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Reading, Resources

LGBTQ+ (mostly POC) YA library

I’m proud to announce the current catalog for QTY Treehouse, a drop-in and programming space that provides services to LGBTQ+ youth in Oakland, CA.  Through a generous grant from the American Library Association, I have worked with QTY Treehouse staff to build a meaningful and diversely representative library for youth.  Check it out by going to

QTY Treehouse Library!

This spreadsheet is designed to be searchable by race / ethnicity, sexual orientation, and whether or not materials contain trans or gender non-conforming representations or content.

I’m excited for youth to have increased access to library materials that fit their experiences and understandings of the world, and endlessly grateful to QTY Treehouse for our on-going partnership.

Reading, Resources

#TheFeministResistance

Signs, a long running, respected, and critical feminist journal, has released a special virtual issue on #TheFeministResistance.  Full of commentary on our current political and social situation, in which oppressions are shifting and (for some) becoming more apparent, this special issue is a needed resource.

These resources will remain open-access until August 21, 2017.  View them at

http://signsjournal.org/features/virtual-issues/feminist-resources-for-theresistance/

 

Reading, State Targeting

Marsh and Austin win 2017 Baker & Taylor Collection Development Grants

I am pleased and excited to be a recipient of the 2017 Baker & Taylor Collection Development Grant.  Funding from this grant will go toward collection development for the existing library collection at Queer and Trans Youth Treehouse, an LGBTQ youth center that prioritizes youth of color.

More information about the award is available in this announcement from ALA.

Incarcerated Adults, Incarcerated Youth, State Targeting

#ImmigrationSyllabus

The state-enforced detention of immigrant youth (and adults) has been one of the most difficult to numerically track.  Ranging from black-site prisons, such as Homan Square in Chicago, to indefinite immigration detention around the world, and peppered through-out by tails of three-strike laws forcing individuals to be placed in countries they have never personally known, imprisonment is the tool the state utilizes to shape experiences of immigration, belonging, and power.  For those looking to be better informed about standing with immigrants in the face of U.S. state violence the University of  Minnesota has created an Immigration Syllabus.

The syllabus covers migration, colonization, and more up to the present United States enactments of deportations, islamophobia, and analyses of walled separatism.