Organizing Ideas

We hop on Skype to chat with Zakiya Collier from the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture about her work web archiving (which is not what Gmail does), the Hashtag Syllabus Movement, critical archival studies, and “fugitive discernment”.

Follow Zakiya on Twitter @ZZcollier

Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/u84dvwo

The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/).

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• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
  
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
  
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
  

Shelby Miller, a student in the MLIS program at UBC’s iSchool and an employee at Vancouver Public Library, joins us for a conversation about working at VPL as a non-binary trans employee, what’s wrong with the liberal utopian idea of intellectual freedom, and her thesis project on the information seeking habits of transgender individuals.

Shelby recently participated (with Allison, Hazel Jane Plante, Leah Tottenham, and syr) in a roundtable discussion for the BCLA Connect newsletter called “Not Cis in LIS: A Roundtable Discussion about Being Trans in Libraries,” and we were very glad to build on this conversation in person!

Read the transcript here.

The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic.

You can reach us at:

• Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter: @OrganizingPod
• Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/

In the wake of Toronto Public Library’s room booking to Meghan Murphy, we sit down to talk with Alicia Elliott, an incredible Tuscarora author from Six Nations of the Grand River, and one of the original signatories on a petition called “Stop Hate Speech from Being Spread at the Toronto Public Library.” This episode also includes statements from a number of trans community members and library workers about the impacts of this event, including Niko Stratis, John Fink, and Leanna Jantzi.
Numerous resources and folks to follow if you’d like to learn more about this situation are linked in the episode transcript. Read along here.
The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. You can reach us at:

> Email: [email protected]

> Twitter: @OrganizingPod

> Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/