Casey Rawson

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

A half-sheet size flyer with green printing, ridiculing ICE agents. The design is modeled after the flyers commonly used by contractors in Chicago, who are frequently immigrants. These flyers often appear on the garages of homes.

A half-sheet size flyer with blue printing, ridiculing ICE agents. The design is modeled after the flyers commonly used by contractors in Chicago, who are frequently immigrants. These flyers often appear on the garages of homes.

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.

You're taking a class, not buying a product.

This should be a wake-up call for anyone in higher ed who has managed to keep their head in the sand thus far about threats to academic freedom. This time it's in Texas, but if you think it's not coming soon to your state I have a bridge to sell you.

For Gen Z, the Library Is Political People say libraries are dying. Young librarians think they’re just evolving — and expanding their social conscience as they do.

Very happy to read about these young, principled, and interesting librarians working in various places in Philadelphia 📚

www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...

"Interesting digital humanities data sources": I blogged about 18 datasets for DHy teaching, research, & tool-learning I've bookmarked, & why they might be useful—plus some relevant tools, events, & resources re:data at risk:

AI in Libraries Survey Library Freedom Project is conducting this survey to understand library worker attitudes, experiences, and concerns towards artificial intelligence (AI). LFP is a values-driven organization, with a sk...

Library Freedom Project is seeking survey responses about library workers’ attitudes, experiences, and concerns about AI!

forms.gle/c9tt8zQ5zs8y...

Where is your humanity? These are CHILDREN. You should be ashamed.

Librarian and educator Betty Rosenberg's First Law of Reading was "never apologize for your reading tastes," and it's the first thing we talk about in my adult readers advisory course. Read what makes you happy, and let others do the same!

Updating my AI critical libguide this week. What are some articles, newsletters, podcast eps, etc that you would file under Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced? I'm looking for a variety of things that can work for these 3 knowledge levels; ie I have the ChatGPT I a Blurry JPEG essay as Beginner.

Violet Fox's "A Librarian Against AI" zine was a meaningful reading for my students this semester. I'd say that's a good beginner piece. Written with a librarian audience in mind but it works beyond that. violetbfox.info/against-ai/

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58

I'm so sorry. A very small comfort today I'm sure, but maybe now's a good time to share that I assigned your "librarian against AI" zine to my students at UNC last semester and they LOVED it. Your voice is important and I hope you land in a great place quickly!

Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.

They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.

Re-up with alt text because this is important.

Have you read The Payback yet? Seems like something you'd enjoy! bsky.app/profile/nina...

After 15 years of service, this librarian was fired simply for allowing her community members to include a trans-inclusive, award-winning children's book in a library display celebrating diversity. Please consider donating to help her out.

The real sin is that HBO (or Max, whatever) almost made me miss the actual ending of #Sinners because it minimized the movie as soon as the credits started rolling.

From the dataisbeautiful community on Reddit: Dollar Value of DOGE Cuts to US Federal Grant Programs by Congressional District [OC] Explore this post and more from the dataisbeautiful community

This is an insane data viz and indicates how devastating the cuts to UNC, Duke, RTI, NIOSH, EPA, FHI360 have been to our congressional district.

www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

The squee I just squeed!

Love this! And since everyone is asking about the skirt, it's from J Crew a few years back. Check Poshmark or ThredUp!

After Delay, Chapel Hill Board Votes to Award Tenure After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.

"It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one,” says one of the UNC trustees. And by "cookie," he means the tenure that these faculty *earned*. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The 2026 Federal Budget Proposal Shutters The Institute for Museum and Library Services The details of the 2026 federal budget proposal spell out the goal of shutting down the Institute for Museum and Library services.

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS."

Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes.

bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

Things that make me happy in dystopia-land: the Dungeon Crawler Carl books by @mattdinniman.bsky.social, and the audiobooks of same. Official member of the (unofficial) Donut Holes Fan Club.

Collage photo of three finished craft projects: a flower print jumpsuit, a brightly colored quilt top, and an embroidery project featuring polar bears.

It's been a shitty month in more ways than one (thanks, norovirus!) but I have had some success with my ginormous works-in-progress pile. Featured here: Marisol jumper (free pattern from Mood), Echinacea quilt from Anna Maria, and "Les Ours aux Boréales" from Bayeux Broderie.

It's by Nick Cave, and "its colors come directly from Chicago’s unique skyline and is a continuation of the images taken in through an airplane window upon descent in Chicago." www.chicagogallerynews.com/articles/see...

Of course.

Special shoutout to my colleagues who thought "diversity had gone too far," especially the ones who pretended that diversity statements were oppression.

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!

Taught my last class of the semester today. It was an awful few months in so many ways, but I'm grateful for the joy and community we managed to build together. My students give me hope that a better future is possible.