Not Another LibGuide
This is a site that is not another LibGuide.
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Welcome to our lols! Libraries are Empire but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation…
listen, this isn’t another journal and it’s really not another libguide. we’re aiming to be a semi (ish) annual rag that rags on ourselves (our profession, our time spent reading slop, our institutions). we all know that most lis scholarship is at best boring, but some (a lot) of it is not just bad, but actually heinous. What are (royal) we doing?!
While we could certainly simply professionally passively aggressively ignore the bad and ugly, we want to be honest and call out and contest the real nonsense we see being released. We are a group of (non) librarians committed to challenging US imperialism as we see it in our profession. Though we love the lols, we aim to sharpen our collective analysis to extend the intellectual WAR against anti-communism and not for it, and we will do so without the faux empathy, care, and “both sides” -isms of librarianship.
Read more at our introduction.
Recent Posts
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Cooke opens by declaring: “This manifesto—our manifesto—is born of fire.” She names fire as the literal violence of racial terror, queer uprising, and imperial war. That framing forces us to confront an uncomfortable question: if the manifesto is “born of fire,” what is it oriented against? In revolutionary traditions, militancy is not a synonym for moral intensity and it isn’t a defensive maneuver or stance—it is a relation to struggle. Militancy is an organized antagonism against the state, racial capitalism, empire, colonial governance, and the infrastructures that sustain them.
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In 1967, the Library Association of the University of California was determining who should be a “professional” librarian (as usual – do librarians talk about anything else?).
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