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Up Root Publication 1/24/23 Up Root Publication 1/24/23

Community Forum and Award

In October, we asked members of our community to respond to a few prompts about community, care and knowledge production. The responses blew us away. We carefully selected submissions from five of our fellow library workers and/or students who shared their brilliance with us.

Rebekah McFarland 11/28/22 Rebekah McFarland 11/28/22

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.

Jennifer Price 11/28/22 Jennifer Price 11/28/22

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.

jaime ding 11/28/22 jaime ding 11/28/22

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.

Marissa Arterberry 11/28/22 Marissa Arterberry 11/28/22

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.

nicholae cline 11/28/22 nicholae cline 11/28/22

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.