I am obligated to remind folks that @coyotemedia.org is queer as fuck, worker-owned, and published this today.

pride month is a good time to donate to help us bring a used bookstore/cafe cooperate to queens! all of our worker-owners are queer, majority of us are trans, we have really good taste in books, and we all know how important it is for things to be affordable: givebutter.com/no-borders-c...

I think about this whenever I see people moaning about the ”Library of Alexandria.” There are lots of surviving ancient texts that almost nobody bothers to read. But we’re cutting classics programs across the US and UK and kneecapping language education. We don’t take care of what we have.

Job posting: The director and curator administers and oversees all operations for the List Gallery, a regionally acclaimed exhibition venue. . .including contemporary artists, student work, and works from the Swarthmore College Art Collection.” careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job...

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

this cannot stand.

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

"I have a shoebox I once filled with letters and mailed to people in jail. I have some of the same zines as my friends. I've been to a book club. And I am writing this down." A beautiful reflection on generosity, danger, and steadfastness ❤️‍🔥

Does this news outrage you? Does it make you want to make zines? Do you want to know how, even without a computer? Here's an easy step-by-step guide by @thorazos.bsky.social. Print out the pages below or purchase copies cheap at the link. www.etsy.com/listing/6936...

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the House. The bill would ban the construction of data centers until Congress addresses the economic, environmental, and safety impacts of AI.

consider donating to a wonderful library as pride month wraps up - folks are able to apply for a card and get access to their collection. i've read a good number of queer books the past few months thanks to them 🩷🌈

why have i known all my life that Van Gogh painted sunflowers and night skies, but i didn’t know until last week that he painted crabs

Today is a particularly good day to buy these zines and support the Prairieland defendants.

marina and ulay

Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!

With her widow Elena's encouragement to share, here are the details of the Celebration of Life for Fobazi Ettarh, which is happening this Saturday, June 27th in Chicago. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Huzzah, a discovery of a previously unknown Mozart manuscript that actually credits. The. Librarian. Who. Identified. It. www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

Morbs

"For decades, zinemakers have used their self-published work to forge connections and nurture political movements outside of the mainstream." Hooray for a zines article that doesn't say "zines are back" and also includes the word "Palestine." www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...

My NEH grant was reinstated. Thank you to everyone who pushed back against the Trump administration to make that happen. When we fight, we win! zines.barnard.edu/news/neh-cha... When college presidents cave, we lose!

NYC's three library systems are (finally) asking library patrons to send letters advocating for increased funding. Here's BPL: www.bklynlibrary.org/standup/cont... (1/3)

if you ever went to the Bay Area in the 70s and 80s you know what these bookstores were like. they were fucking paradise

Two weeks to apply for the tenth and final Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger. The Knicks did it – now it’s your year! #honeyandwaxprize #honeyandwaxbookcollectingprize

I really appreciate how people who claim to be top experts on AI in various contexts are so fully comfortable with the idea that real harms to real people, no matter how thoroughly documented, are simply not their problem nor responsibility to think about

My poison books look so pretty on the Grolier Club webpage 💚 Read more about them and my book collection in general here: grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...

Look, we can't all be Beatrice Lumpkin, joining her first union in the 1930s and organizing and fighting fascism and injustice ever since then, dying this month at the age of 107, but we could try. Rest in power 👑 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/... Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy (due Aug 1). The guest editors on this one are pretty great imo

read here: www.theflytrapmedia.com/brittney-coo...

A really lovely, intimate read on the experience of photographing civil war in Sri Lanka, and the moral unease that comes with knowing your images are everywhere, telling profound stories, while their subjects sometimes fade into obscurity, remembered only as a single frame.

I've written a new piece, together with my colleague Virginia Dressler. Thank you to @cliocontemporary.bsky.social for providing the platform. Special thanks to the many archivists, librarians, and information professionals who work on making these stories accessible.

I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231

it's actually true that these are all "gentrification indicators", in the sense that cities often suddenly discover that gentrified and gentrifying neighborhoods lack important amenities such as libraries and bike lanes

Proposals due July 6! 👀📆 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“I don’t do this embroidery stuff with the intention of being in the fashion world, I do it with the intention of being an artist. I try to bridge the gap and let people know that embroidery is art, and fashion is a way for people to get into my stuff.“

I have worked in the Belgian colonial archives & what's already available to researchers is horrifying, I can only imagine how bad the rest is. We must bring the truth to light. Transparency is the only way to recovery, reparations, & eventual healing.

Calling library and general GLAM data people 📜📚: If you were looking for training data related to historical city directories, where would you look? I'm considering fine-tuning a small GLAM model to parse 19th and early 20th century city directories, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel!

My hundredth essay at my newsletter (in just under 500 days). It's about beauty and pleasure, films and trees and singing, about the small things,and their relationship to democracy and the large things.

NEW: Videos show ICE agents defying Connecticut’s new mask ban during recent arrests. The agency says it “will not abide by” the ban. "Tell them. I dare you,” an agent said in one video. “Who’s going to arrest me?” My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

As part of our 2026 Pride Month series, we spoke with novelist and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman. Here, we discuss the origins of her interest in writing, the publishing industry’s resistance to lesbian protagonists, and the next generation of authors and activists who give her hope for the future.

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE

an unexpected occasion of mercy is cause for joy and reflection. people sometimes like to detail, in response, the gruesome crimes of people the state seeks to execute, but it doesn't matter what anyone did: state sanctioned execution is barbaric, no less so than any crime it seeks to punish.

If you want to see what one of the leading light skinned bookwomen of today has to say about thee leading light skinned bookwoman of yore, my review is live in the latest issue of @bibsocamer.bsky.social's journal www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...