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WOC+Lib: Statement Against White Appropriation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color’s Labor

  • 1.  WOC+Lib: Statement Against White Appropriation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color’s Labor

    Posted Sep 07, 2021 12:16 PM
    A must-read! Please share with your networks. 

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    From: Patricia Southard Greenstein <southard@gwu.edu>
    Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 1:09 PM
    Subject: [apala-l] WOC+Lib: Statement Against White Appropriation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color's Labor
    To: APALA <APALA-L@lists.gseis.ucla.edu>


    We been telling you and you still don't listen.
    "BIPOC library, archives, and information workers and educators are tired of your Diversity Theater. "

    https://www.wocandlib.org/features/2021/9/3/statement-against-white-appropriation-of-black-indigenous-and-people-of-colors-labor
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    Posted on behalf of the authors.


    All best,
    Tricia G.
    APALA M&P
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    Twanna 

    Twanna Hodge, MLIS
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    University of Florida Libraries 
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