Amanda Wyatt! Visconti

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of letterpress type and a split printing block arranged on a metal printing press bed, with purple ink on the split block. The type says "Abolition is heavenly work"; the word "heavenly" is split in half horizontally with the word "work" between those halves. Two frilly-cuffed-hand image blocks point upward.

"Abolition is heavenly work."

Photo of a wall area in a letterpress printshop. There's a brick wall; a case of wood type tilted 45 degrees so the type is visible, with a patch of gold morning light hitting it; and a past print of mine on the wall that says "freedom of the press is only guaranteed to communities who own one / join Virginia Book Arts to keep yours local" ("communities" is printed in glitched cyan, magenta, yellow overlaid)

Morning printing!

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Large black and white poster made to look like it’s from the 19th century that is satirical about freedoms women have in the US. Complete text at link in caption.

Happy International Women’s Day to everyone but the jagoffs who overturned Roe v Wade, which is when I printed this.

www.starshaped.com/postersprint...

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.

Gorgeous printing work & lineage amplifying!

It feels really good to complete my textile word search letterpress series. I wrote this post so folks can learn about some of my inspirations - plz check out the alt-text. Here I will just say that I am glad to live in a tapestry woven by many hands belonging to people whom I admire very much.

+ @bibliowingate.bsky.social did excellent progress documentation sharing on here: eg from sketching the quilt bsky.app/profile/bibl... & multilingual additions:

Protest quilts rock. @bibliowingate.bsky.social's is anti-book-bans, uses the @justseeds.bsky.social font “Documentación” (based on antifa feminist Spanish publications) + "book" in multiple languages (recommend searching "#DHmakes quilts" for lots of cool antifascist quilt work including this 👍) +

Alex, this looks amazing!! Congrats on the award

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Thank you!

The @atbw.bsky.social Freedom School 2026 Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is dedicated to strengthening digital literacy, advancing archival practices, and safeguarding the web as a vital site of cultural memory. Register for the spring sessions: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/

I got @wolfproofpress.com stickers made (Maple snoot for scale)

But since I used to be super into Ulysses/Joyce Everything, seemed worth noting I'm not a Ulysses speaker now, + also letting folks know despite what archived site says it rests in eternal "actually formally-ended DH project" slumber

Nah, nothing new, just my interests+attention changed, ID'd other spaces where I was personally better finding models of how I wanted to work/be. Had a drafty "Finite Ulysses" digital essay re:this I never finished (didn't want to overfocus on field, given good folks doing good work in all places)+

We've loved all our student-taught analog DH workshops, but the crafty ones definitely open up a lot of "why don't we do this more often" delight. The bunting looks terrific!

Wonderful! Me too.

Thank you! It really increased my respect for what's required to get really minisculely exact registration (and how to record exactly where other layers of type sat, in order to do that)

P.S. highlighting that I made this site as my dissertation, ~2013-2015; it will *never* be live/usable to read/annotate Ulysses again. I am a reformed Joycean 💀 & not interested in Ulysses anymore (still interested in interfaces for public knowledge-making & -sharing 💜 including for reading!)

. @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social had the good idea to list & explain scholarship of everything I wanted evaluated as my DH dissertation in a "manifest" (e.g. why more written code wasn't better than less). github.com/amandaviscon...

The site's code, design, UX testing etc. *were* the dissertation (plus social media & blogging, whitepaper written in final month of PhD)—there were no written chapters, & those DH methods were what was evaluated & defended (not a paper about them). Dissertation page wrapping everything lives here:

This was all 2013-2015 (RIP Drupal, long live #mincomp). Many people kindly visited (24k unique folks, mostly over ~3 months) & some read/annotated (775 accounts, 1.1k annotations, 287 tags 🙀) during the beta test; site's been archival version only for almost a decade +

I also wanted to design an interface treating the variety of things all readers (public+academic) can bring to discussion of a text (especially one w/as much public reading+celebration—there's a Ulysses holiday) as valuable, not just open to the public but privileging scholars +

=DH making-as-research test designing for many readers leaving tons of comments/annotations on an online book. I tested tags, votes, etc. to let each reader choose which of all Ulysses readers' annotations they saw on top or at all, eg what languages translated, jokes explained, themes highlighted +

Many digital Ulysses explorations exist; mine was my own webdev+UX testing theories not yet practically tested, eg design/features/server capacity for "here comes everyone" levels of purely-hypothetical public use: ways to filter/sort many public user annotations to find your signal in the noise+

The free "DIY Web Archiving" zine by me, @ilya.webrecorder.net @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me covers a friendly (even for kids!) intro to using Webrecord (+other methods) to preserve things you care about on the web: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

ReplayWeb.page • Webrecorder World-class serverless playback of web archives directly in your browser.

Webrecorder's browser-based viewer for archival preserved versions of websites ⬇️ & the GitHub repo is github.com/webrecorder/... (WACZ = Web Archive Collection Zipped file format.)

I built the original site in Drupal (including VPS setup, PHP+JS module development, HTML/CSS design), then I migrated it to a static/flat HTML archival version after beta testing closed; it now has better archival fidelity+interactivity courtesy of @webrecorder.net.

Thanks @ilya.webrecorder.net, I finally replaced my static archival version of InfiniteUlysses.com (participatory+public annotatable reading for Joyce's weird novel Ulysses, built as my '15 Literature/DH dissertation) w/a Webrecorder interactive playback of its WACZ preservation file.