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Hester Blum

@hesterblum.bsky.social

A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com

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Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · 16h ago

This is so exciting, Jamie K Taylor and @samanthapinto.bsky.social will be writing an advice column for Avidly: "mid. (advice for and from tired feminists" Submission form here--as Jamie says, "We'll help, or at the very least, we'll nod and sigh with you." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

mid. (advice for and from tired feminists): Submit Your Question

Are you mid-career? Mid-life? Just…mid? Us too! We’re here for all the folks stuck in the middle of things—family life, work life, all the pressures—to help each other figure out how to navigate t...

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Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · 5d ago

Authors who have filed in the anthropic suit: what is the allocation protocol for edited collections? are allocations divided between co-editors alone, or between all contributors?

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · last wk.

Spent a happy portion of last summer absorbed by #readingthewhale and have set sail on a delicious new way to appreciate this weirdo book. Love love love this new podcast w @hesterblum.bsky.social & Rob Delaney.

Podcast title exploring Moby Dick has water droplets across a papery/ sailcloth background
Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · last yr.

Well, call me ignorant. Have never read Moby Dick and decided, for reasons, that this summer I would. Became instantly obsessed with "Etymology" and "Extracts," the actual first line about the pale usher and of course the sub-sub librarian. And have starting reading some scholarship on same.

Screenshot of the title page of the first edition of "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale."
Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · last wk.

Read this great roundtable review Hanne Nielsen's Brand Antarctica! In my contribution I try to reckon with my polar gear/merch desires

Tina Adcock@tinaadcock.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW H-Environment Roundtable Review on Hanne Nielsen's *Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent.* Comments: @hesterblum.bsky.social, @rkpriestley.bsky.social, Rohan Howitt, and Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton #envhist networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...

Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · last wk.

My mom last week: "a WHOLE EPISODE on Cetology??" My mom today: "I need three more episodes on Cetology" (also see Rob's previous skeet in this thread, READING, it's the best)

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · last wk.

If you liked that post 👆🏼may I recommend my podcast with @hesterblum.bsky.social that is *exclusively* about Moby-Dick? Ep 5 is out today! Most eps cover a few chapters but this one we focus on one: Cetology! exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick

Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · 2w ago

Live your life in such a way that when you die at 80 your ecstatic radiance lights up the group chats of 20yo college students (my kid and their 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 community)

Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · last mo.

This perfect rule of thirds is also a perfect description of Moby-Dick (also the perfect description of my new Exploring Moby-Dick podcast with @robdelaney.bsky.social which is less of a plug than a statement of personal whimsical fact)

Dr Mel T@drmel.bsky.social · last mo.

I remember the good olde days of ‘Friday Follows’ (FF) on twitter circa 2012. The rule of thirds in posting was a thing. 1/3 facts, 1/3 personal and 1/3 whimsy. No one does whimsy as well as Brits. It’s why I left Oz, not enough delightful whimsy.

Kyla Wazana Tompkins@kwazana.bsky.social · last mo.

Melvilleans and 19th-centuryists!!! My girl @hesterblum.bsky.social has a podcast coming out with @robdelaney.bsky.social about the best book of all time (side eye 😒 to Middlemarch Mafia) the ineffable oceanic spirituo-textual cry to heaven that is Moby Dick. exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick

Exploring Moby-Dick — A Herman Melville Podcast & Book Club

Join Professor Hester Blum and actor-writer Rob Delaney as they navigate Moby-Dick, the both devastating and hilarious journey of men at odds with the sea and themselves. Together they explore the cha...

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Hester Blum@hesterblum.bsky.social · last mo.

1. @robdelaney.bsky.social is the best read and smartest person in Hollywood/London 2. The dizzying adrenaline of talking about Moby-Dick with him every day was amazing and I think is contagious if you subscribe to the podcast?!? 3. Our digressions are EPIC and rival Melville's 4. 🐳 4 life

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · last mo.

1. This was so fun to make I almost threw up every day. 2. This is the trailer on YouTube if that’s how you’ve chosen to live your life: youtu.be/IZYZaRWwYR4?... 3. I’d be super grateful to anyone who reposted the post above. 4. Have any Qs about it for me? I’ll endeavor to answer! 5. Get in!🚣🏾‍♀️