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I have a predictable way of coping with the losses that I perceive as a loss: I write about them. My college cats, Vitty [https://quinndaedal.com/blog/2022/02/23/vitty/] then Alla [https://quinndaedal.com/blog/2024/01/19/alla/]... read more

In order to have one easy place to point people with questions about my name (and, let's be honest, I'm also behind on even my modest goal of five Blaugust posts), I've written up a little name FAQ [/name-faq/] for future reference.... read more

I wrote this at the end of my 2025-2026 round-up of what I did at work [https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/dlcl-ats-roundup-2025-2026/], before splitting it off into its own blog post. In some sense... read more

A funny thing about getting divorced is that you're allowed to change back to your pre-married name for free, but you have to go through a whole (expensive) process to change it to anything else. I had lots of reasons for taking my then-husband's surname when I was 22... read more

This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering the last few weeks. The talk wasn't recorded, and since I wrote this up later, it's less off-the-cuff and probably a bit better than the original... read more

(Tomorrow is 321 Plays for Trans Futures [https://morrism.notion.site/321-Plays-for-Trans-Futures-24b729614ded80888158f5061b3ca065], an "an 11-hour performance art show honoring the work of trans, non-binary... read more

A funny thing about academic life, and perhaps digital humanities in particular, is that you end up building solid friendships with people you've spent very little time with, physically in the same room... read more

I hadn't thought much of it, but there's a good reason the inflatable frogs were most often nocturnal, and found in northern climes: the iconic Portland Frog suit is hot. The zipper is in the back -- making it hard to pop out for a few seconds of fresh air -- and the only way to see is through a thick rectangle of transparent plastic that quickly fogs up with condensation... read more

A year ago this month, I went to look at an apartment. A ground-level unit in a big house, with the landlords living on the second floor, one of their adult children on the third, and two more adult children in the back... read more

Through all my years in the educational system, nothing has become so deeply embedded in my brain as the 5th grade music curriculum that involved watching Les Misérables. It made an immediate impression... read more