Sarah Werner
@wynkenhimself.bsky.social
feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America // sarahwerner.net
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Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
Ewww, American lit scholars, Penn/Harvard English folks, Elisa New is being gross again:
Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Director, Poetry in America, Harvard
Talking with Jeffery Epstein about Lolita?
It looks like she's inviting Serena to do a thing and he's agreed to send the invite. She's checking if the wording comports with expectations. But Lolita?
Director, Poetry in America, Harvard
Talking with Jeffery Epstein about Lolita?
It looks like she's inviting Serena to do a thing and he's agreed to send the invite. She's checking if the wording comports with expectations. But Lolita?
Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Ewww, American lit scholars, Penn/Harvard English folks, Elisa New is being gross again:
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Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network?
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Tiny but sustaining news: my upper division class––in which we'll be making cartoneras, paper planes a la zapatista, twines, bluesky bots, etc.––for next semester is already full and with even has a wait list! 🎉✨
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network?
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
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The lesser known sequel to 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The lesser known sequel to 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
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Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
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A boomer recently asked me why more “young people” aren’t protesting. I told him that they in fact are, but also that the consequences of even mild protest have changed a LOT since he was in college.
UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A boomer recently asked me why more “young people” aren’t protesting. I told him that they in fact are, but also that the consequences of even mild protest have changed a LOT since he was in college.
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“Blogs are one of the great literary inventions of our time. Coming somewhere between an essay and a diary entry, they are a form of personal journalism that is intimate and immediate... but they also have… a rough-edged informality that breaks down barriers. They are engaging.”
A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
Keeping posts going
Pity the poor British Library, an institution which simultaneously does such great things, yet at the same time seems to have utterly lost its way. The cyberattack of 2023 has created damage not on…
lukemckernan.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“Blogs are one of the great literary inventions of our time. Coming somewhere between an essay and a diary entry, they are a form of personal journalism that is intimate and immediate... but they also have… a rough-edged informality that breaks down barriers. They are engaging.”
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Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?
The Sun illustrates Olympics trans ban story with picture of cis athlete
UK tabloid The Sun has been widely panned for using a picture of cisgender athlete Imane Khelif in its story on an Olympics trans ban.
www.thepinknews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?
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HMML is seeking applicants for the position of "Advancement Data Manager," a full-time, benefits-eligible position. The location is hybrid, requiring three days per week on-site at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
More information: https://bit.ly/43pTU2o
#NowHiring #LibraryJobs #LISjobs #GLAMjobs
More information: https://bit.ly/43pTU2o
#NowHiring #LibraryJobs #LISjobs #GLAMjobs
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
HMML is seeking applicants for the position of "Advancement Data Manager," a full-time, benefits-eligible position. The location is hybrid, requiring three days per week on-site at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
More information: https://bit.ly/43pTU2o
#NowHiring #LibraryJobs #LISjobs #GLAMjobs
More information: https://bit.ly/43pTU2o
#NowHiring #LibraryJobs #LISjobs #GLAMjobs
i have been to the gym and then i went straight to the grocery store and wow that was a lot of taking care of sarah's body for one day and also i am scared to discover what i bought in that state of mind
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i have been to the gym and then i went straight to the grocery store and wow that was a lot of taking care of sarah's body for one day and also i am scared to discover what i bought in that state of mind
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teaching philosophy, artist's statement, and guiding line all in one
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
teaching philosophy, artist's statement, and guiding line all in one
this is def a first-world problem, but trying to get solar panels and heat pumps installed at this particular moment of batshit tariffs and the looming end to tax credits is REALLY tricky
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
this is def a first-world problem, but trying to get solar panels and heat pumps installed at this particular moment of batshit tariffs and the looming end to tax credits is REALLY tricky
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Had occasion, as one does, to think on Shakespeare's sonnets this morning, which called to mind this bit of absolute gorgeousness from Judi Dench. In case you need some beauty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKS...
Judi Dench - Sonnet 29 - 'When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' - 4K
YouTube video by Shakespeare Network
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November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Had occasion, as one does, to think on Shakespeare's sonnets this morning, which called to mind this bit of absolute gorgeousness from Judi Dench. In case you need some beauty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKS...
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This is some fascinating book history! childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/teacher-mo... 📚 📜
the illustrations and the words seemed to vary across editions, so the author "did what any reasonable person would do: I requested every edition I could find through interlibrary loan to see for myself" 💕
the illustrations and the words seemed to vary across editions, so the author "did what any reasonable person would do: I requested every edition I could find through interlibrary loan to see for myself" 💕
Teacher, Mother, Monkey?
The Changing Last Page of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is some fascinating book history! childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/teacher-mo... 📚 📜
the illustrations and the words seemed to vary across editions, so the author "did what any reasonable person would do: I requested every edition I could find through interlibrary loan to see for myself" 💕
the illustrations and the words seemed to vary across editions, so the author "did what any reasonable person would do: I requested every edition I could find through interlibrary loan to see for myself" 💕
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Well, wilt thou? Huh? Are you game?
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well, wilt thou? Huh? Are you game?
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
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Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025.
sharpweb.org/grants-prize...
sharpweb.org/grants-prize...
The Archie L. Dick Research Development Grants – SHARPweb
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025.
sharpweb.org/grants-prize...
sharpweb.org/grants-prize...
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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“We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” says @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: jeffries.house.gov/2025/11/09/h...
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES VOWS TO FIGHT ON – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
jeffries.house.gov
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” says @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: jeffries.house.gov/2025/11/09/h...
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I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
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The No. 1 thing people say they want Dems to do is fight. Over and over: We want them to fight for us. And yet............
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The No. 1 thing people say they want Dems to do is fight. Over and over: We want them to fight for us. And yet............