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I remember going to the local library, getting my first library card, and piling the car with books. I couldn’t believe it—I could take them home? We didn’t have to pay for them? And I could bring them back and then get more? It was the greatest thing ever!
Tiffani Carter believes this is what libraries do: they provide space to bring people together, connecting one resource, one service, one child, with another.
It was Mrs. Márquez and Sister Rose—the librarians at PSJA High School—who answered our complaint about the lack of Mexican American authors on the shelves with a suggestion:
“Perhaps you could author titles that would fill those gaps, boys.”
Books are being banned from libraries to eliminate the stories and the lives that they tell, but to win the long fight, librarians have to work to be anti-oppressive.
What if you told someone you wish they were dead...and then they died?" the thinking of writing about grief was there -- I was processing how to process.
Being one of the few in our library working to alleviate any of this while calling out an unresponsive leadership team is a demoralizing blow from a faulty system. It erodes us and makes us feel we're working to change a broken system.
Self-care is the prescription of the day, but what does that really mean? By prioritizing authentic self-care, we empower ourselves and our communities.