Kathleen E. Kennedy

(look I sold a piece on English textualis ONLY because I could relate it to Chaucer. I know how the bread is buttered. Sigh.)

Anyone know of anything recent about Quentin Poulet's handwriting? (Or English paleographers just dnc about it if it isn't English literature?)

What a day out!!

Turns on a flipping dime!!

So exciting! Adding this to my immediate tbr stack!!

My book is now available open access on project muse, with OAPen launch coming soon. Hard copies should start going out this week (if they have not already): you can get yours for 50% off with code SAR50.

Woman in profile wearing lace. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Sarah Remond (b. 1826), granddaughter of a Black Revolutionary War veteran, ended segregation in a Boston theater with a lawsuit in 1853. She was an internationally prominent anti-slavery lecturer, physician, & activist for abolition & women's suffrage.

I'm looking at this photo and hearing "Stayin' Alive".

So the thing w/the trade market is that you have to have most of the submission in draft FIRST, and THEN sell it to an agent who THEN sells it to the press (even the university press's trade division), and THAT presents new barriers to alt-ac/non-ac authors (I know this road! : )

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well that's part of the same problem, isn't it? we haven't imagined recognition aside from the festschrift, and it simply doesn't fit most of the current landscape

We certainly haven't developed customs that show it at least--such reverence for retirees but whenever the rest of us (at this point, the numerical majority of the profession!) get forced out? the profession hasn't developed anything to recognize that--just rolls onward : (

Woodstock! (home of groundhog day, the movie) Come get your merch!

Oh that's how you know you've found a good food spot, well done!!

Right? Constant- not even allowed to acknowledge much less mourn. It's horrible for everyone - obv esp for those forced out but also for everyone left in charge of carrying on as though all remains well

It was a wonderful thing to do for them

right? uncomfortable truths.

yeah I'm still happy to honor their career-long achievements but agree that the lack of any sort of recognition for the rest of us is stark. As always I think of @erinbartram.bsky.social's quote that these losses create 'phantom pain' in our communities like lost limbs.

catching up on your news belatedly and I am so so sad and angry that you have been caught in the slowly closing pincers of anti-immigrant politics. Int'l moves, starting over again (again and again and again) is so exhausting, even when there's good to look forward too! Be as well as you can.

There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point.
There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.

Pulling this back into TLs to be sure that all who can will stand as witnesses for him (and for me and so many others too).

Jamaican Americans Mobilize After the Island's Worst Hurricane in a Century It is unknown how long it could take the island to recover from the storm, one of the strongest storms on record in the Atlantic.

As the storm pummeled Jamaica, it brought the strongest hurricane wind speed to make landfall in 90 years. With it came catastrophic floods, landslides, and a sea surge up to 13 feet along the island’s southern coast. https://capitalbnews.org/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-impact/

Did medieval nuns care for their appearance? Rings, brooches, combs, manicure sets all found on the site of Barking Abbey.

Bravo! I got out to the store but may be in for the duration otherwise.

it's just so good

Detail of hat with a face of Christ badge on it hanging on a pilgrim's staff with a satchel. Handcolored woodcut.

Going Somewhere This Weekend?

This pilgrim's hat with a tiny "Vernicule" on it is a nod to the Vera Icon or Veronica's Face of Christ contact relic, stemming from Crucifixion lore. Worn this way as a printed or painted badge, often on fabric, it was supposed to keep the wearer safe en route!
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fair

Generations of hard-won, expensive knowledge is being lost, and can't ever entirely be regained.

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls and arrested U.S. citizens.

In Evanston, a weapon was repeatedly pointed at protesters.

They grabbed workers in Hoffman Estates, landscapers.

And house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles.

“Feels like state-sponsored terror."