For every tweet complaining about fiction not having enough [x] or having too much [y], my immediate thought is that people should read more widely. 95% of the time, what you're looking for is already happening in indie and small presses, especially QT/BIPOC spec fic.

Hey! Really appreciate this question. The full title of the program is Abolitionist Approaches to AI. The goal is to raise consciousness about how AI systems are designed to expand the prison industrial complex / the New Jim Crow and are algorithmically anti-black

“Instead of presenting the problem as teachers having high or even the highest burnout levels of all U.S. industries…we should reframe the issue:

School systems are the employers worst at providing necessary supports and resources for employees.”

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unless you tell them differently 'I'm sorry I've been so irritable and snappy lately. It's not your fault. I haven't had much sleep.' And then your job is to figure out how to get more sleep so you can stop taking your irritation out on them.

a question, not at all rhetorical: what are you doing to celebrate and learn from the elder radical transes and dykes in your life

This looks incredible!

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Thank you so much ACRL for offering both a quiet work space and quiet lounge. It has made all the difference. I’ve been able to re-set and rest, tending to myself and my responsibilities, which makes it easier to give presenters my full attention #ACRL2023

The largest book ban in the nation is the book restriction policies in prisons and jails across the United States. vice.com/en/article/dy7…

So, if you find yourself composing an email to someone you've never met and you ask them to email 10 syllabi (this actually happened), maybe step back and ask how can we develop a relationship around teaching that is not a unidirectional pipeline of pedagogical materials. 7/x

If your mentor is not training and inspiring you to be more free, they are not a mentor, they are merely a trusted overseer; or compliance management at best.

Run. Abscond. Get free.

It would seem that we are in such moments that force us to cry out for our mothers. 'Awon iya wa.' It would seem that when justice kneels on our necks, when the imperial public beats us to a bloody pulp, the thing to do - perhaps the only thing left to do -

and creativity is how we will survive

Love to know my #photobooks are out there living their lives and connecting with people ❤️🙏

Remember that time when American Library Association ignored the voices of Black people about having Annual in Florida because of Stand Your Ground laws, and then suddenly was an ally when Pulse happened? But only after white-washing the deaths of mostly Latine folks inside the club? I remember.

what the pandemic has taught me is that abled people really, genuinely believe that people w/disabilities don’t & cannot experience life as richly and fully as they can.