ALT What do we do about folks having a mental health crisis? Why aren't current solutions to mental health working? How is the system causing more harm? How about we... Listen to psychiatric survivors! 2 hour panel discussion on September 26th from 6-8 PM ET register: projectlets.org/fall-2024-series
ALT What is available for care and healing beyond psychiatry? What does it look like to reindigenize (decolonize care inside and outside of systems? How can non-clinical healing modalities support us while we navigate psychiatric and medical systems? Healing Outside the Medical Industrial Complex & Systems of Psychiatric Knowledge Friday, September 27th 5-7:30 PM ET Projectlets.org/fall-2024-series
ALT Khazaeen @khazaeenarchive. The War Notebook Project works with volunteers in Palestine and around the world to document The War on Gaza by collecting all published materials in Arabic and any other languages. Documents may include publications on the war, posters, designs, illustration, photographs, testimonies, or other forms. Background illustration of children sitting on the ground with a teddy bear. Logo of geometric design that reads “Khazaeen” in English and Arabic.
ALT Help Us Uplift Calls for Citizen Archivists. If you are aware of any additional archival initiatives that are actively seeking public submissions, please let us know in the comments. Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
ALT Digital portrait of Alice Wong, an Asian person smiling. She is wearing a trach at her neck and wearing a crew neck blouse. She is sitting in her power wheelchair. There is a cream colored circle crown on a purple background. Artist credit: Jen White-Johnson
ALT Title: Update on LAP Censorship Tracker from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. We launched the LAP Censorship tracker just over a month ago. We've heard from over 30 people at 28 institutions in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands. Here are some of the kinds of experiences that have been shared with us so far. Logo of white outline of book with kite strings attached on a red background. Background of multi-colored torn and ripped papers with Arabic text.
ALT Title: LAP Censorship Tracker Submissions. Event cancellations, removal of social media and blog posts, removal of book displays containing books about Palestine or the Middle East, prohibitions on visible display of support for Palestine (keffiyehs, watermelon pins), prohibitions on internal staff discussion of Palestine, increased policing and temporary closure of libraries, doxxing and threats to librarians speaking out about Palestine, resignations, firings, and demotions arrests of campus information workers.
ALT Title: Submit Your Story. If you've experienced censorship or repression at work for Palestine advocacy, please submit to our censorship tracker! And share with your colleagues! Link: tinyurl.com/lap-censorship.
ALT Cover of Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics by Jess Whatcott. Cover features an abstract landscape painting. A tall, black plant with tattered leaves stands in the foreground. Behind it, a large moons sits over a low horizon.
