Sarah Laiola
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Sarah Laiola
@drswlaiola.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Digital Culture and Design (Coastal Carolina); crafting, running, digital humanities, e-lit

@filterInstaZine & @DCDatCCU on insta
#WIPcheck : a sleeve emerges 🤩

#knit #knitting
June 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A fun thing about being a post-folklore Swiftocrat™️ who held the (TV) line means I got some new music by Taylor Swift today 😎

#reputation #Swiftie (fine)
May 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
And some faves reflecting in technology, information, and the self
May 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Some textile-incorporated faves
May 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Some semesters you just need to close out with a day of art 🥰

A few highlights from #ArtFields2025 yesterday (my first visit but definitely becoming a yearly visit!)
May 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
One really weird (and mostly fun) collab I’m in is our Space Program — a STEAM project where we + students build a cube-satellite that will orbit our coastline and enable various forms of data collection

Anyway we won the university-wide faculty innovation Award for Student Success
April 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Evening zooms for AI training (😑) require crafts

#dhMakes
April 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The vibes I bring to the WASP-y South Carolina neighborhood yard sale when the humanities are under attack
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happy to share that, Filter our little fledgling Instagram Zine that’s been dormant for a minute is back to life and sharing new Instagram-based #Elit work

Check it out!

cc: #dh #ElectronicLiterature

www.instagram.com/reel/DH86kEM...
April 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Listen I know it’s all bleak but my home county went blue for the first time probably ever yesterday & following Cory Booker & WI…I’ve got a something like hope coming through
April 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
And a crochet doll visceralizing embodied and emotional feeling in the first 24 hours after November 5
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A knitted scarf capturing top 100 ships data from AO3 — colors correspond to gendered pairing; purl bumps to nature of relationship (romantic or otherwise)

A crochet flower bouquet capturing multiple facets of the crafter’s identity

3/
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Featuring:

embroidery hoop
capturing emotional data while apart from a partner;

Embroidering a pattern generator’s output;

12 sprigs of crochet lavender in encoded celebration of queer identity

2/
March 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
POV: you enter our humanities and fine arts building and are greeted by a brand new display in the entryway, featuring my students’ code & craft work from last semester’s special topics ☺️

#dhMakes 1/
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Surely this will be fine…
March 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Is searching yourself in LibGen the new googling yourself?

Anyway…only three of my credits came up which is honestly like, so cool I was pirated originally 💅🏼, and so uncool to know this work is in the training data set / AI invested 🤮
March 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It’s possibly I have too many books, not enough month #BOTM #bookSky
March 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Speculoos and (unpictured) chocolate silk pies for making revolutionary joy this #piDay / #PieDay
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Had such creative fun today at a book sewing / making workshop led up by our Makerspace as part of #BookArtsWeek

Felt so good to fold, rip, draw, brainstorm, mark, make, sew, and weave with paper for a few minutes, plus who doesn’t love an opportunity to brainstorm a manifesto?!

#DHMakes
March 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Tell me again how it’s more dangerous to elementary kids to learn that queer people exist than to try and learn in this environment 🙄😡

(Carolina Forest elementary school in SC after a weekend of 12-1600 acre forest fires)

#CarolinaFires #BookBans #CarolinaForestFires
March 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Forest fires in SC (Myrtle beach area)

do not recommend
March 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I know it’s not officially #MardiGras yet, but my birthday is this week so I made a Queen Cake this weekend
February 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#dhMakes & making the world a bit more soft, comfortable & colorful : fresh off the needles and in love with the textures & colors this pattern produced

Pattern is Aurora Cabin Shawl by #Westknits #knit #knitsky
February 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
DCD at Coastal Carolina checking in for #DouglassDay!

cc: @douglassday.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We’ll be transcribing for #DouglassDay tomorrow at Coastal Carolina! Join us from 2-4 for cake, pizza, & information preservation!
February 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM