More AI slop from academia.edu: I got two of these emails regarding conference papers I wrote 20 years ago. Definitely deleting the account this week.

Today I received the scans I made three weeks ago at the @leatherarchives.bsky.social in Chicago. In this research I’m interested in leather title sashes and how they came to be used, which has led me to also ask, when did leather title comps begin? The four hours in the archive were enlightening.

Tempted to finally delete my academia.edu account after receiving an unsolicited email about an AI having written a review of a chapter I wrote two years ago.

This humble little paper, pending minor revisions, was this week accepted into the journal APRIA. I’m nonetheless chuffed as it’s my first about leather, an intentional act to bridge my ‘professional’ and ‘private’ lives, and a small gesture of giving back to the leather community.

In the past couple of years I’ve begun to put my body explicitly in my work. Questions of labour have been there for a long time at least implicitly, and the body is inseparable from labour. But this is different: my body has become material for my work, or I use it to respond to my work.