As you may have guessed, a goth archivist. Also writes, knits, raises hell. Queer lady: Y (she/her). Employer's opinions: N.
Joined April 2009
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Good morning from a meme I made in 2020 when we started the podcast
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I wrote an article in Code4Lib about how current DAMS-style digital repositories don’t work with archival methods, which is not widely understood by admins and technologists. I journal.code4lib.org/article…
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Remember that time when @ALALibrary 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.
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We are doing quite a bit of hiring in archives and special collections. Here’s a run down of a few open positions, a thread 🧵 (especially those who want to work with art/museum collections!):
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"They call it a sweep. Not an eviction. A sweep. Like we're fucking trash." ~Sylvia Rivera
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Banning Anne Frank’s Diary because it’s too woke is a specific brand of fascism there is already a word for, a word present a lot in Anne Frank’s diary in fact
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please RT! i'm pleased to announce the launch of the Queer Metadata Collective, which aims to follow the path laid out by the TMDC. We are actively seeking participants and reviewers. If interested or would like updates, please go to queermetadatacollective.org #critcat #cataloging
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Yes delete your period app. But also don’t arrange rides for people to get abortions on Facebook. Don’t google “where to get an abortion” if you live in Texas. Don’t go to a protest unmasked. The privacy violations that are coming go so much deeper than period apps.
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If a pro-life politician crowing about today’s decision ever paid for your abortion and it feels like the right time to talk about it, my email is [email protected]
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Roe. Miranda. Gun control. Church and State. All dismantled in a single week. The single worst week for civil rights and liberties in decades.
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I'm just an historian out here begging people not to write "anti-Semitism."
It's "antisemitism."
I said what I said.
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hi everyone!
about a year ago, the Trans Metadata Collective (transmetadatacollective.org) was launched.
Today, we release our report!
Zenodo zenodo.org/record/6686841
DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.66868…
Google Doc PDF: bit.ly/TMDC_Report #critcat #cataloging
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Consider the possibility that the constant fatigue you feel might be accumulated grief.
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A 18-year-old white man drove hours to Buffalo and shot and killed multiple people at a grocery store in a predominately Black community.
That is the definition of terrorism
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Thanks to the DEI Advisory Committee and the Task Group, PoCo approved the following: “Do not record the RDA gender element (MARC 375) in personal name authority records. Delete existing 375 fields when editing a record for any other reason.” Full report: loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/ge…
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BREAKING: Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island have voted to form the first union at Amazon in US history.
Ballot count: 2654 ‘yes’ to 2131 ‘no’.
Mood out here is jubilant. Workers are sharing their messages to Jeff Bezos
vice.com/en/article/qjb54d/a…
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.@KubatovaHana and Monika Vrzgulová were denied access to one of our testimonies in Slovakia and set out to understand why.
The personal trajectory they uncovered is fascinating and informative. They wrote about it for @EHRIproject.
bit.ly/ehri-history-writing
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'just move' irritates me on so many fucking levels. why the fuck should those texans cede their homes to fascists? that's exactly what the people in state government making their lives miserable want, to drive them out
