Julia (she/her)
@tlaquatl.bsky.social
Aspiring fool. Lover of textiles, speculative fiction and crying.
Current reads: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
Current reads: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
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“My heart groans with pain for my kids, who are freezing in the cold out on the street as we search for shelter after the rain and winds destroyed our tent. They haven’t eaten anything since yesterday. We need 300$ to buy ablanket and food
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@mommunism.bsky.social
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chuffed.org/project/1574...
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“My heart groans with pain for my kids, who are freezing in the cold out on the street as we search for shelter after the rain and winds destroyed our tent. They haven’t eaten anything since yesterday. We need 300$ to buy ablanket and food
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
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Way too many people see solidarity with marginalized communities as a matter of saying the right thing to maintain their brand image, and way too few people see it as a matter of real material support in the face of discrimination and harassment.
“we stand with them” HOW, motherfucker, you’re falling over at a light breeze
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Way too many people see solidarity with marginalized communities as a matter of saying the right thing to maintain their brand image, and way too few people see it as a matter of real material support in the face of discrimination and harassment.
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NEW: Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules.
As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEW: Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules.
As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
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On day two of the hearing, prosecutors entered into evidence never-before-seen body camera footage from multiple police officers as Luigi Mangione was questioned, identified, detained, and searched in a McDonald’s in Pa.
Read @lorenaoneil.com's dispatch: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Read @lorenaoneil.com's dispatch: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On day two of the hearing, prosecutors entered into evidence never-before-seen body camera footage from multiple police officers as Luigi Mangione was questioned, identified, detained, and searched in a McDonald’s in Pa.
Read @lorenaoneil.com's dispatch: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Read @lorenaoneil.com's dispatch: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Latest book in Black Outdoors book series. 💐💐💐for Dr. Jonathan Howard
Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
buff.ly/ejHedv7
buff.ly/ejHedv7
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Latest book in Black Outdoors book series. 💐💐💐for Dr. Jonathan Howard
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It's here! One of the best book lists of the year.
The way I ordered this book so fast!
The way I ordered this book so fast!
December 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It's here! One of the best book lists of the year.
The way I ordered this book so fast!
The way I ordered this book so fast!
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🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History
In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...
s-usih.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
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Reading Ronald Radano’s new, magisterial Marxist history of Black music and sound. @dukepress.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reading Ronald Radano’s new, magisterial Marxist history of Black music and sound. @dukepress.bsky.social
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The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
In "The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred," Winters shows hip-hop’s sacred power, disrupting the sacred/profane divide.
pres-outlook.pulse.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
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My article on toxic ecologies post-9/11 now available open access in the latest issue of Environmental Humanities @dukepress.bsky.social Dust as both sacred and toxic. Inspired by Elena del Rivero's art, situated between exposure and containment
#STS #envhum #envhist #histstm
#STS #envhum #envhist #histstm
Gathering Dust | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My article on toxic ecologies post-9/11 now available open access in the latest issue of Environmental Humanities @dukepress.bsky.social Dust as both sacred and toxic. Inspired by Elena del Rivero's art, situated between exposure and containment
#STS #envhum #envhist #histstm
#STS #envhum #envhist #histstm
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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Short notice, but if anyone is served by the Irving County Library board in Texas they have a Library board meeting tomorrow Dec 1 that might discuss LGBTQ+ materials, new bylaws, & collection development policy. Time & location: irvingtx.gov/index.php?se...
Library Board | Irving, TX Official Website
irvingtx.gov
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Short notice, but if anyone is served by the Irving County Library board in Texas they have a Library board meeting tomorrow Dec 1 that might discuss LGBTQ+ materials, new bylaws, & collection development policy. Time & location: irvingtx.gov/index.php?se...
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Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
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Here's the research article reporting on the newly reinterpreted Mayan Dude Ranch sauropod trackway, which was published earlier in 2025. Kudos to "Jurassic Judy" for her discovery & for her well-deserved inclusion as a coauthor on the study. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🦕🐾🪨 #ichnology
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Here's the research article reporting on the newly reinterpreted Mayan Dude Ranch sauropod trackway, which was published earlier in 2025. Kudos to "Jurassic Judy" for her discovery & for her well-deserved inclusion as a coauthor on the study. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🦕🐾🪨 #ichnology
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Behind the scenes on our love notes from nature calendar!
Meg’s work is so stunning and you can see what her process is like here 👀
Get ‘em at squidfacts.net 🫡
These calendars fund our 2026 native plant project in Philly!
Meg’s work is so stunning and you can see what her process is like here 👀
Get ‘em at squidfacts.net 🫡
These calendars fund our 2026 native plant project in Philly!
Drawing each page has fed my obsession to learn about each of these fascinating animals. I hope you can share in my delight! Get a copy of the 2026 Love Notes From Nature calendar here: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Behind the scenes on our love notes from nature calendar!
Meg’s work is so stunning and you can see what her process is like here 👀
Get ‘em at squidfacts.net 🫡
These calendars fund our 2026 native plant project in Philly!
Meg’s work is so stunning and you can see what her process is like here 👀
Get ‘em at squidfacts.net 🫡
These calendars fund our 2026 native plant project in Philly!
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Explore the UMP titles we selected for this year's International Open Access Week and read more about why we are committed to Open Access with this blog post: buff.ly/YqPuDrC #OAWeek
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Explore the UMP titles we selected for this year's International Open Access Week and read more about why we are committed to Open Access with this blog post: buff.ly/YqPuDrC #OAWeek
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The Texas law @heykellyjensen.bsky.social describes in this article effectively abolishes school libraries in Texas. Libraries rely on the curatorial expertise of professional librarians; otherwise they’re just buildings full of books.
2/4
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A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries
In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.
bookriot.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Texas law @heykellyjensen.bsky.social describes in this article effectively abolishes school libraries in Texas. Libraries rely on the curatorial expertise of professional librarians; otherwise they’re just buildings full of books.
2/4
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
2/4
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
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At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.”
“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”
“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”
October 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.”
“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”
“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”
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instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"
they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit
they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"
they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit
they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit
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I eagerly await the first video of a newly-motivated, clarinet-playing protester in an inflatable animal costume
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I eagerly await the first video of a newly-motivated, clarinet-playing protester in an inflatable animal costume
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Still conferencing but here is a peek at the slides for "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: How White Librarianship Protects Itself and Hinders Belonging"
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
The Call is Coming From Inside The House.pdf
drive.google.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Still conferencing but here is a peek at the slides for "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: How White Librarianship Protects Itself and Hinders Belonging"
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
Images are linked and there is a full resource sheet at the end.
Full blog post with more on Friday.
drive.google.com/file/d/1b3Fg...
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As a memoir in essays, this is a big change. I'm telling my own stories..but also a broader story about changes in queer life around the Millennium: from private to public; disconnected to online; gay and lesbian to queer and trans; AIDS as death sentence to manageable condition (for some) etc.
My Bad
A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer ’90s and how it transformed queer life in the decades that followed
The 19...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
As a memoir in essays, this is a big change. I'm telling my own stories..but also a broader story about changes in queer life around the Millennium: from private to public; disconnected to online; gay and lesbian to queer and trans; AIDS as death sentence to manageable condition (for some) etc.
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It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.
Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.
Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
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This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop