them: you'd forget your head if it wasn't screwed on me: how do I screw it off
Sara Catterall
@scatterall.bsky.social
Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon. Blog etc at saracatterall.com
FINALLY. There's a longer story behind this announcement, because I was working on a different book before I went down this rabbit hole a year and a half ago. Now I've got to write as though my hair is on fire. Coming to bookstores in 2028.
"Women have been running for president since before we won the vote, and our chance to lead the country has always been just around the corner."
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2w agoGod, this is depressing From @anamariecox.com
My new book, MATTERS OF SEX: KATHARINE BEMENT DAVIS AND AMERICA'S FIRST SEXUAL REVOLUTION, is forthcoming from NYU Press in November and available for pre-order now! Get a sneak peek here (link to pre-order in comments).
How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
A century ago, a pioneering sex researcher challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience sexual desire or have sex, except to please men or have children.
theconversation.com
I asked my (former) agent how to write a book proposal and she sent me five examples that were wildly different in form and content. I took Anne's class and actually understood what each section needed to accomplish.
Anne Trubek@atrubek.bsky.social · 2w agoNo zooms! just typing and reading and posting and receiving (honest) feedback. Academics and the academic-esque are 100% welcome
As I may have mentioned, I wrote a biography of a founder of the 1850s women's rights movement, who kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats. And has been remembered for an outfit she wore for six years.
Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues. Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so becaus...
arcadiapublishing.com
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w agobook on main book on main post it post it book on main
Book festival done! Got to hear an admired author talk, chatted with the poet next to me for a couple of hours, sold and signed a few books. Now seated with my authorial grocery cart in front of the bookstore, waiting for a ride.
Screenings, readings, forums, trivia, and book fairs as Ithaca is Books Festival kicks off. www.14850.com/090946946-it...
Screenings, readings, forums, trivia, and book fairs as Ithaca is Books Festival kicks off • 14850
The 6th annual Ithaca is Books Festival runs this Thursday through Sunday, September 10th to 13th, and more than thirty associated events around Downtown Ithaca include film screenings, book readings,...
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“Our literature tends to have a more and more striking resemblance to a soulless machine with a clever mind, and the American short story more and more suggests that the secret of perpetual motion is being fatally discovered” — not MFA discourse in 2026 but Edward O’Brien on magazine writing in 1929
I've always wondered what they're eating! porridge? Curds and whey?
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 4w agoPieter Bruegel's harvesters enjoy a well-earned lunch in fields. Where's that guy with more beer, they are thinking.
& if my column is tl/dr, at least check out one of my favorite American poems, former Lowell Mill worker Lucy Larcom's "Weaving" (1862), which connects mill workers to enslaved workers in a unique & deeply moving way:
Weaving
“I weave, and weave, the livelong day: The woof is strong, the warp is good: I weave, to be my mother’s stay; I weave, to win my daily food: But ever as I…
poetryfoundation.org
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 4w agoAfter all, as I argued in this Labor Day column, no history of the holiday or labor in American should exclude enslaved Americans. www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/09/cons...
This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 4w agoPart of research is wandering in the literature and making unexpected connections, finding the questions you didn’t know to ask. I don’t see a good way to do that while relying mainly on LLMs to do literature searches.
The first organized women’s labor movements in the United States occurred in the 1830s to 1860s, which predates the invention of practical commercial photography. Two landmark milestones represent the birth of organized women’s labor: The Lowell Mill Girls 1834–1845 The Collar Laundry Union 1864 🧵
Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
The resolution, introduced by Togo, passed and is both important and cool. Here’s a good no paywall story
The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
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At the Antimatter Factory at CERN there are vacuum cleaners in cages. Those cages are there because when you vacuum the experiment hall, you might pick up some radioactive material, and so the vacuum has to be in a time out until enough half-lives of the contaminant have elapsed.
In case anyone wants to read about some of the most recent successes of feminism. The stories in this thread are mostly childhood and young adult memories for women very much still alive:
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last mo.I feel like we’re really overdue for a thread of things that have changed for women in your lifetime. I’m interested in good and bad things. Any little life moment that would feel unbelievable if it happened in 2026.
The Finger Lakes region of NY is under a tornado watch for the next six hours.
I helped test the recipes for this one! Because I love and trust her cookbooks. Can already vouch for the Hungarian Apple Squares, the Sutlach pudding, the Carrot-Date Cake with Orange Blossom Frosting, the Raspberry and Sweet Cheese Strudel. But it all looks amazing.
'“The culture of readers here is bigger than ever, with readers interested in the underground, the translated, the texts that demand the most out of one's attention.” Flores’s observation was echoed by every one of the 21 booksellers I spoke to' defector.com/what-do-book...
What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Happy birthday to Anna Botsford Comstock, the first woman professor at Cornell University, a youth educator, author, engraver. In 1945, the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca installed this stained glass window triptych as a memorial to her.
Happy birthday to Anna Botsford Comstock, the first woman professor at Cornell University, a youth educator, author, engraver. In 1945, the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca installed this stained glass window triptych as a memorial to her.
Good morning! I wrote a biography of someone who helped found the women's rights movement in the 1850s, and kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats.
Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...
arcadiapublishing.com
Here's a repost of an excellent fall preserving recipe, the kind that makes your house smell wonderful and is good enough for gifts. I cut it down to a size that doesn't require a cauldron.
Three Ingredient Pumpkin Butter, 1848
An update on the recipe I found in the Auburn Temperance Star of August 1848. It’s good! An intense mix of tart and sweet with deep fruity undertones, complimented by the cinnamon. Great on t…
saracatterall.com
In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
Ok I can share—today MSLIS student Nadja Robot donated a teletype machine to @skeuomorphpress.org’s Undead Media Lab But this is not just any teletype—it’s the one Michael S. Hart used to digitize the Declaration of Independence & Alice in Wonderland—the 1st texts in what became Project Gutenberg
Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · last mo.So @drtlwagner.bsky.social & I got our first “um, I have this thing to donate to the Undead Media Lab if you want it?!?” email today & it’s a doozy. Can’t wait to share with y’all but keeping things vague for now
Rewatched 9 to 5 while sorting 2 bushels of homegrown pears and shouted when the board chair in the final scene said he was involved with setting up daycare centers 'during the war'.
The US Funded Universal Childcare During World War II—Then Stopped | HISTORY
Federally-subsidized childcare centers took care of an estimated 550,000 to 600,000 children while their mothers work...
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