@uprootknowledge

amplifying critical voices in libraries, archives + cultural heritage. Follow on IG uproot.knowledge. Subscribe https://xitter.cf/t.co/vneIbkL4bW

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"Through the Friends model, we can redistribute resources to a worthy recipient — prison libraries." Read our Q&A w/ Kristi from the Friends of the San Quentin Prison Library uproot.space/interviews
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Do not stop talking about Palestine. uproot.space/the-word/palest…
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What is up//root? Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. Follow us on instagram.com/uprootspace for the latest updates.
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Graphic that says: up//root is an independent BIPOC-led publishing community We center radical ideas, experiences and conversations within the library, archive and/or greater information landscape We are a space to dismantle structures of oppression and imagine radical futures together.

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Graphic that says: What can I submit? We publish submissions that interrogate coloniality, white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, white feminism, and/or racial capitalism as they impact archives, libraries, LIS education, and/or information. We accept essays, cultural commentary, poetry, video, illustrations/design and any form of expression.

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"I hadn’t been taught a history of Black librarianship. So, I decided to teach myself." - CKZ Shareef @CocoaqueenK Explore how one librarian's journey to the past helped her reclaim home in Black librarianship. uproot.space/shareef
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Sabine Jean Dantus writes on how the legacies of Haitian resistance - principles of communal living, collective action and radical empathy - can help libraries disrupt systemic oppression in our institutions. Read "Empathy to Empower Libraries" on uproot.space/dantus
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Nicole L. Murph writes on how her parent's descent into MAGA and right-wing information systems shapes her own vision for librarianship as resistance. Read "A Spectre in my Home" by Nicole Murph on uproot.space/murph
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"Home Becomes Myth" by @nishamody portrays home through the lens of myth & connection. Mody challenges colonial ways of knowing by imagining how we connect to home, in ways that relate to the land & to each other. View the collage & framing narrative on uproot.space/mody
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JCLC is a transformative experience for many BIPOC library and archive workers. Explore the reflections of first-time attendee and early career librarian Ramón García @el_librarian on uproot.space/garcia
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In "pinto, or an open-doored question: On Research, Reluctance, and Returning to the Homeland" Arianna Alcaraz writes on the impact her identity, as a member of the Filipino diaspora, has on her work researching the complexities of Filipiniana. uproot.space/alcaraz
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Read the transcripts for "a nesting place: belonging and critical creativity" by Jewel Davis on uproot.space/davis
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Watch @jewel_davis explore belonging in rurality and sustaining care through creative practice in "a nesting place: belonging and critical creativity" youtube.com/watch?v=t9aVThG2…
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"Here I fill the cracks and fragments of in-betweens with my own futurities; a Puerto Rico that is free, a boundless book, pages spread." Read more of "Cartomythography" by Rosario Santiago on uproot.space/santiago
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In "Kuʻu ʻĀina Kulāiwi", Shavonn Matsuda and Kawena Komeiji draw parallels between the institution of libraries and the ongoing illegal occupation of Hawaiʻi. The authors point to ways that both uphold systems designed to eliminate native people. Read on uproot.space/komeiiji-matsud…
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Explore "Resistance and Belonging in an Academic Library: Finding Home in the Praxis" by @dr_mmontanez This essay draws on Chicana feminism to weave autoethnography with historical records to center the experiences of those who paved the way. uproot.space/montanez
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Letter from Martha Cotera accepting a position to work with the Juarez-Lincoln Center citing her expertise in libraries and contributing to the information needs of migrant programs

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