@hannahmnt.bsky.social
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See also: schools. I had this discussion with a policy subcommittee this week.
The best way to protect your patrons, the library, and yourself is to keep no information that isn't absolutely necessary for library operations
You can’t turn over information that doesn't exist
You can’t turn over information that doesn't exist
December 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
See also: schools. I had this discussion with a policy subcommittee this week.
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It's true!
Sarah Wasserman, assistant dean for faculty affairs, was named co-editor of the eminent Oxford Studies in American Literary History book series. The scholar of 20th- and 21st-century American literature will lead the series alongside @ericafretwell.bsky.social of the University of Albany.
Wasserman Appointed Co-Editor of Oxford’s American Literary History Series | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The prestigious book series offers an expansive approach to American literary and cultural history.
fas.dartmouth.edu
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's true!
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A new tech magazine that we all need just dropped and it looks cool as hell! 🔥
Contact [email protected] if you want to contribute with your tech critical research.
And go follow this important initiative right now! @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social
Contact [email protected] if you want to contribute with your tech critical research.
And go follow this important initiative right now! @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A new tech magazine that we all need just dropped and it looks cool as hell! 🔥
Contact [email protected] if you want to contribute with your tech critical research.
And go follow this important initiative right now! @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social
Contact [email protected] if you want to contribute with your tech critical research.
And go follow this important initiative right now! @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social
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A couple of my local libraries have restroom posters with the locations of certain topics. Librarians and libraries are fantastic and necessary.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A couple of my local libraries have restroom posters with the locations of certain topics. Librarians and libraries are fantastic and necessary.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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"Mohanty teaches us that we can only create different kinds of subjects, relationships, and worlds by insurgency, rising in revolt against imperialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.... A vital and visionary contribution.”
- Sara Ahmed
Register: bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
- Sara Ahmed
Register: bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Mohanty teaches us that we can only create different kinds of subjects, relationships, and worlds by insurgency, rising in revolt against imperialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.... A vital and visionary contribution.”
- Sara Ahmed
Register: bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
- Sara Ahmed
Register: bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
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I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
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Fascinating essay on care work, labor struggles, feminism, and the racialized history of care extraction from @emilybaughan.bsky.social
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fascinating essay on care work, labor struggles, feminism, and the racialized history of care extraction from @emilybaughan.bsky.social
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
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«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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"We understand the world better if we tremble with it. Because the world trembles every which way. It trembles organically and geologically...with the climate—that we know.
But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. "
- Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation
But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. "
- Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation
December 30, 2023 at 4:29 PM
"We understand the world better if we tremble with it. Because the world trembles every which way. It trembles organically and geologically...with the climate—that we know.
But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. "
- Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation
But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. "
- Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation
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Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Read “The Shapes of Grief” by Christina Sharpe. yalereview.org/article/chri...
Christina Sharpe: "The Shapes of Grief"
An essay by Christina Sharpe on witnessing the unbearable.
yalereview.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Read “The Shapes of Grief” by Christina Sharpe. yalereview.org/article/chri...
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An amazing opportunity to serve the field at a defining moment
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...
#envhist
- @envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...
#envhist
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...
niche-canada.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
An amazing opportunity to serve the field at a defining moment
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Not going to lie, this is library outreach after my own heart. :)
Libraries, often unifying spaces, increasingly offer public classes on nutrition literacy, food security, and how to get a good meal on the table. (Civil Eats)
How Libraries Are Creating Community Through Food
Libraries nationwide are offering community classes on nutrition, food security, and how to get a good meal on the table.
civileats.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Not going to lie, this is library outreach after my own heart. :)
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Very excited for this book talk with @alybatt.bsky.social , Andreas Malm and myself hosted by @histmat.bsky.social - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-gifts...
'Free Gifts:' A Book Talk with Alyssa Battistoni
Join us for a discussion of 'Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature,' with author Alyssa Battistoni, Andreas Malm & Kat Hunfeld.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Very excited for this book talk with @alybatt.bsky.social , Andreas Malm and myself hosted by @histmat.bsky.social - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-gifts...
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#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
Crit Lib AI Book - Call for Proposals
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
sites.google.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
sites.google.com/view/critlib...
#libraries #librarians #ai
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Aesthetic responses to the climate crisis are politically paralyzing and historically inaccurate. Our podcast of the week calls for a “climate counter-aesthetics” that foregrounds planning and collective action.
With @annakornbluh.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/tVj0oqE
With @annakornbluh.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/tVj0oqE
August 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Aesthetic responses to the climate crisis are politically paralyzing and historically inaccurate. Our podcast of the week calls for a “climate counter-aesthetics” that foregrounds planning and collective action.
With @annakornbluh.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/tVj0oqE
With @annakornbluh.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
buff.ly/tVj0oqE
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There's a new resource from GLAAD collecting fact checks of frequent anti-trans misinfo. That and other trans stories leading off the week in trans news here:
GLAAD Fact Checks Popular Anti-Trans Tropes — Assigned
Leading Off: GLAAD releases a fact check overview of anti-trans ideas, Texas continues its efforts to ban trans people from the correct bathrooms, and youth gender clinics close across the nation. Our...
www.assignedmedia.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
There's a new resource from GLAAD collecting fact checks of frequent anti-trans misinfo. That and other trans stories leading off the week in trans news here:
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