"As long as there have been efforts to limit...the rights, legal protections & liberation of the āmentally ill,ā there has been fierce resistance. There were always strands of psychiatric abolition in the deinstitutionalization movement,...desiring the abolition of psychiatry" š
Uncovering Coerced Labor and Resistance within American Carceral and Quasi-Carceral Spaces, 1898ā1973 Solicited by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) Chair: Robert Chase, Stony Brook University Commentator: Anthony Gregory, Political and Legal History, Hoover Institution, Stanford Stagnation, Coercion, and Gendered Labor Ideology at the Thomas Indian School of New York within Early Twentieth-Century Reform. Rachel Pitkin, PhD Student in History, City University of New York Graduate Center The Role of Juveniles in the Prisonersā Rights Movement in Texas. Moises Acuna-Gurrola, California State University, Bakersfield They Demanded āGood Time or Smokesā: Women Prisonersā Resistance to the New Deal Era Coerced Labor Regime at Alderson Prison. Donna Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, City University of New York
this #oah26 panel on coerced labor and resistance in carceral spaces was fascinating and it is so striking to me that institutional history remains such a lively and potent area of study
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
@durba.bsky.social's The Future That Was traces how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
Out now (12 May UK pub).
Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Our sector is such a garbage fire but we can keep making human connections to one another.
For Kamloops-based @thompsonriversu.bsky.social folks, I'm giving a session in HL 271 on Friday, April 24th called A Skeptic's Guide to Generative AI. I'd love to see you there. tru.libcal.com/event/4008426
"Fairlinkedās argument that LinkedIn is gathering personal information is based on the fact that the extensions it detects include 'an Islamic content filter,' an 'anti-Zionist political tagger,' and 'a tool designed for neurodivergent users.'"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Ah cool! Having publishable papers out of it seems like a really good idea. All I had to show for mine was a room full of exhausted supervisors.
Congrats! Almost there. What are your comps like? For mine I had to read 150 texts across three subject areas and then do a 4 hour long oral exam on them.
"It is now time for a federal-provincial strategy on public postsecondary education: essential infrastructure in this nation-building era."
CAUT President Robin Whitaker on the hollowing out of public postsecondary education: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Library hiring committees who are unwilling to consider applicants who will grow into a position are doing themselves, their library, and the entire field a great disservice. (1/ )
An utter, abysmal tragedy.
Several years ago I co-started a collection of LGBTQ+ resources for library, knowledge & information workers, which I now maintain ie I add useful links when I come across them. Follow this new Bluesky account which updates when new items are added. Feel free to suggest resources!
Unboxed the hard copies today.
That is lovely to hear
Y'all should fuckin riot over this point specifically, but this whole thread is a horrorshow.
šš» Autism Awareness Month (1970)
š Autistic People's Month (2026)
āwe found that 78% of authors (of studies on ABA) had a conflict of interest (COI)
Some worked in ABA clinics, some offered paid consulting to other ABA providers, and some did both
Almost all papers (93%) had at least one author with these kinds of connections.ā
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Review: Rebecca Monteleone. The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority. University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 209 pp. $25.00, paper, ISBN 978-1-5179-1768-5.
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
The card "Scolding Administrator" from the Magic: The Gathering set Secrets of Strixhaven
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Iāve encountered so many researchers recently who are conscientious about their data management plans and participant privacy and then doing interviews over Teams with AI transcription, or convinced HEI-supplied AI transcription apps arenāt compromising data privacy or IP.
Is this a thing or not?
Arms industry have been given direct influence over university courses, Declassified has revealed.
Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the āstrategic directionā of academic departments.
www.declassifieduk.org/arms-industr...
Cindy Anh Nguyen, Bibliotactics,
Just learned about this game at a meeting of the @aplacontact.bsky.social 's Information Literacy Interest Group!
store.steampowered.com/app/3015950/...
Finally made the switch to Linux.
Yes, it takes more finessing, but the sheer joy of not being on Windows or Mac is really bringing me back to the 90s.
Give desktop folders their own icons, change the sound effects, or mouse cursor.
I'm going to "graphics design is my passion" this so hard.
