On Indigenous peoples’ day, here’s a quote from my hometown hero Joy Harjo. I’m looking forward to reading her new book that just came out (Girl Warrior).

My Intro to DH class this fall at Drexel is 🤓jam packed🤓 with class trips to archives. We will be doing more hands-on exercises with non-digital media, including an assignment where the students check out (from me) a discman or walkman, and explore the CD or tape collection at the Free Library

Things are terrible, social media is overwhelming. Here is a photo of my cat Cranberry who just rolled a natural 20

📣📣 On 2/19 union organizers are planning a national day of action for higher ed workers to protest the NIH cuts; Philly will be participating. Join me in attending and/or please share! You can find more details here: www.labor4highered.org#register

I feel like I’m posting into the void on this app; here is a cat photo for visibility of my kitten Cranberry

If you’re in Philly for MLA2024 & craving a treat and escape from center city, Franklin Fountain is donating $2 to Jewish Voices for Peace from every “Have a Heart Sundae” purchased

I’m on two early American related MLA2024 panels this Friday, one at 8:30 AM and another at noon. Join us at 8:30 to celebrate Tara Bynum’s book Reading Pleasures & hear about early Black literature or at noon where I’ll be talking about
@insurrecthistory.bsky.social with Ittai Orr 🎉

The Legacy Center’s collections on women physicians in the 19th century are incredible & another highlight was this newspaper account of the first western trained Filipina doctor Honoria Acosta-Sison, which interestingly uses her success to disparage midwives in the Philippines

The 1890s women physicians used the embroidered pillow to adapt the more domestic genre of the sampler & add more scientific and potentially more liberating details, such as the bicycle and this signature by two women, with interlocking hearts, who were possibly a couple

@nicolekeller.bsky.social and I caught up on zoom last week & inadvertently both showed up in our Women Writers Project apparel 🤓

I’m teaching Intro to DH this fall quarter to mostly English majors. it’s a totally new 10-week class within a dept that has no digital humanities presence. I want the class to be gentle, fun, encouraging, and highly collaborative & I’m looking for ideas or suggestions of assignments or readings ✨

Today is my birthday (& here’s an old photo of me with my brother and our cat Picasso). If you’d like to help me celebrate, consider making a donation to Project Meow which supports cats in West Philly: projectmeow.org/donate/