Liz Zepeda

Watching my partner become a parent has been something sweet and healing.

Quote to future librarians of color, “Use the tools of the job to create social change. There is power in being behind the scenes in the information arena. Use it to make a difference in the world, to do good” -tatiana de la tierra (2004)

Coming back from parental leave to an earlier schedule so I can hang out with my babies after work is a trip. I’m here at 7am, no one is here for another two hours, and it’s been the only alone time I’ve had in months.

Lunchtime Yoga class with cool songs is my idea of a good time. This is what being a mother and having an hour away looks like. 🫠 #ParentalLeaveDiaries

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.  As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

My self care right now is figuring out recipes and new foods for my almost 10 month old twin babies and it really fills my heart when they eat it. It’s a scary time in the world right now but the little things really move us forward. #QueerParenthood

Today I’m selling my car and it’s bittersweet. 😭 This was my first car where I didn’t have to depend on people for rides, I got it right after coming out to family and was rejected 🏳️‍🌈, and went with us to live in three different states. My heart breaks but happy it’s going to a good home.

Went to the Pachucxs Revisited exhibit @ CSUN last night ⚡️

My parents reflected on how these deportations feel like 1987. They said that during that time they would just go to work and then straight home. There was a big raid at a swap meet in Santa Ana that was in the football field, there was only one way out and border patrol waited outside. Devastating

Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. ANyone can do it—this zine shows you how."

Here's a poster version of the DIY Web Archiving zine's front cover, with some added text if you want to print copies for some space where people can take them—you can hang this poster above or nearby:

Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu

I feel a certain kind of way about AI taking on the archival processing process. 🫣

Here is the LAPL e-Card Application: lapl.org/card

If you haven’t, get a library card. There’s digital options. You don’t have to wait to physically got to the library, unless you want to have your Matilda (movie) moment. You can download Libby and get free audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines. Don’t buy books, ebooks, audiobooks from Amazon.

Hope everyone is having a gentle day! 🌸

Building Our Own Critiques, Narratives, and Practices by Community College Library Workers of Color Editors: Amanda M. Leftwich and Eva M.L. Rios-Alvarado “Some of the failures in the community college landscape today are the lack of BIPOC workers in the library department, emotional taxation, extra labor, structural racism, and tokenistic legacies. BIPOC librarian faculty have cultural taxation not captured in our tenure or acknowledged institutionally. BIPOC librarians’ work and labor in community colleges deserves to be amplified, documented, and valued. Our unity is our shared community of practice now and into the future.”

It's a good day for #criticalLibrarianship! Six new #books are now available!

Building Our Own
#Critiques, Narratives, and Practices by #Community #College #Library #Workers of Color
Editors: Amanda M. Leftwich and Eva M.L. Rios-Alvarado
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