Queer. Feminist. Medievalist. she/they. Author: Digital Codicology. Co-PI: ‘Always Here: a Queer+Trans Global Medieval Sourcebook.' Coiner of the #CaswellTest.
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Digital Codicology's price in hardcover is steep ($80)
I'm sorry about that, and wish there were a cheaper paperback available! (Maybe in a few years, if sales are strong enough?)
In the meantime, you can get 20% off ($64) when you buy from SUP & use my author code: WHEARTY20
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Something very, very exciting is happening @britishlibrary
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October
Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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My book All Boys Aren’t Blue has had 7 criminal charges, and is virtually banned in all high school libraries in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Iowa (where an educator can go to jail for a year with a 1500 fine to give it to a “minor”)
Fight for the right to read
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This article is about massive flight delays in Europe. But it’s definitely applicable to the US.
Recommended reading if you, like me, are currently sitting on the runway because (as the pilot is saying) understaffing in American air traffic control means your plane can’t launch
Air traffic control issues risk disrupting summer travel, warn airlines ift.tt/5YzDjKw
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Tell them you have important codicological questions and/or need to recheck the collation. It won’t be a lie!
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Would suggest you need to examine the paper stock, ink qualities etc? Clues to watermarks?
I’ll never forget my tactile connection with the past when unfolding a pack of previously unread ordination papers & letters. Had to surreptitiously dab my eyes! 🥲😃
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A reminder to any undergraduate/graduate students focused on disability studies or disability history: I'm happy to look over your grad school apps, do informational interviews, or look at grant/fellowship materials. 1/
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You need to engage with the materiality-texture, watermarks, inclusions, page dirt, co-binding, damage…digital imagery doesn’t serve any of these queries. And IKWYM-“Why do you need to see THIS copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle?”. I get the preservation instinct, but yeesh.
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would love to read a collection of people's 'how it moves / feels / I just want to touch this thing / mystical reasons I can barely articulate / aura desire materiality' justifications
like a long prose poem, w glimpses of gold & parchment & binding & ink flickering in and out
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Quires. I've never been denied access. One curator once told me they'd do it for me, I politely refused and brought my case forward abt why one doing it oneself is crucial.
