Lower East Side Librarian

Dear LC:

It would surely be helpful to Congress to have Black feminism in their library.

Back when every one of my Democratic legislators voted for the USA PATRIOT Act, I switched my voter registration to Green or Independent, or "other." Several years later, I re-enrolled in the D party because primaries are important, in NYC, often more important than the general election for deciding who is going to serve the city (or be served by it). Therefore, and because I fucking hate Andrew Yang, I'm taking the 2021 primaries seriously--and sharing my votes with anyone who stumbles my way. I'll be happy to accept advice and corrections.

Made for the International Zine Librarians UnConference 2020.

With help from Milo Miller, famed QZAP co-founder, I've developed a zine template for myself for making a quarter-size zine that's eight pages long in InDesign. I've also exported it to pdf, if that's more your jam. (This is not a template for a one-page folded zine. Those are easy to find.)

I'm finding blogging my book reviews tedious, so I'm experimenting with moving my operation to Goodreads. Find me there.

Here's what I wrote on the suggest terminology feature of the Library of Congress's linked data for subject headings:

I recommend adding Revenge porn as a new subject heading.
Currently titles on this topic are assigned a series of LCSH, such as Revenge
Sex crimes
and Internet pornography.

I'm talking to the Williams College library staff about zines library stuff. ☺