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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 28d

JJ Pionke interviews Marieke Nijkamp about their books, focusing on the Splinter & Ash series. The interview also includes discussion about how creating art is an act of hope and why disability and gender diversity representation is so important.

DisLIS interview with Marieke Nijkamp on Splinter & Ash

JJ Pionke interviews Marieke Nijkamp about their books, focusing on the Splinter & Ash series. The interview also includes discussion about how creating art is an act of hope and why disability and ge...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call for submissions - We are now open to academic articles, notes from the field (briefer and less formal than full articles), and creative works!

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Letter from the Editor v2

2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

All reviews and articles receive peer review and copy editing by someone with disability expertise, whether that expertise is gained through lived experience and/or academic study.

Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

We focus on the experiences of library or archive workers or users, or people who work with libraries in other ways, in relation to disability.

We take a disability positive, disability centered approach. (You don't have to love your condition, but you do have to value disabled people.)

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our publishing focus is to center the experience of disability within information work in a variety of settings including but not limited to K-12 schools; LIS programs; public, academic, special, or other types of libraries or archives +

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call for submissions - We are now open to academic articles, notes from the field (briefer and less formal than full articles), and creative works!

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

Letter from the Editor v2

2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oral history with @christinemmoe.bsky.social who talks about working as an academic librarian, transitioning to a doctoral program, and their research on neurodivergent library workers.

Oral History with Christine Moeller

Oral history with Christine Moeller, who talks about working as an academic librarian, transitioning to a doctoral program, and their research on neurodivergent library workers.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 28

"it does a real disservice to our nuance as complete human beings to suggest that all of our thoughts + feelings about ourselves, our community, our world can be summarized, condensed into language that everyone will understand immediately....our lives are complex, our writing can also be complex. "

Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

We interview J. Logan Smilges about their book Crip Negativity, discussing why disabled people deserve to have our lives theorized – how theory can work against simplistic stereotypes to better reflect the nuanced + complicated reality of our lives & the importance of building capacious communities.

Interview with Dr. J. Logan Smilges on Crip Negativity

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. J. Logan Smilges about their book Crip Negativity, discussing why disabled people deserve to have our lives theorized – how theory can work against simplisti...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

We interview J. Logan Smilges about their book Crip Negativity, discussing why disabled people deserve to have our lives theorized – how theory can work against simplistic stereotypes to better reflect the nuanced + complicated reality of our lives & the importance of building capacious communities.

Interview with Dr. J. Logan Smilges on Crip Negativity

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. J. Logan Smilges about their book Crip Negativity, discussing why disabled people deserve to have our lives theorized – how theory can work against simplisti...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Rachel Thomas about her book Shrink, cultural and medical ideas about fatness, and her next planned graphic narratives.

Interview with Dr. Rachel M. Thomas on Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Rachel Thomas about her book Shrink, cultural and medical ideas about fatness, and her next planned graphic narratives.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Two new interviews coming out back-to-back this week!

Rachel Thomas talks about her graphic memoir Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl

J. Logan Smilges talks about their book Crip Negativity

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview @travisclau.bsky.social about his new chapbook What’s Left is Tender, poetic form, bringing a disability ethic to slow scholarship, and taiko drumming for pain management.

#CripLib

Interview with Dr. Travis Lau on What's Left is Tender

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau about his new chapbook What’s Left is Tender, poetic form, bringing a disability ethic to slow scholarship, and taiko drumming for pain m...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

new review:

Committed is a nuanced history of the Canton Indian Insane Asylum.

Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions [book review]

Committed is a nuanced history of the Canton Indian Insane Asylum.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

new review:

Armed with research, personal experience, and stunning art, Rachel M. Thomas shows readers the experience of being a fat woman and how society regularly views, fears, and tries to control fat bodies.

Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl [book review]

Armed with research, personal experience, and stunning art, Rachel M. Thomas shows readers the experience of being a fat woman and how society regularly views, fears, and tries to control fat bodies.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

"a critical part of our Mad creation practice was centering need, bodymind need, and creating a culture where we could ask and name the things that we would've otherwise suppressed+ white knuckled through... a space where that didn't have to happen, that violence didn't have to happen anymore."

Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Shayda Kafai about their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, rethinking the publishing process, who influenced their work, and building sustainable Mad communities.

Interview with Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai on Mad Scholars

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Shayda Kafai about their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, rethinking the publishing process, who influenced th...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Shayda Kafai about their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, rethinking the publishing process, who influenced their work, and building sustainable Mad communities.

Interview with Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai on Mad Scholars

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Shayda Kafai about their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, rethinking the publishing process, who influenced th...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

JJ Pionke interviews Paul Castle about his book Adoroscopes and his creative process as a visual artist who has a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa.

Interview with Paul Castle on Adoroscopes

JJ Pionke interviews Paul Castle about his book Adoroscopes and his creative process as a visual artist who has a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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Letter from the Editor v2

2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

author interview series (so far!)

1) Margaret Price on Crip Spacetime
2) Maria Sweeney on Brittle Joints
3) Nicola Griffith on Spear
4) Colleen S. Harris on Toothache in the Bone
5) Shayda Kafai on Crip Kinship
6) Ashley Shew on Against Technoableism

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Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) | Journals | Minnesota State University, Mankato

<p><i>Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) </i> is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All m...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our most recent interview: JJ talks with @ashleyshoo.bsky.social about Against Technoableism, creativity and generative AI, technology tools that disabled people actually want versus what they're told to want, and why everyone needs a shower chair.

[audio and transcript available for download]

Interview with Dr. Ashley Shew on Against Technoableism

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Ashley Shew about her book Against Technoableism, during which they discuss creativity and generative AI, technology tools that disabled people actually want versus what they'...

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

In this episode of the DisLIS Interview with an Author series, @jjpionke.bsky.social interviews @nicolaz.bsky.social about her book Spear, writing with disability, and the $41,000 bathtub.

[audio and transcript available for download]

Interview with Dr. Nicola Griffith on Spear

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Nicola Griffith about her book Spear, writing with disability, and the $41,000 bathtub.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our first interview in the DisLIS Interview with an Author series features @margaretprice.bsky.social talking with us about her book Crip Spacetime, what the phrase crip spacetime means, and how it affects academics with disability

[audio and text available for download]

Interview with Dr. Margaret Price on Crip Spacetime

DisLIS journal editors JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. Margaret Price about her book Crip Spacetime, her writing process, what the phrase crip spacetime means and how it affects academics w...

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · Jul 21

"the act of creating art and writing stories, especially as disabled Mad folks, [is a] really powerful act of agency and crafting ourselves outside of the stories that ableism, sanism, transphobia, racism, etc etc, have said about our bodyminds and what our worth is and what we can and cannot do."

Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fresh off the bepresses - @jjpionke.bsky.social and @schomj.bsky.social interview Crip Kinship author Shayda Kafai!

[downloadable audio and transcript]

#CripLib #DisabilityJustice

Interview with Dr. Shayda Kafai on Crip Kinship

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Shayda Kafai about her book Crip Kinship, how to improve the peer review process to be care-full, and the importance of art and creative works.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fresh off the bepresses - @jjpionke.bsky.social and @schomj.bsky.social interview Crip Kinship author Shayda Kafai!

[downloadable audio and transcript]

#CripLib #DisabilityJustice

Interview with Dr. Shayda Kafai on Crip Kinship

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Shayda Kafai about her book Crip Kinship, how to improve the peer review process to be care-full, and the importance of art and creative works.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fresh off the bepresses - @jjpionke.bsky.social and @schomj.bsky.social interview Crip Kinship author Shayda Kafai!

[downloadable audio and transcript]

#CripLib #DisabilityJustice

Interview with Dr. Shayda Kafai on Crip Kinship

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Shayda Kafai about her book Crip Kinship, how to improve the peer review process to be care-full, and the importance of art and creative works.

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