Amanda Wyatt! Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 (personal acct 🙃)
Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture
*DIY scholcom: letterpress+zine+blog+code
*Book-adjacent data+making
*Experimental/DH+library futures+community
3 !s in a hoodie
Dr! 🏳️⚧️ They/Them
AmandaVisconti.com
Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture
*DIY scholcom: letterpress+zine+blog+code
*Book-adjacent data+making
*Experimental/DH+library futures+community
3 !s in a hoodie
Dr! 🏳️⚧️ They/Them
AmandaVisconti.com
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Hi new folks! I post on: intersections of tech/culture/justice, making+craft (zines, weird resin, letterpress/book arts, color+light, retro tech), directing a digital humanities research center, transformative justice, bookadjacent code/data. General enthusiast; laugh inappropriately loudly at puns.
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Set myself up a little printing press out of a slightly modified old pasta machine, kind of works! Not the result you'd get from the tonnes of pressure from the real presses, but still not too shabby :)
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Set myself up a little printing press out of a slightly modified old pasta machine, kind of works! Not the result you'd get from the tonnes of pressure from the real presses, but still not too shabby :)
Letterpress/DH/librarian satisfactions:
reorg'd printshop cases+assigned cabinets letters to help find case #
made new clear typecase labels
turned old word doc type collection list into a database=filter/sort, track type's foundry, print quality, acquisition history, example prints using it etc
reorg'd printshop cases+assigned cabinets letters to help find case #
made new clear typecase labels
turned old word doc type collection list into a database=filter/sort, track type's foundry, print quality, acquisition history, example prints using it etc
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Letterpress/DH/librarian satisfactions:
reorg'd printshop cases+assigned cabinets letters to help find case #
made new clear typecase labels
turned old word doc type collection list into a database=filter/sort, track type's foundry, print quality, acquisition history, example prints using it etc
reorg'd printshop cases+assigned cabinets letters to help find case #
made new clear typecase labels
turned old word doc type collection list into a database=filter/sort, track type's foundry, print quality, acquisition history, example prints using it etc
At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).
"Can expressing and exchanging our experiences through zines provoke changes in perception, convention, or policy?" Tuesday 11/11 Jess Walters helps us explore—and then learn to make!—zines as tools for advocacy. (You may remember their past excellent SLab event on zines for disability justice!)
Zines Now! Workshop: Zines for Change
Join us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).
Printed a version of this for nonbookmaker folks ("our community says" instead of "bookmakers & binders say"), with a neon green border under black ink:
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Printed a version of this for nonbookmaker folks ("our community says" instead of "bookmakers & binders say"), with a neon green border under black ink:
I got one of the wood lasercut blocks of @queermedieval.bsky.social's to print better: "We can be soft & brave / silly & right" and "hope comes from us" #DHmakes
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I got one of the wood lasercut blocks of @queermedieval.bsky.social's to print better: "We can be soft & brave / silly & right" and "hope comes from us" #DHmakes
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“Using your hands and your imagination stretches the brain!”
Zines offer a creative, low-barrier way to express, connect, & advocate. Read about the year-long Zines Now project happening now! #ZinesNow #Zines
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zi...
@scholarslab.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social
Zines offer a creative, low-barrier way to express, connect, & advocate. Read about the year-long Zines Now project happening now! #ZinesNow #Zines
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zi...
@scholarslab.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“Using your hands and your imagination stretches the brain!”
Zines offer a creative, low-barrier way to express, connect, & advocate. Read about the year-long Zines Now project happening now! #ZinesNow #Zines
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zi...
@scholarslab.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social
Zines offer a creative, low-barrier way to express, connect, & advocate. Read about the year-long Zines Now project happening now! #ZinesNow #Zines
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zi...
@scholarslab.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social
The weather is beautiful & I am printing with The Danger Ink*
(*Not actually dangerous; I put scissors through the tube when opening the packaging, so duct tape+🤞?)
(*Not actually dangerous; I put scissors through the tube when opening the packaging, so duct tape+🤞?)
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The weather is beautiful & I am printing with The Danger Ink*
(*Not actually dangerous; I put scissors through the tube when opening the packaging, so duct tape+🤞?)
(*Not actually dangerous; I put scissors through the tube when opening the packaging, so duct tape+🤞?)
More from @josefbeery.bsky.social's zine+letterpress event @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! series last week w/some of his innovations w/movable lasercut acrylic shapes, which can be used for patterns (pic 2) or as pieces of movable type (pic 3 says "Zine Zone" printed); +his BookBlossom wood type
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
More from @josefbeery.bsky.social's zine+letterpress event @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! series last week w/some of his innovations w/movable lasercut acrylic shapes, which can be used for patterns (pic 2) or as pieces of movable type (pic 3 says "Zine Zone" printed); +his BookBlossom wood type
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If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...
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And the type form.
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
And the type form.
Early early ASCII art rocks. A "how did they make that?" for historical (& very current, as here!) technology—letterpress for "drawing" art #DHmakes
Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Early early ASCII art rocks. A "how did they make that?" for historical (& very current, as here!) technology—letterpress for "drawing" art #DHmakes
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"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.
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In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
UVA public confirmation of not interpreting their DoJ agreement as necessitating unscientific+hatebased attacks on folks not following rando gender norms: "The agreement does not obligate us to follow the DOJ guidance related to 'affirm[ing] sex-based boundaries rooted in biological differences'"
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November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
UVA public confirmation of not interpreting their DoJ agreement as necessitating unscientific+hatebased attacks on folks not following rando gender norms: "The agreement does not obligate us to follow the DOJ guidance related to 'affirm[ing] sex-based boundaries rooted in biological differences'"
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If I had a ZLuC BINGO card, I'd have Fire! reference on it, which I could now cross off. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire!! Fire is a Harlem Renaissance literary magazine/chapbook on the continuum of radical self-publishing, i.e., kind of a zine!
Fire (disambiguation) - Wikipedia
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November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If I had a ZLuC BINGO card, I'd have Fire! reference on it, which I could now cross off. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire!! Fire is a Harlem Renaissance literary magazine/chapbook on the continuum of radical self-publishing, i.e., kind of a zine!
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Many of us donate labor to our institutions (which don't appreciate it) for zine librarianship. The labor is for our communities, not the institutions. The work is some of our activism for which we don't need to be paid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Many of us donate labor to our institutions (which don't appreciate it) for zine librarianship. The labor is for our communities, not the institutions. The work is some of our activism for which we don't need to be paid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
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Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.
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“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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"Being trans is a new thing" meanwhile around her time were born:
- 1779: Thomas de Croismare
- 1786: Henriette-Jenny Savalette de Lange
- 1787: Christophe-Paulin de La Poix
- 1789: Dr. James Barry
- 1779: Thomas de Croismare
- 1786: Henriette-Jenny Savalette de Lange
- 1787: Christophe-Paulin de La Poix
- 1789: Dr. James Barry
New acquisition: a manuscript copy of a printed biography of a transwoman. France, 1859. (And after this, showing off cool items to Economics faculty…)
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Being trans is a new thing" meanwhile around her time were born:
- 1779: Thomas de Croismare
- 1786: Henriette-Jenny Savalette de Lange
- 1787: Christophe-Paulin de La Poix
- 1789: Dr. James Barry
- 1779: Thomas de Croismare
- 1786: Henriette-Jenny Savalette de Lange
- 1787: Christophe-Paulin de La Poix
- 1789: Dr. James Barry
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1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
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Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them
The Circuit also seemed to suggest that trans students could not misgender their bullies in return.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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What @alexsaum.bsky.social said 👇👇👇 but with the cool poster the organizers made
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What @alexsaum.bsky.social said 👇👇👇 but with the cool poster the organizers made
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Back in the binding circle @skeuomorphpress.org finishing the Le Guin books. Will be finally mailing them next week!
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Back in the binding circle @skeuomorphpress.org finishing the Le Guin books. Will be finally mailing them next week!