"mistakenly deported" is not a phrase that should exist

CHANGE! The public testimony for libraries will not take place 5/26 - it is taking place on 6/10 at 9:30am.

Thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social I got to read Shapes of Love, a 5 ⭐ read that debuts today. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d480...

@mayor.nyc.gov public libraries need a measly .5% of the city budget!

I love seeing librarians' and archivists' work recognized in people's acknowledgments! "Archiving is a radical act." From @phdyke.bsky.social Taylor Marie Doherty's dissertation "Assembling Archives/Archiving Assemblages: Power, Politics, and Protest in the Queer Feminist Archive."

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 26th, when you can testify (in person, on Zoom, or in writing) for the NY City Council Libraries Committee hearing on the executive budget and library funding. And send a message to your council member now: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

My fellow @ny10neighbors.bsky.social and I have some questions for @repdangoldman.bsky.social & @bradlander.bsky.social. tl;dr; Will you do what you can to stop the genocide?

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Higher ed was once considered a civic good, back when civic goods were considered good

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Today in zine scholarship "Zine: art and science & culture communication in astronomy" "...interdisciplinarity supports the construction of more meaningful & contextualized knowledge, bringing theory closer to practice & providing a broader view of the world through education, according to Jesus."

Everyone go home early, this one wins the Internet today. bsky.app/profile/amos...

I love zines about how AI sucks. I love queer zines. Feel the same? Queer Zineographies might be for you! deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/8fb952... 🏳️‍🌈 🚫🤖

It’s amazing how much damage high-level administrators — appointed contrary to search committee recommendations and despite faculty warnings — can do to institutional culture. Although I’m sure those appointments serve precisely the functions top admin intended.

One satisfying thing I did today: disabled all Gemini experiments in Chrome. I learned about it in a zine @carmendarlene.bsky.social and Torie Quiñonez made for their ARLIS presentation. Bye AI!

The Black Zine Fair is THIS WEEKEND in Brooklyn! pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... Don't miss it!

I just uploaded Melissa Jones's Elections & Protests themed zine lesson plans to the Internet Archive archive.org/details/elec... (with her permission, of course) (after a college website auditor told me web content older than three years should go) (I may move everything to zinelibraries.info)

they can trade zines at no cost, we have a bring a zine/take a zine table, we have a zine making table (also at no cost), they can visit the Black reading room (at no cost). Moral of the story: broke people are welcome at BZF: withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...

Echoes from a Fallen Kingdom a new @coastallinespress.com poetry zine by Farah Elbahnasawi, a student of Refaat Alareer. "I began writing because paper could hold my words when the earth itself could not" You can buy a print or digital copy. 🇵🇸

Do the senior staffs of other academic institutions seem to specifically fear and loath their non-faculty academic staff (libraries, DH and other computational folks, pedagogy trainers, maker space teams, or is it just mine? 🎓 📚 📜

ON IT

Do you ever get the sense that Trump may not be a reliable narrator?

Article about how zines resist AI because they're handmade, but other than the cover zine, they're all digital (Canva?) creations. If you use Canva art, you are also outsourcing your creativity. Sorry/not sorry for the grumpy post. Zines can (should?) be messy! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hello from winnowing my phone gallery would add: read the zine librarians code of ethics www.zinelibraries.info/code-of-ethi...

Before I teach my 2nd LIS class this summer, I'm gathering syllabus AI statements for REASONS connected to my 1st class. Here is a policy by @husseinrashid.com that focuses on care - relational learning - consent - the unexpected - bias - pleasure and failure. (Note that Prof Rashid is not a jerk)

omg they include "zine-maker" as one of Shawn's primary identities

Congratulations to my future former boss Shawn! 📚

Two of my zines are now available through I Love Zines, a kind of DIY cross between Etsy and a distro run by one of the hardest-working zinesters in zinedom, Billy McCall www.ilovezines.com/collections/...

SAME

As someone who was forced out of Harvard because my viewpoints were too diverse, this just confirms that Harvard wants in on the white supremacy grift on their own terms, not anyone else’s. They not like us.

Every month I use a different theme to highlight the breadth and depth of the Barnard Zine Library and how its item-level cataloging provides an easy way to discover zine content relevant for research and leisure reading. I've now combined them on a guide. guides.library.barnard.edu/weve-got-a-z...

I'm moderating a panel with my ZFF @miloblue.bsky.social from the @qzap.bsky.social, @jrdarchivist.bsky.social of the DC Punk Archive and students Diya Shah & Alexa Boltaz who edit a campus zine. It's at UMD on Sat 4/18. Join us! We'll talk about important stuff that makes you feel good, not bad.

A lot of brilliant, warm, and politically admirable people use Substack, a platform that platforms Nazis. I am conflicted about reading and sharing posts from there. I know that we all compromise our values at times, so I'm not calling anyone out. What do y'all do with Substacks you appreciate?

"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)