My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It can't compare to @kdriscoll@aoir.social's swatch, but it's very Me.
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Avery Dame-Griff
@apdamegriff@aoir.social
mastodon 4.7.3Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University. My work is at the intersection of web history, LGBTQ studies, feminist STS, and digital humanities. Author of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet; founder and curator of the Queer Digital History Project (http://queerdigital.com). Collects cats and old technology.
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Found this at a Free Book Fair held by great local used bookstore Page 42 (www.page42bookstore.com). It was in a box of random media and I grabbed it because, why not?
No cartridge, but...it had the original owner's painstakingly hand-drawn level maps on graph paper, including coffee (?) stains. They even have added coordinates for easy referencing.
@kdriscoll@aoir.social I think only you will be interested in this find, but I had to share it with someone. I didn't *need* it, but it was $1. I couldn't resist.
It's late in the day to share, but a Happy Holidays wish from me and Santa's daisy wheel printer. (From Sandra Boynton's book Christmastime (1987))
Tonight at 6:30 PT I'll be talking about some of my research on LGBTQ BBSes in Washington State, sponsored by the King County Library System (also free on Zoom): https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/699644e38ef687c592a8600f
I think I know for sure now that my transformation into a historian is now complete, because I read this (very good and timely, to be clear!) package of stories and still thought, "Would it be too much to ask to historicize this wave of events beyond the mid-2010s? With, y'know, a history book?"
I have, I fear, become my academic parents.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/777087/trans-internet-privacy-safety-anonymity-ai
Good to know they made these for every kind of then-new technology.
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@kdriscoll @taoish Given how much non-scholarly stuff now gets indexed, it certainly suggests no one is spot checking it.
I'll be giving a public talk on the legacy of LGBTQ BBSes in Washington State next Wednesday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. at The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle! You can register and find a link to the livestream here: https://mohai.org/event/history-cafe-love-and-modems/