Episodes

Thursday Nov 18, 2021
035 - Leather Archives & Museum
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
We’re finally here! The Leather Archives & Museum episode! We talk about… the Leather Archives. Just listen to it.
https://twitter.com/leatherarchives
https://www.instagram.com/leatherarchives/
Become a member of the Leather Archives
References
Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art
Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
leatherdyke gender technology - by Daemonum X - Dead but Delicious

Thursday Nov 11, 2021
034 - Political Economy and Radical Digital Humanities
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
This week we’re joined by Miriam Posner and Matthew Hannah to talk about digital humanities stuff! We talk about creating a Marxist political economy for DH, and what it means to do Radical DH. We mention map projections, labor issues, self identification, and why the Silent Hill III remake is bad.
Student collaborator bill of rights
Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights | hc:26741 | Humanities CORE
Levels of Digital Preservation (DLF)
Do Better - Love(,) Us | Do Better Labor
Links to Miriam’s Stuff
On DH
The Radical, Unrealized Potential of DH
Bunch of tutorials (a lot of people use these in their teaching)
Why is it so hard to do digital humanities in the library?
On supply chains, etc.
The Software that Shapes Workers’ Lives
Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains
Links to Matthew’s Stuff
A Political Economy of Digital Humanities Vision Statement
A Political Economy of Digital Humanities: New Directions CFP for ACH 2021
On DH
Inclusive Infrastructure: Digital Scholarship Centers and the Academic Library Liaison

Thursday Nov 04, 2021
033 - Queer Psychology and Open Education
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
We are joined by Kat Klement who presented at the OpenEd21 conference on their course Queer Psychology, which they built using free and openly licensed materials (including OER). We talk about finding resources, modifying courses, how does one queer psychology, and, of course, the TV show Chopped.
#OpenEd21: OER as a Tool to Decenter Whiteness: A Q…

Thursday Oct 28, 2021
032 - Article Finder Network
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
We’re joined by the brains behind the Article Finder Network (https://twitter.com/article_finder) to talk about their massively popular new project, how library twitter got weird about it, and John Bagford.
https://twitter.com/article_finder
https://twitter.com/LauraMorreale
References:
“Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”
The General Index: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8
Diego Gomez: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/support-diego-gomez-and-join-global-open-access-movement
Unpaywall: https://unpaywall.org/
John Bagford asides:
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork|Paperback

Sunday Oct 17, 2021
031 - Information Services for Incarcerated People feat. Dr. Jeanie Austin
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
This week we’re joined by Dr. Jeanie Austin to discuss their research on information services for incarcerated people. We discuss the way mailroom policies and content bans have inherent anti-Black and anti-LGBT bigotry, and how these policies cut off incarcerated people from their communities. We talk about how LIS as a field has abandoned its role in providing information services to incarcerated people and how we can learn lessons from the librarians of the 70s.
Austin, J., Charenko, M, Dillon, M. and Lincoln, J. (2020). Systemic oppression and the contested ground of information access for incarcerated people. Open Information Science. 4(1), 169-185. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opis-2020-0013/
Austin, J. and Villa-Nicholas, M. (2019). Information provision and the carceral state: Race and reference beyond the idea of the “underserved.” The Reference Librarian. 60(4), 233-261.
Jeanie’s book - Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access https://www.alastore.ala.org/lsai
Jeanie’s website - https://jeanieaustin.com/
Jeanie’s research in the ALA archives - https://jeanieaustin.com/2021/09/24/timeline-additions/
Referenced in the episode:
Abolitionist Library Association: https://abolitionistlibraryassociation.org/
Earhustle podcast - https://www.earhustlesq.com/
Drakeo - GTL the prison phone https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/906807077/prison-telecom-business-indicted-by-rap-album-recorded-in-jail
Tracie D. Hall, A Hurting Thing - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/05/03/a-hurting-thing-school-to-prison-pipeline/
Tracie D. Hall, Defending the Fifth Freedom - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/01/04/defending-fifth-freedom-information-access-prisons/
Resist Everything Except Temptation - https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html
Prisoners Pay to Read - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/
When Biometrics Fail - https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-biometrics-fail
Organizations:
Prison Book Program - https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/ Find a local organization here.
A Room of One's Own wish list for LGBT prisoners - https://www.roomofonesown.com/wishlist/82
Books to Prisoners - https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/
TGI Justice - http://www.tgijp.org/
Reforma Children in Crisis - https://refugeechildren.wixsite.com/refugee-children
PEN America - https://pen.org/prison-writing/
Black and Pink PenPal Network - https://blackandpinkpenpals.org/
Prison Library Support Network (PLSN)- https://plsn-nyc.tumblr.com/
Chicago Books to Women in Prison - https://chicagobwp.org/
LGBT Books to Prisoners - https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/

Sunday Oct 10, 2021
030 - horrorpunk feat. Horror Vanguard
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Welcome boils and ghouls, to the first episode of horrorpunk, the premiere podcast for information science and materialist analysis of horror movies starring your favorite co-ghosts from the Horror Vanguard podcast, Ash and Jon. We talk about loss and how we deal with it, and the sometimes bad habits that creates for us in seeking explanations. We also talk (well, glance over) how Irish Americans continue to appropriate Celtic nationalism for no real reason. And we answer the question: who’s gonna pay this dang ghost?
https://twitter.com/HorrorVanguard
https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy

Thursday Sep 30, 2021
029 - Prison Librarianship
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
We're joined this week by Rebecca, a public librarian and former prison librarian to talk about her experience working in a state prison library.
https://twitter.com/britlitgeek
Items mentioned:
Abolitionist Library Association
Increasing Access to Quality Educational Resources to Support Higher Education in Prison
Advancing Technological Equity for Incarcerated College Students
Outside and In: Services for People Impacted By Incarceration
J Pay drafts update https://twitter.com/ChrisWBlackwell/status/1432726185201389574

Thursday Sep 23, 2021
028 - Game Preservation is not Poggers feat. All Gamers Are Bastards
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
This week we’re joined by Kay and Kyle from the All Gamers Are Bastards podcast. We’re talking about video game preservation, modes of production, piracy, and, of course, Boss Baby.
https://twitter.com/kayandskittles
https://www.youtube.com/c/KayAndSkittles
https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle
Why Disco Elysium Is The Most Hopeful Game I've Ever Played (Feat. Laborkyle)
Readings
https://twitter.com/aswatki1/status/1407120973900431360?s=20
Sony Thinks Cloud Gaming Can Eliminate Piracy (and Consoles)

Thursday Sep 09, 2021
027 - Intellectual Fweedom (no steppy)
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
We got Sam back on to talk about intellectual freedom and give us our regular Canada Library Shenanigans update.
https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/irreversible-damage
https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/irreversible-damage-part-two
https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/the-populism-of-intellectual-freedom
https://litwinbooks.com/books/in-solidarity/
Sam’s twitter: https://twitter.com/redlibrarian

Thursday Sep 02, 2021
026 - Vocational Awe and Christianity
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
This week we’re joined by Fobazi Ettarh to talk about the religious underpinnings of vocational awe.
#GiveFobaziAJob
References:
- The original paper on vocational awe: Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
- Anne Helen Petersen talks more about vocational awe here: vocational awe
- Tweet about religiosity: https://haha!twitter.com/Fobettarh/status/1432003244289630208?s=20
- Germinal paper on protestant work ethic, for background (not necessary to know): The protestant work ethic as a cultural phenomenon
- Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
- Shorter article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1095796014526859
- Article about the problems with the “do what you love” framework: In The Name of Love by Miya Tokumitsu
- How the professional and upper classes have turned work into a religious identity: Workism is Making Americans Miserable by Derek Thompson