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Librarians from all over the country convened in Los Angeles over the weekend to recommit themselves to diversity and inclusion.
At this year’s National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC), which has been held annually since 2002 save for a three-year sabbatical, many of the nation’s most inclusive librarians gathered to discuss how they can “contend with the oppressors within.”
“White privilege is being able to choose to avoid discomfort.”
“Each of us must develop the capacity to recognize and contend with the oppressors within, as well as to value and nurture the aspects of ourselves that yearn for liberation,” a handout for the conference suggests, later posted to the NDLC website.
“Our social world is blanketed with interlocking oppressions like sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism, [and] classism, and individuals experience these oppressions in different ways depending on the context,” it continues. “Sometimes people experience multiple oppressions at one time, while in other instances they are both oppressed and have certain privileges.”
This year’s conference lasted four days and featured more than 50 different lectures on the relationship between libraries and diversity, including “Library Diversification and Transgender Bodies: A Metaspatial Approach” and “Macro Impact of Microaggression: Exploring Microaggressions in Librarianship.”
The theme for the conference was “Bridges to Inclusion,” which endeavored to “highlight issues related to diversity and inclusion that affect staff, users, and institutions in the library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields.”
Notably, the conference attendees were required to abide by a “Code of Conduct” that prohibited “verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion.”
Violations of the code of conduct were documented in an online reporting system, and could result in sanctions or expulsion from the conference without a refund.
Many of the conference attendees were active on social media, where they tweeted about the various lectures and panels.
“I want 2 know why white people can’t deal w @AprilHathcock saying she’d like space 2 talk amongst other POC w/out white people,” one attendee tweeted, apparently discussing a speaker who suggested setting aside segregated spaces for black people only.
“Library Diversification and Transgender Bodies: A Metaspatial Approach” and “Macro Impact of Microaggression: Exploring Microaggressions in Librarianship.”
Yeah, and all those racist crackers are privileged privileged privileged!!!!!! If your white you are autmoatically Rich and privileged and you should go kill yourself because your evil. SARCASM. This story MAKES ME WANT TO PUUUUUUUKE!!!!
originally posted by: SallieSunshine
A large proportion of white males who come to the library are of a disadvantaged group - homeless men, abandoned youth, men with substance abuse problems, elderly men who can't afford to air condition or heat their homes all day so they turn it off and spend the day at the library, impoverished men who can't afford internet at home so come to the library to use it, unemployed men looking for jobs, mentally ill men. You get the picture.
Sal
a reply to: TheBulk
Notably, the conference attendees were required to abide by a “Code of Conduct” that prohibited “verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion.”
originally posted by: introvert
I'm unsure what this has to do with Liberals, Democrats or progressives.
You're right....the author of this new policy was undoubtedly a Trump supporter..
I'm sure they have a library wing dedicated to George W. Bush in this library. Great observation...
originally posted by: avgguy
a reply to: ezramullins
Librarians make bank dude. Google their salaries and it'll make you wan to vomit.