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Hello everyone, it’s been a long time. Most of the reasons I’ve been gone are good things— I’ve finished all my classes for my PhD and am now starting on the second half of my program aka writing, writing, writing! I’ve also been working on my book which I hope to finish before fall semester
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The good news is that after a month in the hospital, I’m finally going home! The bad news is that I spent a month in the hospital, including Christmas and New Years, and some of that time I don’t even remember because I was in the ICU. Just before my health emergency, we’d just finally
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So recently there have been a slew of anti-librarian legislation. Between library boards trying to remove the young adult designation or Louisiana’s HB 777 which would criminalize libraries or librarians who join the American Library Association with steep fines, jail time, or hard labor, it’s definitely a rough time to be a library worker. But
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Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! Can you believe it’s about to be 2024? Honestly, I still think of the year as 2020 and 3 years later. I don’t think I’ll ever get over thinking of life in two halves-one before the start of the pandemic, and the one we live in now. In any case,
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I have been trying to write this post for half a month now and it is incredibly difficult. In fact, writing in general, has been difficult lately. I still haven’t written my feelings about Library Journal’s Mover and Shakers announcements and how Library Journal has buried all the controversy about their transphobic actions in the
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Can you believe it’s been over 3 years since the world shut down? March of 2020 feels like a lifetime ago! So much has happened since then! Some of it has been good, such as— *massive BLM protests and conversations about institutions and their complicity in upholding white supremacy *a wave of strikes and unionization
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I love conferences. Absolutely love them. And for better or worse, librarianship is full of them! Before I became a librarian, I had rarely traveled outside the northeast corridor/tri-state area. And now, because of libraries and conferences I’ve been all over the country! And I’ve met amazing people I can now call friends. There are
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It is a new year. And yet it feels very old. Or maybe it’s that I feel very old. The value of rest is such a hard lesson to learn. It is completely antithetical to the message of capitalism. Capitalism is all about new! And more! And innovate! Especially in this new world of branded
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Hello everyone. Long time no chat. I wish I could say this will be an eloquent post, but frankly I don’t have the spoons or bandwidth or whatever you would like to call it for eloquence. Please forgive me. I am popping on here because I am seeing a worrying trend when it comes to
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I had written a whole different kind of post to announce this. But this has been a hard week, especially for Black and Brown people. The world seems to be doing its best to stamp us out of existence through police brutality. Between that and Latanya’s death, I know that living life full of sincerity
WTF is a Radical Librarian, Anyway? 