@kleonardphd
Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas aboutt kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Come learn about Guerilla Opera's Libretto Labs programs on March 21 from 3-4 pm ET on Zoom! I'll give an overview, answer questions, and run a fun mini-libretto writing workshop! Register at
I see/hear this all the time at my appointments. I do not get it.
Such a lovely bunny!
Something beautiful
Anyone can become disabled at any time.
Your life can change in an instant, no matter how strong and healthy you think you are.
People will leave you. Funds will dry up. Life will get tougher.
It’s not a moral failing.
It’s a minority group you can join anytime.
Folks, the use of AI to write reviews is a clear violation of peer review ethics + it endangers the authors' intellectual property rights. Don't do it.
Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look.
prf-law.com/current-case...
It’s a dangerous thing
Submissions are open for The Cosmic Background's next issue: THROWBACK TECH. Edited by Jacob Baugher. Submissions are open through March 31.
Call for Submissions: Throwback Tech Guest Editor Jacob Baugher Haunted Super Nintendos, Tube TVs that show alternate realities, radios that receive broadcasts from the future or other worlds, GameBoy Colors that receive cosmic messages through Pokemon Yellow. We are looking for flash fiction about our technological pasts that affect our emotional presents and physical futures. Due March 31
Submissions are OPEN for our special issue theme:
THROWBACK TECH 🎥📺📻🎮📀📼🕹️👾
Edited by @prof-bogs.bsky.social
Let's do this. You have until March 31. It's a new year, let's celebrate with old tech.
➡️ thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/...
$11.3 billion in a week.
That would have paid the enhanced ACA subsidies for a year for ~8 million Americans.
Boosting cause I’m curious what folks would suggest
keep going. It rapidly becomes anti-capitalist, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, pro-social good, pro-diversity, pro-equality, pro-inclusivity, with fun and smart strategies and ideas, hilarious characters, and of course Donut just gets better and better
So subset of boycott supporters took it upon themselves to declare the Target boycott over but the people who actually started the movement have spoken out today no one talked to them and the boycott lives. 🧵
Last Call for Submissions! - Common House
smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2026/03/last...
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a new initiative that would lead to more unhoused veterans being forced into guardianships.
It's part of a long history of poor disabled people's civil liberties being threatened.
A baby warty frogfish at the Shedd Aquarium is the first of its kind ever raised from egg to juvenile in an aquarium setting. It is roughly 1 centimeter, or less than half an inch, in size.
https://to.wttw.com/3PuW2lh
Covid Conscious folks, check out this online performing arts festival for the CC, by the CC! Music, comedy, theatre, open mic. Click below to see the lineup of events. All free!
This is important if you don't want visa or MasterCard to tell you how to spend your money.
Proto-Babar
This online course considers what might constitute a feminist approach to studying books, what the benefits of such approaches are, and how to incorporate them into our own work. We will center the textual object in exploring these issues, letting artifacts drive our questions rather than the actions of book makers, sellers, or collectors. Another way of putting this is that the course won't ask who women printing books were, but rather, who determined the terms on which we engage with books. This doesn't mean ignoring the many agents involved in book work, including the people involved in the long history of book trades, the academic field of print culture and textual editing, and the intersection of these with library practices. But it means that our work this week will be focused on generating questions about methodology rather than recovering names and histories.
We will also wrestle with the theory and practice of feminism, which has a history of different meanings for different communities, and how to develop it as an inclusive practice for our book work. If living a feminist life is, as Sara Ahmed argues, something we must return to over and over, something that we put into practice daily rather than something that stays in the classroom, how do we bring that into our spaces of book work? Through a combination of short advance readings about bibliography and feminism, course discussions, and your own work with textual artifacts, we will explore what questions are brought to the forefront when we approach our work through a feminist framework. Participants should anticipate two concurrent and two asynchronous sessions each course day, with those sessions being scheduled to accommodate the range of US time zones; asychronous sessions could involve exercises, readings, and off-camera discussions.
Discussions and exercises will also try explore different models of pedagogy in order to give participants a feel for what methodologies might suit them best. The course is intended to be of use to anyone researching, teaching, or acting as a custodian for rare books; although we will pay careful attention to the first centuries of western printing, since the study of those books have shaped the field of bibliography as a whole, the issues the course will consider cover all periods of book study. Participants should not expect to come out of the course having mastered a feminist history of books, but to leave with a set of tools to ask feminist questions of books.
Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...
For those interested in the academic research of role-playing games, we have just released our latest issue of the International Journal of Role-Playing (17!).
221 pages of work, all for advancing knowledge about this medium.
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
Ah. I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time lately warnings people not to travel to places where they could be hurt by local or national laws….
Bugguide photo of a "Thief weevil" (Attelabidae: Pterocolus sp) by user Metrioptera. He is a jolly iridescent turquoise and sort of rectangular in shape, with an unusually wide stance.
let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons
Seconding this. Sometimes boycotting conferences helps make change. In this case, especially if you’re coming from outside the US.
I love all of these so much!
Come work with me at the Newberry! The job listing for Vice President of Research & Education - my direct supervisor - has just gone live. I'm very excited to work with whoever fills this role.
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
this is ai-generated
Stanford University Press (where I used to be an academic editor) has put out a list of their books on Iran which I 100% recommend:
blog.sup.org/middle-east-...
A white reindeer with dark spots seems to strut away from a pack of reindeer harnessed to human skiers at a snowy reindeer-racing event in Finland. Photos curated by AP News.
This reindeer has big @weratedogs.com energy.