GET YOUR CALENDAR OUT 🗓️ and write these two dates down… 10/16, 2p ET USA: Dorothy Berry’s (@dorothyjberry.bsky.social) The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities available for purchase. The first 50 copies sold will be signed 🫢 www.weherepress.org

Back in 2021, I was a part of a panel discussion about this topic titled, “Latinidad” as Erasure: Words from a Critical Discussion on the Single Narrative of Latinidad. You can read that here: www.uproot.space/features/lat... @wehere.bsky.social #LatineHeritageMonth #LHM #HispanicHeritageMonth 🧵

THE WAIT IS OVER – The first episode of We Reads: The Podcast is now available! 🎧 Tune in as hosts dive into their reading journeys, genre preferences, and what to expect from this coming season 🤭 www.wehere.space/we-reads-pod... #WeReadsthePodcast

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

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welcome home, we here press ❤️‍🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org

Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏

if you can, please consider donating to fobazi's road to recovery. we love you, fobazi, and we are so grateful for all she's done as a friend, community member, writer and speaker, and library and information science worker ❤️

we reads is dropping a podcast. what you can expect ~ a conversation with producer imani spence www.wehere.space/news/the-we-...

Dream-Shaping Project Check-In: Year One 🍒 www.wehere.space/news/dream-s...

Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people. Learn more at glaad.org/tdov

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.

Registration is still open, don’t miss out on this great event. Register today- www.wehere.space/shop/p/bring... ✨

Have you registered yet 👀 join us at the table filled with these great Women Leaders ✨

✨ first event of the year ✨ Bringing it to the Table: Strength & Resilience of Women Leaders, happening 4/25, 2p ET USA. Speakers: Mahasin Ameen, Inaam Charaf, Sheila García Mazari, Silvia Vong. Free, with donation suggested, and open to the public. www.wehere.space/shop/p/bring...

Live from Gaza: the Archives & Heritage for Palestine seminar series continues on Feb. 26 with Dr. Abdul Latif Abu Hashim, showcasing Gaza as a centre of history, culture and learning. 🔗 Register: rb.gy/hp4bum #Archives&Heritage4Palestine #CritArch #CritLib #GLAMs 📜

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...

Necesito más gente de PR por aquí 👀

Great opportunity to make some extra money and contribute to @wehere.bsky.social's first publication! wehere.notion.site/Contract-Opp...

@wehere.bsky.social I figure I would my latest article that was published through WOC+Lib. You can find my linktree in the about me section of the article. www.wocandlib.org/features/202...

📜🕊 How can pre-Nakba archives be mobilized to dispel the myth of “a land without a people for a people without a land?” Explore this and more in the 5th installment of Archives & Heritage for Palestine with Dr. Salim Tamari on Dec. 16. 🔗 t.ly/i_33o #CritArch #CritLib #GLAMs cc: @wehere.bsky.social

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...

🕊️ Can archivists compensate for the large-scale erasure of Palestinian history? Join us to explore this question and more in the 4th installment of Archives & Heritage for Palestine with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury on Nov. 22! 🔗 Register: t.ly/SoraL

supporting, uplifting, celebrating BIPOC in libraries and archives ❤️‍🔥 go.bsky.app/MpwbvRa

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

we're hosting the panel discussion 'critical race feminist perspectives on leadership in libraries' for we here members (facebook, slack, google group only). this event is part of our mission critical series...

are you being asked to publish as part of your academic job, (or just curious about the process) and not sure where to start? this workshop, led by @charlierock.bsky.social, will provide clarity around the process, its politics + why and where you should be involved www.wehere.space/shop/p/acadp...

only three spots left to join jaime ding for 'how we work better now: a history of librarian professionalization, a synchronous course open to the public, starting august 1 🍒https://www.wehere.space/shop/p/howweworkbetter2024

we're a small team, so when our team grows, we celebrate 🙌🏽 (where's party parrot) get to know cristina fontánez rodríguez, grants and giving manager for the dream-shaping project and the newest member of our team, through these three questions: www.patreon.com/posts/three-...

"For Black librarians of the period, librarianship wasn’t just about hosting writers or connecting books with patrons. It was also about creating an intellectual infrastructure that made Black materials visible — and findable — in the first place." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/a...

we reads released their may mix! 🎶🎧 check out what the team’s been listening to open.spotify.com/playlist/2BE...

What is the professionalization of librarianship and why did it happen? This is just one of the questions jaime ding’s course “How We Work Better Now: a History of Librarian Professionalization” will focus on www.wehere.space/shop/p/howwe...

New Community School course: How We Work Better Now: a History of Librarian Professionalization with jaime ding. Open to the public / five-week, synchronous course / begins August 1 / 1 scholarship seat available to a We Here member www.wehere.space/shop/p/howwe...

Coming up on June 17: Documenting Dissent: Capturing Student Protests, Navigating Disinformation, and Ethical Considerations from ASERL www.aserl.org/event/docume...

this is *amazing*. congrats to medar!!

We Here team member Nicollette Davis was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers this week! We’re thrilled for @literaryjones.bsky.social and so appreciative of all she does to support our communities as a Community Admin & We Together program manager. www.libraryjournal.com/story/nicoll...

Pleased to share this review of @lheltonian's new book in @LAReviewofBooks. This is wildly necessary book, spotlighting foundational figures in Black archives lareviewofbooks.org/article/blac...

we were thrilled to be able to talk with @primrosepress.bsky.social for the latest in our 'conversations on community'. catch the full interview below!

What are the threads of contemporary critical scholarship in LIS? What are the possibilities, implications, and limitations of the critical in our praxis, work, and knowledge production? We Here Members, join us for this course! Registration closes April 2: www.wehere.space/shop/p/conte...

There’s a new We Here Community School course enrolling now! This one is open 💫 only to We Here community members💫: Contemporary Critical Thought in LIS Theory & Practice - A Six Week Suite of Encounters & Movements  - find details below.

Our first episode of Season 5 is LIVE ! We chatted with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz on intersectionality, community, and activism. Our podcast shares the voices of librarians of color—the people we don't often see interviewed but want to know more about. So, give it a listen, like, and share!⁠

New resource with contributions from community member Alejandra Mendez! This 'DEI in Hiring Toolkit' from The Fenway Library Organization contains guidelines and best practices to support equitable searches.

Shared to our spaces recently: an event featuring the co-editors and authors of Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries on March 22 from 1:30-3 EDT! heellife.unc.edu/event/9882568

And we are LIVE!! Shiny new website for our Symposium series, Who Owns Black Data? First one, March 28–29 in Baltimore. What do you think? Who owns Black cultural and historical data? We're literally taking your answers. Read The Prelude & be a part of the conversation. wobd.blackbeyonddata.org

#ICYMI #BakerLecture The RECORDING of "Impactful Grants: A Panel Discussion on Obtaining Funds For Your Communities" is now available. Thanks to Ray Pun for orchestrating a stellar panel, with perspectives from academic, public, AND school librarians! sites.google.com/view/bakerle...

This course has sold out! We've updated the page with a waitlist we'll pull from if spots open up.

a new course from us! info below. ⬇️ 👏

New #BakerLecture coming to a screen near you! Join us for an enlightening moderated lecture with Dr. Jerome Offord Jr., the Associate University Librarian for Antiracism at Harvard. sites.google.com/view/bakerle...

🎶 ✌️Introducing a fresh new series from us: We Reads Monthly Mixes! Featuring recent releases from BIPOC artists/bands, these are the bops that helped us kick off 2024: