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community for BIPOC library workers first. 🌿 community school + community study + we here press + we reads + we together.
PRE-ORDER WEDNESDAY!! ❤️‍🔥 Pre-order the 2nd printing of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social starting Wednesday, 10/29, 3p Eastern USA. www.weherepress.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
WE SOLD OUT IN 4 DAYS. a second printing is coming and sales for it will open soon. to hear when, sign up for our newsletter www.wehere.space/newsletter
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
GET YOUR CALENDAR OUT 🗓️ and write these two dates down…

10/16, 2p ET USA: Dorothy Berry’s (@dorothyjberry.bsky.social) The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities available for purchase. The first 50 copies sold will be signed 🫢 www.weherepress.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
THE WAIT IS OVER – The first episode of We Reads: The Podcast is now available! 🎧

Tune in as hosts dive into their reading journeys, genre preferences, and what to expect from this coming season 🤭

www.wehere.space/we-reads-pod...
#WeReadsthePodcast
September 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Coming up on June 17: Documenting Dissent: Capturing Student Protests, Navigating Disinformation, and Ethical Considerations from ASERL www.aserl.org/event/docume...
May 27, 2024 at 11:29 PM
We Here team member Nicollette Davis was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers this week! We’re thrilled for @literaryjones.bsky.social and so appreciative of all she does to support our communities as a Community Admin & We Together program manager. www.libraryjournal.com/story/nicoll...
May 3, 2024 at 3:13 PM
What are the threads of contemporary critical scholarship in LIS? What are the possibilities, implications, and limitations of the critical in our praxis, work, and knowledge production?

We Here Members, join us for this course! Registration closes April 2: www.wehere.space/shop/p/conte...
March 28, 2024 at 2:23 AM
There’s a new We Here Community School course enrolling now! This one is open 💫 only to We Here community members💫: Contemporary Critical Thought in LIS Theory & Practice - A Six Week Suite of Encounters & Movements  - find details below.
March 13, 2024 at 11:14 PM
🔉Hip-Hop Beyond 50: Protecting and Promoting Culture, February 21st at 1:00 p.m ET hosted by the U.S. Copyright Office
www.copyright.gov/events/black...
February 10, 2024 at 6:58 PM
We Here® project and program leaders are excited to announce that through our fiscal sponsor, the Greater Washington Community Foundation, we’ve received a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for the three-year initiative “Dream-Shaping Our Community.”
January 31, 2024 at 3:24 PM
💡Two days left to register for Writing Your Personal Annual Review - A Four Week Manifesting Series! Some words from past participants about their experience:
January 27, 2024 at 8:10 PM
In this first month of 2024, we’re reflecting on the work the squad accomplished last year even as we dream about what’s ahead. We’re excited to announce our 2023 Wrap Up has dropped. 📦 www.wehere.space/the-2023-wra...
January 25, 2024 at 1:50 AM
another good one! 😍
Archives for the People: Building Ethical Community Archives. A panel discussion with Nancy Liliana Godoy, Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, and Chaitra Powell.
Jan 24 2024 at 12 pm PST. miami.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 13, 2024 at 9:37 PM
event boost!
from fellows in Rare Book School's Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage: a virtual workshop series on salary negotiation and managing funds & budgets. open to all, but will be aimed at BIPOC workers and students. links to register below.
January 13, 2024 at 9:31 PM
There’s no better way to start a new year than by learning some new journaling practices. 💫 Registration is now open for this asynchronous four-week series from We Here's Community School! www.wehere.space/shop/p/perso...
January 13, 2024 at 3:29 AM
event boost:
join @nicolethelibrarian.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Toby Jenkins about the importance of cultural leadership and her new book, The Hip-Hop Mindset. Wednesday, January 31st at 6PM, in person and online! sites.google.com/view/bakerle...
January 8, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Continuing a practice we adopted at the end of 2022, We Here is implementing a Winter Slow Down today through January 15, 2024. Catch ya then. 👋🏽
December 16, 2023 at 1:38 AM
Team We Reads is proud to share their Winter 2023 Collection of published novels, short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, hand-picked by BIPOC library & archives workers across our private membership spaces. ✨❄️ wehere.space/current-coll...
December 15, 2023 at 4:24 AM
boosting this cfp shared to our spaces:
Our Bodies: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies at Princeton University June 14, 2024. libguides.princeton.edu/GSISC2024
December 9, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Earlier this week, members of We Here's Community Study and We Reads released a list of resources to help folks understand why a free Palestine is necessary: tr.ee/7mHN4TabRe
November 3, 2023 at 4:48 AM
an upcoming webinar featuring members of the We Here community: "Why Do I Stay in Librarianship? — The DEI Perspective," Nov 1, 2023. 💜 www.aserl.org/event/why-do...
October 30, 2023 at 9:57 PM