If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.

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In a society, survival is collectivized There’s no society without that

One of the many small bits of writing I'm doing this month is academic essay on #NatureWriting and disability, but not working in academia now I feel out of the loop about new scholarly work in the area. I know @louisekenward.bsky.social is working on this area, but who else should I be aware of?

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

I was glad to learn tonight about the @sealibrary.bsky.social project, which reminded me of these 👇 ⚓️🌊📚

I was re-reading Tiya Miles's book about Harriet Tubman. And I was reminded again that we are all called to take action within our capacity to address injustice in our own time. And that Tubman was embedded within a COMMUNITY which is what enabled her to do+ tiyamiles.com/books/night-...

There are people everywhere. Look around.

Home Depot and Lowe's share data from hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras with law enforcement

Also, disability justice zine microgrants are back for fall! This time I'll be giving out three $250 grants. Any kind of zine is welcome but I am giving a priority to perzines this time. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israel’s illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people. The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children. Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.

We are now open for even more submissions! In addition to book reviews, we will now also be publishing academic articles and Notes from the Field (less formal, more blog) about library/archives work and disability cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths. ENOUGH. I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.

@massivebookshop.bsky.social is matching donations to the Sameer Project up to $1300. Can you join me in contributing to their campaign? open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

In the United States people are treated like animals. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

we can have nice things

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

Called my Representative, Richard Neal, to thank him for his earlier No vote and to encourage the same today. Took less than a minute. If he’s your rep, too, call 202-225-5601.

libraries’ services and resources amount to a drop in the bucket for most public budgets. the bang-to-buck ratio is huge. killing the IMLS alters the federal government’s fiscal situation not one bit. cruelty is the *only possible* point. 📚

Safety planning & preparation for organizers & community leaders in this moment of growing authoritarianism in the US is essential. And, as I learned as an international accompanier in Colombia under an authoritarian government, we must also bring our values of community, care, & joy to that work.

I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

Last semester a staff member from a historic preservation lab audited my methods class and decided to create a series of zines highlighting the archival resources that inform preservation projects. She submitted a prototype in Dec — and today I received in the mail a hard copy of the first issue!

We feed you. They hunt us.

The galaxy is watching.

Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.

Now unlocked: @reallandsend.bsky.social & @vickyacab.bsky.social on the holes in the Trump administration’s grip on power and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself on.soundcloud.com/LOH0A3aRSSuI...

Horrible for every person in the United States.

Warren's report is here: www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... - It's 14 pages and could likely be turned into a 5 page artful zine that can be printed and distributed across the country.

For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I’ve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Today in #ZineCataloging Burning Knowledge, Shattering Lives: Ranganathan's Five Laws in the Shadows of Genocide by Omar Al-Samadi www.abandonedaffair.com/projects/bur... Al-Samadi demonstrates how each of Ranganathan's laws are violated by Israel's war on Gaza. 📚🍉🎓 #Ranganathan #iykyk

In addition to calling your senators on the daily as we brace for the gutting of Medicaid and the ACA, I want to encourage people to start connecting with others about how to defend healthcare in an environment where every insurance carrier is rushing to shed as many types of coverage as possible. 🧵

I only just came across this essay, but it’s exquisite! Katherine Rundell (one of my fav children’s authors) nails the importance of children’s books, imagination, & the info lit skills necessary to absorb them. It’s why all the stats about the growing illiteracy of children/teens are so scary to me

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

At the request of @shannonmattern.bsky.social, here is a fun panel I was on last week my good friends and colleagues Steven Booth and Savannah Woods of @afrocharities.bsky.social I ran home from the New Haven train and logged in about 5 before showtime! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLF...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Inspired by Guy’s thread on developing transmasc style in dialogue with personal desire, embodiment, aesthetics, historical examples (to adapt and resist), cultural context. Imagining moving beyond my untuckable button downs.

Y'all.

Hey-o! @chrisqzap.bsky.social and I sound almost intelligible in this interview with @caboosezine.bsky.social for the new issue of @razorcake.bsky.social. Pick up a copy and read our blather about zines, history, queer community building, and the world we'd like to live in. 🖤🩷🖤

As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable. Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.

So, if I’m reading this right: They gutted the office that runs the government’s award-winning, in-house HR and staffing software, and now they’ve inked a sole-source, no-bid contract so that a private company on proprietary software can do what the office of civil servants did on in-house software