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Avery Dame-Griff
@adamegriff.bsky.social
- 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.
It really is. It currently has pride of place amongst my other doodads I've collected over the years.
August 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.
August 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I do love how the power of unregulated internet capitalism is clearly blowing Mr. Monopoly's mind. An evergreen statement for the times.

(I look forward to twenty five years from now, when I find a copy of Monopoly - The AI Edition and/or Monopoly - The Crypto Edition at my local Savers.)
June 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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!"
June 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Also, it's worth noting that even in 1997, folks within the trans community foresaw this possible future. (Newsletter is from the UMich archives.)
January 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The ultimate all-in-one business gadget of the mid-2000s.
January 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I spoke too soon.
December 13, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Cursed object.
December 13, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Would love to know what RuPaul murdered. (Wrong answers only.)
November 22, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I am a sucker for objects that combine interests and aesthetics, in this case giant robots and cutaway blueprints.
November 12, 2024 at 12:47 AM
2 thumbs, 7 teeth, a slight wobble, and zero thoughts.
November 5, 2024 at 4:16 PM
What did *your* e-mail from Santa say?
October 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Found a game that's sure to get everyone to the table.
September 20, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Barbara would like you to know she has given up.
September 20, 2024 at 9:57 PM
A tour of the current office display, including the latest additions, a Toshiba Satellite and laserdisc of Copycat, a lesser known Network Fever movie.
September 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
When machine learning tries to make a toy. (Found at the local bins store.)
July 16, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Really looking forward to digging through these once the semester is over.
April 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
The mug for our era.
April 16, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Every day I pass this sign on the way to work. Each time I feel the overwhelming urge to make new and more terrible Robin Williams-themed dad jokes.
March 29, 2024 at 12:52 AM
I'm doing quite a few talks this Spring, the first of which will be on LGBTQ web archiving at the University of Tokyo on Feb 11! I'm super excited for this one, and the conversations that come out of it.
January 22, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Found some classic phone fashion this weekend.
January 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
If you're in Ann Arbor and have some free time and want to hear me chat about the internet of the 1990s, I'll be giving a book talk at UM on Monday, 11/13!
November 8, 2023 at 7:05 PM
The quintessential American restaurant.
November 7, 2023 at 12:54 AM
Found my unofficial #SHOT2023 t-shirt at Goodwill up the street.
October 27, 2023 at 12:44 AM
Even though our maples are losing their leaves, this snapdragon is still somehow going strong.
October 22, 2023 at 4:38 PM