Author bios are based on date of submission of final chapters and may not represent author current professional roles, pronouns, or names. Authors are welcome to share changes, and in those instances, the bios below may be different than those published in the print edition of Grabbing Tea. Liam Adler is the Director of Library Services … Continue reading Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Identity and Libraries Author Bios
Author: Shawnta Smith-Cruz
Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Archives and Practice Author Bios
Author bios are based on date of submission of final chapters and may not represent author current professional roles, pronouns, or names. Authors are welcome to share changes, and in those instances, the bios below may be different than those published in the print edition of Grabbing Tea. Julie Adamo is the Director of Collection Strategies and … Continue reading Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Archives and Practice Author Bios
Honoring the Salsa Soul Sisters
This blog was originally posted on February 27th, 2024 on Reckon.news as 5 things you need to know about Salsa Soul Sisters, the 70s Black and Brown lesbians who paved the way: This fierce 1970s group of Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous lesbians built community, fought for justice, and threw legendary parties – their story … Continue reading Honoring the Salsa Soul Sisters
Recalling Black Lesbian Futures
I had the honor of co-hosting an event this past week on Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 with Briona Simone Jones to help bring to the community her new anthology, Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (The New Press, 2021). The event, titled Black Lesbian Futures featured Cheryl Clarke, Briona Simone Jones, Jewelle … Continue reading Recalling Black Lesbian Futures
Racism is… a conjuring.
Racism is savage. True story. Just last September, a white woman tried to eat me while walking to the Metro. I was relieved to see no police, and reached for my phone, but I didn’t call for them - to whom would they have pointed their guns? Instead, I took a video. I boarded my … Continue reading Racism is… a conjuring.
Call: Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Librarianship
This book project will be a sampling of conversations of theory and practice as it pertains to LGBTQIA librarianship and community engagement in a post-Stonewall era. It will situate readers in conversations that build on a queer past and identify a current state of queer librarianship and community engagement. We seek LGBTQIA-identified librarians and community … Continue reading Call: Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Librarianship
CFP – Queer Conversations Panel
We are hoping to put together a panel for NWSA 2020 (Minneapolis, November 12-15, 2020). The inhibiting technology of scholarly publishing doesn’t allow for the development of a truly transnational feminist scholarly landscape. In our panel proposal, titled, Grabbing Tea: Conversations in Queer Academia, we propose using the concept of the “queer conversation” as an alternative … Continue reading CFP – Queer Conversations Panel
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz 