“I write because I feel I am being outraged by life. I am alone and I am everybody, I am God. And I write because I take God into my wounds and am afflicted by Him and am afflicted by all of the absurd suffering and senseless bedroom agony of the world.”
Calvin C. Hernton
(found in Idris Robinson’s book The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, which we like)
“This world is bullshit.”
Fiona Apple, on libaries
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.
of course, time and attention are finite resources (at least for us weary humans), and we can’t read/watch/listen to and respond to everything (and wouldn’t if we could; some of the garbage really is just garbage); but sometimes we need to speak out and go off. join us. say that thing you have been percolating about. rage against that rejection you were handed by that reviewer 2. hate the world and what it’s become with us.
we share content whenever we wanna and whenever we have shit to say. it doesn’t have to be a response to something else, we are down with critical takes, real talk, gossip, whatever you have to say as long as it doesn’t valorize empire (especially libraries). we also release 1-2 physical issues a year, drawing on content from this thing (whatever it is, stay tuned while we figure that out). wanna get on our mailing list? reach out!
compliments, gifts, hush money, and hate mail can be sent to us at notanotherlibguide@gmail.com
Who we are
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. tdlr; we’re haters and we’re pissed! we don’t love our institutions and never will. you shouldn’t either.
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