Loving Christopher Adams' talk about how John Guest edited Francis King's The Dividing Stream and how it 'did get a reputation among certain circles of being a "queer" book; also a lovely little history of #polyam / nonmonogamy ("aside from a little by-blow") #QueerBibliography

next up we have Michael Durrant discussing the Queer Lives of The Prodigal Returned; i especially the "total mess" of a working "cut-and-paste document and how these practices demonstrate the "the queer affordances of pre-modern material texts"

some big shoutouts to [email protected]
in this presentation!

NEXT UP IS THE THIRD ARM OF THE WATSON TRIUMVIRATE OF #QueerBibliography @amndw2! talking to us about commonplace books, a format I secretly love endlessly 🤩

@amndw2 brilliantly reads the commonplace books of a well-known 21stC woman and one of an 19thC woman side-by-side to reveal commonalities in queer commonplacing #QueerBibliography

@amndw2 : "something else is going on here"
#QueerBibliography audience: all repressing the urge to yell "ITS GAY"

next up at #QueerBibliography is Charley Matthrews with a most amusing title “The cleverest and keenest of that race of Vipers”: trans identities and book reviews in the early nineteenth century

the introduction to this paper offers up personal details that contextualize the presentation (which I won't share) but have me like 🥺🥺🥺; Matthews points out that gentlemen often modeled their behavior on these types of literary reviews (!) & a connection to Anne Lister

BOOK HISTORY DADDY 😂💀

also just a HUGE shoutout to the organizers of #QueerBibliography; Malcom Noble and Sarah Pyke; this is the first conference I've attended where the virtual and the in-person feels well integrated and supported, and the panels are paired 🤌🤌🤌 so perfectly well. 💯/10

.@[email protected] touches on Sarah Pyke's q from last night "can we acheive affect?" and asks everyone to re/consider it & the role of the erotic, emotion and connection and joy w.r.t. our connections to material; others share their experiences of weeping in archives & audience

to all of which I say "big same" #QueerBibliography

the irrepressible and amazing @[email protected] is up next at #QueerBibliography ; she points to the presentation by Monet yesterday and poses her paper in conversation and connection with it; we are also delving deep Ann Allen Shockley’s Queer Librarianship & her erotic lesbian novels

.@eliz_ott begins by discussing Shockley's
(important and influential!) role as a professional librarian (+training a generation of collectors); discusses Shockley's role as a literary author; and how personal, public, literary and professional lives intersect

Richard Espley is giving us a fantastic discussion about what it means to be a collector, curator, and Jonathan Cutbill’s Haud Nominandum library; I am excited for our handling session of Gays The Word material following this session #QueerBibliography

Espley giving a class act in calling things collections and not archives 🤌🤌🤌

(this is a partially sardonic subtweet re: https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/please-stop-calling-things-archives-an-archivists-plea) but more fully the act of calling something a collection brings up so many more contextual questions; who was cutbill, why did he collect, etc!)

Espley offers descriptions of how Cutbill organized his datbase (48 descriptiors for relations from "fuckbuddy" to "friend" to "lover") ; and classified his collection (by size, Well of Lonliness ended up next to Hungry for Cock); really fascinating case of "amateur" cataloging

tag yourself, queers #QueerBibliography; I'm "downcast gays"