The Chronic Librarian
@chroniclibrarian.bsky.social
A chronically ill human trying to be a librarian outside of a library. Please talk to me about: spreadsheets, romance novels, disability justice, and witchcraft.
Find more of my work here: https://buttondown.com/TheChronicLibrarian
Find more of my work here: https://buttondown.com/TheChronicLibrarian
As a largely homebound person, my house isn't just a safe space for me, it is often the -- only -- space for me.
Don't be a dick when you visit a homebound person - take your dishes to the kitchen and don't make insensitive comments. We are literally trapped with our roommates and their guests.
Don't be a dick when you visit a homebound person - take your dishes to the kitchen and don't make insensitive comments. We are literally trapped with our roommates and their guests.
September 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
As a largely homebound person, my house isn't just a safe space for me, it is often the -- only -- space for me.
Don't be a dick when you visit a homebound person - take your dishes to the kitchen and don't make insensitive comments. We are literally trapped with our roommates and their guests.
Don't be a dick when you visit a homebound person - take your dishes to the kitchen and don't make insensitive comments. We are literally trapped with our roommates and their guests.
One thing that able-bodied people don't realize about living with a homebound disabled person is that our physical space means something different.
It isn't that I don't want to share space, but I also don't have anywhere else to go if their guests are noisy or rude.
It isn't that I don't want to share space, but I also don't have anywhere else to go if their guests are noisy or rude.
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
One thing that able-bodied people don't realize about living with a homebound disabled person is that our physical space means something different.
It isn't that I don't want to share space, but I also don't have anywhere else to go if their guests are noisy or rude.
It isn't that I don't want to share space, but I also don't have anywhere else to go if their guests are noisy or rude.
God, I get so tired of having to explain to people that if they want to be a wellness brand, they should just own that and proclaim the class rules they want. Instead, I just get told that I am too poor to be part of a community theoretically founded around accessibility tools.
September 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
God, I get so tired of having to explain to people that if they want to be a wellness brand, they should just own that and proclaim the class rules they want. Instead, I just get told that I am too poor to be part of a community theoretically founded around accessibility tools.
One of my red flags for authors is them believing that black cats are a portent of evil.
I didn't expect to bump into this in a health memoir.
I didn't expect to bump into this in a health memoir.
September 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One of my red flags for authors is them believing that black cats are a portent of evil.
I didn't expect to bump into this in a health memoir.
I didn't expect to bump into this in a health memoir.
Can we please stop writing supposedly nuanced books on chronic illness that don't acknowledge capitalism and how it limits access to food and time for care?
- signed someone tired of white feminist takes on "Eastern" medicine
- signed someone tired of white feminist takes on "Eastern" medicine
September 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Can we please stop writing supposedly nuanced books on chronic illness that don't acknowledge capitalism and how it limits access to food and time for care?
- signed someone tired of white feminist takes on "Eastern" medicine
- signed someone tired of white feminist takes on "Eastern" medicine
I just messaged someone to see if they want my list of citations for a conversation I had with them over lunch.
In typical goth spoonie fashion, it was about end of life planning and wills. This can be such a gift to family members, because they can have a plan in an already stressful time.
In typical goth spoonie fashion, it was about end of life planning and wills. This can be such a gift to family members, because they can have a plan in an already stressful time.
August 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I just messaged someone to see if they want my list of citations for a conversation I had with them over lunch.
In typical goth spoonie fashion, it was about end of life planning and wills. This can be such a gift to family members, because they can have a plan in an already stressful time.
In typical goth spoonie fashion, it was about end of life planning and wills. This can be such a gift to family members, because they can have a plan in an already stressful time.
“Not Having the Energy to Even Live”: A Feminist Disability Perspective on Long COVID and Caregiving - Smith - 2025 - Health & Social Care in the Community - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...
“Not Having the Energy to Even Live”: A Feminist Disability Perspective on Long COVID and Caregiving
Long COVID is defined as the persistence of symptoms three or more months after infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19). A growing body of research docume....
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July 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Not Having the Energy to Even Live”: A Feminist Disability Perspective on Long COVID and Caregiving - Smith - 2025 - Health & Social Care in the Community - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...
Okay, bookkeeping seems like it could actually be fun? It seems a bit wild that someone could pay me to do that.
June 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Okay, bookkeeping seems like it could actually be fun? It seems a bit wild that someone could pay me to do that.
Of Monsters and Mainframes is seriously making my day. It is like reading a murder or cousin stuck in the Universal Monster universe.
June 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Of Monsters and Mainframes is seriously making my day. It is like reading a murder or cousin stuck in the Universal Monster universe.
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Knowing When to Leave
It has been a while since I have had the brain space to write - disability does that sometimes, but I said I was going to embrace the mess when I started...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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low and behold, 30 minutes later, I get an email saying that maybe they could sort of help with one of my accessibility concerns. Funny how that wasn't an option in our 1:1 emails.
June 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
low and behold, 30 minutes later, I get an email saying that maybe they could sort of help with one of my accessibility concerns. Funny how that wasn't an option in our 1:1 emails.
"If you remember anything from my time here, please let it be that I had insights because of my disability, not that I wanted pity because of it. Everyone is only ever temporarily able-bodied, so how one treats disabled people is how one is asking to be treated down the line"
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"If you remember anything from my time here, please let it be that I had insights because of my disability, not that I wanted pity because of it. Everyone is only ever temporarily able-bodied, so how one treats disabled people is how one is asking to be treated down the line"
My little inner imp threw a somewhat poetic message in a group chat announcing my departure (due to inaccessibility) saying "
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My little inner imp threw a somewhat poetic message in a group chat announcing my departure (due to inaccessibility) saying "
I need more people to read Isaac Fellman's "Notes From a Regicide" who want to discuss the tarot cards with me.
June 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I need more people to read Isaac Fellman's "Notes From a Regicide" who want to discuss the tarot cards with me.
Reading sports romances can hit hard as a disabled person - they get the fear and the grief of not being able to do what you spent years training for.
February 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reading sports romances can hit hard as a disabled person - they get the fear and the grief of not being able to do what you spent years training for.
If you could ask a librarian for help with anything, what would it be?
#librarian #informationmanagement
#librarian #informationmanagement
January 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you could ask a librarian for help with anything, what would it be?
#librarian #informationmanagement
#librarian #informationmanagement
One of my pet peeves is people posting unlabeled graphs on substack notes to generate engagement through outrage. I just spent 20 minutes poking the report but can't share the critiques because the "discussion" is behind a paywall. What if I don't want to participate unless I know data is crunched.
January 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
One of my pet peeves is people posting unlabeled graphs on substack notes to generate engagement through outrage. I just spent 20 minutes poking the report but can't share the critiques because the "discussion" is behind a paywall. What if I don't want to participate unless I know data is crunched.
One of the funny things about being a systems oriented person (aquarius stellium) is how doing basic things doesn't make any sense unless I understand the relationships between all the pieces. Ex: I need to understand the science behind each step of trying to make sourdough to be comfortable.
January 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One of the funny things about being a systems oriented person (aquarius stellium) is how doing basic things doesn't make any sense unless I understand the relationships between all the pieces. Ex: I need to understand the science behind each step of trying to make sourdough to be comfortable.
The weirdness of "librarian" being a helpful description of what you do, but also having been to library science school and knowing that libraries can function as extensions of the colonial state.
January 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The weirdness of "librarian" being a helpful description of what you do, but also having been to library science school and knowing that libraries can function as extensions of the colonial state.
The hilarity of being a librarian by training and thus trying to find ways to cite my sources in a reliable format on social media. Now editing a spreadsheet to include at least some of my notes... Let's see how long this takes 😂
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
The hilarity of being a librarian by training and thus trying to find ways to cite my sources in a reliable format on social media. Now editing a spreadsheet to include at least some of my notes... Let's see how long this takes 😂