Amanda Wyatt Visconti
@ScholarsLab Director: just+joyful critical tech+culture 🏳️🌈✨💻
*SJ+experimental/DH+library futures, communities
*DIY scholcom=zine/blog/code
*Bookadjacent data+making
Enthusiast (3 !s in a hoodie); abolitionist
Dr.! (exTTprof) 🏳️⚧️They/Them
AmandaVisconti.com
- Want to explore cultural data w/your art, craft, or making work? Or—itching to try broadening your digital humanities/cultural data work via physical art/craft/making methods? We're funding summer remote work on a display for our public community-lab space. Open to all, short proposal due=1.5 weeks:
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- That would be amazing! I'm out for the next 2 weeks, but will email you after that, if that's okay?
- Added backup+amplification copies (w/author permission) of the 14 DARK disability history+media zines to the Zine Bakery "redistro" page:
- Disability Action Research Kollective (linktr.ee/disabilityark) offers great free edu #zines teaching about disabled feminists, leaders, radicals; disability in Ancient Egypt, wheelchair history; analysis of disability +horror films, Star Trek, film analysis tools. +Good examples of research=>zine!
- Added 14 disability+: justice, history, media zines to ZineBakery.com's catalog—thanks @richamm.bsky.social +other Disability Action Research Kollective authors! Adding extra hosting for these=>ZB redistro soon. ZB has catalogued 39 disability justice+experience zines: airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz... +
- Disability Action Research Kollective (linktr.ee/disabilityark) offers great free edu #zines teaching about disabled feminists, leaders, radicals; disability in Ancient Egypt, wheelchair history; analysis of disability +horror films, Star Trek, film analysis tools. +Good examples of research=>zine!
- I was interviewed for this UVA student politics magazine piece on #zines for grassroots organizing & knowledge-sharing, by Amelia Lucien: "The Zine Revolution in the Age of the Internet": virginiapolitics.org/interviews/2...
- If you know of LGBTQIA+ book-history work in a different format than the many the formal bib supports (it includes zines! exhibit catalogs! digital projects! databases! blog posts, dissertations, +), it might fit in the zine version of the bib—let us know? Eg conferences, communities, syllabi...📚
- #BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
