Alissa 🧿 @alissa@ausglam.space
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Joined May 2018
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anxiety levels are 97% and rising
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Thanks everyone for a great #reset chat this evening 🙂
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If I'm totally honest though, the thing I'm most struck by when it comes to nearly every proposal I've seen from "the Left" (broadly) is how timid they are. It's all "Green New Deal" and "Green growth" and "Capitalism with windmills".
The biggest lesson COVID-19 should be teaching us is how far governments can go when they want to. If the conservatives can double unemployment benefits and make childcare free - even temporarily - imagine what else we could do. #reset
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Are libraries grabbing onto that one stable thing (print material) during a crisis because that's all they think about? Despite trying to tell the public 'we're more than just books' for years. Seems like a huge step backwards, and shows how much lip service makerspaces, third place, movements are. #reset
I'm Alissa, a librarian on Ngunnawal country. I hate capitalism and am very tired #reset
can someone remind me to read this for #reset tomorrow https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/
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Resident Evil Renaissance Continues With Another Grisly Revival - Is This the End of ALIA?
none of it's library related but tbh I wish my life weren't library related atm. I'm so goddamn sick of libraries I could scream
new blog post, I read some stuff and overthought it all, as usual https://lissertations.net/post/1439
I think tomorrow I will set aside some dedicated screaming time
#librev videos are finally up and we should do a watching party or something https://vimeo.com/librev
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you're reading that right - defeat levels are at 90%
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current bamboozlement levels are 82%
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The other Principle that stood out to me was: 'A Just Transition affirms the need for restoring indigenous lifeways of responsibility, duty, and respect to the sacred Creation Principles and Natural Laws of Mother Earth and Father Sky...'
I really value the earth-based spirituality that underlies the Principles. It's not just about respecting the earth, but recognising the sacredness of land, sea and sky, and working to replenish and sustain it, so that it might sustain all of us. #reset
For me, the standout line was 'There is no separation between how we treat Mother Earth and how we treat ourselves'. All life on this Earth is part of a deep, tightly woven ecosystem; humans positioning ourselves above or beyond this ecosystem, and pursuing extractivist ways of knowing and living, is harmful to humans and non-humans alike. Such positioning is doomed to fail. #reset
My library's catalogue listed him by his white name, 'Pigeon', which I kicked up a stink about and managed to get changed, so now he's listed as 'Jandamarra' like he should always have been. It demonstrated to me the library's power to name—who chooses a name? which name? why that name? how can someone change that name? #reset
Early in my library career I learned about Jandamarra, a Bunuba man who led a fierce resistance against settlers and pastoralists in the Kimberley in the 1890s. AIATSIS has a comprehensive article on his life #reset https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/jandamarra-bunuba-warrior
caution: uncontrolled vocabulary // 'here to radicalise bibliographic metadata practices and eat vegetarian brekkie rolls' // not accepting follow requests
Joined May 2018
