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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you applied to the Guerilla Opera 2026-27 Writers' Collective, acceptance and financial award notices will go out this week!

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Immediately adopting “qui scrounch scrounch” as my favorite French adjective

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I get a lot of people asking for sources about the Lipan Apache in Texas and our history; the Texas State Historical Society just published a thorough, peer-reviewed article on the subject! www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

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History and Legacy of the Lipan Apache Tribe in Texas and Mexico

Explore the rich history, cultural heritage, and continuous presence of the Lipan Apache tribe across Texas, northern Mexico, and the Southern Great Plains. Learn about their origins, alliances, resis...

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Protectress is about what happens when Medusa survives Perseus’s attempt on her life, becomes immortal, teaches college, and fights rape culture with her sisters and friends.

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

time to break out the best zz top song zz top never recorded again m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHT...

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Sesame Street: ZZ Blues

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hey, people in Sarasota! All of my poetry books are now at the Friends of the Selby Public Library bookshop! They're all signed and on sale on the Poetry rack, so hie yourself over there and get them while supporting the library! (And check out the aquarium above the entrance to the kids' section!)

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Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Instead of the world I currently live in where the vast majority of people have a bizarro idea of feminism and feminist history.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Regular reminder that if you have teens or college students or like, unprepared friends even, it's really easy to have a Safety Basket in the bathroom cupboard with harm reduction stuff. Mine currently has condoms/lube packets, fentanyl test strips, and narcan.

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

that would be "ton." Laughed a ton. Not a to. a ton.

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Slowly catching up after an absolutely wonderful weekend with my sisters in Sarasota, where we ate well, toured the Ringling (one of my sisters is a guide there), visited the amazing public library (where same sis manages the bookshop), and laughed a to. Oh, and I fed a lot of mosquitoes.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mexico is putting $1.15 billion into cleaning up 3 of its most polluted rivers: the Atoyac, the Tula and the Lerma-Santiago. Alongside treatment plants & sewer collectors, this has reforested thousands of hectares & regulated hundreds of industrial discharge points buff.ly/lekTZxR #ShareGoodNewsToo

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https://mexicobusiness.news/infrastructure/news/mexico-commits-mx20-billion-restore-three-major-rivers

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18/08/2026

even if you have zero dollars the nicest thing you can do for an author is request that your local library buy a copy of our books every time i see that someone did this it feels so special. like, not only did they care, that made sure other people had access. it’s so kind 🥹

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Are you interested in Ann Radcliffe? Women in Gothic and Horror? Trans horror? Writing workshops with amazing people? You can get it all for one online event. Come to as much or as little as you like! 22nd and 23rd August www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993974113...

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'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference

On 22nd and 23rd August we celebrate 200 years of Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications and marginalised genders in the Gothic!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New job: Lloyd E. Cotsen Head of Preservation & Conservation The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70224

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 16/08/2026

Fair reader. It was almost neon.

An incredibly bright orangey pinkish red rose with wilting green leaves and a grey slab house behind

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An amazing study of of tattoos from 19th-century Parisian prostitutes: Du tatouage chez les prostituées by Albert Leblond (Paris : Société d'Éditions Scientifiques, 1899). Many excellent tattoo ideas here! archive.org/details/b217...

A tattoo that reads VIVE LA VENGEANCE 1892 VIVE LE VIN (Long live vengeance 1892 Long live wine) with a crude drawing of a wine bottle and glass

A tattoo of a crude drawing of a dashing but sort of cross-eyed mustachioed man, identified by inscription "Arsène E"

A tattoo of cupid(?) with moth wings and some sort of floral design

A tattoo of a 19th-century French soldier standing next to a sign that reads 1889, meant to commemorate a beloved away on military service

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15/08/2026

In a world of New York Times “news analysis,” be a Wikipedia editor.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/08/2026

this is a glorious beard “listen to me” it says “whales are, and this is very important, so fucking cool”

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E.W. Doc Parris @ewdocparris.com · 15/08/2026

Your random reminder that I’ve got a starter pack for #ScienceFiction creators, reviewers, and fans. If you make #SciFi, if you’re a reviewer devoted to sci-fi, or if you’re an uber sci-fi fan and you want to be in on the fun, leave me a comment. #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚🪐 go.bsky.app/5BL1giA

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yall wanna see some raccoons fuck up a piñata

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I just got a payout from Draft2digital that was 75% from Overdrive. USE YOUR LIBRARIES! Yes, us authors get paid! Request our books!

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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 14/08/2026

SCOOP: The People of La Junta for Preservation, a nonprofit that works to preserve Indigenous sites, & two Indigenous worshipers of Lipan Apache lineage are suing to stop border barrier construction in Big Bend, arguing it violates religious freedom protections. www.texasobserver.org/indigenous-g...

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Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds

The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction, arguing that CBP construction and surveying activities in Big Bend violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 13/08/2026

Nothing I ever read in my youth was so meaningful & important to me that I would keep liking it if I found out the creator had funded, w glee & smugness, a campaign of disinformation, ignorance, and hate that ACTIVELY impacted innocent people's lives Wtf is wrong w people, who can disregard this?

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Something I've been working on! The Southern Prize for Literature supports writers developing book-length manuscripts and stands as one of the largest recent investments in Southern literature. One winner will $25k two runners-up will each receive $10k. www.southarts.org/grants-oppor...

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Southern Prize for Literature | South Arts

The Southern Prize for Literature advances the work of writers engaged in the development of book-length manuscripts. The award is designed to provide timely support at a critical juncture in a projec...

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So, no SAM in Buffalo in March. New Wave Opera in Portland, OR, is going to be doing scenes from THIS IS JANE in Feb-March--likely March, to coincide with Women's History Month--and I want to be able to travel to that. Two long trips in the space of a few weeks would be too much for me right now.

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My comment is: wth is going on in the illustration? Two people back-to-back, one writing over their shoulder?

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Call for Papers
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade
University of Edinburgh
6-7 May 2027

Over the past two decades, women’s book history and feminist bibliography have exploded with renewed interest. Even so, women’s work is still to an extent seen as an exception or curiosity. It examines them from a gender history perspective, asking to what extent their relationships were influenced or determined by constructions of femininity. Proposals should therefore involve a dimension of gender analysis beyond simply the inclusion of female subjects.

This conference will seek to explore (but is not limited to) to the following themes and questions:

*Gendered Networks. To what extent were professional book trade networks gendered? How did these networks intersect with other types of women’s networks, whether they be familial, friendly, religious, political, or intellectual?
*Identity and Representation. Did women express professional solidarity with other women, and how did this manifest? How did women’s self-representation in imprints and paratext differ from men’s?
*Legal and Structural Considerations. In what ways were women’s professional networks dependent on legal structures of inheritance in their region, or participation in guilds? How did these networks stretch across economic and class divisions?
*Digital Approaches. Can digital humanities tools such as network visualisation effectively help document these relationships?

The conference will also host the launch of a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade.

Contributions will be published in a volume of conference proceedings, to be submitted by the end of 2027.

Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, virtual attendance will be available as well.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cool medical news that hopefully will proceed to a human study (so far only demonstrated in animal studies): keratin extracted from sheep wool is a better scaffold for regrowing bone than the collagen we currently use. share.google/2Dbvjm1qjoSX...

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Scientists turn sheep’s wool into a material that helps regrow bone

Keratin extracted from sheep’s wool helped damaged bone regenerate in animals, producing tissue that was more organized and structurally similar to healthy bone than tissue grown with conventional col...

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a terrific collection, even if you like Lancelot (why, though?)!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism.

The Atlantic - In Defense of Flock: Police cameras can help make the criminal-just system both fairer and less punitive - if we let them. By Charles Fain Lehman

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

She was a massive antisemite. Let’s not forget/erase that.

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Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The former catholic in me is absolutely loving everything about this 😂😂😂

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/08/2026

In honor of @birderk.bsky.social's plover saving and hoping she can beat her boss by the deadline, I'm unveiling my first snowy ploverling of Baby Bird Season 2026, I call it "Plover Against The World." 🪶

A young snowy plcoer chick stands alone as the sun stars to set and is washed over by the orange hug. They look alone but their parent and sibling were nearby. This was inside an enclosure and as the suns et they began to run out, but this individual baby stopped and pivoted, seeing what must have been a scary world out there.

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Knowledge Commons is especially useful if you're an independent scholar!

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The meeting has moved into "listening mode" with these Chatham House rules (which disallow the model of giving credit to speakers, as in "As Anne said, wordswordswords, and I want to build on that/agree and add" etc).

Listening Session Overview

• Chatham House: themes, not names • Good intent: direct + kind • Make room: 2 minutes each

• Listening mode: brief follow-ups only • Diverse voices: different people • Staff notes: themes synthesized + shared back

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Language changes, and opera-related language can be ossified and off-putting. Let's make it more friendly, easier to get, so audiences don't have to translate opera-speak into more commonly-used language.

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