jennifer arévalo

a cairn terrier wearing a pumpkin costume

bey wore this for 2 seconds; a few groups of kids came for candy; watched scary movies: get out and 1984 ghostbusters 🎃👻

OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.

Literary Freedom Project The Literary Freedom Project values the variety of histories and cultures found in the Bronx and gives educators & residents places to build community and explore social engagement.

in need of consistently seeking hope and compassion and found some today when i met someone from the literary freedom project 🙏🏽 www.literaryfreedom.org

THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org

it's been amazing working with dorothy on publishing this book. more details and fun coming soon!

The most difficult recurring professional conversation I have to have with early career people who want to follow in my "successes" is the reality that every cool project by-us-for-us I've done in archives has involved working through and alongside a lot of things I cannot recommend they deal with

“Bukele has become a symbol of populist strength in the region, with admirers in Guatemala and beyond. Corzo saw his own political act as resisting the easy temptation of blind vengeance. He’d been a victim of a ghastly crime, and yet it motivated him to try to understand why it had happened.”

“When Corzo and I spoke, he described his entire project as an exercise in anti-Bukelismo—a reference to the authoritarian President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who has jailed eighty-six thousand people since the spring of 2022, as part of a campaign to rid the country of its criminal gangs.“

Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala The photographer Luis Corzo returns to the scene of his own kidnapping.

Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

A mock-up of an open book- on one side there is light mint/robin's egg blue background and the text "The House Archives Built, Revisited" with smaller text in a typerwriterish font. On the other side there is a sepia photo from the 1870's of a Black man standing on a porch with his hands on a chair and his legs crossed in a jaunt manner.

There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.

A digital flyer for the Black Disability Institute (BDI) Anthology Series. The top left corner features the Black Disability Institute logo, which includes a stylized outline of a person’s head with a brain illustration and interconnected lines forming a book. The title “Anthology Series” is displayed in bold black text. Below, the heading “We want to hear your story!” invites Black disabled individuals to submit personal stories related to mental health, psychiatric disabilities, and mental health care experiences. The flyer states that 50-100 Black disabled people will be selected, with ten stories chosen for videography and others published in a printed anthology. The submission deadline is April 30, 2025, with a hyperlink to the “Anthology Submission Form.” The bottom left corner features the New Disabled South logo. The background is light beige with black and purple text.

We are excited to announce that @newdisabledsouth.org is launching the Black Disability Institute’s Anthology Series, uplifting stories on Black disability & mental health!

⏳Submit by April 30, 2025
🔗Submit your story here: bit.ly/BDIstory
📄 Full RFP and details here: bit.ly/BDIrfp

Art Exhibitions to Look Forward to in 2025 — The Latinx Project at NYU In 2025, we have already witnessed massive cuts to federal spending on the arts, making the state of tomorrow dismally uncertain. Efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion are under threat, whil...

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

We are excited to announce that the TAVP is becoming the After Violence Project (AVP)! This change is the result of years of collective visioning and an understanding that, to meet the moment, we must embrace a borderless mission.

Read more below!

🔗 afterviolenceproject.org/introducing-...

The 2024 Wrap Up — we here

THE 2024 WRAP UP IN WHICH WE PREPARE FOR THE YEAR AHEAD BY LOOKING BACK AND CELEBRATING WHAT WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED WITH GREAT GRATITUDE. ENJOY. WE HERE. www.wehere.space/the-2024-wra...

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"In contemporary higher education, resources are allocated to those who can make a data-driven case for them — that’s part of what it means to run a school like a business. Removing libraries from the survey means that they can’t be counted at all."

Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize —
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block. by @edrabinski.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/fac...

after many years, i left goodreads and joined fable 💖
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calling *all* full-time academic library/archive workers! could you take my survey to study why academic librarians of color stay in the profession in comparison to the wider population? I would really appreciate it! t.co/PqAd0AMMjx

“…The good news is that we don’t need to become experts in any region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.” — adrienne maree brown, “loving corrections.”

“… confusion is a colonial tactic. You can get away with a lot of oppression and displacement while people are dissociated, overwhelmed, mis- or uninformed, or trying to figure out what’s going on.” — adrienne maree brown, “loving corrections.”

we here starter pack 🤔 any members wanna join us there? 🙋🏽

It was delightful to speak with WeHere about community, my practice, and the Book/Print Collective. Support @wehere.bsky.social

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congrats and thank you for this work! 👏🏽

Decistifying trans and gender diverse inclusion in library work: A literature review by Keahi Adolpho and @sgkrueger.bsky.social

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University presidents in 2017: white supremacists are having a lowkey Klan rally on campus 🤷🏼

University presidents in 2024: 19-year-olds have tents and signs! 🚨🚔👮🏼

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A collective of library workers at Columbia University Libraries published a statement regarding recent and ongoing events on campus: cu-librarians-free-palestine.cargo.site

Police use rubber bullets and teargas to break up university protest in Georgia Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop City

Police have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.