Yet another reason to support your local libraries.

do you remember when you first read octavia e. butler’s 📖parable of the sower📖, and 2024 seemed so far away? maybe you, like many of us, thought “we can still change course.” well… lauren oya olamina’s fifteenth birthday is saturday, july 20, 2024.

crouch like a gargoyle and wash my wife’s hair

Today is July 20, 2024, the start of the first chapter of Octavia Butler’s #ParableOfTheSower Happy Parable Day.

#medievaltwitter collectively whoops for Christine de Pizan! Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis #OpeningCeremony

this is the photo. this is the one.

me after reducing friend's wordcount by half

Grads/fellows/faculty: Join us this Wednesday, August 28 at 2:30pm on campus in 102 Weaver for a talk by Susan Ferber (Oxford University Press) about how to research publishers, write proposals, what academic and trade publishing means, and more. Free and open to all!

Fun at Butter Art Fair this past weekend. Also apparently very excited to be hot pink in front of writing by Januarie York. GANGGANG #ButterArtFair

We're pleased to announce the publication of the first of a two-part issue on Black Appalachia, guest edited by @CrystalWilki. These issues are sure to become classics of Black and Appalachian studies. Please help us spread the word! bit.ly/3x2PWQu

oh my god

My favourite you-can-feel-the-aura-of-the-author through a single photo of Arundhati Roy ever.

To celebrate Indigenous Peoples all year (not just the second Monday of Oct) here are some books that came out this year to add to your library or your holiday shopping list. What are you reading by Native authors this fall?

Accidentally radicalized myself by asking questions and reading a lot