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Book & Media History - Early American Literature - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies Hot Brown Press - hotbrownpress.com & hotbrownpress.etsy.com Editor of Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 8d

Banned Books Week prints are all dry and ready to ship - my sincere thx to those who've snagged one! If you'd like a copy, plz DM me or head over to my Etsy shop (link in bio) - half of the net proceeds go to the American Library Association! #bannedbooksweek #letterpress #bookhistory #libraries

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

the beginnings of the 21st-century "it-narrative" right here folks!

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

When you break the tip of the lead on your mechanical pencil, it does not fall onto the floor or into your couch to molder unnoticed for decades; instead it flies up weightlessly into the ether and becomes a beneficent lead fairie that blesses all of your good works on this earth.

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

a post of pure beatitude

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

*this* is the future of handwriting

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

ageofrevolutions.com

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

Same for grad school and employee onboarding sessions! We all need to know!

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

Freshman orientation should include a 5-minute bit about the sheer number of emails that staff and faculty receive every single day and the need for their grace

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

Going forward, I'm in charge of plates with things. It's the rules!

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

Food coma

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

My press for an edit button!

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 1d

Thought I'd repost this piece on #IndigenousPeoplesDay

100 percent of proceeds got to the Land Back Campaign of the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio!

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 2d

Saved his life

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 2d

Surrounded by food and not a snack in sight

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 2d

Woof

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 2d

Cornboy says hi

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d

Matthew Shepard was murdered right when I was trying to come out of the closet. So like, this hit me pretty hard. Maybe that’s why I understand how important it is for trans kids to know they deserve to live.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 3d

27 years ago, hateful violence took the life of Matthew Shepard. His story reminds us of what happens when intolerance goes unchecked.

Today, as extremists target our LGBTQ+ neighbors for who they are, we must recommit to building a nation rooted in love, safety, and equality for all.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 4d

Daddy-Daughter Meatballs!

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 4d

When you realize that somebody remains committed to a batshit crazy idea

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Banned Camp podcast @bannedcamp.bsky.social · 8d

10/7/25
you always knew they'd make caring feel like weakness.
this chapter of brave new world proves you were right.
click to listen. no app needed.
👉 bannedcamppodcast.com/ashamed

if you still believe we can fight back, repost this.

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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 5d

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 5d

'Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting, the outcome of a series of Typographic Knitting—or Typeknitting—workshops...based on slipstitches & a simple letterform grid, offers a simple, frustration-free process for beginners, w/o floats or getting entangled'. By Rüdiger Schlömer. #DHmakes

Knit Hello – Typeknitting

Knit Hello is a typeface for typographic knitting.

www.knithello.com

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 5d

a group of children are standing next to each other with the words `` you 're doing it peter '' written on the bottom .

ALT: a group of children are standing next to each other with the words `` you 're doing it peter '' written on the bottom .

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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 10d

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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