Feminist Bibliographical Praxis

What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School. I’m deeply grateful to Elizabeth Savage for the invitation to speak—both for her original invitation to deliver this in person back in the summer of 2020 and for her invitation to revisit this as a zoom talk now. Back when we had first planned this, I was in the early public stages of talking about feminist bibliography; now, I think, I’m maybe a bit closer to a sense of what I’m up to in thinking about FemBib. Or, at least, I have a clearer sense that part of what I’m up to doesn’t involve answers, but focuses on questions and on the intersections between materiality/ideology, personal/political, academia/public scholarship, bibliography/not-bibliography, text/not-text. I’m sharing this talk because it most accurately reflects the place that I’m in right now, and I have not yet…