Sophie

Sophie, 10 months ago to random

This meeting could have been a nap

Teri_Kanefield, 3 months ago to random

Here is how you can support an author and libraries: Go to your library and ask for my latest book. If they don't have it look perplexed. "What? You don't have Teri's latest book?" See if they'll order it.

If you check out a few of my books that helps keep them on the shelves.

(I am always embarrassed when books come out because I think they are priced too high at first. A the same time, I like to announce a new book.)

RickiTarr, 18 days ago to random

The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

Sophie, 9 months ago to queer

Beautiful #zine makers! Please send me links to buy your stuff! I’m building out my collection to start doing pop up #libraries around my city

Particularly interested in #queer / #trans content and #authors / #artists. Preference is for physical copies.

Please #boost!

Sophie, 5 months ago to books

Just finished “How to Hide an Empire,” by Daniel Immerwahl

I’m often surprised by how much I don’t know, but this #book really astonished me with my own ignorance. I’m embarrassed to say how little I knew of US colonialism, territories, and global military bases

Immerwahl explains the post WWII #decolonization / #recolonization as a product of technological innovation in a clear (and very readable) way. Highly recommend!

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Sophie, 6 months ago to Zines

Hello hello! I’m looking for #bookstores that carry #zines, and who might be interested in carrying mine!

I work with Screaming Into The Future to make zines on #queer / #trans topics. We work closely with orgs like @mappingtransjoy and @SolidarityHistory to promote #liberation and #movement causes.

Our growing collection can be found here: https://screamingintothefuture.com/zines/

💜💜

#iso #zine #queerArt #bookstore #radicalBookstores

Sophie, 8 months ago to random

The worst timeline

Sophie, 2 months ago to TransJoy

💜💜💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💜💜💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
Quote from the Joy Map:
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💜💜💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💜💜💜
“My trans Joy moment has been knowing that so many of my colleagues accept me and want to be better humans for the young people in our care, and the greater world in gender <3”

• Cory, Cape Town, South Africa
  #mappingTransJoy #transJoy #capeTown #southAfrica @transJoy

Sophie, 1 month ago to DadBin

Dear fellow #parents,

Just a reminder that we can love our #children with all our little hearts and still acknowledge that they’re annoying.

Stay strong 💜💜

#parenting #kidsCanBeAnnoying #beKindToYourself

Sophie, 28 days ago to Zines

A neighbor stopped me on my walk yesterday to say she bought one of my #zines from the local #bookstore and that she loves it.

Its called “If you do art today your house will be a mess (a love letter to my creative friends)”

It’s all about how it’s okay to let some things (like housework) slide to pursue other goals (like #art). She said she keeps it in her purse to help her remember to be #gentle with herself 🥰🥰💜💜

Sophie, 18 days ago to Nashville

Hey #Nashville friends! The Mapping Trans Joy team will be in town soon! Come share a meal with us and let’s dream big about #joy, #art, and #community

#mappingTransJoy #transJoy @transjoy

Sophie, 4 months ago to history

Just finished Kris Manjapra’s “Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation”

Fascinating and heartbreaking analysis of how #emancipation has always been a means of continuing slavery while pretending to eliminate it (via “indenture periods” and reparations to slavers for “property lost”) and how to move past this #history for a more #humane world

@bookstodon #bookstodon

Sophie, 1 year ago to random

Oral history is a gateway drug for giving a fuck about other people

Sophie, 10 months ago to random

Question for #archivists, #librarians, #historians, #glam, #culturalHeritage professionals, #oralHistorians and related history/memory-oriented folks out here in the fedi:

Do you use the term “memory worker”? If so, what does this mean to you?

I’ve been using it (and hearing it) as a useful generalized term to include all folks who work in history/memory fields

Really curious if it’s widely used and if so, with which groups, and if there are any meanings I might be missing

Thanks! 💜💜💜💜

Sophie, 9 months ago to random

Just … barely
#bleptember #blepsofmastodon

Sophie, 5 months ago to scifi

Any N.K. Jemisin fans who haven’t read this short story collection, I highly recommend it!

In the introduction, she discusses her initial reluctance to write short stories, and how she came to see the value, as both art and a place to explore what becomes longer fiction. (It’s hard to miss the beginnings of some of her later work peeking through these pieces!)

Anyway, it’s great! 💜

#scifi #fantasy #nkjemisin #fiction #shortStories #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Sophie, 10 months ago to random

This meeting could have been a zine

With cool hand-drawn illustrations and fuck-the-world attitude, distributed to an eclectic group of trans and queer punks and misfits

Sophie, 2 months ago to hiking

Spending the week in Hot Springs National Park… wanna see some #moss (or what I think is moss?) I found in my first #hike?

#nationaPark #Mosstodon #hiking #fungi

This is probably it moss, but rather fungus if some type. It’s growing on the side of a tree, like little plates. Off white and light brown. Really neat
Some bright green and dull green moss growing among leaves and rocks. Anyway… pretty sure it’s moss. Again, I might be way off. But it looks cool.
Wavy, overlapping squiggly moss growing on a rock. Or maybe not moss? Obviously I’m in over my head. But it’s cool!

Sophie, 1 month ago to vinyl

Hey #library / #archives / #oralHistory friends!

I'm teaching a new #class "Solidarity Memory Work"

We'll learn about #solidarity #movements in allied professions (academic history, journalism, etc.) then discuss (1) how to actively #document and #preserve current movements and organizations, and (2) activate that #records already in #collections to motivate and guide contemporary organizers

Join us?

https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/334-solidarity-memory-work/?attribute_pa_session=2024-05-may

#memoryWork #archivists #teaching

yo_bj, 3 months ago to random

Because nothing will go wrong with using AI to generate subject headings and summaries for library resources.

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

🙃

https://exlibrisgroup.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-blog-series-introducing-our-ai-metadata-generator/

Sophie, 3 months ago to AdobePhotoshop

Hi #library / #archives friends, my course, “#Critical #Digital #Cultural #Heritage #Management,” starts in one week and covers a wide range of digital #archival practices (#selection, #description, open data, #teaching) from the perspective of #ethical and critical challenges

If you know of anyone who might be interested, please feel free to share 💜💜

https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/309-introduction-to-critical-digital-librarianship/?attribute_pa_session=2024-03-mar

Sophie, 3 months ago to Zines

I’m at Queer History South (#qhs2024) handing out #zines, #stickers, and #bracelets and generally making a spectacle of myself (all for love of Mapping Trans Joy)

Having a blast! Wish you were here

#queer #history #transJoy @transjoy

Assorted multicolored plastic bead bracelets, with phrases such as “trans joy,” “queerest,” “shy guy”
Two piles of stickers, one with a rainbow that says “Trans Joy, Joy as in Fuck Transphobia,” and the other: “be trans, share joy,” both with the Mapping Trans Joy URL: MappingTransJoy.org

Sophie, 2 months ago to Dogs

After a morning at the dog park, curled up with a good book

💜💜🐶🐶

#dogs #dogsOfMastodon

Sophie, 1 month ago to scifi

Just finished “Record of a Spaceborn Few,” by Becky Chambers

Set in the same universe as (and with some references to) her “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,” and “A Closed and Common Orbit,” this is a another lovely, humane look at community, belonging, history and intentionality.

🔭🚀🪐💜

#sciFi #scienceFiction #bookstodon @bookstodon

Binder, 1 month ago to random

“How do you manage to not compulsively read the entirety of every book you start?”

Simple explanation, really. I’m a natural born quitter.

I quit when things aren’t working & when they are. For any reason or no reason. I’ve probably quit more things than most people have begun.