Sarah Werner

That Michael Dobson review in LRB that’s circulating will probably serve!

Saint Heron Saint Heron Community Library; a growing media center dedicated to students, practicing artists and designers, musicians and general literature enthusiasts.

I like to look through the index of Solange's online community library to see the books circulating. They are always checked out which is so encouraging. library.saintheron.com

I am not taking the bait on that new Stephen Greenblatt book because I’ve been done with him for too long now

Michael Dobson is amazing

Yowza

I just……. And I trained as a Shakespeare scholar!

It's Bleak House time!!! Best thing about March and April? OBVIOUSLY 🔒

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

A classroom question displaying “do you prefer the library or the bookstore?” - the seven students who answered all chose the library.

not all the kids had answered yet, but resounding win for the library from the 4 year olds in pre-k this am! #libsky

Holy hand grenade that is ridiculous!!

Shoutout to my amazing colleagues at Cambridge & Birmingham on the 'Small Performances' project into John Baskerville's typographic punches - today is released a @camdiglib.bsky.social collection of imagery of the punches. Check it out! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of DC high schools students have walked out to demand ICE OUT of our communities. They’re gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in an incredible show of power and unity. #ICEout #endtheoccupation #stopcooperation

yeah, I posted after this with that note too!

I take it back. This is an Evangelical list. Either way, Simon & Schuster's understanding of religion is incredibly narrow and, well, gross to the rest of us

I got it from a program I'm doing called Fight Like a Mensch! It's such a helpful way of navigating still being connected to the world while also finding the strength to look forward www.kirva.org/flm

This is not a religion list. This is a Christianity list.

just feeling a lot of heartbreak this morning and so am sending out lots of love to everyone being targeted at this moment (trans! queer! women! immigrants! everyone who is not white!!) while I work on making my heart supple enough to both feel the pain and to strive for tikkun olam

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.

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There are entirely legitimate critiques of political Zionism, and I have made many of them myself. But any serious critique of Zionism has to reckon with how Jews have been portrayed as "invaders" wherever we live, and how this has fed into Zionism and made it seem necessary to many.

A metro station of brutal concrete blocks and jagged black obelisks.

“You finished those DC metro stations?”
“Sure thing boss, beautiful, moodily lit and oddly unsettling, just like you asked.”
“What?”

Once again, the rule holds true: Someone on Bluesky is always reading Moby Dick 🐋

Annotating art and guerrilla teaching!

We had to read TWO Ackryod novels and a Martin Amis and wow the free floating hatred of women …

A paperback copy of Shakespeare and Feminist Performance with many many different colored sticky flags marking different pages, so may flags that it’s like all the pages have been flagged

A friend once sent me this pic of a student’s highly flagged copy of my book. Alas, no idea what sort of marginalia there might be hidden in it

Bless the teachers tasked with trying to explain how to understand books because SYMBOLISM

I had to read Hawksmoor for a course and hated it too

13/10 no notes, and it starts delightful series of responses with more perfect annotations

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got