Showing posts with label Activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Activism. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Librarians with Spines Author Showcase 2: Grace Yamada Interviews kYmberly Keeton

Come hear and interact with two Librarians with Spines: Grace Yamada Interviews kYmberly Keeton about the Black Covid 19 Project, about Hip-Hop and Information Science (kYmberly's chapter was on this).  The conversation will be sure to include aspects of digital citizenship (Grace's chapter was on this topic), books, libraries and more.

Kymberly and Grace from Librarians with Spines


More about the Black Covid-19 Project: 
Keeton--Austin History Center's African American Community Archivist and Librarian was instrumental in organizing and launching Growing Your Roots, the four-day statewide African American genealogy conference earlier this year. But in this case, Keeton is all about the present – specifically about African Americans living through this same pandemic that's sending the AAABF to Zoom this year. She believes their stories matter, and she's collecting them for the Black COVID-19 Index, an independent project she initiated to gather stories, images, audio, and video created by African Americans in response to the coronavirus and these times.  Source: Austin Chronicle
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

A Librarians With Spines Chat!

Please join us on Google Hangouts for a discussion between Yago, Autumn, Max and yourselves!
Please follow the URL below on Sunday, Sept. 8th from 6-7 pm PST.


Saturday, September 30, 2017

Free Speech Programming for Library Ideas and...



I humbly submit some programming ideas for my friends who work in libraries.


Bookshelf with text that says, "Beyond Books."
Do something different!


  • Constitutional rights workshops
  • Civics workshops
  • How to avoid ICE
  • DACA rights workshops
  • Cannabis Consumer Workshops (In states where it is legal)
  • Medical Cannabis patient workshops
  • How to decolonize Education
  • Activism Workshops
  • Anti-Doxxing Workshops
  • FreeSpeech versus HateSpeech Community Discussions
  • Black History Programming
  • How to monitor the police
  • Patron electronic privacy workshops
  • Marginalized people in Children's literature
  • How to share electronic information anonymously 
  • Ethnic Studies Workshops for local communities
  • Archiving local neighborhood history
  • How to build community
  • How to get involved with local  public cable broadcasting
  • How to publish a book
  • How to blog
  • How to be a neighborhood reporter
  • How to start a news program
  • How to write news articles
  • How to be a public speaker
  • How to listen
  • How to argue
  • How to self-reflect
  • How to be a DJ
  • How to break dance
  • How to skateboard
  • What is Punk Rock?
  • What is Body Modification?
  • Truths versus myths about recreational drugs
  • What is empathy?
  • What is Whiteness?
  • What is BLM?
  • Marginalized groups in comics
  • What is Philosophy?
  • What is Hip-hop?
  • Where to get Mental Health assistance