giving an intro to digital preservation workshop for folks outside of LIS interested in/already developing a community archive & i *still* refer to @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's 'the house archives built,' esp when discussing the question 'should everything be digitized?' publisher / practitioner!

we’re still 🤩 by the fact that @dorothyjberry.bsky.social and savannah wood were in conversation in person about dorothy’s book the house archives built in baltimore the other week and now we have these beautiful photos by justin timothy temple to share 🌹 www.weherepress.org/baltimore

after years of virtual events and rejuvenating social meet ups, last night was the first ever @wehere.bsky.social in person programmatic event. and the fact that it was author @dorothyjberry.bsky.social & savannah wood in conversation about the house archives built just makes it so much sweeter 🐝🍯

I hope y’all will watch this fantastic panel discussion that @veronicaghenry.bsky.social and I worked hard to put together! #booksky #libraries #AI

deadline approaching 🚨 documentation and archives internship at @afterviolence.bsky.social — paid opportunity may - december afterviolenceproject.org/opportunities/ apps due 4/12, 11:59p CT

THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES Humanity, Technology, and the Stories We Preserve – A Panel Discussion, 04/25, 3p ET USA // with Gabby Womack, Laurainne Ojo-Ohikuare, Azad Namazie, Keshia Koech, & Edwin Lindo. Moderated by Veronica G. Henry (@veronicaghenry.bsky.social). Open to the public luma.com/ud0psx3b

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

the documentation & archives team at @afterviolence.bsky.social is looking to hire a paid intern for may - december 🌈 app closes 4/12 afterviolenceproject.org/opportunities/

registration is now open for the house archives built: @dorothyjberry.bsky.social in conversation with savannah wood, happening 4/30 7pm at good neighbor ⚡️ this conversation will be about power, black history, and labor. learn more and register: luma.com/n9l7cchr

fobazi my dear friend. thank you for everything. the library and information science profession is better because of your brilliance and how you showed up to support people. gratitude and appreciation to her loved ones for sharing this with us during such a difficult time 🙏🏽

now available — the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social (3rd printing) www.weherepress.org

Thank you @BaltimoreBeat baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

when you publish a book, that goes on your bookshelf, not ones you own. the top rows are 2 deep — getting ready for sales to open of the third printing of the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities / dorothy berry. get the news about it www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...

end of season 1! felicidades we reads podcast team. i love this podcast because it’s really helped me understand what i like as a reader 🌺

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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...

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 💖 fable.co/jennifer-are...

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

“… 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 www.patreon.com/posts/conver...

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

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! 🚨🚔👮🏼 🤔

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 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.

ATTN NEW YORKERS The NY Public Library has a plea out for signatures to push the city not to cut their budget and force them to reduce collections, end services, reduce maintenance, and close 2 days a week. It takes mere seconds to sign. They need 50,000. Pleas sign and SHARE WIDELY

Some of y'all are still unwilling to call this genocide and don't get why students in the US are protesting. How about this then? Can you understand why students might be moved to protest involvement in scholasticide?

i've had a few people, inclusive of professors and students, ask me for my course syllabus (building a critical culture) so i decided to throw an abbreviated version on my website: www.jenniferferretti.com/information-...

The nerd in me loves that this resource is available online: www.psu.edu/news/academi...

i'm BACK on this photography / creativity journey and you can follow along in this very tidy and not too often produced substack i have going jenniferferretti.substack.com

V.3 Mezclilla open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

i’m so excited treshani perera is returning to the @wehere.bsky.social community school to lead the 4-week async course “inclusive description for cultural heritage materials” 🌈 www.wehere.space/shop/p/inclu...

🎶 ✌️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:

On Friday, March 1st, catch a series of panels on the Puerto Rican Radical Tradition hosted by CENTRO - The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. ⬇️

"The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt"—You can read and annotate articles and works featured in the JITP Issue 23 at cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit... / edited by Nikki Fragala Barnes, Summer L Hamilton, Asma Neblett, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, and me

Library Folks: A new article co-written by me dropped today - The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet) Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries. I hope you will take a look 👀 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

we’re in the second month of the dream-shaping project (hello www.wehere.space/news/7cjernl...) and it’s been F U N 🍒 because so much pre-work has happened. including a knowledge base on notion 🤌🏽