ALT Red hardcover in sans serif font AMERICAN CONTACT: OBJECTS OF INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF BOOK HISTORY edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman (@pennpress). It leans against a cushion with a bright tropical bird on a mustard yellow chair
ALT A poster for the Oct 4 book launch at Harvard University, History of the Book Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center Oct 4 12-1:30 PM EST SPEAKERS: Rhae Lynn Barnes (History, Princeton), Glenda Goodman (Music, University of Pennsylvania), Germaine Warkentin (English, University of Toronto), Xine Yao (English, University College of London), Nancy Caronia (English, Chatham University), Rachel Linnea Brown (English, Haskell Indian Nations University) This is a hybrid event. A light lunch will be provided for those attending in person; please RSVP by Friday, September 27 by writing to histbook@fas.harvard.edu (and please specify any dietary restrictions). For zoom access please register here. https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/roundtable-book-launch-american-contact-intercultural-encounters-and-boundaries-book
ALT First page of Xine Yao’s chapter “Afong Moy’s Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Early Asian American Archive.” Happy to share a PDF if you tweet at me or email me!
ALT A 19th century broadside advertising THE CHINESE LADY AFONG MOY with many Chinese curiosities for sale and Chinese costume and Chinese song
ALT A pink and purple banner with the article title 'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' plus the MLO logo on the bottom right.
ALT This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs’s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674035836
ALT 559 - What Do We Think We’re Doing? Saturday, 6 January 2024 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Loews - Washington A (3rd Floor) Description Nineteenth-century American studies addresses representation and erasure, race and racism, gender and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, complicity and dissent. Contributors address the state and stakes of our field in our current moment, discussing an array of topics, including long COVID, trans histories and trans antagonism, Black girlhood, periodization, peace and violence, and historicism. Presider W Kathryn Walkiewicz U of California, San Diego Speaker C Peter M. Coviello U of Illinois, Chicago D Eagan Dean Rutgers U, New Brunswick E D. Berton Emerson Whitworth U F Duncan F. Faherty Graduate Center, City U of New York W Nazera Wright U of Kentucky Y Xine Yao University C, London Session Information Forum: American - LLC 19th-Century American Program: Forum Sessions Subject: American Literature - Before 1900
ALT Rethinking the Rest Cure: A Long COVID Crip of Colour Perspective Xine Yao ‘The Yellow Wallpaper is a work of literary fiction that explores the contours of femininity and insanity. This exhibition seeks to use the language of the decorative to reconcile blackness, gender, and a beautiful and terrible past.’ Image: exhibition poster for Kehinde Wiley’s Yellow Wallpaper at William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow View from my flat through a window based in Walthamstow
ALT Enduring long covid 1) low dose naltrexone, which is not officially licensed in many countries in the low dose format, but has been used to treat many chronic conditions for decades. See https://ldnresearchtrust.org for more information and how to source it in your area of the world 2) antihistamines. Try different ones. 3) scheduling multiple rests of 20-30 minutes throughout the day. COMPLETE rest: no mental or physical activity. Rest before you think you need to rest. Even listening to music can be too much. 4) post-exertional malaise is real – don’t let anyone pressure you to overextend any mental or physical activity, especially exercise Image Rei’s half fragmented head from End of Evangelion
![Crips for eSIMs for Gaza https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/
#ceasefirenow
Now matyred Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer’s instagram post of an Emily Dickinson poem
There is a pain — so utter —
It swallows substance up —
Then covers the Abyss with Trance —
So Memory can step
Around — across — opon [sic] it —
As One within a Swoon —
Goes safely — where an open eye —
Would drop Him — Bone by Bone —](https://venexa.site/media/GDLl5GAWEAElHZw.jpg)
ALT Crips for eSIMs for Gaza https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/ #ceasefirenow Now matyred Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer’s instagram post of an Emily Dickinson poem There is a pain — so utter — It swallows substance up — Then covers the Abyss with Trance — So Memory can step Around — across — opon [sic] it — As One within a Swoon — Goes safely — where an open eye — Would drop Him — Bone by Bone —
