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Duke Faculty Union @dukefacultyunion.bsky.social · 2h

Cool event alert! Our very own Jim Haverkamp with be introducing the screening. And: FREE PIZZA. 🍕🍕🍕✊✊✊ RSVP: QRCO.DE/BH21LU

Flyer for "What Power Do We Have As Workers?" film screening and discussion on 10/22 from 12-1pm at Duke University. RSVP" QRCO.DE./BH21LU

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 1h

We have a lot of people monitoring our inbox, so we started tagging potentially-AI questions so we can quantify how many we are getting. They are way too long, have bullet points, and suggest keywords for us to try. Thanks for the advice, buddy!

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Come visit me and Leslie Feinberg ('s papers)!

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

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Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship - SCARLA

Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? […]

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our job opening to teach with me in the art history and museum studies curricula of our Big Beautiful Department that includes various forms of history including art history & also geography is live and featured on the College Art Association website! Remember that you can sign in as a guest. Apply!

Screenshot of the College Art Association featured job listing for a job with me, teaching art history at Elon in our big department of History, Geography, and Art History! Apply! (note: you can sign in to the CAA website as a guest if you are seeking jobs!)

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Twinsies! I worked at the music library as an undergrad and realized it would be a real career path for me after talking to the staff.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congrats-- that looks like an excellent program!

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's delicious. Heinz (the british kind) or any bland baked bean is fine. Butter the toast, add some shredded white cheddar, a fried egg.

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Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The CFP for *Queer Bibliography: Taking Stock* is now open! Full cfp below and at bit.ly/QB2027CfP (Please feel free to circulate these graphics off Bluesky! They're sized for an IG story.)

call for proposals

Queer Bibliography
TAKING STOCK
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

details overleaf ❧ ❧ ❧

call for proposals

Taking Stock marks the fifth annual Queer Bibliography conference and is a chance to pause and reflect and to queerly attend to the many meanings of “stock” in bibliography.

Where do we find ourselves and our work?
How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations?
From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities?
What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or to reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

❧ abstracts due 29 January ☙

full cfp: https://bit.ly/QB2027CfP

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I saw it when I took the dog out this morning! The sky app said Mars, but I guess it was Jupiter?

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can tell when someone loves you, bc they pretend their friend needed to borrow your precious mixer to bake a cake for their mom, but really they were getting another friend to customize the mixer with sweet pinstriping.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's something nice: stayed at work late for a class on zines. Found EVEN MORE Barbies. One of the students has a group chat with siblings and stepdad called "we hate Morrissey" lol. I got to explain how you could trade postage stamps for zines instead of cash.

Crummies in Tummies zine cover. Red screenprinted image on lavender paper.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I meet with this class again, I'm going to make them create care packages for friends with zines they've made, stickers, hand-written notes, and self-addressed postcards to get a note back. I am glad I have 90s-minded mail nerd friends who send me stuff all the time!

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From a student in a zine class: "Everything was so slow back in the 90s. Seems like everyone was chill... ordering paper, pen pals, concealed cash [in the mail]... we can't go back to that anymore! Oh, also, slow isn't bad, slow=care! These days nobody puts so much care into anything for friends."

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love this institute. I’ve had the honor of presenting and learning alongside amazing scholars of Black feminist thought. This is this beloved institute’s last year. I’ll miss it deeply. Grad students, you should apply ❤️🌺 (link is here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...)

Orange flower with image of orange plant, green leaves, and pink flowers. In white font, the text reads

BLACK FEMINIST THEORY SUMMER INSTITUTE

Abundance

AUGUST 2-6, 2027

Kemi Adeyemi
Moya Bailey
Margo Natalie Crawford
Crystal Donkor
Uri McMillan
Petal Samuel
Marisa Solomon
Shatema Threadcraft

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I often think about this comic that explicitly shows all the things that you *could* delegate, but also figuring out how to explain what needs to be done is more labor! Honestly if automating a grocery order resulted in dinner on the table, sign me up. www.theguardian.com/world/2017/m...

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The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic

French comic artist Emma introduces the concept of the mental load. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that someone made this. I hate that we had to see it in our eyeballs.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was publishing Mutate (1999-2008) I released it as a free zine, and asked that if folks ordered it from me via mail or from my web site that they send 3 stamps for it It was 2 stamps to mail, and i'd use the 3rd to send copies to folks for review or as contributor copies, zine trades, etc.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love to see it! Also, Asheville!! I had to stop and think-- oh yeah, stamps = cash when you're a mail nerd!

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Would watch (film described in alt text)

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Omg The Long Goodbye 😻😻😻

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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The first four illustrations of my 2027 Cinematic Cats calendar! Eight more to go! Now available for pre-order from both my etsy and ko-fi shops! www.etsy.com/listing/4583... ko-fi.com/s/1ae08cade0

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night illustration.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ahhhh! That's so fun! And spooky!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion

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Katy @katy-katy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Folks if you are a fan of queer hockey romance (and who isn't these days, amirite?) but were wondering on this, our Day of Bi Visiblity, is there any m/f hockey romance with bi main characters? I got you.

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Too Much Man

Firebirds Book #1 Out Now! Amazon Harlequin Barnes & Noble Apple Books Kobo Goodreads Piper Welborn has created a warm, welcoming space for all in her queer-inclusive coffee shop, even if the l…

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

iNaturalist is pretty good for mushroom ID and if you're unsure, another user usually chimes in with possible IDs.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited for you! And your 🦇!

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Right? I hope some of them actually make them! Would read.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy first day of fall!! Did you know that fall is, perhaps counterintuitively, a great time to plant things? It gives the plant time to establish their roots in the soil so that next spring they can shoot out of the soil confident in the ground they’re in. Be a good witch and cast summon bug 🪲

An absolutely caked up toad with a big ol belly and his hand on his hip, wearing a wobbly
Old witches hat and holding a glowing flower says “feelin witchy? Cast summon bug! With an asterisk and the asterisk says grow native plants

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My morning class was on Barbie so I asked what Barbie they were: Tired Barbie, Sleepy Barbie, Slumber Party Barbie, Matching PJs Barbie... there was a theme. 😂

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How to make stickers, play volleyball, find comfortable places to study, and design characters.

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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last night I met with a class on zines. For intros, I asked the students what how-to zine they would make. Their answers: how to bake a cake, identify butterflies, dig thru crates to find good records, make a perfect omelet, interpret dreams, center a ball of clay, draw animals,

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