It might be reactionary to say that defunding the IMLS is similar to closing libraries in Nazi Germany, but volunteering for my local library is always a good experience. It lets me talk to people with similar outlooks, and to those who have also been laid off. Highly recommend!

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

I just published a new article about turtles in Japanese folklore and culture including folktales, yokai, ghosts, and art. I really hope you enjoy it! 🐢 open.substack.com/pub/curiouso... #JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt

“A land acknowledgment is not enough. The land exists regardless of settler acknowledgment, which can only ever be the first step toward meaningful action. Next steps involve building relationships with that land as if it were your kin. Because it is.” —Joseph M. Pierce

considering how often I need to buy white paint, I propose that white should in fact be considered a color

In an increasingly numbed world, where atrocities are scrolled past and claims about power and resistance are further leeched of meaning with each successive repetition, this New York exhibition’s greatest success is in making those ideas viscerally, urgently present.

J. W. Smith, Little Red Riding Hood, 1911

I’m howling.

i know asl but i can't always tell if someone is trying to say something to me or basically flipping me off

Theo decker vs Holden caulfield

“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in the sun, moon and stars,” Hildegard von Bingen wrote of herself — but she understood that such an invitation to infinity was true for all of us.

What do you need for a game jam? “Two tables. Done.” Game jams—accelerated game creation events—started as a way to develop video games, but they’re also useful for creating tabletop role-playing games, which have grown in popularity in recent years. Read more: https://bit.ly/43qkkRQ

A collection of illustrated letters by the likes of Man Ray, Andy Warhol, and Winslow Homer is a time capsule of verbal and visual play, reinforcing connections between long-distance friends, family, lovers, and colleagues.

Well that’s a nice wake up surprise! This piece I wrote for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social is a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...

reading james michener is. a process

bell hooks' feminist theory from margin to center: monoskop.org/images/f/ff/...

Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/c...

John Berger's Ways of Seeing: dn721608.ca.archive.org/0/items/ways...

Mira Schendel, Sem título, 1965

people often like to give me book recommendations when they learn i'm a library student or when i'm volunteering at the library, which i love

Emily Drabinski Queering the Catalog: www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...

library school has taught me that virtually every textbook is availble either online of through the physical library. don't spend your money on books!

pretty sure autistic women are the backbone of the entire world actually

John Singer Sargent, Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast, 1882-1883

Introduction to and history of Library of Congress Subject Headings www.loc.gov/aba/publicat...

oil piant on top of acrylic was a poor decision! don't do it!

many librarians would hate this, but what if kids could have birthdays at the library? in the makerspaces

MARC seems to not be dead, considering i'm memorizing it for class

Liquid death feels like drinking a memento mori

Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...

Calling all Irish Americans citizens! Let’s face it, most Irish are so White we fluoresce. ICE is stopping people with Mexican flag bumper stickers & getting annoyed when it’s non-Mexicans, pasty faced Irish, in the vehicle. Buy yourself a Mexican flag bumper sticker: www.etsy.com/search?q=mex...

Librarian's Toolkit for Responding Effectively To Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: www.reforma.org/content.asp?...

Border Patrol and ICE: Understanding their roles in immigration enforcement fox40.com/news/nationa....

always worth a reminder: protect immigrants and minorities before making the grand ICE insult

A very black cat on a branch, by Hishida Shunso in 1910. Because it's #BlackCatAppreciationDay