Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 18hDidja hear the one about the chemist who became a literary critic? He was great at identifying isotropes 010
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gina Gwenffrewi's J. K. ROWLING AND THE ANTI-TRANS PANIC, out now from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social, is excerpted here! 020
Reposted by Samara RafertJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.” 31372487
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I will forever hate that person. I mean, it wasn't my fault he wrote his blurb in poem form and it was completely incomprehensible. I preserved as much as I could. And he called while I was late to pick my kid up from daycare, just to yell at me. 010
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh, I've definitely gotten some extreme anti-HLG responses, including once in the form of a phone call 🙄 110
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Currently attempting to wrestle a 150-word blurb from a big name into 2-3 sentences. But one of my favorite UP career moments was when I had to edit down a Henry Louis Gates blurb and he a) thanked me for making it better and b) asked why I was working on a Sunday. So nice! 151
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026medium.com/prismnpen/go... @tuckerlieberman.com @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.socialmedium.comThere Are Good Reasons for Trans Inclusion, but I Can’t Bottle-Feed Them to AnyoneOn a new book: ‘J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic’ 020
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026After 30+ years of listening to "Heroin" by the VU, I finally realized it's "thank God that I'm not aware," not "thank God that I'm not all wet." 020
Reposted by Samara RafertMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO? 2662438216
Reposted by Samara RafertThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Report Reveals Jesus Christ May Have Benefited From Father’s Influential Position To Gain High-Powered Role As Lord And Savior theonion.com/report-reveals-jesus-c… 432908362
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I just blew 7 minutes on watching videos of a weird Austrian guy in the Alps with a cat on his shoulder and I haven't had coffee yet 010
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I mean this song is incredible youtu.be/EuhBQoE1Hr0youtu.beVirtute the Cat Explains Her DepartureYouTube video by The Weakerthans - Topic 021
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Amaro + The Weakerthans (new musical obsession)=bliss @dangearino.bsky.social 120
Reposted by Samara RafertGina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Out now: my book, about the institutional and localized impact of anti-trans campaigns in the UK. C1 + 4 analyse the anti-trans outputs of JKR and R.Gervais; C2 + 3 about GC ideology and anti-trans campaigns on a uni campus; C5 about media; C6 about the beauty and magic of being trans in Edinburgh. 03720
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...ohiostatepress.orgJ. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans PanicWeaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral... 032
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026@ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social's JK ROWLING AND THE ANTI-TRANS PANIC, just published by Ohio State Press, is an @autostraddle.bsky.social most anticipated queer book for September! www.autostraddle.com/our-most-ant...autostraddle.comOur Most Anticipated Queer Books for September 2026There's so much new queer poetry coming out this month. 150
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026mydialect.us/quiz-standar...mydialect.usStandard Language Quiz — Dialect Map QuizTake the Standard Language Quiz to see your regional US speech profile on an interactive dialect map. Based on the Harvard Dialect Survey. 000
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I've spent almost my entire adult life in the Midwest and they still got me (Delaware born and raised) 210
Reposted by Samara RafertGary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Workers at the signage firm Spanjer Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, with giant wooden letters destined for the Singer Sewing Machine Co., 1897 Image: 1916 company catalog, Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/cata... 113829
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 21/08/2026ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...ohiostatepress.orgPlace Envy: Essays in Search of OrientationChronicles the author’s quest for orientation in the world: as an agnostic Jew, as a queer traveler and lover, and as a writer who can tell or twist the truth. 011
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Michael Lowenthal's Place Envy featured in Word of the Day! @merriam-webster.com @jwi.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...urldefense.comWord of the Day: DivulgeInformation divulged is typically secret, or known only to insiders, and it isn’t usually shouted from the rooftops. But when divulge first entered English in the 15th century, it did so as a synonym 122
Reposted by Samara RafertGary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Dense fog, Minneapolis 9th St. and LaSalle Ave. October 27, 1943 Image: Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll... 1479
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Neige Sinno addresses this somewhat in Sad Tiger. 000
Reposted by Samara RafertJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This reminds me of Simon Armitage's brilliant entry in the book Mortification: Writers' Stories of their Public Shame. 816031
Reposted by Samara RafertThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Life and Death Contrasted, engraving from ca. 1770. Discover its male counterpart here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l… 08025
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I recently got Larkin's collected works out of a little free library and IMMEDIATELY made my daughter read this poem. 110
Reposted by Samara RafertDan Gearino @dangearino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Rendered by the inimitable @cooljerk.bsky.social, here are all the new power plants that went online in the first half of the year, by state. Wow, Texas! That's a shit ton of batteries. Here's the accompanying story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1308202... 11516
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We can't find any of our flashlights! The ONE time we actually need them 110
Reposted by Samara RafertAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot. 15561342409
Reposted by Samara RafertDEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Really value my morning ritual of waking up, pouring myself a cup of coffee, making my way through the next few minutes in a dissociative fugue state, and pouring myself the same cup of coffee again 1652
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 02/08/2026 I strongly disapprove of the decision to have an extremely loud rock band play in the middle of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a Sunday afternoon #getoffmylawn 110
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The two most satisfying moments so far on my trip home to Delaware: --Revealing to my high school friend that not everyone calls it "water ice" --Explaining to my Ohio children what scrapple is 021
Reposted by Samara RafertLiz Thornberry @lizthornberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I also did not want to cut my children’s sandwiches into star shapes, a problem for which there was an extremely straightforward solution 051
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I have definitely noticed an uptick in deep backlist sales from the OSU Press list. It's not the perpetual bestsellers but one-offs from decades ago that even I, after seven years at the press, have barely heard of. www.404media.co/ai-companies...404media.coAI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.” 13526
Reposted by Samara RafertNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Original artwork available via everydayoriginal.com. Pachycephalosaurus Brown and graphite pencils on Hand Book Journal Company sketchbook paper, approximately 207 x 130 mm. Another small page of studies from c.2018. As with others from then, I would do things a little differently now. 1/2 320057
Reposted by Samara Rafertceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026I am so fucking tired of creating accounts 2071281
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I also love how the Irish people pronounce Okamura "O'Camera" 010
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Convalescing from toe surgery (it's a thing) and I'm so glad I stumbled across this documentary. I just wish it was more than 20 minutes long. vimeo.com/1197413135vimeo.comThe Memories of Others: Akihiko Okamura's IrelandA short documentary film uncovering Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura’s extraordinary work in Ireland during the Troubles, and the artistic and emotional impact of its recent rediscovery. After a ... 100
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My favorite part of the print @theonion.com is "passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" 000
Reposted by Samara RafertHyperEssays @hyperessays.net · 01/07/2026HyperEssays has had full-text search of John Florio’s and my own ongoing translation of the Essays (w/ Cotton/Hazlitt’s as a placeholder) for a while. Today I’m happy to announce that the original Middle French text is also searchable on the site. 🥳 hyperessays.nethyperessays.netHyperEssaysHyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne. 222
Reposted by Samara RafertAssociation of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Want to know more about the US at 250? ReadUP! Here are some suggestions from university presses & their expert authors, reflecting on the American experiment from the Founding to today: bit.ly/4xQZlFq 0129
Reposted by Samara RafertGary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Annual Report cover Minneapolis Public Library 1966 Images: Hennepin County Library Organizational Records Collection; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll... 3347
Samara Rafert @rafertess.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I just heard Dan ask our child, "Should we listen to Charles Mingus or Charles Mingus?" Say what you will about Dan, when he finds something he likes sticks with it. 011