the feminist librarian: a newsletter

  • September 01, 2017 (let's pretend it's still) August 2017

    My August newsletter has been stuck in draft form since the 15th and as we head into Labor Day weekend I am finally ready to admit that autobiographical writing is not where my head has been this past...

  • July 16, 2017 July 2017

    It's an unseasonably cool Saturday evening (67 Fahrenheit) and as I fill in the gaps on this newsletter neighbors somewhere down the road are setting off fireworks. Other than fireworks, it's been mos...

  • June 15, 2017 June 2017

    I began this newsletter during the first heat wave of the summer -- three days of stifling 90+ heat and humidity. Our new apartment, though without central air (neither Hanna nor I have ever lived wit...

  • May 16, 2017 May 2017

    Here we are on a rainy, grey evening in Boston. I started this letter to all of you at lunch today, and thought I had saved it, but the draft seems to have been lost! Ugh. So here are my updates in wo...

  • April 16, 2017 April 2017

    I started this newsletter last night *en route* to Austin, Texas where I am spending a few days with my sister Maggie. I haven’t seen her in three years, so we’re excited to hang out together. I’m kee...

  • March 15, 2017 March 2017

    This past month of our lives has been dominated by two things, one sad and sudden, one mostly happy.

  • February 16, 2017 February 2017

    Well here we are. The past month has seen the advent of a new administration as well as a sustained wave of resistance in many forms. Hanna and I also got the unwelcome news on February 1st that our l...

  • January 15, 2017 January 2017

    Welcome to the first issue of *the feminist librarian: a newsletter*. Some of you likely remember that I got my start writing newsletters nearly thirty years ago with the Cook family *Tree House News ...