"The named Barnard affiliates willingly made the decision to fraternize with a known sex offender. By looking the other way and allowing them to continue their current association with Barnard, the administration affirms that affiliates can engage in morally corrupt behavior without consequence."

We've Got a Zine for That: Curiosity zines.barnard.edu/news/weve-go... Graphic: cover of Curiositer zine by @kellymce

Prairieland content is a mandatory repost. Love to see the international awareness and support!

"[Don Fulsom] had been fired from his first radio job, at a station in Buffalo, NY, when he began the news on Easter morning by saying: 'Today, millions of Christians around the world are celebrating the alleged resurrection of Jesus Christ.'" All religion is mythology, which is fine, but not fact.

Book rec! The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/61b7...

Solidarity with all the anti-Zionist Jews who fled Passover last night because of a fight about Palestine.

I don’t want to hear who’s in the Harry Potter series, I want to celebrate everyone who said no. I would also like to curse John Lithgow. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Pretend it’s 1990 and behold

Academizines journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un... "This special issue [of Unbound) features contributors from across the disciplines sharing their research and creative scholarship in zine form." featuring zines by lots of my friends and me!

You from NYC...? It's an involuntary stim up here if you don't have one.

Encouraging my council member to allocate a mere 0.5% of the city budget to public libraries, per @nycplan.org

I'm cataloging a zine made by the friends of a Barnard '21 alum, Em He, who died by suicide. It's beautiful, heartbreaking, and inspiring. ❤️💔💗

Hot. Library. Scholarship. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Equity > "neutrality" (scare quotes mine, but "neutrality" really must always be in quotation marks, amirite?) 📚

Just making it clear, It did NOT begin on October 7th 2005 - Gaza is under complete siege, open air prison 2005-2023 - Israel kills 12,000 Gazans 2023 - Gazans revolt, kill 1,200 Israelis 2023-2026 - Israel kills 71,000+ Gazans Saying it began on October 7th is wrong.

CFP for the proposed collection Transnational Queer and Feminist Archives Abstracts Due Mon 3/30 5pm PT Questions to [email protected] Editors: Maria Alexopoulos (UBC Okanagan; QueerIT project), Barbara Dynda (U Warsaw; QueerIT project), and Emily Christina Murphy (UBC Okanagan)

"Another’s was covered in multicolored ribbons. One used cutouts of letters to spell, in the style of a Hollywood ransom note, Zine book for ENG 107. Others were covered in glitter, stickers, candy wrappers, photos of friends." www.chronicle.com/article/i-ma... (not sure if paywalled--DM for a copy)

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

Gaza in Our Hearts: Saturday in Brooklyn, including Zines from Gaza (@coastallinespress.com). Masks provided/required.

"We are confident that the mayor is intent on delivering on both of his campaign promises, baseline funding at 0.5% stands to transform library services into a resource with a credible presence that New Yorkers never have to question or wonder about..."

Hello from the City Council committee hearing on the mayor's proposed budget for libraries. I am here representing LibraryPAC. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaigned on a .5% baseline budget for public libraries and what we got was neither 5% of the expense budget nor a baseline. librarypac.nyc

Actuarially cis men just can’t be trusted with power and access to people they want to sex

HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how. This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

May your rights to participate as a full citizen in society never be put to a vote.

Someone in a group I'm in asked about getting out of jury duty. I'm like I know how to try to get *on* a jury and nullify it. As usual, I've got a zine for that! beyondcourts.org/en/act/votin... written by Dinesh McCoy and Eli Hadley, in collaboration with Rachel Foran

Please read and share this excellent feature story on the work of @coastallinespress.com!! Thank you @newarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/features/gaz...

Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

If you are homebound for whatever reasons but would like to support NYC public libraries, @nycplan.org invites you to help us by encouraging people you know to send letters to their City council members this week: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... [takes 30 seconds] esp in the Bronx and Queens

This response from @susanabulhawa.bsky.social to being called out by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is incisive and generous. Watch the whole thing! I'm reflecting on how Jews stole even the concept of anti-Semitism from Arabs. My Ashkenazi tuchus--not Semitic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5in...

I recently read Sara Novic's forthcoming memoir, Mother Tongue. I'm appreciating this take "But the idea that something can't be both an asset and a disablity is just internalized ableism." Difference/being minoritized can be terribly burdensome, but it can also be an incredible gift.

This is Very Bad for protest and zines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My dad died last week. He did impressive things-and we left lots out, like when he coordinated tech services at NYPL in the 1970s and contributed to online cataloging. We did include how much he loved his family, friends, libraries, sports teams & jazz. He'll be seeing you in all the old familiar...

I got back to work after 2.5 months away, and there were three (3) pieces of paper in the photocopier. Did *anyone* fill it while I was gone? #ZineLibrarianProblems

Zine Fair in South Dakota on 5/1 & 2! You have until 4/1 to apply. vermillionzinefest.wordpress.com Organizers have collaborated with a public library and an independent bookstore.

Hospital pro-tip: in my experience if specialists are mistreating your loved one with diagnostic tests that won’t help them, your safe word is “social-worker.”

Anyone else just feel like an impotent asshole calling their senators and representatives and having to say things like "Hi, yeah I'm disgusted that our country bombed a school with children for a war we don't want and can't afford and I'm scared about the future please do something."

The thing is, he believes himself.

EVERYONE POOPS BUT NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT: THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api/c... Today in wacky/GREAT things my Google Scholar search on zines brought to my attention.

Covid is going around a group I'm involved with, and guess what I'm learning? The copay for Paxlovid is super high for some insurance ($1K) and not covered by others. America: so great!!! 😷😷😷 PS The folks I know who are sick are vaxxed & regular mask wearers. Prevention is great, but SO ARE MEDS.

BLACK AT BARNARD: 100 Years of Black Scholarship app.thefield.org/home/donatio... join me in supporting this film fundraiser that tells the story of the Black women (incl Zora NH) who pushed Barnard to fulfill its promise: a rigorous college in NYC for the education and advancement of all women.

Love to see this! (now do Barnard) 🎓🇵🇸 hellgatenyc.com/columbia-exp...

Columbia University's Little Sis Barnard College on Little Sis @mapthepower.bsky.social littlesis.org/org/49241-Ba... Who doesn't love data? 🎓

Lots going on this weekend in ZKM's NYC, but be sure to make time for ABC No Rio's Garage(Land) Sale. Sat & Sun at 184 Eldridge on the LES. I'm volunteering on Saturday. On Sunday things will be half price, so you should drop by both days! Books, records, demo tapes, posters, clothes, zines & more!

To See What Was Always There. Sun March 1, 10am East Coast US. £15-25 A Reflective Writing Workshop with Shahd Alnaami, a Gaza-based author. This workshop uses visual memory and writing to reflect on gratitude, not as optimism, but as awareness shaped by loss. www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la... 🇵🇸

Normalize centering women's sports, e.g. "hockey, basketball" and "men's hockey, men's basketball" )and acknowledge that nonbinary players play).

“I cannot financially support an institution that failed to foster open dialogue and instead responded to student expression with arrests and violence,” [Barnard College alum Daisy Freedman] added. Barnard Bulletin on alum frustrations with the college administration--Zios & Pro-Palestinians both

To See What Was Always There. Sun March 1, 10am East Coast US. £15-25 A Reflective Writing Workshop with Shahd Alnaami, a Gaza-based author. This workshop uses visual memory and writing to reflect on gratitude, not as optimism, but as awareness shaped by loss. www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la... 🇵🇸

The promise to end the budget dance allows libraries to know that they would have stable funds SO THEY CAN PLAN OPERATIONS in a non-chaotic way. The administration did not provide that in the prelim budget when it promised to do so.

Adding to what Katie is saying. The promise re: NYC public libraries was TWO-FOLD: 1. 0.5% of the city expense budget. [not reached in preliminary budget - only 0.39% allocated] AND as importantly 2. Ending the budget dance. [underfunding/cutting assuming the council will restore to some level]

No cat for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social until he restores public library funding to .5% of NYC's budget. Library renegers do no deserve feline love. 😿

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities. Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve investinlibraries.org