Black Lives Matter

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Librarian, archivist, museum friends, what are your deans & directors saying PUBLICLY about #georgefloyd, #BreonaTaylor, or how #Covid19 is killing Black & Brown people? These are the people who will ask you to “build collections” on these topics. We should know where they stand!

— Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 (@BergisJules) May 29, 2020

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If your “leadership” is silent, you should refuse to do any programming or collection building on these topics until they make public statements. Some of them are cowards yet are willing to exploit these events. https://t.co/TY2tzAcyK1

— Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 (@BergisJules) May 29, 2020

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Anti-racism resources for white people... and we will add non-Black People of Color: https://t.co/FYOtaf8WqD

— we here (@librarieswehere) May 29, 2020

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The BCALA roundly condemns the death of George Floyd https://t.co/oIXbdyfV98

— Black Caucus ALA Inc (@BC_ALA) May 27, 2020

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For people who actively want to be support and be an ally right now, I have written a thread. pic.twitter.com/kTvDgXXO5L

— Mireille Cassandra Harper (@mireillecharper) May 29, 2020

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I'm so tired of one of us having to die for y'all to barely learn the lesson.

It is the most uneven of exchanges.

— brittany packnett cunningham does not do remixes. (@MsPackyetti) May 8, 2020

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75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice

— Corinne Shutack

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Libraries and archives are not neutral. They never were and they aren’t now.

How can white librarians (ie: most librarians), including myself, work better for all the voices represented in their collections and in their reading rooms? Because we absolutely are not doing a very good job of it right now.

The above is a small collection of resources and comments from BIPOC organizations and people (one white lady) regarding the pervasive system of racism that has lead to the death and suffering of thousands of people over hundreds of years. I insist, if you are a white person, to push past your feelings of discomfort, guilt, shame, to sit with these truths, seek them out in as many places as possible, work on being a better, more generous listener (which sounds trite, but so many people are TERRIBLE listeners) and do the fucking work to create a better world for those around you.