Organizing Ideas

Organizing Ideas

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Organizing Ideas episodes

  • Ep 35 - Belonging, Safety, and Police Presence in Libraries with Stacy Collins - part 2
    In 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/
    22 min
  • Ep 34 - Anti-Oppression and Research Guides with Stacy Collins - part 1
    In 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/
    57 min
  • Ep 33 - 2020 Reading in Review with Karen and Allison

    Karen 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/
        • 52 min
      • Ep 32 - Precarious Work and Knowledge Mobilization with Ted Lee and Ean Henninger at Keeping it ReAL

        We 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/
          • 1 hr 21 min
        • Ep 31 - Library Power Structures with Baharak Yousefi

          We 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/
            • 44 min
          • Ep 30 - Witnessing and Reconsidering Personal Archives with Clara Giménez-Delgado

            In 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/
              • 46 min
            • Ep 29 - Anti-Fascist Librarianship with Lena Gluck

              What 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/
                • 1 hr
              • Ep 28 - Season 3 and Back to School

                In 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/
                  • 31 min
                • Ep 27 - Black Women Artists, Archives, and Futurity with Sierra King

                  In 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/

                  51 min
                • Ep 26 - Books and Feelings in the Time of COVID-19

                  Episode 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/
                    • 42 min

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                  Because libraries and archives are never neutral.