Sophie

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, 23 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, 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, 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

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

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, 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, 2 months 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, 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, 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, 4 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

Sophie, 4 months ago to weirdgirlmemes

I feel like I’ve been in meetings that lasted 40 years. #relatable

Sophie, 4 months ago to Dog

Pancake the Dog has no use for cold fronts

#dog #couchDog #DogsOfMastodon

Sophie, 4 months ago to trans

“Be the #trans you want to see being active in your #kids’ elementary #school awards ceremony,” I repeat to myself to work up the nerve to strut in there like a fucking #queen

#parenting

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, 4 months ago to punkrock

A friend just gave me this and it makes so happy

#minorThreat #punkRock #highFashion #simpsons

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, 5 months ago to random

Is it too late to admit that I don’t know what Christmas is?

Sophie, 5 months ago to Dogs

Pancakes the Dog wants everyone to know she’s declaring it bed time. Sleep well

💜🐶💜🐶💜🐶🥱

#dogstodon #dogs #sleepyDog #bedTime

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, 5 months ago to random

Problem: I need bookcases, but I can’t seem to find the motivation to go out and get some or learn how to make them

Proposed solution: Just keep buying more books until it becomes urgent and forces me to act

Evaluation: I’m a super genius

Sophie, 5 months ago to random

Pro tip: anything you don’t get done today can wait till January

Sophie, 5 months ago to Dog

I’m teaching #archival arrangement and description course next semester. To explain topics and to supply hands-on examples, I’ll have the students create (arrange and describe) a collection of photos of #PancakeTheDog. I’m so excited about this

#dog #dogsofmastodon #archives #librarySchool #libraries #teaching

Pancake on red couch giving side-eye
Pancake laying on couch, resting head on ottoman
Pancake winning a game of chess against a bemused-looking human