Grabbing Tea : Queer Conversations in Librarianship.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith-Cruz, Shawn(ta).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Librarians.

LGBTQ+ people.

Gay librarians--Employment.

Gay librarians.

Gender-nonconforming people in library science.

Library science--Social aspects.

Library science.

Librarians--Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sacramento : Litwin Books, LLC, 2022.

Summary:

"This two volume set will be a sampling of conversations of theory and practice as it pertains to LGBTQIA librarianship and archival work and community engagement in a post-Stonewall era. It will situate readers in conversations that invite our community to join us for the tea: a concept relating to kinship, internal community gossip, gabbing, off-the-cuff, interpersonal relatedness that is akin to ritualized queer exchanges to build on a queer past and identify a current state of queer librarianship and archival work and practice. We argue that as disseminators and centers of cultural knowledge, libraries and archives have an ethical responsibility to integrate our information access with all communities, especially those that have been historically siloed or marginal. Volume 2: Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Librarianship Grabbing Tea: Volume Two will focus on library practice and theory across academic and public libraries. Conversations from library staff and users will focus on identity, community practice and outreach, visibility and coming out or being outed in the library. These conversations between LGBTQ+ library staff (and others) will integrate interpersonal experiences of professionalism as queer folks in the field, as well as dive into their relationships and points of connections with each other and the communities they serve. Authors invite readers to join their conversations that acknowledge the fluidity of our bodies as queer bodies, and our lives as queer lives inside of the library." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Be visible, but not too visible / Bailey Anderson, Shannon Devlin, and Sara Harrington

My identity on hold? Queer librarians on professionalism and being out at work / Becca Greenstein and Megan Wolff

Dude looking people: being non-binary and AMAB in libraries / Karl G. Siewert and Alex Byrne

You have the power to be such an influence by simply being / Liam Adler and Hunter Albini

The gay stuff can transfer both ways / Nico D'Archangel, Scott Clonan, and Megan Mac Gregor

Queerness is happening right here: coming out in rural libraries, and coming out of rural libraries / Lou Marie Judge and Zebulon Wimsatt

Parsing parts of Belize: compartmentalizing queerness, family, and advocacy / Felene M. Cayetano and Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz

Explicit and implicit trans work in the library / Jeanie Austin and Lillian D. Maisfehlt

"I had no idea how exhausting it was going to be": incorporating transgender inclusion education into library work / Stephen G. Krueger and Krista McCracken

Queering EDI: making strategic changes / Henry Handley and Matt Rohweder

Pushing past more margins: queers of color in LIS / Lorraine LaPrade and Sam Sermeno

Free to be openly queer: being a BIPOC queer library worker / Hebah Emara and Laura Nemeth

Navigating queer professionalism and NSFW research in libraries / Kel R. Karpinski and Drew Balduff

Remixing LIS leadership: re-examining the possibilities of gender-variant BIPOC leadership in LIS / Lorin K. Jackson and kynita stringer-stanback

Beyond the GSA: middle school libraries as a queer space / Laura Winnick and Rebecca Segal

The "OTHER" box: non-binary staff inclusion in library spaces / Andi Johnson

Progress, iteration, and queerness in librarianship / Ari Goffman and Jill Anderson

Showing up for ourselves and each other: the intersection of race and bisexuality in libraries / Maria Mejia and Danielle Nista

How did you survive? Unpacking the Jewish queer librarian experience / Carol Kassel and Rachel Wexelbaum

The strength it lends: reflections on finding queer community in the workplace / Sam Buechler and Carol Fisher

Passing for promotion: authenticity and the library / Teresa Slobuski and Sarah Howard.

ISBN:

163400194X

9781634001946

1634001346

9781634001342

OCLC:

1551397502