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Call for New Members

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Open letter of solidarity with Palestine

up//root open letter of solidarity with Palestine

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up//root is now an independent publication.

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Moving Forward

Since 2020, up//root crafted space for BIPOC in LIS to express ourselves freely. For the past couple of years, we have been lucky to be funded through a SPARC grant that enabled us to compensate both authors and peer reviewers

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Pausing Submissions

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up//root announces 2022 community award

As a publication, it’s important for us to invite, nurture, and sustain conversations about care, knowledge production, community building, and disruption among BIPOC. We always want to show up for our community, and continue to be a space for us.

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Knowledge Justice at One

Join us in celebration of the one year anniversary of the book Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Science through Critical Race Theory from MIT Press, edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight. This event is open to the public and free to attend. Speaker participation is generously sponsored by up//root: a we here publication.

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What’s new at up//root

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Hiatus Extended

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Hiatus Update

The Editorial Team shares an update about our hiatus.

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Kristina and Megdi’s Editorial Introduction

Kristina and Megdi, 2021 editors, introduce themselves and their collective vision for up//root.

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Writer Resources

At up//root, we’re committed to disrupting the status quo of knowledge production. The editors have developed a set of documents to support writers who are considering publishing with us

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SPARC Supports We Here’s Publication, up//root, with $20,000 Grant

Recognizing We Here’s contribution to the library and archives community through the centering of Black and Indigenous folks and People of Color (BIPOC), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has provided a $20,000 grant toward their publication up//root.

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Two new editors join up//root!

up//root is excited to announce our two new editors! Please join us in welcoming Megdi Abebe (she/her) and Kristina Santiago (she/ella) to the editorial team.

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CFP: Our First Themed Issue on Anti-Blackness

Call for submissions on our first issue on anti-Blackness.

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up//root editorial team member application

up//root is excited to announce that the 2020-2023 editors, Joyce Gabiola, Sofia Leung, and Jorge López-McKnight, are looking for a current (first year-second semester or beyond master or undergraduate) student to join them in this editorial experiment of knowledge making.