Natasha Bailey
@natashakbailey.bsky.social
historian and library worker 📚 researching colonial Mexico, Nahua histories, pulque, plant-human relationships
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
try £33k Telegraph… in Oxford. I make £25k pa as a grade 2 library assistant and it’s still more than a junior research fellow here makes as a stipend
The Telegraph thinks we earn "£70k plus" in "the provinces". (The nationally bargained pay spine for that role tops out at about £63k and starts ten k lower).
May 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
try £33k Telegraph… in Oxford. I make £25k pa as a grade 2 library assistant and it’s still more than a junior research fellow here makes as a stipend
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Did you know that the JCB's digital platform, Americana, contains selections?
Selections are preset topical searches based on cataloging data.
Topics include early Mexican imprints, works related to the Nahuatl language, and items on slavery and abolition.
Learn more at americana.jcblibrary.org
Selections are preset topical searches based on cataloging data.
Topics include early Mexican imprints, works related to the Nahuatl language, and items on slavery and abolition.
Learn more at americana.jcblibrary.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Did you know that the JCB's digital platform, Americana, contains selections?
Selections are preset topical searches based on cataloging data.
Topics include early Mexican imprints, works related to the Nahuatl language, and items on slavery and abolition.
Learn more at americana.jcblibrary.org
Selections are preset topical searches based on cataloging data.
Topics include early Mexican imprints, works related to the Nahuatl language, and items on slavery and abolition.
Learn more at americana.jcblibrary.org
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The American Historical Association Council is complicit in genocide. www.historians.org/news/busines...
Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...
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January 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The American Historical Association Council is complicit in genocide. www.historians.org/news/busines...
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FOX News blaming Native people for the California fires is unspeakably irresponsible, devoid of anything near journalism, colonizer dodging of responsibility.
January 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
FOX News blaming Native people for the California fires is unspeakably irresponsible, devoid of anything near journalism, colonizer dodging of responsibility.