This week we're joined by Gracen to talk about the Lab, accommodations, death and remembrance, Crip futures, and lots more! Transcript: https://sonix.ai/share/EshPDeD7BmqS2zUR4V3PoUL4 https://linktr.ee/disabilityarchiveslab https://twitter.com/DisArchivesLab http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/blog/ https://litwinbooks.com/books/preserving-disability/#:~:text=Preserving%20Disability%3A%20Disability%20and%20the,approaches%20to%20the%20archival%20profession . Media mentioned https://bookriot.com/illi...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 96
Welcome to the first episode of Tender Subject! This week, we're going over the whats and whys of this podcast. Why cannibalism? Why aren't we talking about True Crime? We also talk a little bit about the current cannibal craze in media and why we always need to justify our enjoyment. Finally, we do a show & tell for each other about something we might not do an entire episode on but wanted to talk about anyway. Media Discussed: 2022 Was the Year of the Cannibal. What Does That Say About Us?...
Jun 14, 2023•58 min•Ep. 95
This week we’re doing the other library school movie, Desk Set. But first, we solve the eternal war between goths and librarians by talking about the Mütter Museum’s changes. Then we get into AI, automation, and sexy library shenanigans. Media mentioned Mütter Museum: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html Knott Malone, "Imagining information retrieval in the library: Desk Set in historical context," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24,...
Jun 09, 2023•56 min•Ep. 94
We’re talking about the latest season of Preserving Worlds! Video game preservation, indie media, archiving, animation, DIY, the Internet as a bad place! We close talking about the end: our deaths, our multiple digital deaths, and how they won’t coincide with each other. https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy https://twitter.com/MitchellZemil Media Mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE - Lemon Demon video Shawn worked on https://rpgmaker.fando...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 93
It’s just the crew this week and we’re gonna talk a lot about butt fucking! It’s Homosaurus time. Media Mentioned https://homosaurus.org/ https://librarynews.lmu.edu/2019/09/building-the-homosaurus-an-international-lgbtq-linked-data-vocabulary/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2072753 https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/7985/11110...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 92
Crossover episode! We're talking with Srsly Wrong about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at various stages in our development, and what the liberation of children will look like in regard to libraries. Media Mentioned The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The child-friendly version | UNICEF State of Palestine https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/ https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 91
This week we’re talking about leaving academic libraries. Allison joins us to talk about using your skills to move into another field, barriers in academia, work/life balance, and the impact of temporary grant funded positions. Media mentioned https://medium.com/@allisonjaiodell/why-i-left-academic-libraries-26e2a63c8bf2
Apr 28, 2023•58 min•Ep. 90
This week we talk male beauty tips, why you need a weed card in New Hampshire, and the implosion of libraries as we know them. News time! Media mentioned https://www.newstalk.com/news/library-staff-offered-supports-as-anti-lgbtq-protesters-target-childrens-books-1452290 https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/04/03/libraries-at-centre-of-culture-wars-as-protesters-try-to-remove-lgtbq-books-for-young-people/ https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/texas-banned-books-ruling-judge/story?id=98303996...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 89
We’re covering the Internet Archive lawsuit point by point and discuss the implications for libraries trying to do CDL. Media Mentioned Decision: https://t.co/vskSf6gqSH https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/ What is CDL? https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/ The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37374618...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 88
Movie night! We’re watching The Watermelon Woman. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it first! https://litwinbooks.com/books/ephemeral-material/ https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Conflict-Is-Not-Abuse
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 87
The Children's Internet Protection Act is a good starting point to talk about Internet censorship. E-Rate has become an almost invisible restriction on what you can view on library computers. We cover Section 230 adjustments including FOSTA/SESTA and tie it into current political battles over libraries and access to sexual or queer materials.
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 86
Returning guest and fungal host Kayte joins us to talk fungus. Rhizomes, rot, rights, and Roald Dahl. We covered it all. Embrace your future body possibilities. https://twitter.com/fangspodcast https://twitter.com/kayteterry http://www.kayteterry.com/ https://www.patreon.com/fangspodcast Media mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel) https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 85
Versions! Manifestations! Translations! We’re joined by Frank and Leon to talk about the material, artistic, and practical implications of how works change. This week we discover cartoons are bad and Justin displays his woeful ignorance of European countries starting with D. https://www.patreon.com/leftpage https://twitter.com/leftpagepod https://twitter.com/FrankGothic https://twitter.com/LoveLiveLeon Media mentioned https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future https://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-readi...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 84
2023 is the Year of Physical Media! Buy physical porn! TV is an illusion! This episode is brought to you by Lizard Codeine. Get Gekked (TM). Readings https://torrentfreak.com/sony-thinks-cloud-gaming-can-eliminate-piracy-and-consoles-210626/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527476420928480 Media mentioned https://www.tumblr.com/catchymemes/705443101126295552?source=share Porn you can’t watch: https://www.tumblr.com/duskydestra/705666837692694528 Missing documentary: https://www.imd...
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 82
This week we have two researchers to talk about web archiving, its politics, its goals, and how web archiving is often mobilized to address problems it really can’t help. We’re talking Tumblr and GeoCities, Twitter’s feared implosion, Internet Archive, and the space to mourn our platforms and communities. Jessica’s social: https://twitter.com/jessogden Katie’s social: https://twitter.com/ktcmackinnon ; katiemackinnon.xyz Readings https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 81
This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite “grassroots” organization, Moms for Liberty. Justin is breaking out the cork board to show you where it’s all coming from. We also share our controversial takes on the Wikipedia redesign. Readings https://web.archive.org/web/20230117220154/https://www.momsforliberty.org/news/moms-for-liberty-partners-with-brave-books-to-donate-thousands-of-books-to-schools/ https://bookriot.com/moms-for-libraries/ About the launch of Moms for Libraries. Among the...
Jan 19, 2023•56 min•Ep. 80
New Year New works in the Public Domain! This week we have Nancy Sims to talk about what’s entering the Public Domain in 2023. Of course we had to touch on AI authorship and copyright, Naruto the monkey, and a possible solution for regular weeding discourses. Readings https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/ https://vimeo.com/696206791 - Sherlock Holmes presentation by Nancy https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/29/canada-steals-cultural-works-from-the-public-by-extending-copyright-terms/ ...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 79
This week we’re joined by Adriana White to talk about school libraries, accommodations, and remote work. We also give the latest updates on Kirk Cameron’s book tour. Remember to be annoying and ask if that new job posted has a remote option! https://adrianaluisawhite.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/adriana_edu Media mentioned Job Accommodations Network https://twitter.com/iww/status/1605600642872987652?s=20&t=wS2rP5ZIrMnmi3xbL6Lkww Stella Young's TED TALK https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_...
Dec 22, 2022•59 min•Ep. 78
We're talking about accommodations again! Jess’s linktree https://linktr.ee/schomj Media mentioned https://litwinbooks.com/books/beyond-accommodation/ https://works.bepress.com/jessica-schomberg/28/ https://www.sinsinvalid.org/ https://www.uwindsor.ca/wgst/merrickpilling https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83692-4?sap-outbound-id=DA70FE8AABF69428A26B0BFC99E4CAD1A574A9CE https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90413-5 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469624891/no-right-to-be-id...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 77
This week we’re joined by Jessica Sylvia to talk about prisons as places of censorship, parole boards, and archival priorities for stories from the inside. https://twitter.com/Abolition_Jess Media Mentioned https://pen.org/prison-book-bans-protect-mass-incarceration/ https://scalawagmagazine.org/press-in-prison/ https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=16574 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Litigation_Reform_Act https://daily.jstor.org/far-from-folsom-prison-more-to-music-inside/ https://en.wikip...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 76
We’re talking with comic artist R.E. Parrish about Jorge Luis Borges and The Library of Babel. On the way we cover a Reddit question, information paradoxes, goth librarianship, and Twitter archiving. https://reparrishcomics.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/reparrishcomics https://twitter.com/reparrishcomics Media Mentioned The Library of Babel - Wikipedia https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia The Total Library https://reparrishcomics.com/post/101029451973/write...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 75
Returning guest Dorothea Salo joins us to teach Justin about The Carpentries. Media Referenced https://carpentries.org/ https://librarycarpentry.org/ https://datacarpentry.org/ https://twitter.com/thecarpentries https://automatetheboringstuff.com/...
Dec 02, 2022•51 min•Ep. 74
We’ve got Sarah Lamdan on to talk about her new book Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information ! We talk about government contracting to third party data companies, legal loopholes, the connection to academic publishing and metrics, and the stranglehold the corporate duopoly has over access to US law by lawyers, citizens, and prisoners. Justin also advances his theory that academic journals are just podcasts. https://twitter.com/greenarchives1 Data Cartels: The Comp...
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 73
Docudrama time! We’re watching F for Fake (1973), the world’s first breadtube essay. We discuss the nature of art, lies, forgeries, markets, and how bad editing is ableism. Readings S3E5: Elmyr de Hory F for Fake - Wikipedia Chokepoint Capitalism | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 72
We’re talking with Beatrice Adler-Bolton from Death Panel and the author of Health Communism. We talk about accommodations, surplus populations, extraction, and communism. https://twitter.com/realLandsEnd https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Readings Health Communism (10/20/22) by Death Panel podcast Death Panel Podcast Reddit Question Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia Capitalism and Disability - Marta Russell Histories of the Transgender Child — University of Minnesota Pres...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 71
We’re doing metadata anarchy this week. Come for the creative destruction, stay for the Reddit questions. Readings https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-on-order Eros in the Library Metadata Anarchy Media mentioned Ask Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/xz0egf/ada_and_patron_question/ Adult males in the children’s department : r/Libraries TX Library Professionals: share your "conspicuous place" Is it wrong to decorate your library with a witch? https://www.youtub...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 70
We’re talking anime with Leslie from Fangs for the Memories! Click the link for a long list of all the anime we mentioned! https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast https://www.patreon.com/fangscast/posts https://twitter.com/dangitleslie Media mentioned Yaoi Paddle Kickstarter Faces Intellectual Property Dispute Satoshi Kon - Wikipedia The Crow (1994 film) - Wikipedia Tomie - Wikipedia Russian Workout Routine Exercise Training with Bears, Preparing for Ukraine Invasion #Shorts 🐻💤 𝓦𝓞𝓦 Beowulf (2007) ...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 69
This week Sadie is teaching Jay and Justin about cybersecurity. Phishing, bitcoin, CISA-lords, and more! Readings https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/leading-library-services-firm-baker-and-taylor-hit-by-ransomware/ https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2021/05/ransomware-attacks-at-libraries-how-they-happen-what-to-do/ https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/cyber-risk-management/guest-article/why-are-small-businesses-suffering-for-steep-cyber-insurance-premiums/ Media mentioned: Demon co...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 68
Movie time! We're watching the 2018 heist film American Animals, based on the real theft of rare books from Transylvania University's special collections. We talk about libraries and the carceral state, the worth of library workers versus special collections, and birds. Media Mentioned https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/the-real-life-heist-caper-behind-american-animals.html https://www.audubon.org/news/in-american-animals-audubons-art-source-obsession-greed-and-infamy https://www.transy.edu/1780/20...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 67
We’re talkin’ manga collections again! Ashley Hawkins comes on to talk about school libraries, manga collections, book challenges, and generally give us some reading recommendations! Ashley Hawkins (@manga_librarian) / Twitter Manga Librarian Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries Manga Collection Development for Librarians: The Basics School Librarians United with Amy Hermon: 141 Manga Librarian Manga and Women: Buying Manga for School Libraries in the #MeToo Era Media Referenced Talk to My Back ...
Sep 13, 2022•59 min•Ep. 66
