Social Science Librarian @RutgersU. @umich grad.
evidence synthesis, media literacy, #critlib, & library-mediated academic self-efficacy.
opinions = my own.
The eastern hognose snake will flatten its entire head to look like a cobra or flip belly-up and pretend to be slowly dying if you're looking for pointers on how to get out of a meeting just saying
This week #jpllibrary says goodbye to our First Year Experience Librarian Julia Maxwell. She's moving to the East Coast for a new job opportunity. During her time at #SFState she helped develop our Peer Mentors program & so much more. We wish her the best on her future endeavors!
my heart is broken. today i had one of those book events that authors of color warn each other early about, and that we hope no one else has to ever endure
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-the event was for a women’s association, and i was one of three authors to speak. the other authors were a white man and
unfortunately in graduate school the act of reading becomes oriented as an extractive practice and thus can easily lose its potential as a ritual of pleasure. sadly, reading becomes an act of harvesting or scavenging citations to cover bases and hedge bets.
The library would like to remind you that if you find a really old photograph and can only see one person who is in focus while everyone else is blurry, that's the dead guy.
So this happened today: A Black Mississippi State football player ran out onto the field carrying a Mississippi flag—a Mississippi flag free of our Confederate, slave-owning past.
Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.
@dsannelli7 Dommmm omg that was bizarre. You weren't doing a terrible job, you were having an emotional moment that none of us should have been invited into in a god damn classroom. that was so traumatic. I'm so sorry.