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; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
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So I'm asking for help now. Do you have a story or initiative about Queers and Libraries that you'd like in the book? Let me know!
FYI, they don't have to be positive if that doesn't reflect your experience.
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FYI, they don't have to be positive if that doesn't reflect your experience.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
So I'm asking for help now. Do you have a story or initiative about Queers and Libraries that you'd like in the book? Let me know!
FYI, they don't have to be positive if that doesn't reflect your experience.
forms.office.com/e/SRh70ukEeN
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FYI, they don't have to be positive if that doesn't reflect your experience.
forms.office.com/e/SRh70ukEeN
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When I pitched the 'big gay book of libraries' I said I was going to write a positive and uplifting books. But it's hard, folks.
I just find myself writing about discrimination and censorship, again and again.
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I just find myself writing about discrimination and censorship, again and again.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
When I pitched the 'big gay book of libraries' I said I was going to write a positive and uplifting books. But it's hard, folks.
I just find myself writing about discrimination and censorship, again and again.
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I just find myself writing about discrimination and censorship, again and again.
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I’m 12 hours into this 14.5 hour flight and so far I’ve read the first 10 chapters of Moby-Dick and the entirety of The Sparrow and I haven’t slept or cried once and I’m using my free hour of WiFi to tell you that I’m actually wrecked by both of them
January 3, 2026 at 5:25 AM
I’m 12 hours into this 14.5 hour flight and so far I’ve read the first 10 chapters of Moby-Dick and the entirety of The Sparrow and I haven’t slept or cried once and I’m using my free hour of WiFi to tell you that I’m actually wrecked by both of them
🐋 facts
Whale songs from the western Pacific spread eastward like a platinum radio hit and all the whales start singing it. The new hit can spread as far as Ecuador. The songs are changed up each year. All the cool kids sing it
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January 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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So as I’m starting rereading Moby-Dick, I just finished rereading Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow (incredible and devastating) and I’m curious to see how much of the issues of faith from that are going to be my lens for MD this time around 🐋
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 AM
So as I’m starting rereading Moby-Dick, I just finished rereading Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow (incredible and devastating) and I’m curious to see how much of the issues of faith from that are going to be my lens for MD this time around 🐋
Do you too want to spend a month reading Moby-Dick? Details below! (Srsly, this book blew me away the first time I read it; it is weird and beautiful and dreadful)
THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Do you too want to spend a month reading Moby-Dick? Details below! (Srsly, this book blew me away the first time I read it; it is weird and beautiful and dreadful)
The last time I read Moby-Dick (also the first time I read the whole thing!) it took me 6 months of slow going but part of that overlapped with a trip to New Zealand. This time I’m reading while headed to Japan and am already behind schedule lol but am excited to reread it for #monthofdick 🐋
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The last time I read Moby-Dick (also the first time I read the whole thing!) it took me 6 months of slow going but part of that overlapped with a trip to New Zealand. This time I’m reading while headed to Japan and am already behind schedule lol but am excited to reread it for #monthofdick 🐋
Important Month of Dick 2026 content 🐋
My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Important Month of Dick 2026 content 🐋
So what music are we listening to today to bring good energy into 2026? So far for me it’s Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Life on Earth and The Past Is Still Alive and Maggie Rogers’s Surrender. Looking for more recs, any period/genre welcome
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
So what music are we listening to today to bring good energy into 2026? So far for me it’s Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Life on Earth and The Past Is Still Alive and Maggie Rogers’s Surrender. Looking for more recs, any period/genre welcome
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Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
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Here, have some peacock energy for 2026 🦚
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Here, have some peacock energy for 2026 🦚
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
which of our current tech objects will be the calculighter of the future?
December 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
which of our current tech objects will be the calculighter of the future?
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A story about why book history and bibliography (the study of books and other textual artifacts as physical objects) are amazing and important fields and why I’m glad I call them one of my intellectual homes. The ending is somber, so fair warning. 1/n
December 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A story about why book history and bibliography (the study of books and other textual artifacts as physical objects) are amazing and important fields and why I’m glad I call them one of my intellectual homes. The ending is somber, so fair warning. 1/n
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THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
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"The win had changed her life, but not in the ways she had hoped."
A devastating, deeply moving story by my dear friend @caseyparks.bsky.social about how poverty, politics, and cruelty shaped a trans teenage runner's world.
A devastating, deeply moving story by my dear friend @caseyparks.bsky.social about how poverty, politics, and cruelty shaped a trans teenage runner's world.
For young transgender runner, racing wasn’t the hardest thing
Verónica García overcame poverty to become a high school track champion — twice. It made her famous for all the wrong reasons.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The win had changed her life, but not in the ways she had hoped."
A devastating, deeply moving story by my dear friend @caseyparks.bsky.social about how poverty, politics, and cruelty shaped a trans teenage runner's world.
A devastating, deeply moving story by my dear friend @caseyparks.bsky.social about how poverty, politics, and cruelty shaped a trans teenage runner's world.
First draft done! I might actually get this out while it’s still 2025!
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
First draft done! I might actually get this out while it’s still 2025!
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if you're resolution for next year is to 'read like a writer' I made a (completely free!!) set of journal templates to do just that. Chag christmas sameach and happy nittel nacht (belated)
A number of weeks ago, I mentioned that I keep a "craft journal" — a journal that's about the books I've read with analysis through the lens "how can this inform my writing?"
Many iterations later, have a free PDF of what I'm calling "Reading Selfishly:"
dl.bookfunnel.com/6dvlo8cnxx
Many iterations later, have a free PDF of what I'm calling "Reading Selfishly:"
dl.bookfunnel.com/6dvlo8cnxx
A guide to reading, reflecting, and analyzing fiction writing of any genre for authors and aspiring authors.
Authors are often told that in order to write, we have to read — many people (mis)interpret that to mean reading by evaluating books or composing book reviews. This journal is intended for authors to ...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
if you're resolution for next year is to 'read like a writer' I made a (completely free!!) set of journal templates to do just that. Chag christmas sameach and happy nittel nacht (belated)
Also an actual ancient pomegranate?! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
animal/vegetal remains | British Museum
Small complete pomegranate.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Also an actual ancient pomegranate?! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
And speaking of pomegranates
Farm workers are hard at work in in Fresno CA harvesting pomegranates. They earn minimum wage and spend their days filling sacks that weigh up around 60 pounds when full. They then dump the sacks into the bins. A tractor hauls the full bins to cold storage. #WeFeedYou
December 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
And speaking of pomegranates
A lovely poem about pomegranates and love and the future in the present, “The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd” by Alberto Ríos
The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
Moving to the front were the children She and Clemente would one day have, And the children of those children, too, Gathered and loud with everyone and everything else, Loud as the pigs and fast as th...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A lovely poem about pomegranates and love and the future in the present, “The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd” by Alberto Ríos
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D.C. home rule was signed into law on December 24, 1973.
From @maustermuhle.bsky.social, here's what it means, how it works — and what could be done to strengthen local control:
From @maustermuhle.bsky.social, here's what it means, how it works — and what could be done to strengthen local control:
Everything you need to know about D.C. home rule
The city’s power over its own affairs is imperiled by the incoming Trump administration. Here’s what you should know about the parameters of local control in D.C.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
D.C. home rule was signed into law on December 24, 1973.
From @maustermuhle.bsky.social, here's what it means, how it works — and what could be done to strengthen local control:
From @maustermuhle.bsky.social, here's what it means, how it works — and what could be done to strengthen local control:
I should obviously spend the next 10 days making a little zine about pomegranates instead of writing a book proposal so please send me all your favorite facts/myths/images
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I should obviously spend the next 10 days making a little zine about pomegranates instead of writing a book proposal so please send me all your favorite facts/myths/images
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Keep making and sharing those zines, letterpress prints, and textile messages. DH folks know how to get the word out, whether it's archiving or sweaters. #DHmakes
just incredible samizdat times to be living in here in the US
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Keep making and sharing those zines, letterpress prints, and textile messages. DH folks know how to get the word out, whether it's archiving or sweaters. #DHmakes
just incredible samizdat times to be living in here in the US
December 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
just incredible samizdat times to be living in here in the US