Winter Slow Down
We’re entering a Winter Slow Down to wrap up 2022 tasks and set intentions for 2023.
remembering bell: Reflections from Community Study, New on up//root
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 on up//root: a we here publication, the six authors reflect on and pay homage to their time together, exploring what bell and these gatherings meant to each of them.
Announcing We Reads’ Autumn Collection
New season, new reads! We Reads’ latest, autumnal collection is now available to explore.
SPARC supports We Here’s publication, up//root, with second $20,000 grant
SPARC, a project of the New Venture Fund, granted We Here $20,000 for the second year in a row. The grant chiefly goes toward compensating editors, authors, and peer reviewers for up//root: a we here publication.
We Together: We Here’s Mentorship Program
We Together, our mentorship program, gets a fresh title and brand identity just before we launch our second cohort.
The 2021 Wrap Up
The 2021 Wrap Up featuring all that We Here was able to achieve during the year, thanks to Team We, member communities, Patreon and Seed Circle supporters, Community School instructional designers, and more.
‘Submit a Job’ is changing
Our ‘Submit a Job’ feature is changing. Starting January 10, 2022, we’ll be charging to share jobs with our private mailing list and private member only area on our website.
New Course: Words on Display: Curating Library Exhibitions
We’re excited to welcome Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler back to the Community School to lead this new 4-week, asynchronous course, “Words on Display: Curating Library Exhibitions,” opening for registration 11/15, 1p ET USA.
Introducing Community Study
A new member-conceived and facilitated offering for the we here community.
‘The Problem with Latinidad’
A critical discussion on the single narrative of Latinidad, anti-Blackness & white privilege within Latinx communities, US imperialism, and Indigenous erasure from the perspectives of library & archives workers.
You’re Invited: Making Knowledge Justice
We Here is privileged to announce book launch events for Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge López-McKnight from MIT Press.
The We Here Mentorship Program: Year One
The We Here Mentorship Program is still in its first year. We sat down with the folks who manage the program, We Here Community Admins Crystal Chen and Nicollette Davis to learn more.
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.
We Reads: Literature That Nourishes Us
A new project highlighting BIPOC voices in literature.
up//root Welcomes Two New Editors
up//root welcomes two new editors who responded to their call for students to join the team.
The 2020 Wrap Up
It’s here - a New Year and The 2020 Wrap Up, outlining all that we were able to accomplish and the incredible collaborators we were blessed to work with in our first 9 months as an entity.