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Trans* Book History
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Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
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Picture of Arlo, a cattle dog with big black years smiling and looking longingly at a hand holding strip of bacon infront of him.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It started snowing here last night so made some chicken verde pozole. I hate the snow but love heart soup season.
Bowl of green chicken pozole with thinly sliced radishes and cabbage and a wedge of lime.
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Chef’s kiss!
“The jury—which fester on sandwiches for lunch Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches—deliberated the charges for several hours on Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Do it! I'm trying to convince @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social to let me add one of these to KLP...
advertisement for a Prouty cylinder "grasshopper" printing press.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
actor Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown wearing a dark overcoat and red tie, carrying a briefcase in one hand and a bowler hat in the other, standing in the busy lobby of the Met Museum.
October 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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An excellent collection!
Hand holding a copy of the book Nameless Woman: an anthology of fiction by trans women of color. The face of a woman is on the cover.
October 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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1883 Golding Pearl and 1874 Daughaday Improved Model No. 2. The Pearl needs new rollers and the bracket holding the ink plate needs to be replaced. I have a treadle that I need to put on it. And build the wood drawers. Need to clean up the surface rust on the Daughaday.
Side view of the fly wheel for a Golding Pearl printing press. Front view of a Golding Pearl printing press. Table top printing press.
October 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Arlo wants me to tell you that sometimes ice cream helps.
A cattle dog, white with black specks and black years has his face in a pink ice cream carton.
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I’m serious about bagels. 3 baker’s dozen heading back to Urbana. sorry not sorry to everyone on my flight about the smell of yeast and everything wafting through cabin.
A plate of dark brown pumpernickel bagels and one light cinnamon raisin bagel. A bowel of everything bagels behind it. Empty paper and plastic bags to the right. A large black duffle bag with tied white plastic bags full of bagels inside.
September 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Arlo hopes your day gets better.
Arlo, a cattle dog white white and black speckled fur and black years lying on an orange bod spread looking hopefully at the camera.
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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This morning’s long weekend leisure reading. Would love to know about more trans authors who are self publishing printed zines/chapbooks. Drop your recommendations here. (I stay up on digital self publishing. I’m wanting more material objects.)
A hand holding up a copy of Leo Leventhal’s “30 Sleights for the Modern Transexual” with a blue cover and diagrams of coin sleight-of-hand tricks. Legs and hammock in the background. Hand holding a pink zine titled “Appalachian Transsexual” (12 poems by Kyrsten) with an image of a vibrator and sickle. Hand holding a pink zine with the title “missladyma’amwoman” (16 poems by Kyrsten) with the image of a trans woman on the cover. Hand holding the pamphlet “Eugene” by Jackie Ess with green cover and image of a landscape.
August 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Getting in some more relaxing on day two of my 6 day weekend before I get back to writing the dissertation. Finished McKinney’s book on Pee Wee Herman and started Raving by McKenzie Wark last night. I’m in my minigraph era of pleasure reading.
A hand holding a pink book with the title Raving by MxKenzie Wark. Behind the book is an outstretched leg in a blue and green hammock.
August 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The benefit of teaching a Mon/Wed schedule this semester is that I’ve got a 6 day weekend because of Labor Day. Trying to balance relaxing with all the writing I need to do over the next six days.
A book is open and face down in my lap with my legs crossed at the ankles as I recline in a blue and green hammock. The book title on the cover reads “I know you are but what am I? On Pee Wee Herman” by Cait McKinney.
August 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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NBD, just looking at several copies of the Eliot Bible: translated from English to Massachusett by John Eliot, printed 1661 (New Testament) and 1663 (Old Testament). It was the first Bible printed in colonial British America and the first Bible translated into an indigenous American language.
Image of the title page for “The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England.” Image of the Eliot Bible open showing the last page of the book of Malachi and the title page for the New Testament both in Massachussett.
August 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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NBD, just looking at the first printed book in British North America, aka the Bay Psalm Book.
Image of an open book printed in 1640 showing the start of Psalm 139.
August 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Here’s my hot take for the day: this is not a manicule.
Image of a printed upside down hand pointing at some text.
August 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Went to the @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to look at a copy of Mather’s Magnalia Christi American with his 2 page errata slip. Pleasantly surprised (because I didn’t read the full cat. record) that the copy belonged to Isaiah Thomas. Shout out to @jgarc.bsky.social for recommending the Magnalia to me.
Image of inside front cover with marble paper and three book plates from top: University of Illinois, Isaiah Thomas, and Illinois State Library. Title page for Magnaila Christi Americana, or the Ecclesiastical History of New England by Cotton Mather Last page (118) with Parkhurst’s errata note at the end. On the right the errata list printed by Cotton Mather.
July 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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One year yarzeiht of my sweet Matzah Ball. She was such a little sprite of a cat.
Small Siamese cat with dart ears and dark nose sitting in a Hamm’s beer bucket with an image of the Hamm’s Bear holding a can of beer on it.
July 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I printed part of this poem during the pandemic.
Post card with a yellow circle sun and two green curves as hills with text in blue that reads “Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—/ Let it be that great strong land of love/ Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme/ That any man be crushed by one above. / (It never was America to me.) / —Langston Hughes—“
July 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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So is Arlo.
Cattle dog with black ears and speckled brown paws on a blue blanket with a red pillow and yellow pillow behind him.
June 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Sweet little press! My Golding says hi to your Golding!
Image of a 1882 Golding Pearl cast iron jobbing press. A blue tote is on the ground to the left and to the right is a 1974 cast iron Daughaday table top press. Stairs are behind the presses.
June 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Today's spontaneous purchase was the course packet "Printmaking Notes" for John Talleur's Fall 1966 printmaking course at University of Kansas. Talleur was the previous owner of my 1883 Hoe & Co iron hand press, which made its way to me via the Lawrence Art Center.
Screen shot of the front cover of John Talleur's course packet. It has a bring orange/yellow cover with black plastic spiral binding. The cover reads "Printmaking Notes / Professor John Talleur / Department of Drawing and Painting / University of Kansas"
June 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This morning’s coffee also sponsored by PEM. “There is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends”
Blue mug with front of sperm whale just visible on the left of the mug and a speech bubble that says “there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends”
June 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Went to the Peabody Essex Museum with @feralresearch.org yesterday. Left with this Moby-Dick hat.
Orange “dad” hat with “a grand, ungodly, god-like man” embroidered in a comic sans typeface
June 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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New acquisition inspired by @literaturegeek.bsky.social. I just couldn’t resist! Had to have it!
Brass belt buckle with image of a jobbing platter press and the dates 1882 /1982
June 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM