Jackson Radish, Teen Librarian Blog
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The Top 5 Best Uses For Your Local Library (That Aren’t Just Books)
- Rent A/V Equipment
- Get Access To Paywall Content
- Find Tickets To Museums, Concerts, And Events
- Print Off Legal Forms
- Fill Up On E-Books
6. Free WiFi
7. Borrow CDs and DVDs (new releases, tv on DVD, classics)
8. Rent meeting space for free
9. Access to employment and community resources
10. Programs for adults, children, and teens11. Study/work somewhere quiet without having to pay for coffee
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Topside Press: from "Rewriting the Story of Shame and Isolation: The Lambda Literary Awards Turn 25" by Alexis Clements on... Excerpt is below—read the whole article on HyperAllergic.com here
When The Collection, an anthology published by Topside Press, won in the category of Trans Fiction, a large and impressive group of trans authors took to the stage to accept the award. As Imogen Binnie pointed out…
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Imogen Binnie, Red Durkin, Ryka Aoki, Casey Plett, Susan Jane Bigelow, Terence Diamond, Carter Sickels and Adam Halwitz take the stage to accept the award for Transgender Fiction at the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
Text of their speech is as follows:This is an exciting time to be trans artists and activists. There are more trans writers here tonight than there have ever been, and it’s an honor to share this night with all of you. We are proud that The Collection is part of a transgender political movement that has never been more vibrant. In the last year, we have seen an outpouring of support for trans prisoners like CeCe McDonald. We have also witnessed the first artists to withdraw from the Michigan Women’s Music Festival in response to the 22-year boycott. And tonight, for the first time, transgender authors are accepting the award for transgender fiction.
We’d like to thank Black and Pink and the hundreds of people who bought The Collection for trans and queer prisoners around the country. Tonight we’re in a room full of people who believe that writing can change the world, and you’re right. So when you get home, we encourage you all to visit blackandpink.org to get an LGBT prison pen pal.
Thank you and have a wonderful evening.
Editors Tom Léger & Riley MacLeod, along with the 28 contributing authors (including Imogen Binnie, Red Durkin, Madison Lynn McEvilly, Alice Doyle and many more) became the first trans authors to win the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction last night for Topside Press’s The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard! So proud of all of them! For those of you who have not read The Collection or purchased it for your libraries, it is beautiful and I cannot recommend it highly enough!
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Topside Press is now part of the ACTIVIST NEW YORK exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York! These are is some of the documents that are part of the “activist literature” kiosk.
Find out more at: http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/current/Activist-New-York.html
if you all do not know about topside press, you should!
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My dad really likes libraries (like he’s actually obsessed) so whenever we go on vacation he has to pose with the town’s library. These are just a few of the hundreds we’ve visited on family trips
Ha. Dads.
When I get married someday, I’m going to make my husband take pictures of me flexing in front of every library we see on vacation.
I hope these pics will find their way into a tumblr photo set!
I want this Dad! I also love visiting libraries in different cities!
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um, i don’t know what system of classification this library is using, but the first 4 books are very unlikely to be anywhere near the book on pornography. if she is using ddc, the books would be as follows:
- satanism: 133.422
- voodoo: 133.4 or 299.675, depending on the bias of the cataloguer
- witchcraft: 133.43
- demonology: 133.42
although an argument could be made to catalogue all of the above in the 299.something since it’s all religion, just that the 200’s are really biased towards christianity
pornography would be catalogued in a bunch of different places, none of which would be found anywhere near any of those other books
- books abt pornography: 363.47 (or 176.7/176.8 or other places)
- actual porn (literature): 808.803538 (probably)
- actual porn (images) 757.8
- probably other places too
you know, cataloguing.
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Can you?
Ahhhgh I can’t resist a bear pun.
(via fggtlibrarian)
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.
Toni Morrison
brb getting this tattooed on my torso and/or back.
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Preach, Carl Sagan.
Love this!
I love these words.
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Book Patrol: Beware of Unemployed Librarians!
I don’t think I would mind an whole building of and for adult fiction, but that might just be me.
(via fggtlibrarian)
