Sophie

Sophie, 2 days ago to random

My wonderful spouse is #graduating with her #MLIS this week! Last night was the cording ceremony, Lavender Graduation

She’s 3rd generation #librarian!!! (Mother and grandmother were also librarians!!)

#LavenderGraduation #LavGrad #queerJoy

Sophie, 7 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, 15 days 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

Sophie, 15 days 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

Sophie, 20 days 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

Binder, 20 days 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.

Sophie, 21 days ago to books

Just finished Kim Ghattis’s “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East”

Ghattis starts with the question, “what happened to us?” Countries once rich in culture and art — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan — are now smothered in religious conservatism. She traces how we all got to where we are, and what hope looks like now.

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Sophie, 1 month ago to TransJoy

#transJoy @transjoy #HornimanMuseum #London #England #trans #genderFluid

Sophie, 1 month 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 Dog

Pancake the Dog wants you all to know that she got a new dog bed today. And she loves it.
🐶💜

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #comfyDog

Sophie, 1 month ago to Georgia

💜💜💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
Quote from the Joy Map
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💜💜💜

“I began my transition during and really grew into who I was meant to be during this times. I took my first T shot on my 21st birthday, February 8th. Best day of my life.”

#georgia #tshot #transJoy #mappingTransJoy @transjoy #quotes

See more and add yours 💜🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️ https://www.mappingtransjoy.org/

Sophie, 2 months ago to Dogs

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

💜💜🐶🐶

#dogs #dogsOfMastodon

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, 2 months ago to TransJoy

#transJoy #joyIsResistance #joyIsPower #joyIsLife #joyIsHot

#bracelets @transjoy

yo_bj, 2 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, 2 months ago to TransJoy

Quotes from the Trans Joy Map

🥰🥰🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💜💜😍😍

Find more joy, and share your own: https://www.mappingtransjoy.org/

#transJoy #QuotesFromTheMap #TransJoyMap @transjoy #trans #joy #capeTown #SouthAfrica

Sophie, 2 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, 2 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

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.)

Sophie, 3 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America”

Learned a lot about the role of the NAACP in criminal cases in the Jim Crow South. So much bravery in the face of klan violence and systemized dehumanization. Will definitely be seeking out biographies of Thurgood Marshall soon.

#bookstodon @bookstodon