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The Junot Díaz talk is up! #alaac18
Q: what advice would you give to have conversation about the whiteness of this profession and surviving this kind of environment or just facilitating a discussion about how we could express how we feel?
Q: what advice would you give to have conversation about the whiteness of this profession and surviving this kind of environment or just facilitating a discussion about how we could express how we feel?
.Junot Díaz: First of all, librarians, y’all know this. At least the POC know this. I’ve heard it from every POC and everyone involved in libraries, I think libraries need to be honest and have a reckoning of how much whiteness in library is cruelty towards its employees of color
.I don't think white folks & ppl who are addicted to whiteness in libraries know how much pain you cause your fellow LOC. I don't think you are aware of the agony that you cause even by being wonderful and tolerant and being the friend that you go out to lunch with
This morning, the White House released the budget proposal for FY 2019. It calls for the elimination of @US_IMLS, and approximately $183 million in direct funding to libraries through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). bit.ly/2ED9MV4 #FundLibraries 
The proposal also calls for the elimination of Innovative Approaches to Literacy, a Dept of Education program. #FundLibraries
Congress has the final say on the FY 2019 budget - contact your Senators and Representative remind them that libraries play a vital role in our communities. Ask them to #FundLibraries and #SaveIMLS
Are libraries neutral spaces? Have they ever been? You're not going to want to miss the debate at the #alamw18 President's Program. Follow along with us! 
Affirmative speakers (for neutrality): @jaslar, @twiteck. Con speakers (against neutrality): @mchris4duke, @rdlankes. Commentators will be @edrabinski, @ejmknox, @klmccook, @kelwat103. ALA President @jamesneal will moderate. #alamw18
Good morning, #alamw18! Grab a seat for Junot Díaz. We'll be tweeting his talk in just a few minutes. 
"Books help us make a way when there is no way. Those of us who have been historically excluded from books... the pain of that is something that, as a society, we have not accounted for." - Junot Díaz, #alamw18
"Each of us has our library story. We wouldn't be here if we didn't." - Junot Díaz, #alamw18
"My 4th grade teacher Ms. Goldberg had so much to do with why I am the person today. She challenged us in the classroom to engage our curiosity. ... I came to her because I wanted to read more about civil rights." - @OsopePatrisse
"The work of #BlackLivesMatter [is the work] of creating a strong democracy in this country." - @OsopePatrisse
