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I'll be at the CHM tomorrow for a chat about my book. Feel free to share, and hopefully I'll see some of y'all in person or online!

David C. Brock@dcbrock.bsky.social · last mo.

Really great hybird event tomorrow from the Computer History Museum. Please share. computerhistory.org/events/out-o...

Short notice, but! I'll be giving a talk, "Our “tired old flame queens:” Studying and Archiving Trans Histories of the Digital Age" tonight at 5 pm PDT at the Greater Victoria (BC) Public Library's Central Branch. For non-locals, it’ll be streaming online as well. www.uvic.ca/research/tra...

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A really good piece on an increasingly urgent issue (that may just happen to feature quotes from my book)!

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 3mo ago

After his partner died of AIDS-related complications, David Bohnett used the insurance payout to launch GeoCities - what became one of the internet’s earliest queer communities

Happening tonight! Free on Zoom, so folks can join from anywhere.

Avery Dame-Griff@adamegriff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Second: On April 21 at 6:30 PT I'll be talking about some of my research on LGBTQ BBSes in Washington State, sponsored by the King County Library System (also free on Zoom).

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Avery Dame-Griff@adamegriff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don't often toot my own horn here, but I'll be doing two things next week! First off: I'll be doing a free book talk on Zoom at Noon ET sponsored by the Open Digital Literacy and Access Network.

I don't often toot my own horn here, but I'll be doing two things next week! First off: I'll be doing a free book talk on Zoom at Noon ET sponsored by the Open Digital Literacy and Access Network.

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Learn how the internet has shaped trans identity & activism! Join us April 20 from 12-1pm EST for an insightful book talk with Avery Dame-Griff, lecturer at Gonzaga University and the author The Two ...

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Doing research for an article and just found that UsenetArchives.com now requires Age Verification to access. IMO, this points to a secondary consequence of the current moral panic and associated age verification legislation: Restricting access to born-digital history for those under 18.

Great reporting as always, though I didn't expect it to hit my inbox with this choice bit of environmental storytelling from Gmail.

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

"As part of our commitment to supporting ICE, we will be adding a ‘Support ICE’ donation button to the footer of every email sent through our platform."

Last summer I was the Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship at Emory University. The blog for the archive just posted my write up as part of the fellowship. It is part of a bigger project of mine, but here is a sneak peak of some of what I am exploring: scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2026/0...

I don't have much to add that other folks haven't said, but as a historian of the queer internet, this doesn't surprise me at all. LGBTQ users are convenient corporate props...until they're not worth protecting.

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

Found this at a Free Book Fair held by great local used bookstore Page 42 (www.page42bookstore.com). It was in a box of random media and I grabbed it because, why not? No cartridge, but it did have the original owner's painstakingly hand-drawn level maps, including coffee (?) stains.

So good to see this price and all the folks and stories in it! Also, a self-plug: the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) is always open for donations, if folks have physical ephemera or digital records to be preserved (but not made accessible publicly online)!

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 6mo ago

Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad: Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It's late in the day to share, but a Happy Holidays wish from me and Santa's daisy wheel printer. (From Sandra Boynton's book Christmastime (1987))

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

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For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been

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"I code so others can dream." Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer. Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine

Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.

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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

My metamorphosis into a historian is now complete, because I read this (very good tbc!) @theverge.com package and still thought, "Would it be too much to ask to historicize this moment beyond the mid-2010s? With, y'know, a book (I may have written)?" I have, I fear, become my (academic) parents.

The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

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@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.

Based on this news, are there any significant LGBTQ-related blogs that might be a good candidate for preservation? I'm hoping to connect with blog owners to organize preservation for the Queer Digital History Project prior to the September deadline.

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever." Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it. www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...

What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It?

Lately, I've been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.

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So, I've begun doing something I thought I'd never do: actively mirror trans websites (instead of just relying on the Internet Archive). First up is a mirror of Monica Roberts' TransGriot. Because Roberts used Blogger, I've always worried about its longevity.

#6 - "1000 RLX Computer" 40 whole megabytes? Nobody could ever use THAT much space!

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Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

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