raquel
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raquel, they/them, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇺-merican / mlis student / book recc collector
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#NYC update: The current hotline # is not secure. Groups are meeting soon to come up with a city-wide hotline #. I took the number out of the zine. Report to @nycicewatch on IG and to Tish James' office.
(NYC is WAY behind the curve here! LA had a hotline last Jan.)
drive.google.com/file/d/1I9AT...
(NYC is WAY behind the curve here! LA had a hotline last Jan.)
drive.google.com/file/d/1I9AT...
NYC-SALUTE-zine-10-28.pdf
drive.google.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#NYC update: The current hotline # is not secure. Groups are meeting soon to come up with a city-wide hotline #. I took the number out of the zine. Report to @nycicewatch on IG and to Tish James' office.
(NYC is WAY behind the curve here! LA had a hotline last Jan.)
drive.google.com/file/d/1I9AT...
(NYC is WAY behind the curve here! LA had a hotline last Jan.)
drive.google.com/file/d/1I9AT...
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A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
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Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
September 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time
i'm glad the hellgate article seems to have answered most people's questions since it's gone from reporters blowing up my phone at all hours to nothing... but I hope we can still get people's attention re: all this inventory that needs to get moved in the next four months lol
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
i'm glad the hellgate article seems to have answered most people's questions since it's gone from reporters blowing up my phone at all hours to nothing... but I hope we can still get people's attention re: all this inventory that needs to get moved in the next four months lol
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Having spent many years in and orbiting Bluestockings: take from this that these kinds of spaces can and will exist again. And it takes you, me and all of us working to make radical space possible, we just have to try.
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Having spent many years in and orbiting Bluestockings: take from this that these kinds of spaces can and will exist again. And it takes you, me and all of us working to make radical space possible, we just have to try.
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IF YOU READ THIS YOU ARE GAY
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
IF YOU READ THIS YOU ARE GAY
also it's really funny the amount of people who lie about their birth year and then some fucking nerd on wikipedia proves it lol
September 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
also it's really funny the amount of people who lie about their birth year and then some fucking nerd on wikipedia proves it lol
An author I like posted on another author as her "favorite Virgo," one thing led to another... I downloaded my goodreads dataset to see if there's an astrological sign that I like more/less/anything interesting. anyway I'm about 80 birthdays in and I'm genuinely surprised who gets wikipedia articles
September 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
An author I like posted on another author as her "favorite Virgo," one thing led to another... I downloaded my goodreads dataset to see if there's an astrological sign that I like more/less/anything interesting. anyway I'm about 80 birthdays in and I'm genuinely surprised who gets wikipedia articles
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Hey radical library comrades- for my MLIS I am taking a management course taught by a man who values hierarchy and "authoritative" leadership, especially "in emergencies" (Cincinnatus vibes) according to first lecture.
Anyone w/ leadership experience want to be interviewed for my first assignment?
Anyone w/ leadership experience want to be interviewed for my first assignment?
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hey radical library comrades- for my MLIS I am taking a management course taught by a man who values hierarchy and "authoritative" leadership, especially "in emergencies" (Cincinnatus vibes) according to first lecture.
Anyone w/ leadership experience want to be interviewed for my first assignment?
Anyone w/ leadership experience want to be interviewed for my first assignment?
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Getting thousands [up to 5000 people] out for a Scavenger Hunt across the city with less than 24 hour notice is a sign of power.
August 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Getting thousands [up to 5000 people] out for a Scavenger Hunt across the city with less than 24 hour notice is a sign of power.
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I really need y'all to think of your relationship with government as citizens, not customers or consumers.
The world isn't zero sum and framing every interaction you have through the lens of economics is rotting our society.
The world isn't zero sum and framing every interaction you have through the lens of economics is rotting our society.
August 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I really need y'all to think of your relationship with government as citizens, not customers or consumers.
The world isn't zero sum and framing every interaction you have through the lens of economics is rotting our society.
The world isn't zero sum and framing every interaction you have through the lens of economics is rotting our society.
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
i've been reading a lot of the ai-boyfriend reddit and chatgpt's update took away some people's saved chat-personas, and they are genuinely mourning. mostly people outside it just think it's weird and funny, which I get but also there's already been multiple people who have hurt themselves or
August 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
i've been reading a lot of the ai-boyfriend reddit and chatgpt's update took away some people's saved chat-personas, and they are genuinely mourning. mostly people outside it just think it's weird and funny, which I get but also there's already been multiple people who have hurt themselves or
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Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off
August 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off
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Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
gothamist.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
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I wrote BLACK FLAME for my adopted grandmother, Halina Mantell, who risked her life to photograph Nazi atrocities & narrowly escaped death in Auschwitz.
I think it's the best thing I've written so far. I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it, too.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
I think it's the best thing I've written so far. I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it, too.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Black Flame
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen...
us.macmillan.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I wrote BLACK FLAME for my adopted grandmother, Halina Mantell, who risked her life to photograph Nazi atrocities & narrowly escaped death in Auschwitz.
I think it's the best thing I've written so far. I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it, too.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
I think it's the best thing I've written so far. I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it, too.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.
July 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.
i finished my digital libraries final project and then clicked on other people's and they had, like, "how to bake a pie" and "my book recs (four books)".... grad school is mind numbingly stupid. someone please appreciate my labor: 116suffolk.omeka.net
Overview · Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St · Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St
Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St: Explore the cultural history of the Lower East Side through decades and centuries of one address.
116suffolk.omeka.net
July 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
i finished my digital libraries final project and then clicked on other people's and they had, like, "how to bake a pie" and "my book recs (four books)".... grad school is mind numbingly stupid. someone please appreciate my labor: 116suffolk.omeka.net
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This is what I mean when I say transphobes don't oppose "males" in "women's spaces"--they oppose trans women specifically and hope that disgust of us will help police how all women look and behave
May 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is what I mean when I say transphobes don't oppose "males" in "women's spaces"--they oppose trans women specifically and hope that disgust of us will help police how all women look and behave
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One of my favorite local movement hubs, the PO Box Collective, is holding an online fundraiser. PO Box is a cultural space, a political education space, an incubator of actions and ideas, and a place where mutual aid work happens. It's everything community should be. It's so worth supporting.
PO Box Collective - Rogers Park, Chicago
PO BOX is a creative collective & intergenerational social practice center dedicated to building Rogers Park community through radical art making, mutual aid & programming.
poboxcollective.us
April 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
One of my favorite local movement hubs, the PO Box Collective, is holding an online fundraiser. PO Box is a cultural space, a political education space, an incubator of actions and ideas, and a place where mutual aid work happens. It's everything community should be. It's so worth supporting.
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Jared Kushner’s parents didn’t pay $2.5 million to get him admitted to the Harvard year we both graduated from because they wanted him to get an education. That’s not what they were buying.
We should be honest about that.
We should be honest about that.
May 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Jared Kushner’s parents didn’t pay $2.5 million to get him admitted to the Harvard year we both graduated from because they wanted him to get an education. That’s not what they were buying.
We should be honest about that.
We should be honest about that.
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I’m still $495 away from meeting the cost of childcare during this writer’s conference.
Childcare isn’t easy or cheap to come by on the average day, but for a child w/ multiple disabilities, it’s often out of reach.
Because Art is non-verbal I just don’t trust respite services yet.
Can you help?
Childcare isn’t easy or cheap to come by on the average day, but for a child w/ multiple disabilities, it’s often out of reach.
Because Art is non-verbal I just don’t trust respite services yet.
Can you help?
I’m really bad at asking for help. I need to raise $1200 by the end of the day to accept my place at the @colgate.edu Writers Conference. I received a $500 scholarship but it’s not enough. If you can, please donate or share so I can write this book. 💜
gofund.me/8d093620
gofund.me/8d093620
Donate to Help Sinnamon Love Attend Colgate Writer's Conference, organized by Kamilah Rouse
Hi, I’m Sinnamon Love—a writer, cultural worker, and independent s… Kamilah Rouse needs your support for Help Sinnamon Love Attend Colgate Writer's Conference
gofund.me
May 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m still $495 away from meeting the cost of childcare during this writer’s conference.
Childcare isn’t easy or cheap to come by on the average day, but for a child w/ multiple disabilities, it’s often out of reach.
Because Art is non-verbal I just don’t trust respite services yet.
Can you help?
Childcare isn’t easy or cheap to come by on the average day, but for a child w/ multiple disabilities, it’s often out of reach.
Because Art is non-verbal I just don’t trust respite services yet.
Can you help?
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The fact that Kamala Harris used her first speech of 2025 to attack Trump's policies—and not to claim that in fact she won the election—shows how timid the Democratic Party has become.
May 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The fact that Kamala Harris used her first speech of 2025 to attack Trump's policies—and not to claim that in fact she won the election—shows how timid the Democratic Party has become.