Alicia Tapia bicycles around San Francisco with some unusual baggage—a mini-library on wheels. 📚
She calls it the “Bibliobicicleta,” and she’s given out thousands of books since she launched the project in 2013.
Dr. Alicia Tapia is a Filipina-Mexicana educator, researcher, school librarian, and founder of Bibliobicicleta. If you are in the Bay Area, you may have seen her riding around town. What inspired her to start+what she learned along the way:
https://t.co/rUpzcl4YFZ
The teacher perspective in today’s episode resonates, the student perspective is WILD. Ways I didn’t even fathom them using it.
https://t.co/eFPnBR6tum
@Nsousanis @fauvescraper K-9 backpack, there’s a clip that locks into his harness and a strap that keeps him in. Also paws through the backpack holes— takes a lot of patience and treats to get pup into the backpack but once in the good times roll. Will likely transition to a basket to save my back
"Although books don’t have feelings, the librarians forced to remove them from the shelves definitely do."
Xochitl Gonzalez on what it's like on the frontlines of the censorship war:
https://t.co/cqoiDXOCGh
The backlash against the College Board’s initial proposal for an AP class in African American studies is “an ongoing struggle to roll back anything that’s perceived as diminishing white power,” the historian Robin D. G. Kelley tells @KeeangaYamahtta.
https://t.co/iaWkd7KXrb