stef nissen

the algo really got me with this one, ngl 🥲

I love summer so much. If you need me you can find me laying on the couch, drinking pinot grigio and reading fanfic 💅

ok girlies, how many nights a week are you slugging?

been getting the wildest friend requests on linkedin lately. just got one from someone who had “idea guy” in his bio.

having a stroopwafel with my cat before bed

stayed the night at my mom’s so we could bake bread and this morning she gave me an ice cream bar for breakfast

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

PEN America Criticizes "Alarming" and "Dismissive" Language on Book Bans by U.S. Education Department - PEN America Kasey Meehan, director, Freedom to Read, at PEN America, said: "For over three years we have countered rhetoric that book bans occurring in public schools are a “hoax.” They are absolutely not. This k...

PEN America responds to action taken today by the Department of Education dismissing complaints about book bans and referring to them as a “hoax”:

"All students deserve to see themselves and the world around them reflected in the books shelved within their public schools.“ pen.org/press-releas...

my dog when I get home from work

If they weren’t so juicy I wouldn’t!

nothing radicalized me more than working in public libraries. now one of my hobbies is watching library board meetings, taking diligent notes on strategies employed by bad faith actors, and calling people out when necessary.
so yeah. i guess you could say i'm pretty radical.

up at 8am on a sunday watching village council meetings on YT