Look what gift just landed on my desk! It is really such an honor to have a chapter in this important volume from @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social and an absolute delight and learning experience working with volume editor Christine Smith. #critlib #academicLibraries #platformPower #publicLibraries

Couldn't be more over the moon to have contributed to this important book! Check out the details in the original post

I did a thing with a lot of other really smart people with really important things to say about libraries and platform power. We're even doing a virtual book launch. Registration link is below in the original post, I really hope to see some of you there and I expect all of you to go read this book😁

Book Launch!!!!!!!! Join us July 16, 2025 at 12pm Eastern for virtual book launch for the Grabbing Tea, volumes 1 & 2 with editors Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz and Sara A. Howard Don't miss this! More info and Registration: litwinbooks.com/book-launch-... #bookLaunch #books #queer #libraries #archives

"Our community deserves leaders who protect public expression, not suppress it." Where would we be without our public libraries y'all www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Super honored to have a chapter in such an important book! This is such a timely volume, can't recommend it enough

NOLA friends, there's a lot to choose from this Sunday but prioritize Breakthrough Health Film Festival. Free and open to the public. This incredible full length feature will be preceded by 4 powerful documentary shorts. Find all the details for all 3 days here: bit.ly/BreakthroughHealthFilmFest

If you're in or near the amazing city of New Orleans then come to one or all 3 days of Breakthrough Health Film Festival hosted by @p4hnetwork.bsky.social and co-sponsored by my delightful workplace Tulane University Libraries. .

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

A must read for academics. Faculty, it's always a good time to talk to your librarians to learn about options for open access scholarly communication #skybrarians katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Episode 3 of Literacies, a 4-part Audio Series is live! When we recorded this episode last summer we had no idea what the data environment would be during our planned release for #LoveDataWeek Turns out, we couldn't have planned it better. Enjoy this quick listen! youtube.com/watch?v=jfKF...

Hey my data-using friends! If you're worried about continued access to important data sets and you haven't found them yet, now is the time to engage the many resources of the @datarescueproject.org they do good work y'all

Tulane University Libraries and Tulane SLA's Language Learning Center have teamed up again for another super fab International Short Film Festival. @tulaneu.bsky.social friends, come sit in community with us February 18, Lake Theater. Doors open at 5, films at 5:30

Dear perfume wearers, It's spring in New Orleans, which means it's also allergy season. If you wear perfume, be kind to us seasonal allergy folks and don't. A brief scent of your chemical perfumes burns our noses and leaves us sneezing, congested, and generally ick feeling for the next hour.

What an amazing weekend for New Orleans music! The magic weaving Tank and the Bangas are coming home with a Grammy 🔥and New Orleans based Opera Creole is updating music history by introducing the world to the 138 year old opera by New Orleans very own Edmond Dédé www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...

My job increasingly puts me in a place where I get to support incredible events. Finding joy in my privilege of bring Tulane University Library's support to Breakthrough Health Film Festival. I've seen the draft line up and it 💯🔥Keep watching @partners4he.bsky.social to catch the details!

Scenario and then a question for all my weather nerd friends. Yesterday The skies were gray, it was overcast, it was cold, and people were incredibly selfish drivers. Today the skies are an amazing blue, the sun is warm but not hot, the temperature is perfection, people were driving with kindness.

All my trans friends and people I know but don't know are trans: strength and solidarity friends, strength and solidarity.

Oh my friends at the Library of Congress and national archives... The biggest hugs of strength and solidarity

Seeing a lot of panic in the socials. 100% right to be worried but the amplification of fear and accidental misinformation makes it hard to find verifiable news. I don't have the solution, just observing...

Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.

Welp. That was a master class in the perversion of justice. Disappointment and frustration is not the same as giving up.

Things I love: amazing film content coming out on major streaming platforms in indigenous languages. 😍 Things I hate: not being able to acquire amazing content in indigenous languages produced by major streaming platforms for my academic library. 😡

Seeing everyone post their last year's reading lists inspired me to not sleep like these guys every time I crack a book open and commit my fun reading to focus on books banned while I was coming up in school.

Just got an email saying @dorisdukefdn.bsky.social and the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social dropped their support of MAP Fund! 😧 Devastating news for creative communities.

Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail. And it’s working better than anyone expected.

Supreme Court is hearing a case this Wednesday about gender affirming care and political interference in private medical decisions. This might be a heavy week for lots of people. Besides posting into the digital wastelands, how are you showing support for trans rights? 🏳️‍⚧️

Thanks to @rebekahtromble.bsky.social and all involved for their leadership in organizing this important resource.

Had the opportunity to attend just one New Orleans Words and Music Festival talk with radio great Gwen Thompkins (Music Inside Out, y'all, check it out!) and @djsoulsister.bsky.social . Been a loooooong time since I've been this excited to start a new book 🤩

Another delightful exhibit curated by the students of Dr. Elio Brancaforte's GERM 3670 course Grimm Reckonings: The Development of the German Fairy Tale. I swoon a little every time I see students engaging in information dissemination that bypasses the traditional academic gatekeeping 🤩

Library folks!! Great news! “Building Our Own: Critiques, Narratives, and Practices by Community College Library Workers of Color,” edited by Amanda M. Leftwich and Eva M.L. Rios-Alvarado is out and available for purchase: litwinbooks.com/books/buildi.... 📚

Before things get even crazier I'm trying to make it a habit to find and center joy in activism and good work. Thinking Durand Jones is going to be in my sound track for the next 4 years, whose in yours? youtube.com/watch?v=_Q8N...

Hey #AcademicSky and all the other pop culture scholars and enthusiasts. There’s still time to submit a proposal for the 2025 Pop Culture Association conference in April in New Orleans. Submissions close November 30. Join this vibrant community of aca-fans! For more info: pcaaca.org/page/submiss...

My colleague shared an article about a website that self-describes as "a national health organization committed to promoting reproductive and pregnancy wellness through education, support, advocacy, and community awareness."

This workshop has been in the world since April but, honestly, the timing couldn't be better. I'm so looking forward to being in community with the folks of Respair Media and everyone one else in the room.