Christopher Wilde

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Co-Founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project; Sexuality Educator at Tool Shed Toys; Grinnell College alumni. Historian, archivist, zine maker. he/they

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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want to know more about the Queer Metadata Collective and our recommendations? Devon Murphy, Adrian Williams, Chloe Misorski and I will be speaking about "Queering Metadata" as part of SJSU iSchool’s Symposium Celebration of Pride Month. #critcat #qmdc #critlib #metadata #critarch 📚 📜

As a queer archivist, this conversation explores some of the same reasons I do the work I do, especially in preserving ephemera.

ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...

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Just some of my GLAM zines by people within the GLAM community about GLAM subjects: The Borough Is My Library #1 and #2; Decolonizing Library Science; LIS Microaggressions; Reserve This Podcast Zine; Reserve and Renew #2: The LIS Mental Health Zine; and Two-Fisted Librarians. ✂️📚 #libraries #zines

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Join us on Saturday at the Schomburg Center! www.eventbrite.com/e/schomburg-...

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People who weren’t alive during Nixon have no idea how creepy and evil he was. Stop trying to rehabilitate that murdering sack of shit.

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The Media History Digital Library is a great collection of ephemera and books from the media industry in the #c20th I've found it really useful! 🎥 🗃️ mediahistoryproject....#c20th I've found it really useful! 🎥 🗃️ mediahistoryproject....

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I almost corrected this account because reports were that she was murdered in the sacking of the institute. TURNS OUT: That's wrong. Historians last year found the original baptismal register in her hometown that registered an official name change in 1946: www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei... SHE LIVED.

Dora Richter, 1922. First GAS facilitated by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin. She lived until age 74. 🥰💗🏳️‍⚧️ @diannaeanderson.bsky.social

Was wurde aus Dora?www.rbb24.de Dora Richter war die erste Person, die eine vollständige Geschlechtsangleichung erfahren hat. Ihr Weg als Patientin ist gut dokumentiert. Wer sie war, ist hingegen weitestgehend unklar. Ihre Spur verw...

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Trump's now pretending to take the side of tipped workers, but his Labor Dept changed a rule to make it easier for bosses to pocket workers' tips. This cost tipped workers an estimated $700 million a year in wages.

Great blog post on the classic Canadian trans zine Gender Trash!

This week’s Zine of the Gay blog post from Lee is about Canadian queer zine GenderTrash. Ze explores various aspects of the zine, including its use of terminology, a piece discussing The Crying Game, and how the zine’s style places it decisively in the 1990s. gittings.qzap.org/gender-trash...

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[At the gay club] HIM: Dude what’s in your pocket? ME: I’m doing the handkerchief code thing. HIM: That’s a semaphore flag. Where did you even get this? [Meanwhile, at sea] SAILOR: Sir the merchant frigate has indicated it’s a bottom into blowjobs

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I’m recruiting an MLIS student for a paid internship this Fall 2024 to work on a series of online tutorials. You can find more information here: library.usfca.edu/oisj_internshi…. Feel free to share! Apply by July 1! 📚

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Made these graphics for Pride. Inspired by having to work a pride event where cops had a whole fucking recruitment booth. (see: first pride was a riot. A RIOT).

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Happy Pride Month, Y’all! For the month of June we’ll be bringing back our “Zine of the Gay” blog posts over at QZAP. To kick things off, Lee* has a great piece about the infamous Queers Read This from 1990. gittings.qzap.org/queers-read-...

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Also, please remember that, despite the media framing, this is an election interference case more than a hush money case.

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And the foreman came up to me, tears in his eyes, and he said to me "sir, you are so guilty, I have never seen someone so guilty in my life"

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Hey friends, my book has been hyped about its Eisner nomination for Best Scholarly/Academic Work & wants to remind you that the deadline to register to vote if you haven’t voted before is tomorrow, May 30, via this form: cci.tiny.us/2p8r8e6c. @uminnpress.bsky.social

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A new study shows that an N95 mask reduces the number of COVID-19 particles exhaled into the air by *98%*. Any mask is better than no mask, but an N95 is best. They're inexpensive, not uncomfortable, and save lives. WEAR A MASK www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... 🧪

Relative efficacy of masks and respirators as source control for viral aerosol shedding from people infected with SARS-CoV-2: a controlled human exhaled breath aerosol experimental studywww.thelancet.com These results suggest that N95 respirators could be the standard of care in nursing homes and healthcare settings when respiratory viral infections are prevalent in the community and healthcare-associ...

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Suzanne Ciani was once contracted to provide music for a chain of pizza restaurants in the 80s. You can still hear some of it today. archive.org/details/spp_...

Suzanne Ciani - The Eighth Wave (Showbiz Pizza's Family Vision) : Showbiz Pizza Place, RCA Records : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org Suzanne Ciani - The Eighth Wave VHS rip from Showbiz Pizza's Family Vision

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Oooohhh I have done some fun events here. Pitch in if you can!

Established in 1970, Glad Day is the world’s oldest 2SLGBTQ bookstore. It has been at the heart of Canadian struggles for sexual liberation, free speech and creativity. Glad Day is in crisis & needs to raise $100,000 by the end of June in order to continue. Please donate, please share. More info:

Save Glad Day — Glad Daywww.gladday.ca

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One of my sources told me he wanted physical copies of my latest piece to pass out to folks in his community. I created a layout. Printed more than a dozen copies. And shipped it off today. This is more accessible for people without internet or lack digital literacy skills.

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Uk zine events calendar just got a little update: penfightdistro.com/zine-events/ (tell me about your events, I'll get them added next week)

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I can't believe this is tomorrow... but it is. Join us in Brooklyn for the Black Zine Fair! blackzinefair.org

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I sent this message to the UMass administration yesterday: "I was looking forward to speaking next week at UMass Amherst. I visited two years ago and everyone was awesome. My nephew graduated from there and got a great education. But calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act...” 1/2

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On Saturday, May 18th, 2024, we are beyond thrilled to be collaborating with our friends at Lion’s Tooth here in Milwaukee to bring Margaret Galvan, a 2017 QZAP scholar-in-resident, back to Milwaukee to talk about her new book In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s.

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I posted about this yesterday too, but I hadn’t actually checked the fares yet for this new midday train, and… it’s pretty incredible. A 400-mile trip with free Wi-Fi for ✨ $41 ✨ like damn

Introducing Amtrak Borealis trains with Expanded Service between St. Paul and Chicago via Milwaukee - Amtrak Mediamedia.amtrak.com New passenger train arrivals and departures in a partnership with Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois ST. PAUL, Minn., and CHICAGO – Tickets are now

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I have said it before and I'll say it again: When Milo Y. spoke at University of Washington in 2016 the administration said there was nothing they could do, and SOMEONE GOT SHOT AT THE EVENT. And the university did nothing.

I didn't see anyone talking about antisemitism when neo-Nazis were matching in the streets and, where I taught at the time, booking the biggest performance venue on campus. The university said their hands were tied. They didn't protect their students from the possibility of racist violence.

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So you got scared by a drum circle and called in the National Guard

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(secret billionaire meeting) WALGREENS CEO: ok so the vote passes, whenever we fuck up we blame shoplifters and minimum wage increases, right? LOWES CEO: yep TARGET CEO: got it RED LOBSTER CEO (in the corner shoveling shrimp into mouth): mmhmm