EveryLibrary Institute Announces a Special Issue of The Political Librarian, “Weaponized Politics and Dismantled Policies: Defending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in America’s Libraries and Cultural Institutions.
“Truth-telling in library land: In defense of emancipatory and justice-based frameworks in library and information science,” by Jamillah R. Gabriel and Amber Matthews
“What Could Have Been?: Surveying the Labor Impact of the 2025 Executive Orders on GLAM Workers,” by Raegan Stearns, Alphie Garcia and Jina DuVernay
“Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion by Engaging Them: Postcards from the Edge of Someone Else’s Dream,” by Joseph Winberry
“Goliath Lost,” by Teneka Williams
“From Archive to Action: Building a Black-Centered Information Ecology Through BGLAM,” by kYmberly Miesha Dionn Keeton
“I Have Friends Everywhere”: A Fieldguide for Community Archive Activists,’ by Joseph Sherren and Ronald Padrón
“Citation Please: Executive Orders, DEI, and the Fight for Intellectual Freedom,” by Aisha M. Johnson
“We Will Not Be Erased: A Militant Manifesto for Libraries,” by Nicole Cooke
“Halting the Digital Equity Act: Stop-Work Order on Bridge for Digital Divide,” by Kara Malenfant
“Haunted by the Past,” by Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott
“Coordinated DEI Political Attacks in President Trump’s Executive Orders through the Lens of Critical Theory: Libraries Deconstructing Dysfunctional Political Rhetoric to Further Social Justice,” by Bharat Mehra and an anonymous author
“Universities as Sites of Class Conflict,” by Nicholas Cummins
“We Already Know (Better): Private Thoughts, C/overt Harm, And A Call to Center Beneficence in Librarianship,” by Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
“In My Mother’s Compound: The Consequences of the Erasure of Igbo Women’s Trauma During the Biafran War and Its Relations to the Nullification of African-American Womanist History in the United States,” by Kimberly Chiamaka Okeke
“What is Lost in ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity:” Queer Approaches to Absence, Silence, and Erasure in Archival Description,” Evan M Allgood and Travis L Wagner
“Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Maximizing Free Speech in Brave Spaces to Support Diversity,” by Sarah Beth Nelson and John William Nelson
“Library Censorship As a Health and Safety Issue,” by Bill Crowley
“You work for the public; your thoughts are not sacred: Responding to Antelman’s false crisis in the privacy of thought,” by John Mack Freeman
“When your work becomes illegal: Navigating anti-DEI Laws in Kentucky,” by Alexandra Howard and Courtney Shareef
“Inclusive Collection Development Doesn’t Stop at the Statement: Access and Reference Service at Schlesinger Library as Case Study,” by Mimosa Shah and Madeleine Murphy
“Between Compliance and Belonging: Navigating DEI in Restrictive Climates,” by Eric Z Glenn

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