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DeerWitchNyx (low spoons warn)<p><a href="https://kind.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a>/#info request!</p><p>I'm looking for an art book or other resources about HIV/AIDS art, especially art done by groups like ACT UP &amp; works about inadequate government response.<br>(Open to other illness art topics as well, but this feels most immediately relevant.)</p><p>I raided my library with the help of a very cool nonbinary librarian. We found a PILE of semi-related resources, but most only have 1-4 pages on the subject as part of other queer history or activism art texts.</p><p><a href="https://kind.social/tags/askALibrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askALibrarian</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>Ohh, of course, <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AskALibrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskALibrarian</span></a>. Added that to <a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/people-powered-analogue-technology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.com/blog/people-</span><span class="invisible">powered-analogue-technology/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/LibrariesAreAwesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibrariesAreAwesome</span></a></p>
mk30<p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a></p><p>i was researching how breadfruit trees were moved around the world by colonials and came across this quote on the wikipedia entry for william bligh: "In order to win a premium offered by the Royal Society, he first sailed to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit trees"</p><p>it's not the first time i've seen references to royal society competitions/prizes/quests and i'd like to learn more about this subject.</p><p>but the histories of the royal society that i've come across so far have been in that sort of "heroic colonial"/"great man" mode.</p><p>i'm looking for something that's more along the lines of "what role did the royal society have to play in the movement of plants and other organisms?" it seems like they were putting out these "challenges" for "explorers", but that's where my knowledge ends.</p><p>i'd also be happy to read a book that's about the role of the royal society in empire-building &amp; colonialism in general.</p><p>thank you in advance!</p><p>i'm tagging a bunch of stuff in the hopes that someone might be able to direct me: <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STS</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/ScienceStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceStudies</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/CulturalAnthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalAnthropology</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/SaturdayLibrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaturdayLibrarian</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/AskALibrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskALibrarian</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/BotanyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BotanyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/ColonialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialHistory</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/HistoryOfEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/CulturalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalStudies</span></a></p>