One of these days I'll get through Moby Dick. I'm distantly related to Owen Chase who survived the Essex and wrote about it which inspired Melville.

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy Herman Melville Day! A whale of a way to start August right. memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/august-nom...

If the "Surname, initials, uncapitalized title" citation style wasn't bad enough, now there's "Surname, initials, uncapitalized book/article title, and abbreviated journal titles" separated by semicolons and includes the ISBN. Seriously? #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Skystorians

Glad to hear all of our friends and relatives in and around Kumamoto are safe. Apparently this is going to be repeated every decade. At least it wasn't as bad as 2016.

1/2 On the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, I'm reposting my two blog posts. The first on disabled Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps during World War II. densho.org/catalyst/ask... #ADA36 #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #Skystorians #DisabilitySky

Ask a Historian: What were the Experiences of Disabled People during WWII Incarceration? - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

In this new installment of our running “Ask A Historian” series, guest writer Selena Moon—a PhD student researching Japanese American disability history and working on accessibility in various realms—...

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Got an email today for an academic org bemoaning how much conference hotels charge for a mic, speakers, and projector. You have got to be kidding me. Just cut the hotel conference contract. Host your JULY conference at a uni thats fully prepped. Go virtual. Buy $20 mics 1/6

Organizing and OCRing my Dole archive pictures. I found a very moving letter but now can't find it. I've gone through all my picture several times and keyword searched. Ugh. Thankfully I don't need it for research exactly but would be nice to have. #HistorianProblems #PhDLife #AcademicSky

This is great to see but for God's sake can people put alt text in their posts with images and can museums use larger font sizes?! #Accessibility #MuseumSky

Chris Graham, ugly bag of mostly water@cagraham.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have always wanted to do this in an exhibit.

The NCPH Asian American Pacific Islander Working Group maintains two directories to foster community and collaboration in the #AAPI public #history community. Promote yourself or your org and join the 70+ connections listed! Individuals: bit.ly/AAPI-PH-Form. Orgs: bit.ly/AAPI-PHOrgForm.

Speaking of the #WorldCup I'm apparently misremembering that the Netherlands won in 2010. They were celebrating really hard for coming in second which was great.

I am once again begging able-bodied people to start caring about disability rights, disability justice, and disability history. You should care because ableism is bad whether you're a target of it or not, but under a fascist government, all leftists are disabled.

Disability Scoop@disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Trump administration is tossing aside key guidance that federal officials have used to steer enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act for more than a decade. #disabilities #ADA #Olmstead

I'm not really a sports person so can someone please explain why half the fouls are fouls when people are running into each other and not being tripped? #WorldCup

What rubbish. Between women not being able to keep maiden names, opposing dual citizenship after foreign naturalization, and now this, Japan is really backwards. The first female PM is a misogynist. Lovely. www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/n...

How Japan's First Female PM Became the Face of Male-Only Succession

Japan's parliament just passed the first major revision to the Imperial House Law in nearly 80 years — and it keeps the throne male-only. We look at the paradox of the country's first female prime min...

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What abominable citation style is this that doesn't give a full name, properly capitalize titles, or use quotations for article titles and why do we use it?!!!! #AcademicSky #PhDLife

Before the election, when listing the marginalized people who would be targeted by a Trump administration, people frequently left out disabled people. And now every week there's another attack on disability rights. Yet unsurprisingly, it's mostly just disabled people talking about it.

Reading "East to the Dawn" by Susan Butler, an Amelia Earhart bio. Her sister attended #SmithCollege and she almost did too but went to Cornell to study nursing instead. So close! #BookSky

I read Foucault's Discipline and Punish during my MA. Understood and liked that. Just started Birth of Biopolitics. WTF am I reading?! #BookSky #PhDLife #AcademicSky

One day, I'll never have to read (about) Foucault again. #PhDLife #AcademicSky

Reading nonstop for prelims so I can finish my papers over the summer. Then I can focus on my prospectus this fall since I'll be busy with conferences and archive trips. #AcademicSky #PhDLife

1/2 Dear publishers and writers (esp disability related) Publishers, please stop 1. Having abstracts in italics 2. Using columns 3. Putting partial citations in the notes and full citations in the bib 4. Using small font 5. Making it hard to get digital copies #AcademicSky #DisabilitySky #BookSky

Had a great time at the Asian American Unity Coalition (AAUC) Summit at the U this weekend! Visited Hmong, Somali & Latine community locations and heard about Metro Surge impact and building coalition. Met many local & nationwide advocates and it was great to be with so many other Asian Americans!

Please just put the full citation in the notes instead of partials and a bibliography. Also, whatever citation style that has "surname, first initial, Publication year, lowercase title," needs to die. #AcademicSky #PhDLife

Uncanny how the books I read for "fun" (not academic) mirror what I'm reading for school. Just finished Malcolm Gladwell's "Revenge of the Tipping Point" (never read Tipping Point) and tipping point comes up in Puar's Right to Maim. #PhDLife #AcademicSky #DisabilitySky

Is there/can someone make a timeline of #DisabilityStudies theories? Charity, medical, social, political model and their various offshoots (Kafer, Puar, Sins Invalid, etc)? Can't keep them straight and they're all blurring together. #DisabilitySky #AcademicSky

Anyone going to #NCPH2026 from Pioneer Valley-ish and willing to give me a ride back? Heading back to my alma mater (and probably UMass) for research. Thanks! @ncph.bsky.social

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to do this. It's something I've wanted to do for a while.

Densho@denshoproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Historic sites must be accessible. And it is important to acknowledge that they weren’t at the time, and in many cases took a long time to become accessible, or continue to be inaccessible.”

1/2 Excited and nervous to finally share something I've been working on for a while, my @denshoproject.bsky.social post "Importance of Accessibility at Historic Sites" & Accessibility Toolkit. Hope it is helpful. densho.org/catalyst/his... #Accessibility #DisabilitySky #Museum #HistoricSite

Importance of Accessibility at Historic Sites  - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

In this guest contribution, historian and PhD student Selena Moon explores the importance of accessibility at historic sites, highlighting how many sites have been and continue to be inaccessible. She...

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Blog post re: our Asian American/Pacific Islander (#AAPI) working group at NCPH 2024 and 2025. Thanks to Lily and Michael for all their hard work putting it together! ncph.org/history-at-w...

NCPH's Asian American and Pacific Islander Working Group | National Council on Public History

Since the 1970s, community groups—often working alongside professional historians—have created a growing number of public history organizations, including museums, archives, and preservation groups to...

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Historians who have A) Written a textbook or B) Contributed to a textbook: What was the experience like? What do you wish you knew before saying yes? What would you have improved if you could? Finally, was it worth it? 🤓 #academicsky #amwriting #history #skytorians

5 G of photos from one small archive trip to the Bob Dole archives to research the ADA. Shudder to think how much space I'll need for my NARA trip. So far only a few photos that got cut off but hopefully I can fill in the blanks. #skystorians #PhDLife #DisabilitySky

Keep hearing but haven't seen the Baltimore Oriole in the yard and the park. Make due with the Red-bellied woodpecker (which doesn't have a red belly) #BirdSky