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I'm a deeply insecure, short & balding man (INFJ). Librarianship is a cult. #Noahide . ΦΒΣ #ADOS Views are my own
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Cats be throwing around the word activist too casual. Huey Newton was an activist. Stokely Carmichael & Fred Hampton were activists. MFer you and I tweet, stfu 😂
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I'm out of court and it's official: per the State of Missouri, I'm no longer "foster dad", I'm just "dad"
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This attempt to besmirch a great Black librarian has backfired on a cosmic scale & I love to see it. I know the blue check gets $ from my engagement but signal boosting all these Black ppl on this app stand w him & speaking positively about libraries makes it worth it
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before Howard University librarian Dorothy B. Porter spoke up, the only Dewey Decimal [library] System categories for Black people were slavery and colonization. Thanks to Porter, categories were widened to Black authors and genres.
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The fact that we all saw this man get murdered while crying for his mother on camera and we're acting like this guilty verdict is a surprise, a relief and an accomplishment shows that the system still needs a damn overhaul.
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The librarians. Next question
Who should decide what books are in South Carolina public school libraries?
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A 15-year-old should be allowed to say they feel like they are a different gender than they were assigned and knowing themselves in this fashion shouldn't open them up to be exploited for their labor
@hannahdreier
so a 15 yr old can decide they can change their sex, but not work till 11 pm or serve a beer?
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So there's some "Who looked better?" thing going on between Topanga & Kelly Kapowski on Twitter today.
1. They were both cute & this seems to be splitting hairs
2. If we're talking 90s sitcom hotties, neither could compete with Ashley, sorry not sorry 🤷🏾♂️
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Librarians who make librarianship the cornerstone of their identity & existence overwhelm me. It ain't that deep fam. This can be your field without you saying insane s***like "librarianship isn't a career, it's a calling." For some of us, it really is just a career
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@schadhayes
@MichaelFulwiler
Performative allyship. Twitter is ripe with it. This is not a real place
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Meet the Street Librarian Giving Away 1,000s of Free Books to Black Children -
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The Black Americans who think other Black Americans who oppose illegal immigration are wrong bc we're supposedly doing white supremacy's dirty work generally don't know how these migrants feel abt Black Americans & whether they'd be loyal to us vs the white supremacists. I have
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Dude, I seriously might be citing Steak-umm in an upcoming LIS paper. I'm not kidding
ok it's time to talk about societal distrust in experts and institutions, the rise of misinformation, cultural polarization, and how to work toward some semblance of mutually agreed upon information before we splinter into irreconcilable realities
(beefy thread incoming)
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@OmizoRM
Black ppl need to stop trying to coalition-build w non-Black poc bc theyll ALWAYS extract whatever benefits they can from our racial grievance initiatives & then theyll turn on us when the white man comes calling (in this case, Edward Blum). BIPOC coalitions have never worked
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My sister has been appointed director of our hometown library 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️
Please congratulate Tanika Alston 👇🏾 via
@warrenrecord
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2 Minneapolis cops should've been able to handle 1 woman w/o deadly force. whatever excuse they use, I'm not buying it.
#justinedamond
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Hoping for every librarian to be safe this week. You deserve peace and so do your communities 🙌🏾
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The public library needs to always remain 1 of the few climate controlled facilities that any unbanned person can enter & peacefully be in without an expectation that they buy or contribute something or else have membership. Societies must always have something of that nature
League City library will check for cards 'like a Costco' and charge non-residents a $50 fee
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COVID notwithstanding, I could honestly go for all library conferences being virtual only permanently.
Sincere question: why do we feel this need to gather in person exactly? The pros for virtual-only conferences from here on out overwhelmingly outweigh the cons
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Our survey found that 64% of Black Gen Zers and millennials visited physical libraries in 2022, a rate that’s 10 percentage points higher than the general population
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@PageSix
Please just let at least one of the kids inherit his talent and get drafted by the Panthers. I need this...
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@4ourmanrush
damn she so bad she got me up in here talking about i won't tolerate Dak slander 😭
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Africa’s biggest photography library opens in Ghana
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Gayle King admitted to Dawn Staley's face on the air that she and her ppl were rooting for Iowa 😒
The media bias against South Carolina was so strong that damn journalists are unable to contain their positions
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Sad truths, and I say this as a gun owner and an educator:
1. An armed teacher is NOT going to stop a mass shooter
2. At some point a teacher who isn't Black is going to shoot a Black kid bc they'll exaggerate mischief from a Black kid as actual threatening behavior
⚡️JUST NOW: “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!!!”
Chaos erupts in the Tennessee House as Republicans pass the
@RyanWilliamsTN
arming teachers bill against the will of the people, with hundreds of students and parents looking on.
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Saw a 'what got you into libraries?' post. I never miss an opportunity to say I fell into this field when my other option was washing dishes. Many librarians act like they should be lawyers, engineers, etc. Bruh, 1 of your colleagues was an MLS away from being a career dishwasher
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I have a lot of struggles when it comes to identity & librarianship but my largest 1 currently is that I struggle to relate to librarians who view librarianship as inherently social justice work & therefore behave as though they are social justice activists simply because /1
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@TMZ
Heart disease runs in her family and her maternal grandmother died young of heart issues, but yes, let's rush in a blame the vaccine without evidence
(Elvis also died young of heart issues but I'll be intellectually honest & admit drugs factored in there)
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Hometown paper finally got around to doing a full-length feature on my sister becoming our hometown library director. And my sister shouted me out while doing the interview 😁
We are from this same county our ancestors were enslaved in; very proud of her
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Warning about librarian manipulation, a 🧵
In wake of ppl asking if I'm bitter toward this field based on my tweets, I must confront that my intent hasn't been clear.
These tweets have been warnings, especially for the early-career librarians. When I talk about finding life /1
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The National Conference of African American Librarians, through BCALA, has announced that it will withdraw its Indianapolis conference that was slated for this summer in response to the racist treatment of
@indylibrary
CEO candidate Nichelle Hayes by the library board
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Documentary to share history of Black librarianship
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I know this is random and I hope it isn't weird but I came across this tik tok tweet randomly and thought this woman was gorgeous so I'm just sharing for that reason. I'm all over here like 👋🏾
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I encourage adoptive parents to follow Tony; his perspective has really informed how I approach raising my daughter
Please especially listen when he says here that adoptees owe no1 gratitude. If you want 'thank yous', don't adopt, go volunteer in your community
The standard way people think about adoption is built on two lies:
1) that adoptees perpetually owe gratitude for being adopted;
2) that perpetually owing gratitude for being adopted excuses the harms and rights violations that are intrinsic to adoption.
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These ppl salty that Biden overtly factored race into his SCOTUS nomination amuse me. Yall think Trump's 3 confirmed nominations all being white was a coincidence eh?
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@josephperson
No offense Joe, but how did this escape the entirety of the Charlotte media for all these months?
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@LeviMor94007919
@TonyDungy
Carolina should've beaten Cleveland but Cleveland was afforded a last-chance field goal instead of having a 10-second runoff on a penalty. When does Carolina get things "even"? We are owed 2 games by
@NFLOfficiating
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I'm a Black Librarian. We're Being Threatened
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If anti-Blackness is a global problem then bringing in a bunch of Anti-Black illegal immigrants becomes a bigger and bigger problem for Black Americans
We are talking about human beings. Anti-blackness is global. You’d be hard pressed to find a community it doesn’t have roots in. What does upholding values of white supremacy do for us in the long run though? It all comes back to us too in the end too. Be fucking serious.
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No one's whole damn research agenda should be workforce diversity issues in libraries. You're supposed to fix problems and then move on, not publish and present about them for 30 years.
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@aldohartman3
@JoshDenny
@corbinspencer1
This isn't about Josh's joke, but just so we're clear, living in a single-parent home and not knowing your father are 2 different things
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When the person you spend all your time with is a foster parent, you kinda become 1 too. Only took days to fall in love, but the way she reacts to me, it's like the love is mutual
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Black people are going to have to make the sacrifices needed to accommodate these migrants. Yall better pay attention & stop falling in line with this anti-Black agenda from the Democrats.
NYC firefighter dies of heart attack after being fired to pay for migrants — leaving his family with nothing
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Real Activists: I will risk my job, my safety, maybe even my life for the well-being of my people and my community.
Librarians: I'm such an activist, I put together a controversial book display once while getting paid for it by the government
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I'm going to take this a step further & say Black men who don't necessarily meet white proglib approval are needed in the library. I just tweeted about this yesterday. The types of Black men that white librarians like are NOT the types of Black men that connect w these Black boys
Black men are needed in the library!! I have a lot of young black boys that come into my branch and I’m blessed that I got three black male librarians that they can connect with..you can’t teach culture or representation!! LEADERS OF THE NEW COOL!
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Yes, parents have a right to guide their children’s reading, but they don’t have the right to decide which books other children can or can’t read.
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Yeah this BS is no accident. Sam Darnold started most of the season & registered over 20 turnovers and there's not 1 clip of Darnold here, it's all either the Black QBs Cam or PJ Walker. You'd have to deliberately exclude Darnold's film for this to happen.
#BlackTwitter
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@CatCraveBlog
if Darnold starts, add him to the list. He seems like he plays for the opposition much of the time
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immigrants in my immediate family, went to a high school that was about 1/3rd immigrant students & have dealt w immigrants in various ways through my adulthood. Their opinions on Black Americans are generally poor & they wont side w us if white Americans seriously pursued a wedge
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Twice now ppl who've objected to my tweets have tagged American Libraries asking if they approve of what Im tweeting since I'm advisory board chair😭
I pay ALA for the opportunity to VOLUNTEER for this role 😂 Fuq yall look like trying to get me cancelled from a volunteer post?
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I've gotten some texts and dms from librarians and Panthers/hornets/gamecocks fans asking if I'm ok
My wife and I decided last night to stay home and rest today instead of hitting the parade. We are safe
Thank you everyone.
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The dumbest thing about this rightwing public library hysteria right now is that libraries don't even try to operate in secret, so - w/o being disruptive - rightwingers can all just go to the library & see what's happening themselves rather than adopting strange groomer theories
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Unpopular opinion but no I don't think wanting uniformed security at your library makes you a bad person. If you don't feel safe you deserve to be heard. There may be various solutions & I usually just like to respect what local libraries decide fits their security needs
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Librarians: please remember when conferencing, move in groups and be alert. It's weird out here & we can't be sure we're safe. Share location w & checking up on friends is also good.
The greatest outcome of all gatherings right now is that all of y'all - yes all - return home
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@robgreeneII
My great-grandfather literally killed a white man that was ripping him off in the shine running business because he knew my ggf was illiterate. Nah, this was never something I was saying or ever will say; compared to my ancestors I'm a peacenik
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@Giftaveli
@NSUCoachJones
I'll explain: a lot of racist white ppl see a few Black ppl as "the good ones" and don't exhibit their racism toward those few that they deem acceptable
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Well, in other news, I accepted an invitation to chair the advisory board for
@amlibraries
tonight. I'll take over this summer and hope to serve the incoming President Pelayo-Lozada well.
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White librarians ouchea wanting to tweet about issues faced by librarians of color then want to block a librarian of color for discussing what they say.
What part of the game is this? If yall not comfortable talking & listening to ppl of color, don't tweet about us 🥴
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Bothers me a bit that I've heard next to nothing abt the fact that Juan Pablo Gonzalez, the LIS student who had the cops called on him for bullsh** at Catholic University, published a statement on his experience with BCALA. Maybe ppl just don't know. Link:
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I've honestly never met a "lazy" librarian. Are there not many out there or have I just met the good ones? I've seen librarians who were avoidant of some duties but none who just didn't want to do anything. All worked hard where they put their energy. Thoughts?
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Getting an email on a Sunday afternoon stating that my book chapter has been accepted 😎
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Wedding reception vibes. It's our turn on December 5th 💍
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Librarians are just like any publicly funded profession in that they have essentially 2 choices: advocate and let people know what you do or lose funding.
Expecting outsider taxpayers to care enough to figure out what you do is not a winning strategy; govs fund a lot of stuff
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The ring is paid in full and on the finger! 12/5/2021, we're almost there
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I am an alum of an SEC school,
I work for an SEC school,
I have no problem with what Max Kellerman said.
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Thoughts from the Drabinski v Watson ALA presidential contest: the need to hire & retain librarians of color that make you uncomfortable, a 🧵
I've been having a lot of thoughts from this year's ALA presidential contest that I may air out now over the next few weeks now that /1
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My dissertation research touched on the failure of some libraries to adequately fold non-"librarian" employees into their diversity residency vision. There's an element of snobbery to excluding non-"librarians" from training & discussions of the library's vision for service
To clarify: the library employee who called security on the studying MLIS student is apparently not a "librarian." For accuracy's sake, maybe we should've altered The Root's automatic text. But, ALL library employees who work with the public should be trained in properly doing so
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I'll be making it very clear over the next 3-5 years that my wife & my daughter will be prioritized over an LIS organization work. Ppl on their death beds talk about how they wished they'd spent more time w their kids who loved them, not their colleagues who pretend to like them
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If this were true I'd work from home less often
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If yall are the majority we can do away with the Electoral College then right? 😃
We are the majority. They are just belligerent and noisy. "Go Woke Go Broke" is not just for retail businesses. Apply this same theory to our schools and THAT will turn things around quicker than Jack jumped over the candle stick. They NEED US
#homeschool
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There are many Black librarians across the country. However, the history of Black librarians and their fight for the right to literacy and access to information for all Black Americans has never really been told before
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Please seriously luminate on this:
The way we're headed in LIS, they'll still be talking about this same diversity representation shit in 2053. Meaning that all we do now is in vain & we are - in real time - wasting our careers & significant chunks of the 1 life we get to solve
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Yall Black liberal shill goofies really be on that BIPOC solidarity s*** as if this wasnt inevitable
Newsflash: it was
There arent obvious benefits for Asians being in solidarity with Black ppl in the USA so yall's expectation that theyd do it is nonsensical. Here's your reward
Asian parents claim NY STEM program discriminates against their kids in favor of black, Hispanic students: suit
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Just got a copy of my latest book chapter. Thanks Dr. Cooke for getting this opportunity for me! 🙏🏾
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Someone apparently has a problem w me calling librarianship a cult in my bio
It's not even original; I lifted that from a non-Black librarian's tweet a couple yrs back & ppl loved it when she said it
Everything I do that librarians complain Abt, non-Black librarians do everyday
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Nah yall know good & well if a 36-year-old Black congresswoman were becoming a grandparent due to teen pregnancy the comments on the Fox News article about it would not be what you see here...
Rep. Lauren Boebert, 36, announces her first grandchild will be born in April
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Phew, my work email right now.
I can't put this in my signature so I'll vent it here: if I die today nobody in LIS will give 2 shits. By December 2024 y'all will have forgotten I ever worked w you
So I prioritize my wife & family
If I make it to 50 this will be my email sig
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@Kottiez
@realDonaldTrump
He does that then name drops a Black person who 'knows his place' (in this case MJ) so that his fans all go "he's not racist, he just said he likes one of em". Trumpkins are a case study in gullibility
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@mattyicee9
@BleacherReport
@CameronNewton
Yeah he won league MVP even though 31 dudes were better than him 🥴
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So a bunch of ppl who'd never say s*** to this man's face are trolling his engagement photos on Twitter because that's what cowards do.
Hit his replies and show this beautiful couple some love 💝
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@BuffaloBills
If the Pegulas are halfway decent people they'll make sure this man doesn't have financial "needs" for the rest of his life. Their net worth according to Wikipedia at least is $7B; at the very least they can create a well-paying position for him w their sports company.
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Holy crap I tweet about libraries a lot! This must be kinda weird to a lot of y'all. Just seeing some Black dude in your feed tweeting about libraries all the time.
Well I guess I can never claim I don't care about libraries 🥳
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Does someone over at ALA need to take my intellectual freedom course?
Someone complained that my posts were against the ALA Connect code of conduct, so ALA staff have now edited two of my posts in ALA Connect so it looks like I'm saying something different. Wild.
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Well, wifey is a Chiefs fan so we're headed to Vegas for the weekend. She deserves it!
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