A Ronkle in Time

Spoilers: Wagner & Allgood’s paper on navigating queerness & regionality in LGBTQIA+ finding aids had me cheering at my desk. I’ll wait until after the conference to say more.

I spent my research time today reading precirculated papers for Queer Bibliographies 2026.

I am deeply grateful that this will be a hybrid conference. I can’t be there in person, but I am so excited to participate online. There’s some essential work here on queer archiving & librarianship.

The background is a bright magenta. At the center, there is a rounded rectangle with a white and pink gradient. On the left, a large pale pink circle contains the word "BIBLIO" in bold, outlined letters. Next to it, the word "GRAPHY" is in a large bold pink font, with the word "Queer" above it. A black circle in the bottom right corner contains the text "Registration required!" Below the central rectangle, in white text on the magenta background, is "QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE SOUTH

Pink text on a white background with information about the Queer Bibliography in the South hybrid conference from 12 to 14 March 2026

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required.

🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio

Gravestone with daffodil (Yoksel 🌿 Zok at unsplash)

The Diocese of Oxford has warned against a social media trend in which well-meaning people clean gravestones in churchyards. They say “Many churchyard monuments & gravestones are made from soft stone such as Portland limestone or Bath stone, which can be easily harmed by harsh cleaning techniques.”

Go read Persepolis.

Or maybe watch the movie.

a naked woman is holding a sign that says union in her hands . Alt: Sally Field in the film Norma Rae. She is in a factory holding a sign that says UNION in her hands.

Just got my union card!

The restored Emily Howland Album featuring an a previously unknown portrait of Harriet Tubman, March 25, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller.

Alisha Chipman holds a photograph of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, one of 44 portraits inside a photo album jointly acquired by the Library and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Shawn Miller.

For Harriet Tubman Day, we'd like to share this story from 2017, when a remarkable photo album containing a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman was jointly acquired by the Library and the Smithsonian, and conserved for future generations. ⬇️
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/03/...
#HarrietTubmanDay

Gay Figure Skaters Pave Their Own Way in “Icebreakers” | The New Yorker Documentary YouTube video by The New Yorker

This is lovely.

Happy birthday!

For years, I have been working on a documentary project about the history of children's birthdays, and I am again putting out a call to anyone willing to share photos and videos from their childhood birthday for us to possibly use in the film. More details below!

Sending you a PM.

@yourewrongabout.bsky.social Your three-part series on Keiko healed something in me. I also thought that the project to rewild Keiko was a heartbreaking failure. Brianna made a compelling case that we DID improve his quality of life and learned a lot to help other whales in the process. Thank you.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

I mean, I did when I worked in publishing, but my AWP experience was *very* different from the average attendee. For me, it was a chance to finally meet the authors whose books I'd been working on for the past few years. I looked forward to that part every year and still kind of miss it a little.

Not having kid myself, I can only imagine that the "sometimes people love each other very much, and they do the best they can, but it still doesn't work out" conversation is a much, much harder conversation to have with kids than letting them know that queer people exist.

To the best of my knowledge, my friends have had exactly one difficult conversation with their kids about my relationship:

"Are we going to visit Uncle Ron and Uncle [redacted] this year?"

"No, sweetheart. Uncle Ron and Uncle [redacted] are no longer together."

That's all I'll say about that.

Thank you!

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

PLU Scones Recipe | Resolute Online: Spring 2016 | Pacific Lutheran University

Recipe here:
www.plu.edu/resolute/spr...

A tray of lumpy apricot-white chocolate scones

Baking Day: Supplemental:
I let the dough get a little too warm/overworked and didn't have the stove hot enough for these scones, but they're still delicious and have a nice texture even if they're a bit misshapen. It's a good reminder that not everything has to be Instagram-perfect to be beautiful.

More about Cornell courtesy of Bella Somoza's research: blogs.cornell.edu/manystories/...

Picked up Documenting Rebellions (Sheffield 2020) again this morning and discovered that Cornell had gay student association pre-Stonewall.

I feel like the history of LGBTQ+ activism in Western NY has been severely neglected. There was a whole network of Gay Liberation Fronts on college campuses.

Ah. Looks like it's time for my biannual post about how I hate Daylight Savings Time and we should just make standard time permanent.

I hate Daylight Savings Time.

We should just make standard time permanent.

#MakeStandardTimePermanentYouCowards

A round loaf of Swedish limpa bread

Baking Day: Part II

Totally fair!

a woman sits at a table in a diner talking about a cherry pie Alt: Catherine Coleman as Margaret Lanterman a.k.a. The Log Lady in Twin Peaks. A woman with fantastic knitwear sits at a table in a diner. The caption reads “this cherry pie is a miracle.”

Now that is a damn fine slice of cherry pie

Do you remember the title of the memoir? Because that sounds very much up my alley.

Happy 34th anniversary to the original Sailor Moon anime!

#SailorMoon
#セーラームーン

A slightly browner than golden-brown cherry pie

Baking Day: Part I
The top crust got just a little bit dark for the cherry pie, but the bottom crust looks perfect.