If you applied to the Guerilla Opera 2026-27 Writers' Collective, acceptance and financial award notices will go out this week!
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her)
@kleonardphd.bsky.social
Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
www.folger.edu/whats-on/to-... October 2026—May 2027
To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library
This landmark exhibition at the Folger explores the histories of Black women in Shakespearean performance and highlights the ways in which Black women have engaged Shakespeare's language, stories, and...
folger.edu
Built to Withstand Trump-Era Attacks on Mifepristone: New Telehealth Provider Serves All 50 States for Sliding-Scale Fee: msmagazine.com/2026/08/11/a...
Built to Withstand Trump-Era Attacks on Mifepristone: New Telehealth Provider Serves All 50 States for Sliding-Scale Fee
A new telehealth provider offers FDA-approved mifepristone and abortion care in all 50 states, with 24/7 support and sliding-scale fees.
msmagazine.com
Immediately adopting “qui scrounch scrounch” as my favorite French adjective
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2mo agoNOS CHIPS: qui scrounch scrounch (Bret’s chips are from France and they are very good).
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...
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...
tshaonline.org
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.
Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2mo agopost more about your books or I'll kick you in the ankles
time to break out the best zz top song zz top never recorded again m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHT...
Sesame Street: ZZ Blues
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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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!)
Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2mo agoEVERYBODY SHOULD ALWAYS BE MENTIONING THEIR BOOKS
Instead of the world I currently live in where the vast majority of people have a bizarro idea of feminism and feminist history.
Anthrodiva@anthrodiva.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt would be nice to live in a world where Feminism 101 was a standard offering in high school (or earlier).
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
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
jobs.utoronto.ca
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.
that would be "ton." Laughed a ton. Not a to. a ton.
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her)@kleonardphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoSlowly 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.
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.
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
https://mexicobusiness.news/infrastructure/news/mexico-commits-mx20-billion-restore-three-major-rivers
mexicobusiness.news
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 🥹
B Rainwater@b-raineater.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust got one of my favorite kinds of notifications - an alert that my library added a book I had requested! This time it's Ashley Fairbanks! 🥳🥳
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...
'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!
eventbrite.co.uk
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.+
New job: Lloyd E. Cotsen Head of Preservation & Conservation The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70224
Fuck yes. I wonder if the precedent set here can be expanded to other automated surveillance systems.
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“A North Texas county has shut down its network of Flock automated license plate reader cameras, saying the technology amounted to warrantless surveillance of residents going about their daily lives.”
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:
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.
404media.co
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...
In a world of New York Times “news analysis,” be a Wikipedia editor.
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo agoICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...
this is a glorious beard “listen to me” it says “whales are, and this is very important, so fucking cool”
skELLY@ellyzoe.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere he is! 📖🐋
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
Yall wanna see some raccoons fuck up a piñata
I just got a payout from Draft2digital that was 75% from Overdrive. USE YOUR LIBRARIES! Yes, us authors get paid! Request our books!
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...
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.
texasobserver.org