Avery Dame-Griff

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."

Brutally Honest Emails from Academia.edu Welcome to Academia.edu. Now you can stay up-to-date with the latest research from academics around the world. Your monograph on Lord Byron’s juven...

"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."

🆕 Never Post! Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet Hentai and tariffs and KOSA OH MY!

A new @neverpo.st is here! I talk with @morgansung.bsky.social of Close All Tabs and @aurelievpetit.bsky.social about hentai and the platform internet; @georgiahampton.bsky.social talks with WIRED reviews editor Boone Ashworth about tariffs. We Ask an Expert, @adamegriff.bsky.social, about KOSA!

Parg' "Survivor" is this year's "car commercial" song, imo. #eurovision

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

do you remember

before social media

when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people

like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden

the web made me love humanity

Since it's back, time to repost this interview I did with @neverpo.st about KOSA, moral panics, and LGBTQ youth last November. Like I said then, KOSA is little more than a moral panic bill that, like all panic legislation, will do far more long term harm than good.

I had the pleasure of serving on this year's jury and reading all of these wonderful pieces (and so much more that we just couldn't fit in!).

Thought: AI-generated art assets (especially logos) are just the clip art CDs of the 2020s.

See Sara Ahmed's "An Affinity of Hammers:" "A dialogue is not possible when some people exercise arguments as weapons by treating others as evidence to be rebutted. When you are asked to provide evidence for your existence, or when you are treated as evidence, your existence is negated."

Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually Trump’s tariffs upend a nearly century-old bargain between politicians and US consumers.

New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I feel like I've come back around to Internet Radio/Radio Streaming in a big way. Lately a mix of C89.5 and DanceGroove (dancegrooveradio.com), depending on my mood.

C89.5 is also just a really awesome project: run by Seattle Public Schools, member-funded and staffed in part by SPS students.

How did I not know this?

Maybe I should see if Grindr will fund some work on the history of gay computer hookups. Less pics, more florid description, but awkwardness is forever.

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