Ellen Forget
@ellenforget.bsky.social
Academic studying braille, print disabilities, and small-press publishing. Editor by trade, academic at heart. she/they. ocd & long-covid & chronic pain.
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Ellen Forget
@ellenforget.bsky.social
· Jun 25
I'm excited to announce that I will be joining University of Alberta this fall as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Film Studies to work on my project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading."
I had five writing projects of various sizes all due between December 1 and 22. I just submitted the last one. It was a bit tight at times, but I managed to submit everything on time. Now I can rest. Everything else can wait until January.
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I had five writing projects of various sizes all due between December 1 and 22. I just submitted the last one. It was a bit tight at times, but I managed to submit everything on time. Now I can rest. Everything else can wait until January.
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might as well skip the middlemen and give awards directly to the machines that did the work
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
might as well skip the middlemen and give awards directly to the machines that did the work
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December 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A small rant: I clocked about 3 years ago that my youngest child had *something*, likely an autoimmune something, happening in their body, and the reaction from essentially everyone was to assume I was overreacting because of my disabilities, not that I had EXPERTISE because if my disabilities.
December 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A small rant: I clocked about 3 years ago that my youngest child had *something*, likely an autoimmune something, happening in their body, and the reaction from essentially everyone was to assume I was overreacting because of my disabilities, not that I had EXPERTISE because if my disabilities.
You can't determine someone's disability by looking at them. I sometimes need a cane, sometimes a wheelchair, sometimes neither. In airports, I often use wheelchair service because cramped plane seats cause significant pain, and so does walking. I limit the latter so the former is more manageable.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You can't determine someone's disability by looking at them. I sometimes need a cane, sometimes a wheelchair, sometimes neither. In airports, I often use wheelchair service because cramped plane seats cause significant pain, and so does walking. I limit the latter so the former is more manageable.
I hate how genAI is affecting news stories. There was a 100-car pileup just north of Calgary yesterday because of white-out weather conditions. Every photo and video I've seen about this has been genAI. There must be real photos and videos, but nobody seems to be using those. AI is faster. 🙄
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I hate how genAI is affecting news stories. There was a 100-car pileup just north of Calgary yesterday because of white-out weather conditions. Every photo and video I've seen about this has been genAI. There must be real photos and videos, but nobody seems to be using those. AI is faster. 🙄
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I’m passing on a question from @drtlwagner.bsky.social & their students: Do you know of existing/in process book history work on clip art? I know Shep’s history of print emoji & anecdotally I know some early clip art remediated printer’s ornaments—as does the "font" Wingdings—anyone digging in more?
December 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I’m passing on a question from @drtlwagner.bsky.social & their students: Do you know of existing/in process book history work on clip art? I know Shep’s history of print emoji & anecdotally I know some early clip art remediated printer’s ornaments—as does the "font" Wingdings—anyone digging in more?
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Reading pieces like Ellen Samuels' "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time" literally changed my life and the way I care for my disabled body. That research was fostered by peer reviewers, editors, and open access publishing at Disability Studies Quarterly. Today the journal is at risk due to funding. 1/4
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reading pieces like Ellen Samuels' "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time" literally changed my life and the way I care for my disabled body. That research was fostered by peer reviewers, editors, and open access publishing at Disability Studies Quarterly. Today the journal is at risk due to funding. 1/4
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Bill C-15, the federal Budget Implementation Act, proposes repealing Canada Post’s Literature for the Blind free-mailing program. This is a service that thousands of people in Canada who are blind or visually impaired rely on to access braille, audio, and other accessible formats.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Bill C-15, the federal Budget Implementation Act, proposes repealing Canada Post’s Literature for the Blind free-mailing program. This is a service that thousands of people in Canada who are blind or visually impaired rely on to access braille, audio, and other accessible formats.
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Canadian publishers stand with the library community in opposing Bill C-15 provisions that threaten the Library Book Rate & the Literature for the Blind program. These protections are needed to ensure equitable access to books for all Canadians. Read more: publishers.ca/publishers-o...
Canadian Publishers Stand with Library Community in Opposing Repeal of Library Mailing Provisions - Association of Canadian Publishers
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December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Canadian publishers stand with the library community in opposing Bill C-15 provisions that threaten the Library Book Rate & the Literature for the Blind program. These protections are needed to ensure equitable access to books for all Canadians. Read more: publishers.ca/publishers-o...
What's more motivating than end-of-year due dates? Last push to get a couple things done and submitted before taking a much-needed break.
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What's more motivating than end-of-year due dates? Last push to get a couple things done and submitted before taking a much-needed break.
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Hello fellow migraineurs who are also readers! A friend who teaches at Portland State is doing a survey about our reading experiences and it would be great if you were interested in taking it. Survey and more info here: portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📚
December 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hello fellow migraineurs who are also readers! A friend who teaches at Portland State is doing a survey about our reading experiences and it would be great if you were interested in taking it. Survey and more info here: portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📚
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Me, a typography nerd: switching from a Serif font (Times New Roman) to a Sans Serif font (Calibri) actually makes your communications more accessible and easier to read, so it's completely unsurprising that this bullshit administration would switch back.
Calibri font is the latest casualty in the Trump administration's war on diversity and inclusion
Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed U.S. diplomats worldwide to use Times New Roman 14-point font for official documents, reversing a Biden-era directive to use Calibri.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Me, a typography nerd: switching from a Serif font (Times New Roman) to a Sans Serif font (Calibri) actually makes your communications more accessible and easier to read, so it's completely unsurprising that this bullshit administration would switch back.
For decades, Canadians have been able to send braille and other materials, including heavy braille typewriters, through Canada Post for free through the "Literature for the Blind" exemption in the Canada Post Corporations Act. That exemption is now at risk of being cancelled.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
For decades, Canadians have been able to send braille and other materials, including heavy braille typewriters, through Canada Post for free through the "Literature for the Blind" exemption in the Canada Post Corporations Act. That exemption is now at risk of being cancelled.
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If a student is interested in looking for jobs working on policies surrounding jails/prisons and the larger criminal legal system, where might I recommend that they look?
The Vera Institute of Justice is one that comes to mind, but I'd welcome other possibilities. Thanks!
The Vera Institute of Justice is one that comes to mind, but I'd welcome other possibilities. Thanks!
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If a student is interested in looking for jobs working on policies surrounding jails/prisons and the larger criminal legal system, where might I recommend that they look?
The Vera Institute of Justice is one that comes to mind, but I'd welcome other possibilities. Thanks!
The Vera Institute of Justice is one that comes to mind, but I'd welcome other possibilities. Thanks!
As someone who never writes linearly, reading a thing from start to finish always feels daunting. It's so useful and I always find lots of bits to improve on, so I make myself do it. But it's probably my second-least favourite part of the process. (Writing the conclusion is always the worst part.)
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
As someone who never writes linearly, reading a thing from start to finish always feels daunting. It's so useful and I always find lots of bits to improve on, so I make myself do it. But it's probably my second-least favourite part of the process. (Writing the conclusion is always the worst part.)
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If this pops up during your scroll time, I want you to know that you are loved.
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If this pops up during your scroll time, I want you to know that you are loved.
As someone with OCD, adapting to new places is often difficult. Yesterday, I had to walk an extra 20 minutes in below freezing temps to backtrack, satisfy an OCD check, then turn around to go where I needed to go. I couldn't visualize the thing my OCD wanted me to check because I'm in a new place.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As someone with OCD, adapting to new places is often difficult. Yesterday, I had to walk an extra 20 minutes in below freezing temps to backtrack, satisfy an OCD check, then turn around to go where I needed to go. I couldn't visualize the thing my OCD wanted me to check because I'm in a new place.
Question for data visualization experts: is there a simple way to create a visualization that looks like a sphere? I have a vision for a diagram, but unsure of how to technically achieve it. There would only be words appearing on the sphere, no numerical data. Please DM if you might be able to help!
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Question for data visualization experts: is there a simple way to create a visualization that looks like a sphere? I have a vision for a diagram, but unsure of how to technically achieve it. There would only be words appearing on the sphere, no numerical data. Please DM if you might be able to help!
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Authors deserve their royalties, to earn a little for the blood, sweat, & tears they have shed over that book, for the hours they spent writing & revising.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Authors deserve their royalties, to earn a little for the blood, sweat, & tears they have shed over that book, for the hours they spent writing & revising.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
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Here's my two cents on the piracy discourse this morning. Reading everything this morning, I remember those old FBI warnings at the start of videos: piracy isn't a victimless crime. 🧵
I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here's my two cents on the piracy discourse this morning. Reading everything this morning, I remember those old FBI warnings at the start of videos: piracy isn't a victimless crime. 🧵
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Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
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ICYMI: Me on Alberta's Bill 9, which invokes the notwithstanding clause to force through three pieces of anti-trans legislation.
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The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
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November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
ICYMI: Me on Alberta's Bill 9, which invokes the notwithstanding clause to force through three pieces of anti-trans legislation.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
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#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
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#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!
Details here:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity