Have you high-fived your neighborhood butchy youth services librarian today? // All views, posts, and opinions are my own & not those of my employer. // she/her
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If you watch #BarbieTheMovie this weekend, just remember that the dazzling cinematography was made by Mexican talent.
Rodrigo Prieto is highly acclaimed in the film industry for his innovative style where lighting and composition are essential storytelling elements. 🎥
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That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so. teapawt.net/mantia/status/10135597…
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Why, hello! The 2022 #BlackSpecFic Report is here. Here's a thread of the highlights.
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We hear it from students all the time: “.com websites are bad. .edu and .org websites are good, unless it’s Wikipedia.” These misconceptions can lead students dangerously astray. A thread on the problem and lesson ideas to use with your students. 🧵
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Librarians are the best: “If anyone has questions about Oakland, we’re the place to come. People are constantly coming here with seemingly unanswerable questions, but somehow we manage to answer a surprising amount of them.” altaonline.com/dispatches/a4…
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All I can think about are the kids who won't get to read wonderful, amazing, maybe life-changing books because of stuff like this.
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SLJ Controversial Books Survey: 97 percent of respondents say they weigh the possibility of a challenge when considering the purchase of a book.
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They are spending $100k+ generating public comments through advertising this form.
But I spent $0 and still generated 32k comments.
Show them that we are worth MORE than their Focus on the Family/Alliance Defending Freedom/Family Policy Alliance money.
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We submitted 32k comments last time I tweeted this. PLEASE RT or QRT the original tweet. Here is where you go to submit your comment on the page.
Just write that you believe Title IX should protect trans people!
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Hey everyone! If you have ever asked "what can I do to help trans rights," I have something.
Biden's title IX change protecting trans people in schools is open comment for 4 more days!
It is FLOODED by TERF comments.
GO MAKE A COMMENT IN SUPPORT!
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If indie bookshops made just 1% of what Barnes & Nobles makes in a year, we’d make $10 million dollars between us. That’s enough to keep most of us in business for a decade.
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Every. Damn. Day. We deal with this ridiculousness daily. We are paid to come in and say this to actual functioning library workers. And they still act like we are asking them to do a new or different job. Stop!
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Through this bimonthly column in partnership with the Emerald, Pongo Poetry Project invites readers to bear witness to the pain, resilience, and creative capacity of youth whose voices are too often relegated to the periphery.
#Poetry #YouthPoetry
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Romance doesn’t always get the same respect as other creative work, but I believe that if we believe it IS an equally valid genre, we can’t put it on a pedestal.
We can honor what makes it unique while recognizing it shares traits w/ other genres & is flawed like other genres.
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What I find personally aggravating is when fans & producers deal with the discomfort of that incongruity by claiming romance is something I don’t think it is: “wholly liberatory.”
I love romance! But like all culture, it has impacted me in positive, neutral, AND negative ways.
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I’ve seen so many scholarly papers position debates about the romance genre as a binary: either wholly liberatory & progressive or conservative & regressive.
Frustrated while reading one such paper, I sketched a spectrum model & my experience of distribution of novels within it:
ALT Xy axis showing on vertical axis: number of romances published in a given year, and on horizontal axis, from where axis meet, “challenge current culture: regressive”; (middle) “reflect current culture”; (far right) “challenge current culture: progressive.” Within the graph, a bell curve distribution is illustrated, representing fewer titles at the ends, and most novels falling in the mid-point.
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📣 @JoyRevBooks is a new imprint dedicated to diverse romance novels led by authors @nicolayoon and @davidyoon, and their inaugural books are coming early 2023!
First up, HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS AND UNFAIRLY CUTE by @TaliaHibbert: bit.ly/Joy-Revolution 💖
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LGBTQ+ films with non-white protagonists & where you can find them online, a 🧵:
Dear Ex (Netflix)
Moonlight (Showtime)
Tangerine (Netflix, Tubi)
Lingua Franca (Netflix, Tubi)
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Learning about the shared DNA of gay conversion therapy and ABA reaffirmed what Martin Luther King wrote in 1963 "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
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Job opening announcement! Middle school teacher librarian position in Berkeley. Great school, great department, great district. This is a sweet opportunity!!
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