evil. many ppl on here have pointed out that grad students often haven't taken the courses they're TAing bc they weren't undergrads at that school. i've also never taken a nonmajor music appreciation/history course, something i taught over a dozen sections of during my PhD, bc i was a music major!

It’s long been important for universities like Columbia and UMass with histories of campus unrest to sanitize older protest traditions as positive proof of their “engagement“ with the world while doing everything to prevent protests against their current policies from happening.

today's excerpt from eighteenth-century singing school discourse: is learning to sing "by rule" or "by note" unholy because it's popular with young people? (Thomas Symmes, The Reasonableness of Regular Singing, or Singing by Note, 1720)

Hey Boston area friends! My brilliant BPL fellow fellow Aabid Allibhai will be giving a lecture Monday 29 June at Boston Public Library on African American Belinda Sutton's 1783 petition for reparations for her enslavement. It'll be wonderful Please do register! 🗃️ tinyurl.com/mvdt3jbf

bronchitis: don't recommend. turns out i love talking and miss it very much.

The Minneapolis activists arrested for defending their communities this week heartened and comforted each other in their jail cells by singing.

my spouse misheard me and thought i was talking about a business networking social media site for shrimp. ShrimpedIn™️

18th-century name of the day: Shrimpton Boston Gazette and Country Journal, December 8, 1766

I bought an 1893 pictorial English-German dictionary today, and some of the illustrations they picked are… questionable. For example, this “ant” with 14 (!!!) legs

Here's a link to another outlet with no paywall: thehill.com/regulation/c...

HARPP has released “The Federal Assault on History” the first comprehensive report documenting the Trump administration’s sweeping, coordinated effort since January 2025 to reshape how the American past is recorded, preserved, and shared with the public. Read the report: https://ow.ly/7ab150Zawe5

🤬 You do not "fill the gap" in archives. You ask *why* the gap is there in the first place. That is where the real information resides. Also: LLMs train on digitized materials. Do you have any idea how little has been digitized? LLMs train on a *sliver* of the human past and human knowledge.

This is a enormous loss. I did not know her personally –– my love goes out to all of those who did. If you haven't read her work, go do so immediately. I always assign "Whose Feminism is it Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Transgender Inclusion Debate.” So much more at eminism.org

Celebrate #PrideMonth by learning about Boston writer and gay rights advocate Nancy Walker, whose donated articles, correspondence, photos, and other materials are available through @nu-archives.bsky.social. Learn more in our latest blog post by Irene Gates: librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=277206

A new edition of Trans Central Station by the late, beloved trans legend Rachel Pollack, with an introduction by @sarahschulman.bsky.social. www.silverpress.org/products/tra...

if i ever need an audition monologue for anything, i *will* be using this

almost being a thirty-year-old man is manifesting in a lot of ways for me, but one of them is that i'm one bad idea away from starting a podcast at all times.

Oh sure, you put four legs on a goose and it's "adorable". But you put eight legs on a goose and suddenly it's an "abomination". I see how it is.

What a good kitty. 💕 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Good morning 🥱

þæt wæs god hund <3

June already??!! How absurd! What's next? July?? Ridiculous! Just like these sales! That's right queers and friends of the show, we're running a sale for ALL of Pride month 🎉🎉🎉 We're selling all of our glorious gay books at wonderful discount rates for YOU! 🫵 www.littlepuss.net/shop/pride-s...

Question: Does anyone know where I might read more about the history of the style guide/house style? I know about Hart's Rules but am less interested in which guides are being continuously updated today than in the earlier history of the concept/practice itself.

Definitely 1840s clickbait, but this came up in my research on choristers. [Hampshire Gazette, August 7, 1849, 4]

Please spread the word about this special issue in your feminist philosophy and feminist theory circles! It’s a great opportunity and there’s plenty of time to write something ✍️

Early modernists working at the intersection of specialized humanities scholarship and applied public research: check out this CFP for a conference at The Huntington in April 2027-abstracts due 6/1/26🗃️ files.constantcontact.com/6a30e5a9101/...

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

a handy visual guide

yiddish has a word for hedgehog that's slavic and moderately cute (yozh, יאָזש) but i actually prefer the germanic one we also have which is DER SHTEKHLER ("the pricker") 🦔

Just remembered tomorrow is Mother's Day. Listen: this book is about a mom

Now is the month of MAYING

how is he this beautiful?

do you have what it takes to make it as a musicologist in New Jersey (ability to teach a class called SPRINGSTEEN!!)?

When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult and picks up a UFO-hunting hitchhiker, he embarks on a supernatural roadtrip across the country, with the cult in hot pursuit, eager to reclaim their runaway Chosen One. #questpit #Q #U #YA

i have seen this several times in the last few days and genuinely misread it as "I Thought I Was Trans. I Was Autistic." the first 3 times.

I know it’s spring but I have to show you this snow puff I just got. Photo from my collection, 1960.

chill out, duo. i'm just finally taking an class through @workerscircle.bsky.social that's developed and taught by an actual human!

Homeschool alumni, take a survey about your life experiences! siucpsyc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Every month I use a different theme to highlight the breadth and depth of the Barnard Zine Library and how its item-level cataloging provides an easy way to discover zine content relevant for research and leisure reading. I've now combined them on a guide. guides.library.barnard.edu/weve-got-a-z...

🔥 CFP: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies, Fall 2027 issue of WSQ. Submit by July 31, 2026! feministpress.org/pages/curren... @feministpress.bsky.social

first pass at chouquettes turned out well! they're filled with lemon buttercream and topped with candied lemon.

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Whither Trans/Queer Music Studies? @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social, Dan Arthur Levy, Nicholas Tran & @poestiche.bsky.social lnkd.in/gcnSUJQC

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

my cat has become aggressively cuddly in the week since he's had an infected tooth extracted, to the point that he keeps headbutting my laptop off my lap. like, i love you buddy, but repeatedly bashing your head into my hands will not convince me to give you dry food against your vet's instructions!

just clocked out and about to clock in again for second shift and very tired so putting this into the universe

happy tdov, "visibility" without protection is a threat

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