Anxious Librarian (she/they)

The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES

THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.

ONLINE THIS WEEKEND: 11/8 & 11/9/25! ALL INFO POSTED HERE: www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/

Can't denounce racism when you yourself are Islamophobic. That's the bottom line re: both Gillibrand, Schumer and many other Democrats.

Really looking forward to hear all the cool stuff happening with zine and libraries! Plus, I am presenting about a zine workshop with my colleague!

#zinelibrarians #zinesinlibraries #academiclibrarian #academiclibraries
#ZLuC25 #ZineLibrariansunConference

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.

If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

John Brown

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

John Carlos and Tommy Smith raise their fists on the medal stand at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Peter Norman looks on

October 16, 1968

On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...

"LIS students who don’t come from a solidly upper- or upper-middle-class background will either need to take out expensive private loans or will just not be able to attend grad school."

Thank you for this, @violetbfox.bsky.social

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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

All of these words are true so I think it's very important for all of us to ask WHY people in and with power are agreeing to all of this... What's the most logical answer to that question?

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

The level of white ridiculousness is made clear by the fact that they actually created and then violently enforced white only water fountains. Please reflect on how truly bonkers this is.

On the Media's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: 1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don't trust anonymous sources. 3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There's almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language the media uses. • “We are getting reports”… could mean anything. • “We are seeking confirmation”… means they don’t have it. • “[News outlet] has learned”… means it has a scoop or is going out on limb. 6. Look for news outlets close to the incident. 7. Compare multiple sources. 8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers. 9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.

Your friend into media literacy and getting it right (me) is yet again tapping the sign

My colleague and I chatted about our experiences with precarity and contingent labor in academic libraries.

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#academiclibraries #librarysky #laborinhighed

is crime actually up or are you just seeing more of the kind of people you think don't belong in your spaces and you just assume it means crime is up

I hate when politicians and pundits and academics with zero experience growing up working class or living a working class life talk authoritatively about the working class; leave us alone, this shit is hard enough without being tokenized or weaponized or studied like exotic zoo animals

Social media is being banned in one of the states with the highest percentage of the population being black. Trump has taken over the DC police, one of the cities with the highest black population. Yall noticing a pattern?

The University of Washington Health Sciences Library is announcing the court-ordered reinstatement of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5 grant, effective through April 30, 2026.

#medlibs 📚

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I just keep seeing evidence everywhere that so-called liberals and progressives have rapidly given up feeling responsible for remembering that people of color experience a different version of the world *because race is a thing* and have life worlds that white people are not privy to

An entire universe of near-magical knowledge and endeavor is getting obliterated, quickly, and most university leaders are standing silently because it helps them destroy faculty and staff labor power and keep left-wing students in line

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.

My hill: kids are naturally creative and artistic. You give kids paper and something to draw with and you will get the wildest shit ever created. It's an actual tragedy & horrifically anti-human to be shoving AI on them and encouraging them to stunt that essential part of themselves.

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Jay Bhattacharya, an economist who has never practiced medicine and doesn’t conduct biomedical research, thinks that you and your loved ones dying from diseases that could have been cured is worth it cause antivaxxers are nicer to him on social media than people who know how anything works

A virulently white supremacist administration from top to bottom and if they all wore white sheets to work daily, a good chunk of the country and the entire mainstream press would shrug.

Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S | Defend Public Health As an alternative to HHS Sec. Kennedy's flawed and dishonest "MAHA Report," Defend Public Health offers some key policies that would truly improve Americans’ health. This report is certainly not exhau...

Friends, a few months ago I asked you all to share what your thoughts on what would improve the health of Americans for a project Defend Public Health was working on. You answered, and we listened.

Today, we released our report, Improving the Health of Americans together. You can read it here.