This free webinar is next Tuesday April 14th. There'll be ASL interpreters available. It'll be recorded, so if you can't join us, feel free to sign up and you'll get a link to the recording. 1500 people registered so far lol. 📚 #critcat news.library.fresnostate.edu/2026/02/23/f...

Check out the new website for the Library Freedom Journal, published by the folks at the Library Freedom Project. journal.libraryfreedom.org They're looking for submissions for articles, reviews, hot takes, zines, & artwork focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, information democracy, & more! 📚

Union Yes at ALA! To support American Library Association employees forming their union with AFSCME, add your name here: actionnetwork.org/forms/union-...

Do I know any archivists who are interested in becoming journal editors? (It is ok to DM if yes)

And for the lady, perhaps audiobooks that support indie bookstores instead of mega corporations doing questionable things.

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t... Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

Solidarity with American Library Association staff! Without these folks hard work, nothing at ALA gets done. ✊️ afscme31.org/news/america...

call for chapter proposals - Decoding Slow Librarianship: Inquiries into Conceptual Challenges and Concerns from Bloomsbury Publishers docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

JJ Pionke interviews @drsamischalk.bsky.social about her book Black Disability Politics, her creative process, her teaching, and her current research on pleasure activism. [audio interview and written transcript]

Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh

Do you know someone who's done great work for social justice in libraries? Submit their name for the Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice & Equality (deadline March 2nd). airtable.com/appoik78pOkA... The award is $4,000!!! 📚

Americans have seen, fought, & defeated this dehumanization before. Here's a link to the SPLC, where you can learn more about both slavery and abolition. (Yes, the abhorrent claims that enslaving other humans is necessary or merely acceptable have always been accompanied by abolition movements!)

4 hours left to submit - deadline is 5pm eastern

unfortunately evergreen

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

this thread is a better close read than you’ll find in any media outlet today

Many of you already know that our colleague and founding board member, Fobazi Ettarh, has passed away. We want to take a moment to acknowledge her loss and honor what she meant to libraries, our community, and her friends and loved ones. www.thrivelib.com/news/honoring-fobazi-ettarh

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The update here left me weepy with how full of love it is. If you can help with end of life expenses, here's where and how.

I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚

JJ Pionke interviews @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social about their book The Hidden History of Napa Valley, Luddism and information literacy in a high school setting, their work doing book reviews and sensitivity reading, and why we keep fighting for progress.

ICE operates without accountability. More funding is a blank check to continue the disastrous and deadly actions we've seen in Minnesota, including reported violence against people with disabilities. Join us in telling the Senate: no more tax dollars for ICE and CBP! act.nilc.org/page/93101

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At the very least, Congress must disarm ICE, prohibit it from using racial or ethnic profiling, end arrest quotas, remove agents’ immunity from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits, and slash its funding. The Senate has the chance to rein in ICE this week. Keep calling: (202) 224-3121

The DHS funding bill can’t pass the Senate without Democratic votes. Our senators can’t vote to give Trump’s secret police more money to kill innocent people, terrorize our communities, and violate our rights. Demand that your senators vote later this week to rein in ICE and CBP death squads.

Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...

Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.

"...we call upon our city and state leaders to consider this specific risk — among many others — as ICE continues to perpetuate harm through a range of deeply concerning interactions with diverse members of our community." ausm.org/news/stateme...

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“PhD-level intelligence” they said

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

Christmas fucking miracle right here

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

I want to repost @fobettarh.bsky.social's fundraiser as she needed to be moved to the ICU a few weeks ago and remains there. Her support network can use more coins from those in a position to donate, or to boost/spread the word. Fobazi is a wonderful human being: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

In response to recent posts about fabricated citations, someone was telling me how awesome Gemini is, and implied that because it's Google there's some kind of secondary checking of sources happening. Anyway I asked for recent books about AI published by academic presses. This was quite a ride. 🧵

If you, like me, were like "...diversity?" "The department under Blinken...had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, saying this was a more accessible font for people with disabilities bc it did not have the decorative angular features & was the default in Microsoft products." Diversity.

When we look back on how stupid this era is, I hope we remember to emphasize that 41% of the books in this case (7 of 17) were picture books with butt or fart jokes, like "Larry the Farting Leprechaun." www.newsweek.com/supreme-cour...

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders should fortify and defend at all costs, especially in this moment. Instead, libraries in Chicago are being hollowed out, while the police budget remains sacrosanct."

APALA "mourns the profound loss of Alice Wong, a visionary disability justice activist, acclaimed author, and 2024 winner of the APALA Literature Award for Adult Non-Fiction. " www.apalaweb.org/statement-fr... Image credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (CC: BY-NC)

For years, the disability community has been used by industry as a shield against Medicare For All. In new polling from @dataforprogress.org, we asked disabled voters whether they support M4A: 62% Support among voters who ID as disabled 63% Support among voters who do not ID as disabled #IDPWD

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Reminder for ALA members, this webinar is tomorrow!