RIP Alice Wong 🖤

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss ... 'How low can you go?' said Maurice Belote, co-chair of the National DeafBlind Coalition. 'How can you do this to children?'"

That is in fact what this administration has done.

“When the IOC finally admitted lacrosse to the Games in October 2023, its president, Thomas Bach, noted…’This is the sport —if I may say—of the First Nations of the US.’ Despite that…the IOC stated that its official position was that the Olympic charter prevents Haudenosaunee participation”

“Without a fully functioning Dept. of Education, states will not be held accountable for meeting even the minimum requirements of IDEA… We will see an erosion of the promise of FAPE for students w/ disabilities and fewer ways for parents and advocates to do anything about it.”

Dr. Carla Hayden is a trailblazer who spent her tenure working to make the Library of Congress accessible to all Americans. It’s no surprise this callous President fired our nation’s librarian. Another attempt to shut our country out from history, progress, and learning.

Information Literacy means examining not just what research claims, but who produces it, where it's published and how it's framed. References to groups imply neutrality and colour-blindness, but they can surreptitiously legitimise race science. #IOEIDL #InfoLit #PsychHist #HistEd

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

Thanks for sharing, Nazlin!

Join us on Wednesday, April 9th for a look at critical information literacy with Gabriella Reyes! Register here to attend or get the recording: ecis.org/event/librar...

Gabriella Reyes sharing her framework of Critical Information Literacy.

The Pembroke Center marks the passing of feminist philosopher Sandra G. Harding March 5. Harding contributed her papers to the Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive, and appears in the Archive’s Society for Women in Philosophy records. Both collections are open for study: buff.ly/xImzEbW

Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it! Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections. Use it or lose it!

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially." Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03... Take action: ala.org/showup

Thank you!! ❤️

#StPatricksDay #tdih Did you know that during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, poultry — food that could have prevented those deaths. #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...

"Nothing about us, without us!" We're celebrating Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a time to recognise and support the neurodiverse community by raising awareness and promoting inclusion. Read on for a round-up of resources, support and events around @ucl.ac.uk: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

Thank you, @kamenopoulou.bsky.social ❤️

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

The library is the fountain of knowledge. From a fountain of knowledge flows critical thinking. From critical thinking flows democracy. From democracy flows our livelihoods. We know what flows from defunding libraries. Let us defend our libraries like our liberation depends on it. Because it does.

If you have a library card, in the U.S. and possibly elsewhere, you can read millions of books for free through the Libby app.

from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ... link.motherjones.com/public/38940...

#tdih 1990 "Capitol Crawl" as part of months long protest by disability rights activists at White House & U.S. Capitol. Watch Crip Camp about history of disability rights activism, the ADA, & more. Lessons for today in face of attacks on all human rights. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

For years, Trump Republicans have been going after antiracist, feminist and queer scholars. Smearing us. Banning our books. Hoping to stop people from reading and supporting us. Too many administrators and academics stood idly by . . . 1/2

#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066 President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. About 122,000 people sent to prison camps. Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated. #TeachTruth ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ex...

47,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured. Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.”  No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.

I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.

The Lakota People's Law Project's 2025 Decolonized Reading List. There is so much to choose from here. lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01...

"Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative, an organization founded by former President George W. Bush, have been fired, including some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

#tdih 1899 Philippine Republic President Emilio Aguinaldo declared war on U.S., when the U.S. refused to recognize Philippine independence. The ASHP offers a free lesson with primary documents and 30-min. documentary "Savage Acts" to #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wa...

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

What does a decolonised curriculum look like and how can it be achieved? - Prioritises formative over summative processes - Values ethical reasoning, creativity, and embodied knowledge - Addresses colonial legacies and fosters justice Read on the #IOEBlog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/01/...

If you want to read a gothic novel set in an isolated, labyrinth-like house in the Philippines, with more than its fair share of sapphic yearning, for free request House of Monstrous Women on Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

An explainer on immigration enforcement in libraries and ways to protect patron privacy: www.oif.ala.org/libraries-an...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination. Our response: Book bans are real. Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

"For the first time in a King biography, Coretta Scott King’s active partnership in the struggle is made clear. King of the North is a revelation." — Barbara Smith, Combahee River Collective Class ⬇️with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social & @jessehagopian.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.

This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.