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Andrea Gibson has died.

Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher

Me every time Spelling Bee refuses to accept "cathect" as a word

Ok the Unrivaled 1v1 Tournament may be the most fun I've ever had watching sports on TV

Gosh thanks, Elsevier, for charging libraries gobs of money for what seems extremely likely to be AI-generated junk (h/t to a colleague for finding this)

David Lynch. None of his work ever really spoke to me except for Mulholland Drive, but Mulholland Drive is probably the film of all films in the world that has most shaped how I think and perceive and imagine. What a loss. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

#LibJobs Wesleyan University Library is hiring a Digital Asset Coordinator to execute, supervise, and manage vendor-provided projects involving photography and complex scanning of rare and unique materials plus materials for pedagogical use. Details: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Just bought a June Jordan anthology from a lesbian bookstore in Western Mass and it feels as if I have unlocked a whole new level of Dykedom

differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Whatever does or doesn't come of the Neil Gaiman allegations, the fact remains that many many people (myself included, to an extent) have spent years extolling The Sandman, whose much-beloved protagonist condemned a woman to eternal torture for *checks notes* rejecting his advances 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Oooh apparently hashtags are now functional on this platform #AcademicLibraries #Libraries journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/jo...

Excited and honored to have my article “Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog” out now in the Journal of Radical Librarianship! journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/jo...

Honored to make a 2nd appearance on @debraraecohen.bsky.social’s In These Times blog on the Modernism/modernity print plus site. I wrote about feminism, modernism, and the uses and abuses of amateurism, incl by “GC” feminism. Ft art by @allgrim.bsky.social! 💜 modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

"Library workers have been conditioned by professional precarity and gendered expectations to be, above all else, reactive to need." #c18th #skybrarians @stynnelahl.bsky.social

Prepping for a research consultation with a student whose project is on maritime fashion and queerness and heaven help me, all I can think of is this

Ok, I'm charmed.

Why is everything Aldi sells either a very basic pantry staple or absolutely chaotic nonsense in edible form?? In other news, I tried their pumpkin pie seltzer so you don't have to.

If we count *me* being painfully on-brand, def the time I met Alison Bechdel and said of Are You My Mother "I'm not sure if this book has helped my relationship with my mom, but it has helped my relationship TO my relationship with my mom" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1000% sincere when I say that a student approaching me for research assistance with their capstone on poop in art and literature has brightened my week a thousandfold and also becoming an academic librarian is the best choice I ever made📚💩

We (Wesleyan U) are hiring a Head of Special Collections! Have been here <1 year but can 100% confirm that Wes is a place where students, staff, and faculty are *deeply interested* in Special Collections. careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10066

This is *not* my MLA session; this is a session taking place the same time slot as mine. See you all in Philly, if probably (and understandably!) not between 1:45-3:00 on Saturday🥰

"The very idea of the common good has been lost in the discussions about WVU’s catastrophic cuts; the significance of a public university has been forgotten...A public university is neither the buildings on a campus nor the endowment nor its figureheads. [It is]...quite simply its people." ❤️

While I appreciate the EV chargers popping up all around campus, it is v hard to imagine anybody seeing one of these and thinking anything other than "giant tampon dispenser"

We (Wesleyan U) are hiring a Research Data Librarian! This role serves as a contact point and advocate for scholarly communications issues, e.g. sustainable publishing practices and open data, and as a liaison to assigned STEM subject areas. careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/9952

Excellent reporting from the WVU student newspaper on the proposed cuts; absolutely preposterous claim from the university that said cuts will affect "less than 2%" of students www.thedaonline.com/news/wvucuts...