My data quilt is finally complete: I finished sewing 200 colorful cloth hexagons together and attaching them to a backing fabric. Every bit of the quilt is hand-stitched by me. And, if I may say, it’s beautiful:
I wrote an article diving deeper into the data quilt—the trends within, the lessons learned, and more—and it came out a few weeks ago in early June with dh+lib. It’s part of a special issue on crafting encounters with humanities data. A huge shoutout to the dh+lib editors (including my former professor/collaborator Claudia Berger!) for their care and attention with editing and publishing this issue.
You can read my article, for free, right here.
And (because I love to yap about this!) I presented my quilt at the American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition this past weekend at a poster session. Yes, my quilt became a poster.
The poster session went incredibly well. I had someone tell me they came upstairs to the session because they saw my poster title on the conference app and were interested in seeing it in person. I had someone from Springshare ask if I’d be willing to talk about how I used their data collection software in a future webinar. And, most importantly, I had a constant stream of people asking questions, reading the poster, touching the quilt, and just engaging with my work.
Now, the quilt is hanging in my office at FDU… hoping that a student or two who meets with me this fall notices and asks about it. I’m never done yapping about this.
Of course, that’s not all. I have some literary work out this month too—three poems and one short speculative fiction piece. Check them out:
“on the mutual ending of Thelma & Louise” in Libre
Read here.“questioning” in en*gendered
“the sound of violence” in earworms magazine
“Ratqueen” in Defiance & Dialogue
Read here.
I hope your June was joyous. I hope your July is, too. Stay well, friends.