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Transcribing for the Colored Conventions project ! 

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By refusing the disconnect between data and abjection we might produce a political economy of the Middle Passage that will support social historical studies of the black Atlantic in new and more complicated ways. The difficulties of restoring the women, children and men ensnared by the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the narrative accounts of the Middle Passage are testament to the monumental work done through the omission of their pain and violations.

Jennifer Morgan, “Accounting for “The Most Excruciating Torment”: Gender, Slavery, and Trans-Atlantic Passages,” The History of the Present 6:2 (2016), 203. (via profkew)

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Women Workers at the Thames Paper Mill

“By the courtesy of Mr. Fiske, managing director of the Thames Paper Co., Ltd., we are enabled to give a photograph of a group of women workers who are now wholeheartedly and satisfactorily doing work at the company’s paper mill, Purfleet, Essex, very largely of a class which, until recently, was performed by men who are now called up. 

It will be noted that the amazons of Purfleet wear a very suitable and businesslike attire, and we hear from a gentleman who has seen them at work that they appear to be very happy and contented. It is no secret, of course, that if it had not been for the splendid way women have adapted themselves to the recent conditions brought about by the war, many paper mills would have had to close down, or, at any rate, would have suffered very great inconvenience and loss…

The women in the group given above are engaged as fillers-in on beaters, as beater attendants, laying sheets on machines, tying-up on machines, and assisting around machines.”

- page 491, The Paper-Maker & British Trade Journal, December 1916

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“Diving Into The Wreck” by Adrienne Rich

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cool ideas for the future

- transcribe stuff

- poster making for the science march

- reading group (feminist comic?)

- start a feminist coding library

- zine making (Lara’s zine maker)

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The Chandelier of Lost Earrings 

Lauren Sagar & Sharon Campbell (2013)

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now to write a script that can hack the screens of all my fem-coding colleagues with this whenever they start doubting themselves.

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For April Fools’ Day, the Women Writers Project set up a working interface that gives sortable Scrabble® values for the words in Women Writers Online. Just in case you wanted to know who would win in a Scrabble game between Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish. 

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What does a book mean to you? Is it simply something you read, or a cherished memento? Is it a meticulous record, or a whimsical amusement? A book can be many things and take on a life of its own. A book can transform and be transformative. It can also be a valentine. Curated by the Library Company’s conservation team, we explore The Living Book : New Perspectives on Form and Function, opening May 9th! 

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865. The voice of flowers.  Hartford : H.S. Parsons and Co., 1848.

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OUR OWN〰 FEMINIST〰 Spring Summer 1981 #lesbianculture #ourown #feminist

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Archive

WWII political postcard.

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#NeverthelessShePersisted #digitalhumanities #feminism #digitalfeminism

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In gratifying the self, novels foster self-love and a tendency to self-assertion that would make the mind ungovernable and thus jeopardize the agencies of social and psychological control. That most readers of novels (and virtually all those who read novels only) were thought to be women and youth made particularly ominous the implications of a novel reading based on self-gratification as opposed to social feelings.

Nina Baym, Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

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Getting ready to encode my little heart out today. 

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Me thinking I’m doing something cool with my data

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We perform labor that reproduces the academy, from teaching information literacy, research skills and citation formats to students, to selecting, cataloging, and preserving materials for current and future use. This work is vital and it is intellectual labor, but because it does not conform to the publish or perish model at the top of the academic hierarchy, it is reduced to (and devalued as) “service.

Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital Humanities, Roxanne Shirazi