Episodes
5 days ago
124 - Bloch and Utopia feat. Jon
5 days ago
5 days ago
We’re talking about Jon’s upcoming book on Bloch and how libraries are or are not models of utopia.
Pre-order Jon's book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch
Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500
Media mentioned
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/
https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/index.htm
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Thursday Feb 29, 2024
123 - David Demchuk
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making.
https://twitter.com/david_demchuk
https://bsky.app/profile/daviddemchuk.com
https://hazlitt.net/feature/where-monsters-are-made
Media mentioned
Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/
Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca.com/about
Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Cuckoo. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable
Hailey Piper, https://www.haileypiper.com/
Joe Koch, https://horrorsong.blog/
Suzan Palumbo, https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/
Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feeding-hannibal-janice-poon/1123457647
Tender Is the Flesh https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tender-Is-the-Flesh/Agustina-Bazterrica/9781982150921
On the Line: New Gay Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Line-New-Gay-Fiction/dp/0895940493
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
The Borrowers
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Rosemary’s Baby
Thomas Trion, The Other
The Haunting of Hill House
Gerard Boesche, Feral
The Stepford Wives
The Exorcist
John Updike
John Cheever
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man, A Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace
David’s favourite contemporary queer/trans+ horror writers
Eric LaRocca
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Hailey Piper
Joe Koch
Suzan Palumbo
Adam Pottle
Allison Rumfitt
Lee Mandelo
- Kingfisher
A.C. Wise
Sam J. Miller
Ashley Deng
Jordan Shiveley
Nino Cipri
Chuck Tingle
Friday Feb 16, 2024
122 - Dr. Chuck Tingle
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
This week we’re talking to the world’s greatest author, what else is there to say?
Pre-order Bury Your Gays: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874658/buryyourgays
Chuck’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chucktingle
Media mentioned
TLA post by Chuck: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
121 - Info Seeking Behaviors of Queer Folks feat. Audrey
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
It’s our Valentine’s Day episode!
RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/
Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC
Bluesky @Aud
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
Media mentioned
- Reddit segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/s/lWgNJFVxif
- Coyne (2022) “We have to figure it out ourselves”: Transfeminine adolescents’ online sexual experiences and recommendations for supporting their sexual health and wellbeing
- Ma 2022 Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.
- Skeen (2024) The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making
- Rothbauer (2004) The Internet in the Reading Accounts of Lesbian and Queer Young Women: Failed Searches and Unsanctioned Reading. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A4%3A11553252/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A19872901&crl=c
- Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Trans Men and the Men Who Dig Them | Rainbow Health Ontario
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
120 - British Library Hack
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout.
Media mentioned
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1aeq1ek/library_moral_dilemma_from_a_while_ago/
https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e
https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2010/long-term-access-digital-information.html (Dorothea mentioned)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/15/british-library-cyber-attack-staff-users-analysis
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
119 - Privacy (and sex!) feat. Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Initiative
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
This week we're talking about privacy literacy. Instruction, workshops, and how your data ends up all over the place.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
[shorter LOEX conference paper] Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory to Teaching Practice
[longer book chapter] The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: Building a Privacy Literacy Program
[for browsing] Open-licensed privacy literacy curriculum
Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent might be of particular interest
Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics deals with data brokerage (a la Becky Yoose and Nick Shockey’s work for SPARC)
#ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy reimagines media literacy for algorithmic information environments
ACRL Sandbox entries (complete with lesson plans)
Workshop guides (teaching & learning materials, also linked from the Sandbox)
Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit: https://sites.psu.edu/digitalshred/
Media Mentioned
1890 harvard law paper on right to privacy https://www.jstor.org/stable/1321160
“Nobody Sees It, Nobody Gets Mad”: Social Media, Privacy, and Personal Responsibility Among Low-SES Youth https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117710455
Privacy Literacy and Its Problems. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A6%3A19315958/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A133682180&crl=c
Lawrence Lessig Pathetic Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_dot_theory
Shame Machine https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606203/the-shame-machine-by-cathy-oneil/
Kate Devlin Turned On https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/turned-on-9781472950871/
Danielle Keats Citron Sexual Privacy https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/sexual-privacy
Danielle Keats Citron The Fight for Privacy https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315
Kate Devlin https://www.hotpress.com/sex-drugs/sex-robots-frontlines-ai-revolution-kate-devlin-22775520
Sarah’s Sci Fi https://alastore.ala.org/content/self-subject-autoethnographic-research-identity-culture-and-academic-librarianship
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
118 - Queer Internet History feat. Dr. Alex Ketchum
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Download some sage jpegs and ponder the AI, we’re talking with Alex about queer Internet histories, LGBTQ2S+ archives, email archiving, feminist restaurants, and technopaganism. Be sure to check out the notes on this one!
Register for the Queer Food Conference: https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registration.html
Media mentioned
https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/
Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/
Cait McKinney, Information Activism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism
Deep Sniff: https://www.adamzmith.com/deep-sniff-poppers-book
The Log Books: https://www.thelogbooks.org/
Hannah Zeavin, The Distance Cure: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045926/the-distance-cure/
Google study [pdf]: https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=404media.co
40 years of magic on the web: https://airtable.com/appBlKZqOs8ATBq6f/shr1SocSlfKqSP8YV
Report on the State of Resources Provided to Support Scholars Against Harassment, Trolling, and Doxxing While Doing Public Media Work: https://medium.com/@alexandraketchum/report-on-the-state-of-resources-provided-to-support-scholars-against-harassment-trolling-and-401bed8cfbf1
Missing Datasets: https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets
Moya Bailey, #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/2/000209/000209.html
The Historical Cooking Project: http://www.historicalcookingproject.com
The Feminist Restaurant Project: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com
Friday Jan 12, 2024
117 - Copyright and Trademark Takedowns
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
We’re covering the Chuck Tingle thing. Also the damned mouse. Do we need DMCA for Trademarks? Who knows!
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
UPDATE on Tingle story at TLA: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/book-event-disinvites-queer-author-because-his-disability-aid-makes-others-uncomfortable/
Media Mentioned
- https://boxreceiver.medium.com/a-case-for-library-archives-boycott-and-divestment-exlibris-493737a911c5.
- Chuck Tingle post: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle?source=share
- https://mashable.com/article/youtube-demontizes-public-domain-steamboat-willie-disney-copyright-claim
- Even 2023. Keeping the Good Faith: YouTube, Fair Use, and the DMCA
- Meyer n.d. https://theholmesfirm.com/takedown-notices-why-trademarks-and-copyrights-are-so-valuable-but-can-lead-to-damages-for-infringers/
- Percival 2020. Social Networks, Counterfeit, and Contributory Trademark Infringement: Are Social Media Giants Still Protected Ten Years After Tiffany? https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1355&context=uoplawreview
- Dong 2022. https://jbipl.pubpub.org/pub/fzs4ru5v/release/2 Balancing the Interests of Trademark Owners and E-Commerce Platforms during the Internet Age
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
116 - Hijacked and Zombie Journals
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
We’re talking about more issues in scholcomm.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
Media mentioned
Hijacked journals:
Hbomberguy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ
Weird MIT report on OA: https://access-to-science.pubpub.org/
Zombie journals: what’s left after editorial board leaves like Glossia/ Lingua
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/656/ - Glossia/Lingua
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
115 - infoshops
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
We’re infoshopping. What are they? Justin ponders if they can make leather vests for straight people.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk
Media mentioned
Street Libraries: Infoshops and Alternative Reading Rooms - Chris Dodge
This City Is An Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority - Samuel Burgum, 2022
https://web.archive.org/web/20190323204714/http://lucyparsons.org/history.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20011116035809/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/texts/disco.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030223215959/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/infoshops_defined.html
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-radical-bookstore
https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/category/book-shop-info-shop-library
https://slingshotcollective.org/
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1235906145 The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements, by Kimberley Kinder
West, Jessamyn. "On-the-Fly Reference." American Libraries 33.5 (2002): 54-57. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/09/01/library-birdwatching-programming-on-the-fly/