Bellee Jones-Pierce
@eelleb.bsky.social
teacher, writer, mom, scholar // medieval & early modern, lyric, disability // she/her // virgo sun, ADHD rising
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Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
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New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Disability Visibility: a starter pack of twenty depictions of disability on film • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With her book Popcorn Disabilities soon to hit shelves, author Kristen Lopez offers a starter pack of twenty films about disability—from the good (The Best Years of Our Lives) to the not-so-good (Rain...
letterboxd.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
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Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
BASIRA • Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
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August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
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As someone who's been a freelancer for 10 years, I thank the stars for the Editorial Freelancers Association rates. I am by nature a doormat, and I tend to work with organizations I believe in, and often the one thing preventing me from torpedoing my ability to feed my child is that cold hard table.
Editorial Rates
About these rates
The median rate ranges in the 2024 rate chart below are based on data from a survey administered to EFA members from November 2023 through mid-January 2024. One thousand respondent...
www.the-efa.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As someone who's been a freelancer for 10 years, I thank the stars for the Editorial Freelancers Association rates. I am by nature a doormat, and I tend to work with organizations I believe in, and often the one thing preventing me from torpedoing my ability to feed my child is that cold hard table.
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
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Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
I'm not linking to that NYT piece today, but of all the horrible parts of it, this was the worst. This was an explanation of "female vices" in the workplace and LET ME JUST TELL YOU...
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
This is horrifying.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is horrifying.
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Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
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Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
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—several decades-long friendships that began via chat rooms and LiveJournal
—community in my field and subfields (and across fields) that wouldn’t be possible otherwise
—contact with my dad’s biological family
(And more)
—community in my field and subfields (and across fields) that wouldn’t be possible otherwise
—contact with my dad’s biological family
(And more)
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
—several decades-long friendships that began via chat rooms and LiveJournal
—community in my field and subfields (and across fields) that wouldn’t be possible otherwise
—contact with my dad’s biological family
(And more)
—community in my field and subfields (and across fields) that wouldn’t be possible otherwise
—contact with my dad’s biological family
(And more)
One of my students just had a poem published, and it’s fantastic, and I’m so proud of him, and here’s a link:
carminamagazine.com/ode-to-nephi...
carminamagazine.com/ode-to-nephi...
carminamagazine.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of my students just had a poem published, and it’s fantastic, and I’m so proud of him, and here’s a link:
carminamagazine.com/ode-to-nephi...
carminamagazine.com/ode-to-nephi...
The nudge I needed to (finally) delete my account.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The nudge I needed to (finally) delete my account.
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I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
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We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering
wordgathering.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Listen to me. LISTEN. Don’t have your PhD regalia dry cleaned. Use the vodka trick, or Febreze, or whatever. Or smell bad. It’s fine! If you have it dry cleaned, chances are the cleaners won’t know what they are doing and they will crush the velvet. And, apparently, YOU CANNOT UNDO CRUSHED VELVET.
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Listen to me. LISTEN. Don’t have your PhD regalia dry cleaned. Use the vodka trick, or Febreze, or whatever. Or smell bad. It’s fine! If you have it dry cleaned, chances are the cleaners won’t know what they are doing and they will crush the velvet. And, apparently, YOU CANNOT UNDO CRUSHED VELVET.
Honored to have a piece of flash in such a beautiful issue and to have had the opportunity to work with the gracious and attentive editors of Susurrus.
Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
August 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Honored to have a piece of flash in such a beautiful issue and to have had the opportunity to work with the gracious and attentive editors of Susurrus.
Please, Friday afternoon, an ounce of concentration. I beg you. The syllabi will not revise themselves.
August 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Please, Friday afternoon, an ounce of concentration. I beg you. The syllabi will not revise themselves.
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A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!
![A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreiakxuahypn25bkhv2zjyl66itjirnhoyqo6qr2rnyeuq3vze376hy@jpeg)
August 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!
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I fundamentally disagree with the foundational premises of this report. What the committee takes as settled, I very much do not.
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I fundamentally disagree with the foundational premises of this report. What the committee takes as settled, I very much do not.
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The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...