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Organizing Ideas
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Because libraries and archives are never neutral.
Taking a closer look at the relationships between organizing information and community organizing. We talk to information professionals, activists, and other insightful folks who have thoughts about what we mean when we say, “knowledge is power”. Hosted by two new librarians figuring things out as we go. We are based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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Ep 35 - Belonging, Safety, and Police Presence in Libraries with Stacy Collins - part 2
Jan 15, 202100:21:05Tap to summarizeIn this two-part interview, we chat with Stacy Collins, Research & Instruction Librarian at Simmons University in Boston, about police in libraries, as well as the role of policing in the forms of social work and librarianship. Timestamps: • 0:00 - 1:24 Intro • 1:24 - 5:56 Why police shouldn’t be in libraries • 5:56 - 9:56 How to talk about police and security in your workplace • 9:56 - 15:35 Social workers and private security in libraries • 15:35 - 21:05 Final thoughts on liberation, oppression, and complicity Follow Stacy on Twitter @DarkLiterata Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yyykj645 The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: • Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com • Twitter: @OrganizingPod • Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Transcribe →Ep 34 - Anti-Oppression and Research Guides with Stacy Collins - part 1
Jan 8, 202100:56:10Tap to summarizeIn this two-part interview, we chat with Stacy Collins, Research & Instruction Librarian at Simmons University in Boston, about the Anti-Oppression LibGuide that she’s created, and how anti-oppression is intertwined with children’s literature. Timestamps: • 0:00 - 1:43 Intro • 1:43 - 5:39 How did you get into librarianship? • 5:39 - 11:51 What is anti-oppression, and what’s a LibGuide? • 11:51 - 17:00 Inspiration for the Anti-Oppression LibGuide? • 17:00 - 21:46 Challenges and highlights • 21:46 - 28:38 Harassment and backlash • 28:38 - 39:12 Change and future plans • 39:12 - 46:40 How does anti-oppression inform your work? • 46:40 - 56:10 Anti-oppression and children’s literature Follow Stacy on Twitter @DarkLiterata Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y43pk2oa The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: • Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com • Twitter: @OrganizingPod • Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Transcribe →Ep 33 - 2020 Reading in Review with Karen and Allison
Dec 25, 202000:51:03Tap to summarizeKaren and Allison share some personal-professional updates for 2020, as well as some of their reading joys and reading hopefuls. Listen to the episode: Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LD2d-NRkOdLSdovxmDYsYW9mZnHuFXZ6pV8hm-jPxmI/edit?usp=sharing Time stamps: 0:00 // Introduction 1:03 // Podcast updates 5:25 // Personal-professional updates 21:58 // Reading habits in 2020 29:23 // Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me by Anna Mehler Paperny 30:28 // Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley 33:30 // The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God by R.F. Kuang 38:00 // Gillian Bradshaw 42:02 // This Place: 150 Years Retold 42:54 // Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo 46:15 // Reading hopes for 2021 and outro 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/
Transcribe →Ep 32 - Precarious Work and Knowledge Mobilization with Ted Lee and Ean Henninger at Keeping it ReAL
Dec 11, 202001:20:49Tap to summarizeWe welcome back our guests Ted Lee and Ean Henninger from Episode 3 of the podcast to talk about precarious work and knowledge mobilization. We discuss questions and qualms we have about knowledge mobilization, how precarious work makes knowledge mobilization difficult, the power of union organizing, and how COVID-19 has affected precarity! This episode was recorded live as part of the 2020 Keeping it ReAL conference. Follow Ean (@rhymewithzinger) and Ted (@teioh) on Twitter! Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3e5sxw6 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/
Transcribe →Ep 31 - Library Power Structures with Baharak Yousefi
Oct 30, 202000:43:13Tap to summarizeWe sit down with Baharak Yousefi to talk about being a good library boss, the joy and generosity of library Twitter, and the responsibilities of academic freedom... but mostly we talk about power, intersectionality, and anti-oppression. It’s a good one, folks! Follow Baharak on Twitter @BaharakY Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4uws5kh 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/
Transcribe →Ep 30 - Witnessing and Reconsidering Personal Archives with Clara Giménez-Delgado
Oct 16, 202000:45:23Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we sat down with Karen’s classmate Clara Giménez-Delgado to talk about her project processing a collection of lantern slides at the Museum of Anthropology. The collection is called the Missionary Society of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection, and it was the subject of Clara’s final project in Dr. Jennifer Douglas’s Personal Archives class at the University of British Columbia. Clara talks about witnessing, emotion and affect, reconsidering archival practices, and colonial harm in her project, and we’re very grateful to have had the chance to talk to her about the archiving process. Follow Clara on Twitter @clararchiving Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4tzt7kt The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). This episode was transcribed by Sam Frederick, Victoria Gomez, and Karen Ng. You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Transcribe →Ep 29 - Anti-Fascist Librarianship with Lena Gluck
Oct 2, 202000:59:04Tap to summarizeWhat is fascism? How have fascists used libraries in their organizing strategies to gain legitimacy? How does this relate to current TERF room bookings at libraries? And why have libraries struggled so much to respond?! We cover all this and more with Lena Gluck, founder of the Anti-Fascist Library Network. Follow Lena on Twitter @LenaGluck Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y4hxwvee 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/
Transcribe →Ep 28 - Season 3 and Back to School
Sep 24, 202000:30:26Tap to summarizeIn this episode we outline our plans for season 3, as well as pass along some advice for folks returning or thinking of applying to library/archives school, with some guest clips from good friends Sony, Zakir, and Victoria. Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y3g7abyo The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Transcribe →Ep 27 - Black Women Artists, Archives, and Futurity with Sierra King
Aug 26, 202000:50:39Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we chat with Sierra King, an artist, photographer, and archivist, about her work with Black Women Artists, and her curatorial debut exhibition here. there. everywhere. Sierra talks about Kathleen Cleaver’s archive, personal archiving, and Black art and futurity. Her exhibition (August 22 - September 26, 2020) at MINT Gallery in Atlanta is a multidimensional portrait of the journey towards Black Futurity that Black Women across the African Diaspora have been pursuing in the name of freedom. Follow Sierra on Twitter @SierraChas Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y5r2rb8x The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: • Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com • Twitter: @OrganizingPod • Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
Transcribe →Ep 26 - Books and Feelings in the Time of COVID-19
May 8, 202000:41:03Tap to summarizeEpisode 26, in which Karen and Allison talk about their feelings during the midst of COVID-19, and books they’ve been reading and shows they’ve been watching in 2020 so far. Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y7nx8brh The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic (https://www.andrealukic.com/). You can reach us at: Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com Twitter: @OrganizingPod Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/
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