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Avery Dame-Griff
@adamegriff.bsky.social
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- Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com)
- Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023)
- Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University
- Collects your old technology junk and cats.
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Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · Nov 13
Intro post for new folks: Hi! I research and write about LGBTQ history and the history of digital networking. I maintain Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) and I wrote The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (tinyurl.com/tworevbook).
Queer Digital History Project
queerdigital.com
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
adamegriff.bsky.social
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?
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
@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
September 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.
Photo of a neon blue analog watch face. The face is emblazoned with the Windows Me logo, and Me on a diagonal across the background in blue and green. It is definitely the 2000s Windows aesthetic in a watch.
August 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
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.
Typepad is shutting down
We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You? After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
"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.
www.autostraddle.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
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.
TransGriot Web Scrape · Queer Digital History Project
queerdigital.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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retro-commercials.bsky.social
#6 - "1000 RLX Computer"

40 whole megabytes? Nobody could ever use THAT much space!
Retro Commercial Screens (@retro-commercials.bsky.social)
This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com.…
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July 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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alicecann.bsky.social
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…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
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July 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
adamegriff.bsky.social
In light of today's 1A news, a repost reminder:
adamegriff.bsky.social Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social · Jan 10
Also, it's worth noting that even in 1997, folks within the trans community foresaw this possible future. (Newsletter is from the UMich archives.)
Several years ago, the paths we so easily walk today were very hard roads. The sisters who paved the way came from the support groups that are being rejected today. Think about this. In every department store that you so easily shop, a sister was there before you, and it wasn't so easy for her. In every restaurant you comfortably dine in, a transgendered lady did it before you, and it may have been uncomfortable. The old gals from the support groups found the places, met the people, won them over, and shared their experience, strength, and hope at their support group meetings. The winds of society change The day may come when it's not OK to be transgendered. We may be outlawed again, the cyber police may deem us unfit for the Internet. A ton of things could happen to drive us back into our closets, and back to the support groups. If there are not support groups to go to, how are you going to do that? As I said, I believe in change. Let's bring the support groups up tp speed, bring them into the next century as the tools they are meant to be. Bring your your ideas to your next meeting, share them with your leaders, take leadership roles yourself. Tell your leaders what you want from your group, and if you don't get it, replace your leaders. The Net can't replace the support group. It can and does save you time learning the tricks and finding out that there are thousands just like you out there. But when you shut down your computer for the night, you are alone, with no one to share coffee with, no one to laugh with, no one to cry with. The friends you meet on the Net may not even be who they say they are. The girls in your group are there, and you need each other today and in real time. Jayne Cresap Vice President, Alpha Chapter of Tri-Ess
June 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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nyupress.bsky.social
The internet has long been a place for discovery. In “The Two Revolutions,” @adamegriff.bsky.social envisions it as a means of exploring and enriching trans identity. Continuum calls it “an excellent primer for understanding trans life online”.

More:
The Two Revolutions
Winner of the 2023 Ángel David Nieves Book Award, given by the American Studies AssociationThe internet origins of the American transgender movementThe Two ...
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June 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
I'm currently adding some videos to the
Archival Internet Video Index (apdame.github.io), and this 1987 commercial for a Minitel horoscope is probably my favorite I've run across so far.
Pub Minitel 3615 pl horo
YouTube video by Yanga Mbiwa Mapou
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June 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
A chuckle for today: I found this practically mint-in-box copy of the Perfect Dot-Com Bubble artifact. It's got it all, from literal surfing imagery to You've Got Mail jokes.

My favorite part? The fact all the money is in millions, since "$200 million...today's starting dot-com salary!"
Cover of Monopoly: The .com edition. Cover is designed in the style of a web browser, with classic dot-com bubble companies (Excite, Lycos, eBay, monster.com, cNet, iVillage) listed to the left and photos of the themed player tokens on the right. It is as kitschy as it sounds. Browse! Surf! Buy! Sell! Own It All- on the net! MONOPOLY - The.com Edition launches the world's most popular game into the world of e-commerce! As you travel the board, you'll buy and sell todayʼs hottest Web sites to build your personal empire of virtual real estate. You're after the top Net companies - those portals, search engines, news, information, entertainment, shopping, business, ISP, and connectivity providers that are now household names. In this edition, newbie MR. MONOPOLY™ has a computer: Land on the space he's on, and you'll see cyber rent control in action! Land on "Download" or "E-mail Just In!" and draw a card: Will you collect $100 million day-trading? Get in on a start-up and pocket $200 million? Or lose your Internet connection and land in Jail? Worse yet, you might receive e-mail of useless jokes and go back three spaces! Even in the risk-intense world of the Web, every time you pass GO, you'll collect $200 million ... today's starting dot-com salary! So pick a pewter token, log on and hyperlink your way to overnight fame and fortune with MONOPOLY - The .com Edition. Photo of Monopoly board, with standard properties replaced by bubble companies. Highlights include GeoCities, MCI Worldcom, Nokia, AltaVista, Lycos, and Ask Jeeves.
June 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"We really do want to stay in touch. We’d love for us to find a way to be part of each other’s lives. We don’t want you to think we’re just abandoning you at the exact moment when allyship would actually count for something tangible in this world."
We Regret to Inform You We Will No Longer Sponsor Your Pride Parade
“San Francisco Pride loses $300,000 after sponsors drop out: ‘The tone has changed in this country.’” — Them, 3/17/25 - - -Dear Queer Organization,...
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June 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juvenilia has a new reader. Bad news: It’s a graduate student, and they are going to eviscerate it in chapter 2 of their dissertation."
Brutally Honest Emails from Academia.edu
Welcome to Academia.edu. Now you can stay up-to-date with the latest research from academics around the world. Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juven...
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May 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
Parg' "Survivor" is this year's "car commercial" song, imo. #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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scottygb.bsky.social
The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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delafina777.bsky.social
do you remember

before social media

when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people

like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden

the web made me love humanity
May 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
Since it's back, time to repost this interview I did with @neverpo.st about KOSA, moral panics, and LGBTQ youth last November. Like I said then, KOSA is little more than a moral panic bill that, like all panic legislation, will do far more long term harm than good.
May 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
I had the pleasure of serving on this year's jury and reading all of these wonderful pieces (and so much more that we just couldn't fit in!).
May 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
Thought: AI-generated art assets (especially logos) are just the clip art CDs of the 2020s.
April 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
adamegriff.bsky.social
See Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers:" "A dialogue is not possible when some people exercise arguments as weapons by treating others as evidence to be rebutted. When you are asked to provide evidence for your existence, or when you are treated as evidence, your existence is negated."
April 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM