Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>>
@caitcoker.bsky.social
Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
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Some on the right, including Elon Musk, are misinterpreting the game Dungeons & Dragons—and the intention behind its original story—to further a racist agenda, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues: https://theatln.tc/YRKYtIjQ
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Some on the right, including Elon Musk, are misinterpreting the game Dungeons & Dragons—and the intention behind its original story—to further a racist agenda, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues: https://theatln.tc/YRKYtIjQ
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Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Work in progress.
November 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Work in progress.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
PSA NYRB having one of their sales this weekend!!! Get 20/30/40% off!!
(I am filling some gaps in my Slavic shelf tonight, I tell you what!)
(I am filling some gaps in my Slavic shelf tonight, I tell you what!)
New York Review Books
The homepage of New York Review Books.
www.nyrb.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
PSA NYRB having one of their sales this weekend!!! Get 20/30/40% off!!
(I am filling some gaps in my Slavic shelf tonight, I tell you what!)
(I am filling some gaps in my Slavic shelf tonight, I tell you what!)
Friday vinyl!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Friday vinyl!!!!
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Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
So Charlie XCX did a full soundtrack album for Wuthering Heights and she got John Cale to feature in it so I'm fucking buying this now I guess
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
So Charlie XCX did a full soundtrack album for Wuthering Heights and she got John Cale to feature in it so I'm fucking buying this now I guess
A digital version of Sweetbitter is now up!! Eventually the full catalog will be available online as well.
Sweetbitter Sappho's Literary Legacies and Afterlives · Rare Book & Manuscript Library · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
exhibits.library.illinois.edu
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A digital version of Sweetbitter is now up!! Eventually the full catalog will be available online as well.
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PEN America joins nearly 300 scholars and writers worldwide—including Fatemeh Shams, Ervand Abrahamian, and Judith Butler—in calling for the unconditional release of a group of prominent scholars, writers, and translators arrested in Iran. pen.org/press-releas...
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
PEN America joins nearly 300 scholars and writers worldwide—including Fatemeh Shams, Ervand Abrahamian, and Judith Butler—in calling for the unconditional release of a group of prominent scholars, writers, and translators arrested in Iran. pen.org/press-releas...
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The first volume of Emily Dickinson’s Poems was published posthumously 135 years ago, on November 12, 1890. After discovering the manuscripts in which Dickinson had collected her writing, her sister, Lavinia, worked to have the poems edited and published—igniting a bitter family feud in the process.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The first volume of Emily Dickinson’s Poems was published posthumously 135 years ago, on November 12, 1890. After discovering the manuscripts in which Dickinson had collected her writing, her sister, Lavinia, worked to have the poems edited and published—igniting a bitter family feud in the process.
Hey look, a book! Much appreciation to @hauntologist.bsky.social for pulling this thing over the finish line!!!!!!!! @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social and I have a manifesto on DH projects we are proud of!
DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Collection on Digital Humanities and Book History
| Publishing Without Walls
iopn.library.illinois.edu
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hey look, a book! Much appreciation to @hauntologist.bsky.social for pulling this thing over the finish line!!!!!!!! @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social and I have a manifesto on DH projects we are proud of!
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Kids this is why everyone writes mean articles about your illiteracy
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kids this is why everyone writes mean articles about your illiteracy
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On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
Kassiani (Byzantine poetess) in progress…
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Kassiani (Byzantine poetess) in progress…
Charmed by 24/7 cake machine on a lonely chill road.
24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Charmed by 24/7 cake machine on a lonely chill road.
Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex is my new band name FYI.
It's mostly covers of Josie & the Pussycats and Marvin Gaye but set to nu metal. Our one-off album will be called The Tyrannt.
It's mostly covers of Josie & the Pussycats and Marvin Gaye but set to nu metal. Our one-off album will be called The Tyrannt.
The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex
What one woman’s quest for sexual satisfaction reveals about desire, hysteria, feminism, and capitalism
theatln.tc
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex is my new band name FYI.
It's mostly covers of Josie & the Pussycats and Marvin Gaye but set to nu metal. Our one-off album will be called The Tyrannt.
It's mostly covers of Josie & the Pussycats and Marvin Gaye but set to nu metal. Our one-off album will be called The Tyrannt.
Honestly just gonna pretend this image is of Percy Shelley and it's unclear if the handwriting is Mary's, Claire's, or Byron's.
Happy GdT Frankenstein on Netflix day everyone #filmsky 📽️
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Honestly just gonna pretend this image is of Percy Shelley and it's unclear if the handwriting is Mary's, Claire's, or Byron's.
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#InterviewWithTheVampire
#TheVampireLestat #iwtv
Birthday Boy Lestat appears in a new teaser shared by @annerice.amc.com!
#TheVampireLestat #iwtv
Birthday Boy Lestat appears in a new teaser shared by @annerice.amc.com!
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#InterviewWithTheVampire
#TheVampireLestat #iwtv
Birthday Boy Lestat appears in a new teaser shared by @annerice.amc.com!
#TheVampireLestat #iwtv
Birthday Boy Lestat appears in a new teaser shared by @annerice.amc.com!
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The Heritage Foundation has given the Emily Dickinson Museum (@emilydickinson.bsky.social) a C in its new guide to historic sites nationwide because events at the museum reportedly "celebrate abortion, homosexuality, and a whole host of progressive causes," so anyway, sounds cool, I'll be visiting
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Heritage Foundation has given the Emily Dickinson Museum (@emilydickinson.bsky.social) a C in its new guide to historic sites nationwide because events at the museum reportedly "celebrate abortion, homosexuality, and a whole host of progressive causes," so anyway, sounds cool, I'll be visiting
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 4:19 PM
New acquisition: a manuscript copy of a printed biography of a transwoman. France, 1859. (And after this, showing off cool items to Economics faculty…)
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Same—ask your library to buy what you want! (Plus if the authors/books you want are BIPoC, queer, and/or by other folks libraries/publishers under-resource, you're helping good librarians argue against bigots by proving local demand, & putting that book on the shelf for others to discover)
can confirm that the only time I've been rejected by the UVA Library or JMRL is when they can't find the title to buy or already own the book, and I've requested a LOT of books
HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Same—ask your library to buy what you want! (Plus if the authors/books you want are BIPoC, queer, and/or by other folks libraries/publishers under-resource, you're helping good librarians argue against bigots by proving local demand, & putting that book on the shelf for others to discover)