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Marguerite Carrithers
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Currently getting my masters in Library Science, passionate about medieval studies, early modern printing, costuming, and other things I’m currently forgetting, she/her
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miriamposner.com
Teaching thing I find useful: if a student stops showing up for class, make the subject line of your email "Is everything OK?" When people are overwhelmed they'll often avoid even opening bad-news emails (cf. me & my bank statements). This way, they know I'm reaching out to help, not chastise.
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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feralstreeep.bsky.social
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized.

You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too.

www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
December 21, 2023 at 3:46 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.

That’s…not the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
For the AIDS Dead   The plague that you have thus far survived.  They didn't. Nothing that they did in bed that you didn't. ...
www.divasofverse.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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lsepper.bsky.social
Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
Misconception: rare books = incunabula, 1st editions, fancy provenance, etc. Special collections also build tomorrow’s archival record today!

Here are some examples of recent acquisitions from The Gallery Press---our stewardship today ensures tomorrow’s researchers have access to small press works!
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.

The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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ecurrie.bsky.social
If you've ever wondered about the different kinds of clothing worn by the card players in Caravaggio's painting, 'Art in America' is featuring an extract about it from my book.
#fashionhistory
#earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes
An excerpt from Elizabeth Currie's new book Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio.
www.artnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
This poor graduate student (who was the course instructor), being harassed for doing their job.
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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demiforillinois.bsky.social
Chicago winter storm resource guide!
We take care of each other here!
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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amaditalks.bsky.social
Sharing again for the daytime folks.
amaditalks.bsky.social Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 6d
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November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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egallagher.bsky.social
maybe i’m just feeling weird bc i have a lot going on? the ghastly looming specter has nothing to do with it okay? plus you can only see him in mirrors anyway
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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ryancordell.org
Re-reading Becky Chambers’ *A Psalm for the Wild-Built* for class & moved again by:

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, & I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world & marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live”
A page from a novel reading: You keep asking why your work is not *enough*, & I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world & marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just *live*.”
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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itsdanthomas.bsky.social
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?

Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.

R: I've frequently not been on boats.

G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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shing.bsky.social
Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.
catacalypto.bsky.social Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 6d
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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schweizercomics.bsky.social
Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine:
www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
There is always some anxiety from my LIS students about finding a job.

This semester though... I've had more questions about the job market than ANY OTHER TOPIC...

What advice would you give new librarians, trying to find their first post-MLS job, in 2025/2026?
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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illdottore.bsky.social
No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
It's all over cross-stitch patterns as well. I'm looking only for patterns made pre 2023 at this point. Much of the patterns on etsy are chatgpt generated slop.
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
PLEASE KEEP YOUR ARMS AND LEGS INSIDE THE RIDE AT ALL TIMES

Laces maker with a central cord at the Passementerie Mill, Chicago!
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM