Liam Adler

Library Director|#critlib|social justice|history|anti-capitalist, anti-racist, pro-human|generally social media-avoidant|distrustful of curated virtual self

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

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[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

@ginaschless @biblio_ione I am. Happy to discuss offline, if you’d like. Thanks, Gina.

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

@EamonTewell Yes! We are planning on this.

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Totally, totally back at you, Karen! I hope that you are well and safe and all the things...

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Working with the @lisaslo & the LT team & everyone else: What a pleasure. Clarity and intelligence abound. And so this materializes in the world at a time when the circulating currents are quite strange indeed. Thank you to all. And peace and health and serenity too.

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

@edrabinski Mazel Tov, Emily. You are a perfect chief for some wild, wild times. GC is lucky to have you :)

[dean spade @deanspade]

I am in a feminist group that has been struggling with transphobia emerging as some cis women wanting to have cis women-only events. A friend wrote a thoughtful email to the group & let me post it in case it is useful to others engaged in such struggles. https://t.co/BJ2c9C5zQ6

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

When I hear folks like Rhonda, Elvis, @zinelib, @violetbfox talk zine librarianship,ethics, the anarchist/social justice perspective I am reminded why I became a librarian: Its the most punk rock job around (ish...) & my 1990s teen self feels fully arrived #ACRLNY19

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Decolonizing & unlearning: an intentional & ongoing process. Open pedagogy can be a tool & a strategy for resistance but this takes mindful, dillegent, critical work #ACRLNY19

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

And Betsy Yoon adds: OER is a neoliberal survival strategy. Very true, we plug holes rather than do the deep structural work. #acrlny19

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

“OER” rhetoric was conceived to be business friendly. Another example of the dangers of slippery language, Ed tech, market logic, academic capitalism, etc. What does “open” really mean? For academia? For libraries? For thought? #ACRLNY19

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Settler colonialism cannot be negotiated. Must be resisted completely. In the Open Pedagogy symposium, vision was re-imagined completely: Center students, folks of color & pay students to attend. This is an example of real diversity work: It fundamentally reframes #ACRLNY19

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

#ACRLNY19 https://t.co/MzCzT1Ge8m seeks to be holistic, non intimidating, respectful, free, anti-capitalist, inclusive, innovative, elevating.

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Articulating a vision, fostering dialog, developing a shared vocabulary & building community so as to move toward action and together to dismantle harmful power structures AND the power of the one to one relationship! #ACRLNY19 fodder from session one!

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

It was a pleasure to think out loud with these wickedly smart folks about a prefigurative, radical,ally-y, librarianship built on mutual aid and all the rest. And also to look toward the history; the young lords, the black panthers...humbling and galvanizing. Thank you to #mii

[Lacey Torge @LibrarianLacey]

Taking up the urgency in the pedestrian with @violetbfox @RashidKit & @xsublibrarian at @The_Maintainers #miii "No Gods, No Masters, and Instead Coalitional, Honest, Kind, Non-Abusive, Anti-Oppressive, Real-Deal, On the Ground, Radical Librarianship" https://t.co/vJGorRcmkL

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

#mii Alex Gill: look back at the world & rename it, learn how to be a fugitive, the dream of universal access is a foundation of colonialism...

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Thank you for providing the citation from my presentation, I was slash-burning to keep at word count :)

[Liam Adler @xsublibrarian]

Thank you for doing my citation work for me!