Fobazi M. Ettarh

@fobettarh.bsky.social

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Academic. Librarian. Creator of the concept “vocational awe.” PhD student at UIUC’s iSchool. Game designer of Killing Me Softly.

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I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

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Violet Affleck: "To confront the Long COVID crisis I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC light in government facilities, including jails and detention centers and mask mandates in county medical facilities. And most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason." 🔥🔥🔥

Violet Affleck made a public comment opposing the proposed mask ban in #LosAngeles! 🔥 #LA #healthyoutube.com

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Happy hundredth anniversary of this news headline from The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio. (July 9, 1924.)

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"from a place of knowledge" is so telling a man will spend ages worldbuilding to permit ancient dragons to exist in their setting before having a conversation with a woman with enough depth to depict them as people with interiority, huh

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I just saw an interview with a male fantasy author where he said "I guess I haven't really written female protagonists because it's not really something I feel like I can write from a place of knowledge." Reader, this man wrote a series with a whole ass ancient dragon as their protagonist. 🙄

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Ah haha oh god, VUW English Department is closing its Facebook page because Meta AI is automatically responding to comments there like it is the actual English Department. I don't actually know how this is not illegal.

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Today we're celebrating fan favorite @fobettarh.bsky.social's Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves #LeadPipeRetrospective

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipewww.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

So there was this woman who went to ALA COVID positive without letting anyone know (and went to various outside things UNMASKED). And people are (rightfully) upset and criticizing. But I wonder if a lot of that anger is projection. Because let’s be real she wasn’t the only one unmasked at ALA.

An experience of a lifetime, and I’m so blessed to have experienced it live (on Amazon)! #KendrickLamar #HappyJuneteenth

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DRAGONFLIGHT (1978) Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30" For the first book in Anne McCaffrey's now legendary Dragonriders of Pern series, I wanted to create a literal visualization of the title. I selected an aerial point-of-view and tilted the horizon to simulate the dizzying sensation of flight. 1/4

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"A Brief History of the Santa Carcossa Archipelago," Bitter Karella (2023)

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Very much connected to @fobettarh.bsky.social ‘s concept of “vocational awe.” 📚

I’m gonna be honest and maybe I’m jaded but all this talk of the library being “magical” sometimes rubs me the wrong way. Like it isn’t magic. It’s underpaid workers doing all this shit for you. It isn’t someone waving a wand and shit gets done. Idk. I’m just irritable today.

Drake finally drops a new diss track…yawn…anyway look at Chloe! As a Chiweenie it’s half her day today! Isn’t she cute??? #CincoDeMayo

Say happy birthday to my doggie baby Chloe! She just turned 1! :D

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But at least we tackled that TikTok menace

In the continuation of the Ettarh sisters killing the game, my sister has made her YouTube debut! Repping Jersey and being awesome! :D youtu.be/auSqAsuIky0?...

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B'nai Brith says this poem glorifies martyrdom and got it removed from a display at the Toronto public library. Palestinian children having hope and love is apparently unacceptable.

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"This is still who we are" by @fobettarh.bsky.social "It’s exhausting to see the constant denial of a truth that we (should) all know— there is no one true librarian. There are plenty of #librarians who are homophobic and transphobic and racist and sexist and ableist and so on." 📜📚

This is still who we arefobaziettarh.com So recently there have been a slew of anti-librarian legislation. Between library boards trying to remove the young adult designation or Louisiana's HB 777 which would criminalize libraries or librari...

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I've seen little recognition thus far that states banned abortion in 1840s-60s explicitly because they were panicked about increasing numbers of non-Anglican immigrants and the emancipation of Black slaves. Then, as now, abortion bans were about forcing more white women to have more white babies

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Happy National Library Week! Here is a late post for National Library Workers Day in response to some of the discourse I’ve seen in regard to the LitHub article about prison libraries. fobaziettarh.com/2024/04/09/t...

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"And so you see, as much as we want to deny this Texan librarian as “not a real librarian” she is in many ways the quintessential librarian. She is only continuing the long line of (white) women who see their job as librarians as missionary work to save the souls of those they consider beneath them.

It's time for the annual Jesus Christ Superstar viewing! :)

Everyday I learn a new random thing that sickle cell does to the body and it’s honestly so obnoxious!

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Most cyberpunk image you'll see in the real world this month. You may enjoy the alt-text, which provides context. Not that this image isn't glorious sans context...

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Happy Leap Day! We get an extra day in our wild and precious lives this year! I treasure May Sarton's advice in a letter to Madeleine L'Engle: "Be of good hope. Try to think in terms of ‘the long run’ and store up your honey like the bees." Store some honey for you & distribute some honey too!

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not stepping out of your comfort zone. I've lost count of the number of times a "mistake" has ended up teaching me something important or helping me discover something new. #FoundObjectArt

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I'm glad to see @fobettarh.bsky.social get a shout out here, because her work on vocational awe has completely changed my working life as a librarian. It's good for other professions to hear it, too. www.ft.com/content/6fb1...

‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everythingwww.ft.com The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

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It’s only fascism if it’s exactly like 1930s Europe, otherwise it’s just sparkling far right, hyper-nationalist populism that deploys antisemitic & racist propaganda in defense of a nostalgic concept of the traditional patriarchal family supposedly besieged by culturally-foreign & degenerate others.