self designed major idea mixing c19 marionette theater/noncomformist congregational singing/performance art. Thank goodness Mills was there to give me early admission so I could more reasonably focus on extended vocal technique! and now I'm a GS 14 so take that, society!!

I know I'm a professional outlier, but all of my objective career success is based on the foundations of being able to be weird and given the leeway to grow into something by the sort of schools that are shutting down across the country.

I had two college dreams as a HS senior: either Mills College to study experimental music (final choice!), or Hampshire for my self-designed historical puppetry major. It is such a disappointment that current weird kids will have neither option available to them.

For the first time in 30 years, one of the extremely unusual Market Square buildings in Pullman is for sale. Four matching buildings were constructed a decade after the original Pullman factory town, initially housing guests of the Pullman Company during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Every time I travel and can't find the city's "African American-Ashkenazi, practicing-Eastern-Orthodox, English-First-Language, Raised-in-the-Ozarks" neighborhood I'm like ok well I guess I can't live here! [thus far I am forced to live alone in a liminal zone with only myself] [jk <3 you pluralism]

Marisa Parham at BBP Networking Black Print talking about the Timeline of African American Music from Carnegie Hall. Elegant visualization: timeline.carnegiehall.org/timeline

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

You probably already know but this album is very good. It also makes my nervous system untense a little in a way that feels very healthy currently.

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

Who can point me to great criticism of how the Handmaid's Tale Cinematic Universe defangs the parts of the book that make it powerful [to me!][obviously one could disagree with this, I want to read a smarter person who agrees so I can figure out why I feel as I do!][i refuse to become that smart!]

AI as information annihilation

my highschool english teacher would not allow the thesaurus in the classroom for reference and if you [me] used a word she thought was too much she would challenge you to prove you hadn't thesaurused it

This is always the argument against "either a paywall or it remains inaccessible"

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

“who framed roger rabbit?” was one of the most radical movies of the late 1980s

What a night for my once a year church solo www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTGE...

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

If you were going to hear from someone about the revolutionary war-- the war itself? Rick Atkinson is top of my list. Lucky to have him joining us for the second of our JCB resource events tomorrow @ 4 part of our series for the Revolution is News. Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/rick-...

Well, if it isn't birthday celebrant Billy Dee Williams in The Firebrand of Florence with Lotte Lenya!

Opening in 1898 in Atlantic City, the Heinz Pier stretched 900 feet into the ocean, lined with advertising signs, food award displays, and a gallery housing Henry Heinz's eclectic curio collection. Tourists armed with Kodak cameras could easily take snapshots posing with Heinz's Buddhist statues.

We need to think about what the preservation of history as a subject people hear about for a term or two in college means, once it is divorced from the preservation of history as a discipline of knowledge grounded in learning and research that take years to learn to practice well -- i.e., a career.

““I have a feeling that someone in his life loved him really deeply,” the artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt said_noting Mr. Machado’s skills as a caretaker. “He did all the things you do as a good son.” Agosto Machado Is Dead; Artist Memorialized New York’s Avant-Garde www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/a...

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

Book news!! but also KLAXON: LOOKING FOR ADVICE The third printing of my book has soooooold out! We are looking to outsource shipping/fulfillment so we can print more books and not sell out so often. I have been researching, but does anyone have advice for a SMALL press?

This is tomorrow, and I am super-psyched 🤗

"Hey Dorothy, describe your research and professional interests"

ALERT ALERT: Testament of Ann Lee is streaming on Hulu

You see a handy paper plate offering access to all (!) Popes, Roman Emperors, Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, a lot of Christian kings, and more minor rulers. You need to move the paper pointer, find the correct ring, and read the information. #skystorians: it's an #earlymodern paper tool. 1/2

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

We definitley need to talk about this more...