chuffed.org/project/crip... this is my regular reminder that we are still here and working to stay out of the red. Celebrate and honor Ramadan by considering spreading the word and donating to us. Let Gaza communications ring freely. You can't stop the signal.
that all looks SO GOOD
Read the actual text of the exhibition that the regime tore down in Philly in @literaturegeek.bsky.social's excellent zine: zinebakery.com/assets/homem...
"While this censorship might seem brazenly anti-constitutional to most Americans, it has been the reality faced by incarcerated individuals for decades. In the name of 'security,' prison officials have punished and even killed people for possessing literature they deemed suspect." @theintercept.com
Our Age Verification Resource Hub is the one-stop shop to answer all of your questions about online AV mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit www.eff.org/age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.
Librarians will bend over backwards to reduce barriers to access for their patrons and fully ignore barriers to access for their colleagues.
Libraryland, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
PROVIDING INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AHEAD OF TIME IS AN EQUITY PRACTICE
Trying to play “gotcha” with interview questions will NOT get you the most qualified candidate. But it WILL ensure that your library staff are less diverse.
Radical Used Book Fair Sunday, February 15th 11 AM - 4 PM Haymarket House 800 W. Buena Ave (indoors)
Chicago! 💘
We'd love to see you at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social this weekend for our latest Radical Used Book Fair (indoor edition)!
Sunday, February 15th at 11 AM CT - 4 PM CT
More info: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
at the risk of jinxing myself: i'm in my last semester of library school, yay! still in burnout mode tho. it's a struggle to make sense of anything when my brain feels like sludge, but i'm getting there. only working one job right now has helped a bit.
It’s worth resharing the #CripLib open letter in response to this since the Editor did not address any of our substantive concerns about the lack of academic rigor in the anti-DEI privacy of thought article: acrlog.org/2025/05/27/o...
"When sensory inclusion efforts are absent from the design and modification of academic library environments, neurodivergent people and those with sensory sensitivities are left feeling unwelcome in these library spaces..." #AcademicLibraries #Accessibility #CripLib
Ableist ivory towers: a narrative review informing about the lived experiences of neurodivergent staff in contemporary higher education
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#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
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The second time I've heard of a school doing this. The other was Mason City School District in Iowa. Wouldn't be surprised if there were more instances of this. pen.org/press-releas...
i think the point i often want to make is not that people shouldn’t be alarmed or scared, fear is a very reasonable response to what’s happening.
more, i want folks to see fascist pronouncements as they are: battle plans, not accomplished facts, and as such reveal opportunities for resistance.
perhaps one of my favorite things about getting a library degree (besides, you know, getting to organize shit) is that i get to be excited about anthropology again, i get to study all the things i wasn't able to study before due of the niche focus of my phd + ongoing hostile environment trauma
Eugenics was the explicit reason for creating gifted & talented programs and tracking in schools.
It shows up in everything from school rankings to standardized tests to the tenure process.
It’s no secret that AI models—including gen AI—tend to discriminate against racial and gender minorities. When government agencies start using biased AI to make decisions, real people suffer. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Stop trying to justify AI by arguing "well librarians opposed Wikipedia back in the day too."
They aren't the same thing.
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Me in a pink button-up shirt holding a copy of our book, “Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers.”
Book is finally out in the world! Buy a copy for your comrades? And your haters? alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
Fobazi has given so much to our profession and has fearlessly spoken truth to power on a variety of critically important issues that impact the well-being of library workers. Please contribute if you can and think healing thoughts for her.
i ended up mostly spending the summer no thoughts head empty for health reasons, but the new semester at work starts next week, and the new semester at library school starts the week after. acrl volunteering already started a bit. i will be dragged kicking and screaming back into professional life 💀
Fresh off the bepresses - @jjpionke.bsky.social and @schomj.bsky.social interview Crip Kinship author Shayda Kafai!
[downloadable audio and transcript]
#CripLib #DisabilityJustice
do not obey in advance
really great thread from my friend on how to push back against the proposed FDA COVID vaccine regulations. only two days left to comment! if you're immunocompromised public-facing staff like me, a huge drop in vaccination rates is going have a huge impact.
unconscionable.
It can be hard to find information on gender affirming care in language that is easy to understand. We’ve got you covered with our resource “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Gender Affirming Health Care,” available in plain language and Easy Read: autisticadvocacy.org/resources/pr...
every time i think surely ai could not get any worse than it already is...some techbro manages to dig even deeper into the pit
Honestly, the most shocking thing about this debacle is the fact that the IRB approved this and said it would cause “minimal harm.”
They keep insisting there are good use cases for LLMs, but none of them rise to the level of "this is so important it justifies breaking copyright, destroying the environment, and paying people in the Global South $1 a day to data train the worst parts out."
