Sophie 🏳️⚧️💜🎹
@sophiously.com
Just another Southern queer / trans librarian. Parent to humans and dogs. Writer of things, educator at big university and small community settings. Zines, podcasts, general shenanigans
📚📜 Hey #archives / #memoryWorker friends! The Southern Memory Workers just opened applications for their new program An archives-training-for-non-archivists, this focuses on folks working in #socialJustice orgs in the US South www.southernmemoryworkers.org/programs/sav...
Save Your Progress — Southern Memory Workers
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Made this little #zine at my local zine club yesterday. #yay4zines #zineClub
I’m at a point in my life where thrifting is actually getting easier ✅ “That won’t fit” ✅ “This one won’t fit” ✅ “That’ll never fit me” ✅ “This is soooo cool, but definitely won’t fit” And then I go home
Here’s a thought that I thought and now can’t stop thinking: We’re all speaking in what will one day be an old timey fashion
📚📜 Hi #archives friends, I'm prepping a class, and would love to hear any suggestions you have about #archives and #ai. Are there publications (articles / blog posts / podcasts /etc.) on the topic that you think future #archivists should know about? Thanks 🙏
📚 Culture doesn't have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️ Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿 The paper THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY digs into why. 📖 Read or download it ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵
I want the Dems in this state to try to break this. He signed it “Office of the Governor.” This has to be a violation of public trust.
KD@kadeeja.blacksky.app · 2w agoI hate this mf www.wwno.org/politics/202...
📚 Coming up from @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social "A Critical Conversation on AI in Librarianship" libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/a-cri...
A Critical Conversation on AI in Librarianship • Library Juice Connections
How is AI affecting our work in librarianship and what can we do about it? A conversation with librarians about AI in librarianship
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New podcast episode, "Rejecting Neutrality," featuring Deborah Tomaras & Tina Gross talking about the Library of Congress insistence on the idea of neutrality in #LCSH. 📚 #critcat #cataloging lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-690-...
Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show: Episode 690: Rejecting Neutrality
Catalogers discuss rejecting neutrality in the creation and management of subject headings, taking special notice of the Library of Congress's insistence on (some version of) "neutrality." Guests: Deb...
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This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.
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This must be a real comfort to folks suffering from #Cyclospora infection “Have you tried not consuming feces?”
Here's my recent free zine intro to artist residencies, for folks who haven't thought of themselves as artists/crafters nor eligible for work or learning support 📚👇 (Also a 🧵 on options aimed at folks w/barriers re:identity, resources: bsky.app/profile/lite...)
Get to Do An Art or Craft | Zine Bakery
Applying to artist residencies for 'non-artists'
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4w agoI was awarded a fully funded artist residency for 3 weeks—Ox-Bow School of Art's Longform. Time to focus on my printing practice (including non-letterpress work), + workshops in & collab feedback w/a handful of artists from other methods (across fabrics arts, paper+bookmaking, painting, writing)
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Library Juice Connections@libjuiceconnect.bsky.social · 4w agoCo-editor Hazel McClure discusses the path that led to the new book Emergent Strategy in Library Instruction: Stories, Reflections, and Imaginings, out now from @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social Books is available here: litwinbooks.com/books/emerge...
Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/
I (finally) listened to this and now I need to get my hands on a button that says “no one wants an AI librarian”
librarypunk@librarypunk.bsky.social · last mo.167 - librarypunk live: Critical AI research too hot for ALA Our second live show! Only Justin could make it to ALA but we’ve got THREE great guests plus very good audience questions. We talk about discourse analysis, refusal, STS, and more.
📚 The worst library job I had was as a manager at a branch with A LOT of problems, including a daily creepy caller. I demanded we take action to protect the staff, but I got no support from the administration. He only wanted to speak to the women, so I implemented a new rule... 👇
The Creepy Caller Problem | American Libraries Magazine
“That guy” occupies a position between acceptable behavior and overt sexual harassment, making effective response difficult.
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I will use cntr+f to find the unsubscribe link. You cannot hide it from me.
ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...
OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie
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Life is too short to not finish this sentence with things I want to justify doing
I requested Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries from my library just before it was published and it has now arrived! @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social
Lots to appreciate about this piece. Among them, a careful answer to the question of what in God’s name university administrators are thinking in the headlong, apparently suicidal rush to embrace AI. +
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 3mo agoI was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.
