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Jacob Romm

@rommennoodle.bsky.social
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Ph.D student at Yale in early modern trans studies, also an occasional translator, Yiddishist, pie baker, letterpress printer (letterandspiritpress.org), and lawn mower. Managing editor of Chrysalis Magazine (chrysalismagazine.org).

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Trans Rage Wrex ICE". I designed a tshirt inspired by @rommennoodle.bsky.social's find & my subsequent letterpress specimen-book scouring & digital editing. (These were used to display/sell type e.g. in 1895):
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Trans Rage Rex ICE
I edited this design from scans of a historical type specimen book page: these are example printed words from throughout a booklet showing you what different letterpress typefaces you could purchase l...
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've been thinking a lot about clothes lately, both in my academic work and my personal life — wrote down some thoughts about that, filtered through John Bulwer and Torrey Peters, here:
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"A Body Comes to Include More Than a Body”
Further Musings on Clothing and Transition
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
computer, show me.............THREE CANTOS in the OVIDIAN STILE describing the PLEASURES which the FAIR SEX enjoy with each other found amongst the papers of a lady of quality and a great promoter of J A C O N I T I S M
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Was feeling guilty for eating a protein bar on the subway and then a guy sat down next to me with a full ceramic bowl of granola and fruit. Thanks for creating a safe space I guess
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone in my field is always talking about "the Convent of Pleasure" by Margaret Cavendish and now that I'm finally reading it I'm starting to see why...
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 10/08/2026
not to get all ashkenazi about it but i for one am real tired of hearing about "covid czar" this and "border czar" that, can we not leave just every tsar dead and buried in the ground
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
starting the new year off right
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"trans rage" found by chance in a Hamilton wood type specimen book from 1895
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Please let me in the seltzer union please please please
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
when two trans people have sex, that’s how magazines are created
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"The shape of a worm expelled by vomiting," Ambroise Paré, Opera Chirurgica, 1594
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"all of us are in flaming, flagrant love with a kneeing, on-fire transsexual" obsessed with this new poem in by @jackiesabbagh.bsky.social www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Gay Sestina
It was the summer the gays were gay and the lesbians were unbelievable, bickering in baroque promenades about the androlinguistics of saying you’re “in…
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ira @lashonhara.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
July 14 and 15 if you are in beautiful Chicago you should be attending these special events back to back
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
If zohran was a real ally he would wear a jockstrap to pride
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Chrysalis #2 is here and it's so beautiful - not to mention bursting at the seam with incredible art and writing by brilliant trans kids and teens. Get your copy today! www.chrysalismagazine.org/product-page...
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Maurycy Gottlieb, "Shylock and Jessica," 1887. Almost no one has made good art about the Merchant of Venice, but I'm obsessed with this.
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
walking home from a great date as the knicks pull ahead in the final five seconds and all of crown heights erupts in applause >>>
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Save the date, NYC transsexuals-and-friends! Me and @kylelukoff.bsky.social are hosting this launch celebration for Chrysalis #2, and it will be so joyful!
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My favorite type of doctor-patient interaction is watching my doctor do multi-variable calculus in her head as she tries to determine my STI risk based on my answer to “what gender are your partners”
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy pride everyone, I was just invited to an event for “women and pussy-bodied folx/beings” 🏳️‍🌈
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Instantly dropping dissertation work to eavesdrop on a middle-aged man at the table next to mine in the Center for the Art of Fiction cafe telling his middle-aged male friends at length about a bad mushroom trip he had at "this very woke club in Bushwick" called Nowadays
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I am reading Plastic, Prism, Void right now and despite being generally put off and confused by formally experimental fiction, I am RIVETED and FASCINATED and DELIGHTED by this book, very highly recommend. The @littlepuss.net streak of publishing only impeccable bangers remains unbroken
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Today on my walk home through the quiet streets of Crown Heights I found these two cute baskets and a literal box of free beer. Thank you for smiling upon me, O spirits of Brooklyn
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here we gooooooooooooooooo (preorder chrysalis 2: www.chrysalismagazine.org/product-page...)
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Not to brag but I made this perfect soft-boiled egg in the electric kettle. They’ll tell you not to put an egg directly in there but no one can stop you!
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Time is Running Short to Register for the Foraged Fiber Handmade Paper Swatch Swap
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How am I four years into a PhD in renaissance literature and only now discovering the obscure closet drama "Sodomy: or the Quintessence of Debauchery"; dramatis personae below!!!
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'm really into reading these old books from mystics because you encounter phrases like "the 'whatness' of his 'what'"
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Just had to do taxes for my tiny transgender literary magazine which, I am proud to report, made a whopping $35 in profits last year, causing me to pay the state of Connecticut one single tax dollar.
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Yiddish book design remains unbeatable. Cover of אין גאָטס געשטאַלט [In God's Image] by Shea Tenenbaum, published in New York in 1951.
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
how are there so many days left in passover. I can’t stop thinking about goldfish crackers
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 04/04/2026
a yiddish Star Trek just called Star Shlep
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
who is this chametz guy and how do I get rid of him
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Super productive research day: not only found the program for Maurice Schwartz’s “Shylock and His Daughter,” but also the Yiddish script (I thought only the English translation had survived) and a previously unknown to me Yiddish translation of Merchant by Abish Meisels, with hand-drawn cover
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
First relevant find: coupon for a discounted ticket to Maurice Schwartz’ adaptation of Merchant, hilariously misnamed here “Shylock and His Daughters” (in the Yiddish title daughter is singular, of course)
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In the archives today supposedly doing research about Yiddish adaptations of the Merchant of Venice but actually just obsessing over how good mid century Yiddish graphic arts were
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Advertisement for Yiddish production of Hamlet, 1901, New York City
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trans magazines are winning literary accolades the rest of the world couldn’t even dream of
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 24/03/2026
Eight editors behind trans periodicals discuss trans activism and the power of t4t publications. buff.ly/NKrtRDT
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The Renaissance of the Trans Magazine - Electric Literature
Eight editors behind trans periodicals discuss trans activism and the power of t4t publications
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join the Renaissance!!!
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It was such a pleasure to be in conversation with the editors of @lilacperil.bsky.social, the Trans Mag, @picnic-mag.bsky.social and @readeasel.bsky.social about the joy and hard work of publishing a trans magazine! Thanks @electricliterature.com for hosting us :)
electricliterature.com
The Renaissance of the Trans Magazine - Electric Literature
Eight editors behind trans periodicals discuss trans activism and the power of t4t publications
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It’s so disappointing that the bagel emoji is a plain bagel. You should be able to long-press the bagel emoji and select sesame, poppy, everything, pumpernickel, etc
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
dissertating
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Hermaphrodite Amoung the Roses", from Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory, 1893
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I refuse to see Hamnet but call me if they ever do a deep psychological portrait of how Shakespeare came to write the Taming of the Shrew
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
people used to know how to start books with panache
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It’s so peaceful to be running late but on the subway. I’m literally doing everything I can to arrive at my destination while not having to do anything. I’m hurrying while sitting down and answering emails.
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Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This headline/photo combo really makes it sound like Bad Bunny got to hook up with Lady Gaga during the Super Bowl
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