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I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

What is this rabbit hole? I must know.

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.

"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

The future of being trans on the internet The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

My metamorphosis into a historian is now complete, because I read this (very good tbc!) @theverge.com package and still thought, "Would it be too much to ask to historicize this moment beyond the mid-2010s? With, y'know, a book (I may have written)?"

I have, I fear, become my (academic) parents.

@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of
LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

Photo of a bookshelf with computer-related ephemera, including several computer-themed mugs, two cats on computers, a green Intel Bunny Suit doll, a cow statue covered in iMacs, and a Y2K snowglobe with a computer inside of it.

It really is. It currently has pride of place amongst my other doodads I've collected over the years.

Photo of a neon blue analog watch face. The face is emblazoned with the Windows Me logo, and Me on a diagonal across the background in blue and green. It is definitely the 2000s Windows aesthetic in a watch.

My new official conference watch, found at Value Village. It's very Me.

I do really hope so! My main concern with an IA campaign is that their rapid-response preservation efforts can get large amounts of data saved, but they don't have the best track record on ethical stances and user consent to preserve, unfortunately.

Based on this news, are there any significant LGBTQ-related blogs that might be a good candidate for preservation? I'm hoping to connect with blog owners to organize preservation for the Queer Digital History Project prior to the September deadline.

What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It? Lately, I've been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever."

Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it.

www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...

If there's a site you think is worth preserving, let me know! I may eventually start a collection of sites, as the independent mirror format allows for interesting data analysis possibilities too.

Roberts was a hugely important Black trans activist and journalist, and her blog documents the evolution of trans activism over a 14-year span (2006-2020). She also wrote some pretty great trans-related song parodies, which are worth checking out.

So, I've begun doing something I thought I'd never do: actively mirror trans websites (instead of just relying on the Internet Archive). First up is a mirror of Monica Roberts' TransGriot. Because Roberts used Blogger, I've always worried about its longevity.

Retro Commercial Screens (@retro-commercials.bsky.social) This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com.…

#6 - "1000 RLX Computer"

40 whole megabytes? Nobody could ever use THAT much space!

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…

One of my unexpected archival realizations from reading 1990s trans group newsletters just how many crossdressers and trans women held up his advice as gospel. Him and Carole Jackson's Color Me Beautiful (another name almost nobody remembers now).

In light of today's 1A news, a repost reminder:

The Two Revolutions Winner of the 2023 Ángel David Nieves Book Award, given by the American Studies AssociationThe internet origins of the American transgender movementThe Two ...

The internet has long been a place for discovery. In “The Two Revolutions,” @adamegriff.bsky.social envisions it as a means of exploring and enriching trans identity. Continuum calls it “an excellent primer for understanding trans life online”.

More:

YouTube video by Yanga Mbiwa Mapou Pub Minitel 3615 pl horo

I'm currently adding some videos to the
Archival Internet Video Index (apdame.github.io), and this 1987 commercial for a Minitel horoscope is probably my favorite I've run across so far.

I also find in FYS that they'll connect with hands-on work as something they can talk about when they don't know what questions to have, so workshop days help since it's a shared experience.

Yeah, definitely. Assigning double-duty assignments is a real challenge - I've never gotten good at it - but they'll need it. I'm returning to annotation assignments for all my Fall classes to develop their reading and asking questions skills.

I know they all poo-poo it at the time, but having the area subject librarian come in and talk about resources and citations always results in better research/writing.

.com edition Monopoly pewter tokens, from left to right: a hand holding an envelope with "Email" written on the back, an early LCD monitor, Mr. Monopoly sitting in front of a monitor holding on to his hat, a "computer bug" based on a silicon chip, a literal mouse, a classic CRT monitor and PC tower combo, a surfboard, and a web browser with "WWW" written across the middle.

A selection of cards from the Monopoly deck, including references to bubble classics like going public, buying/selling a web domain, day trading, banner advertising, and "Make a call on Nokia."

I do love how the power of unregulated internet capitalism is clearly blowing Mr. Monopoly's mind. An evergreen statement for the times.

(I look forward to twenty five years from now, when I find a copy of Monopoly - The AI Edition and/or Monopoly - The Crypto Edition at my local Savers.)

Cover of Monopoly: The .com edition. Cover is designed in the style of a web browser, with classic dot-com bubble companies (Excite, Lycos, eBay, monster.com, cNet, iVillage) listed to the left and photos of the themed player tokens on the right. It is as kitschy as it sounds.

Browse! Surf! Buy! Sell! Own It All- on the net! MONOPOLY - The.com Edition launches the world's most popular game into the world of e-commerce! As you travel the board, you'll buy and sell todayʼs hottest Web sites to build your personal empire of virtual real estate. You're after the top Net companies - those portals, search engines, news, information, entertainment, shopping, business, ISP, and connectivity providers that are now household names. In this edition, newbie MR. MONOPOLY™ has a computer: Land on the space he's on, and you'll see cyber rent control in action! Land on "Download" or "E-mail Just In!" and draw a card: Will you collect $100 million day-trading? Get in on a start-up and pocket $200 million? Or lose your Internet connection and land in Jail? Worse yet, you might receive e-mail of useless jokes and go back three spaces! Even in the risk-intense world of the Web, every time you pass GO, you'll collect $200 million ... today's starting dot-com salary! So pick a pewter token, log on and hyperlink your way to overnight fame and fortune with MONOPOLY - The .com Edition.

Photo of Monopoly board, with standard properties replaced by bubble companies. Highlights include GeoCities, MCI Worldcom, Nokia, AltaVista, Lycos, and Ask Jeeves.

A chuckle for today: I found this practically mint-in-box copy of the Perfect Dot-Com Bubble artifact. It's got it all, from literal surfing imagery to You've Got Mail jokes.

My favorite part? The fact all the money is in millions, since "$200 million...today's starting dot-com salary!"

We Regret to Inform You We Will No Longer Sponsor Your Pride Parade “San Francisco Pride loses $300,000 after sponsors drop out: ‘The tone has changed in this country.’” — Them, 3/17/25 - - -Dear Queer Organization,...

"We really do want to stay in touch. We’d love for us to find a way to be part of each other’s lives. We don’t want you to think we’re just abandoning you at the exact moment when allyship would actually count for something tangible in this world."

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"Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juvenilia has a new reader. Bad news: It’s a graduate student, and they are going to eviscerate it in chapter 2 of their dissertation."