The Reach of a Long-Arm Stapler: Calling in Microaggressions in the LIS Field through Zine Work

Arroyo-Ramirez, Elvia; Chou, Rose L.; Freedman, Jenna; Fujita, Simone; Orozco, Cynthia Mari

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Title

The Reach of a Long-Arm Stapler: Calling in Microaggressions in the LIS Field through Zine Work

Author(s)

• Arroyo-Ramirez, Elvia
• Chou, Rose L.
• Freedman, Jenna
• Fujita, Simone
• Orozco, Cynthia Mari

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• Libraries
• Information science
• Library and information science
• Diversity
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Microaggressions
• Zines

Abstract

Since its inception in March 2014, the LIS Microaggressions project (www.lismicroaggressions.com) has grown as an online source and zine publication for library and information science (LIS) workers from marginalized communities to share their experiences with microaggressions in the workplace. This article will examine the project’s efforts to move conversations on diversity, race, racism, and antiracism in the LIS field to transgressive and actionable steps. Through conference presentations, zine-making workshops, and distribution of zines at LIS conferences, the LIS Microaggressions collective wishes to “call in” or otherwise actively engage the LIS profession for critical reflection and analysis about microaggressions in the workplace with the ultimate goal of fostering support and a participatory community for library workers dealing with microaggressions.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Library Trends 67 (1). Summer 2018

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0028

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