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I Remember the Listening
Rebekah reflects on her agency from her childhood to the present, the impact the community had on them over the course of the Community Study, and their thoughts on participating in academia.
Permission to Unpack
This piece considers how, as Bone Black affirms, the construction or reconstruction of memory is a necessary recourse for healing and creative release.
Can’t We All Just Cathect Along?
We all engage with cathexis but we often conflate it with respect, positive conditional regard, and, most dangerously, love.
How do you declare love is boundless on a billboard with such stark edges?
A personal reflection on how jaime ding has been thinking about the limits of love, and the unlearning of such restraints.
On Reading bell hooks and Community Study as Grief Ritual
This is a reflection on Marissa Arterberry’s grieving process in the wake of bell hooks’ death. She explores personal milestones that bell was a part of, and shares one of her favorite bell hooks speeches.
loving on bell: an altar
Across the spring and summer months of 2022, participants in Community Study gathered together to honor the work and memory of our beloved ancestor bell hooks. In this series, we reflect on and pay homage to our time together, exploring what bell and these gatherings meant to each of us. This brief introduction and expression of gratitude by nicholae cline contextualizes the pieces in this series, highlighting some of the threads that bind these reflections together.
“Latinidad” as Erasure: Words from a Critical Discussion on the Single Narrative of Latinidad
The flat, limited narrative lacking in historical understanding and nuance of race and ethnicity that is dominant in the United States extends to those of Latine heritage. Considering this complexity, history, and understanding, in 2021, We Here brought together five library and archives workers of Latine heritage/Latin American culture for a critical conversation on the single narrative of Latinidad. This is the edited transcript of that discussion.
The Comprehensive Guide to Resisting Overcommitment
LIS workers often say: yes to library users, yes to colleagues, yes to supervisors, yes to administrators, and yes to community members. We find ourselves burnt-out when showing up for everyone, while leaving little for ourselves.