Biff Hollingsworth

Higher power: hands in the dirt. Movement archives @SoHistColl_1930. Cooks good omelettes and stews.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

On Oct. 18, a new policy goes into effect that significantly impacts information access for all 28k people incarcerated in the state prison system in NC.

NC has contracted out mail processing to a facility in Maryland, monetizing mail and increasing surveillance.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

@eliz_ott I’m very sorry for your loss, Liz.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

Polk Place frolics underway

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

“You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.”

- Malcolm X, 12/20/64

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

Ready to leave like 45 minutes ago but the Zoom meeting recording is still converting.

[UNC Library @UNCLibrary]

Coming up 2/11! Join @WilsonLibUNC staff in exploring archival materials related to James Baldwin. Attendees will trace how experiences of the archivists, the creators of the collections and the subject matter come together to tell a history that is both known and unseen.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

My partner and I, both working from home, back to back in the same room, each with headphones, using Discord to communicate with one another... like normal people.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

My kid refers to his school’s weekly testing as “Nostril Day.”

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

@Dust_and_Papers Eagle eye from two cars back!

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

not me swiping my debit card to try to enter the building this morning.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

@Dust_and_Papers Saying “sorry I don’t work here” over and over was somehow more annoying than the rest of the experience. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

I learned my lesson: never wear a red t-shirt to Target two days before Christmas.

[Prison Health News @health_prison]

N. Carolina has refused PHN for all 236 subscribers in NC due to new mail policy! NC refused PHN at the prisons, now it's refused from private company profiteering off new policy! $354 in print/mail costs gone! If all states go this route, PHN is finished! @NCPrisonBooks

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

Normalize (audible) music in libraries.

[Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill @SoHistColl_1930]

We joined our partners Warren Co. Environmental Action Team, @SOHPoralhistory and @NCCollection today to kickoff a yearlong commemoration of the 40th anniv. of the birth of the environmental justice movement.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

@banugokariksel So wonderful to see this project come to life. Thank you! I’d like to acknowledge the work of my colleague Holly Smith who initiated the library’s relationship with Karen Parker and made the case for opening up the diary to researchers. 🙏

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

It's here y'all: Our Press in Prison guidebook and the videos from last week's workshop are available to watch and download.

If you're ready to work with, pay and support incarcerated writers, this is the place to start. Read more and join our list-serv:
https://t.co/zUihvV43j7

[ChristopherBlackwell @ChrisWBlackwell]

Heard my former prison is now photocopying all mail instead of giving it directly to us. In the 500+ days my wife and I couldn't see each other one of the things that helped was holding her letters in my hand knowing she had touched the same paper. The cruelty really is the point

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

But my partner is a federal employee. So she keeps me humble. (Ex., she’s still on a 40 year old DOS-based computer system.)

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

The hardest part of my job, by far, has always been getting the university to pay for things! Ask me about the time it took nine months to get a pack of stamps.

[Biff Hollingsworth @_biff_h]

“we will have to politely decline your offer at this time”

[Shannon Sevigny @ShannonSevigny]

What’s the professional way to say “Are you fucking kidding me?”