Sara Catterall
@scatterall.bsky.social
Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon, out now from Belt Publishing. She truly did not want to be remembered for "bloomers." Blog etc at saracatterall.com
(Written after a historian on here expressed reasonable confusion by all the posts on this subject this November.)
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
(Written after a historian on here expressed reasonable confusion by all the posts on this subject this November.)
Good morning! I wrote a biography of someone who helped found the women's rights movement in the 1850s, and kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats.
Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Good morning! I wrote a biography of someone who helped found the women's rights movement in the 1850s, and kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats.
Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...
www.arcadiapublishing.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My musician uncle had Thanksgiving with a crowd of stoned and beery friends sometime in the 70s. One of his malamutes got the entire roasted turkey off the table and ran out into the back yard with it, followed by pretty much everyone. They got it back, "cleaned it up" and sat down to dinner.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My musician uncle had Thanksgiving with a crowd of stoned and beery friends sometime in the 70s. One of his malamutes got the entire roasted turkey off the table and ran out into the back yard with it, followed by pretty much everyone. They got it back, "cleaned it up" and sat down to dinner.
Reposted by Sara Catterall
sorry, link was in my previous post and I'm on a tear lol www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
sorry, link was in my previous post and I'm on a tear lol www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Reposted by Sara Catterall
Our books are inherently non-commercial, art objects. I talk about this a lot in bookshop circles but, people don't hesitate to support dance, visual art, and other modes of artistic expression that are totally nonprofit but culturally valued. Why do people not apply that to books and literature?
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our books are inherently non-commercial, art objects. I talk about this a lot in bookshop circles but, people don't hesitate to support dance, visual art, and other modes of artistic expression that are totally nonprofit but culturally valued. Why do people not apply that to books and literature?
Also wow that typo, apologies to all Elphaba fans
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Also wow that typo, apologies to all Elphaba fans
But also, I am not a dress historian but I am definitely the world expert on Amelia Bloomer right now. Call me.
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
But also, I am not a dress historian but I am definitely the world expert on Amelia Bloomer right now. Call me.
...and, what continues to get me, is that trousers for women still read as countercultural, yet at every book talk people giggle about the idea as if it's backward and long past. What's up with that?
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
...and, what continues to get me, is that trousers for women still read as countercultural, yet at every book talk people giggle about the idea as if it's backward and long past. What's up with that?
...they get Amelia wrong, this time mostly via conflating her trouser wearing with bicycle bloomers. Forty years apart...
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
...they get Amelia wrong, this time mostly via conflating her trouser wearing with bicycle bloomers. Forty years apart...
I'm having 3 pies for 7 people. I make pumpkin, sister makes apple crumble, and Gen Z does the wild card which this year will be Claire Saffitz's cranberry-pomegranate mousse.
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'm having 3 pies for 7 people. I make pumpkin, sister makes apple crumble, and Gen Z does the wild card which this year will be Claire Saffitz's cranberry-pomegranate mousse.
Congratulations!
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Congratulations!