“In the Trump administration’s latest move to limit trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for admitting trans women.”

this just poured out of me: "Back then, feminists online spoke abt their experiences across race, sexuality, class, & disability in real time. It wasn't a perfect community: But there was often an understanding that feminism was a movement, and we could, perhaps one day, actually be liberated."

NEW: Supreme Court -- for now -- restores full access to abortion pill mifepristone while litigation continues: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

We’re once again nearing the top of the Rancho Gordo cycle

A big thank you to @brittashoot.com for this lovely story about the small team of volunteers working to rephotograph all 500,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Pro tip: have tissues handy. www.kqed.org/arts/1398904...

"This symposium–which brings together scholars, archivists and collectors–asks: how did blind communities envision their books in the past and what can we learn from them in our present? What new forms of critical design emerged and might continue emerging in the spirit of collective access?"

🧵 Today, a federal appeals court ruled that abortion seekers can only get mifepristone in person at a health center, in another attack on abortion access that has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

You, and anybody you know, can sign up for this free online event! Hear what we wished we had gotten into the book! Correct my feeble attempts at learnèdness! www2.archivists.org/news/2026/at...

"Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts" is a veritable who's who of "people i would listen to if they told me i was doing archives wrong"

May Day Greetings!! 🖤🌅

Today us a great day to get a library card! I love using the Queer Liberation Library for *free* through my digital library app. @queerliblib.bsky.social My queer 16yo self would have been life-affirmingly-overjoyed to have access to this! And now we do 🥰 www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

The Supreme Court's Republican supermajority, afraid of the blowback from declaring what remains of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, instead says only they know the one true way the Voting Rights Act can be constitutional, and nothing will ever meet their new standard.

Rare documents tell the story of patriotism over time. A new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Library traces 250 years of American history, featuring materials such as an original Declaration of Independence and drafts of Langston Hughes’ poetry. Read more: bit.ly/4sjE7vP

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

It's so great that I Shot Andy Warhol is getting a restoration re-release!! www.indiewire.com/news/general... It was almost lost www.screenslate.com/articles/rev...

Is anyone else reading Search Work, the new collection on job hunting edited by @smithmeade.bsky.social? I just started it today and I'm finding it gentle, smart, and thoughtful. It's also beautifully designed. orbooks.com/catalog/sear...

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

The documentary film Slow Dissolve "presents a close study of two archives: a repository of prehistoric ice studied for building climate models, and a collection of cinema reels preserving data for a post-apocalyptic future." www.librarystack.org/slow-dissolve/

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I've been thinking a lot about the victims at Uvalde, how they were betrayed by law enforcement during and after the fact, and how current students and families must watch this ballroom bunker discourse with such trauma and disgust.

Praise from the Rubber Stamp Portfolio http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63845

Between January and May of 1979, eleven black women were murdered in the Boston area. Feminists organized in response to the killings, including the Combahee River Collective, which published this pamphlet.

I think I'm in love.

Love this ad looking for folks to help distribute the music fanzine Damage in the classified section of the October 1980 issue. "Do glamorous things like distribute magazines!" circulationzero.com

Good luck with the union vote today ALA staff friends! Y'all rock and we're here with you in solidarity! ✊

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

I have collected a bunch of ex-libris (or bookplates), let me show you some of them. They flourish in the 15th century with the rise of the printing press, to mark ownership of books. Here's one of my fav, you can see that early on they are really personal objects, sometime mysterious or funny.

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

And we love to see it! patch.com/illinois/hun...

Shoutout to outfit repeaters… wear it till they feel it

Much of this is open to the public. You can make an appointment to visit a campus library in person, or you can opt to explore millions of objects online. https://loom.ly/QU8JDtg

"Even when disabled people appear in the archive, they appear as objects of intervention rather than witnesses to their own lives. When disability materials are [viewed] according to the medical model, the archive reproduces the very framework that justified confinement and cure" #CripLib

www.themarginalian.org/2015/12/11/n... #NationalLibraryWeek

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche. Another dark day for DOJ. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Oh look, it's "The Last Supper" as ASCII art. (MS Typ 1334 at Houghton Library)

time has passed and now, the forsythia IS blooming in new england. always a good day to support access to abortion. 🌼

Paywall-free link: archive.ph/eWCXO

I’d love to take @eayers0.bsky.social’s class on botanical bodies but instead I got to participate in a session with herbals and other early modern books. Check out Dr. Ayers’ class themes and related illustrations in her thread below!

Check out my new Media Burn blog post. Media activist and community journalist Michael Zinzun’s legacy is a prime example of public access television’s Black history, which is quite profound and largely under-appreciated. Stay tuned! Much more of this to come soon. mediaburn.org/celebrating-...

Two of my zines are now available through I Love Zines, a kind of DIY cross between Etsy and a distro run by one of the hardest-working zinesters in zinedom, Billy McCall www.ilovezines.com/collections/...

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

why the New Yorker publishes the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and then does not put his name in the social media post about his essay is absolutely beyond me, but anyway, the important thing here is that you should always read Hanif

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

Did you know: There's HD video of Here Comes The Pizza?

Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent! www.historians.org/news-publica...

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

“I think this is the first step to erasure,” said Karma Chavez, chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Another professor called it a “gut punch.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/04/13/a...