Jul 24, 2017
Why Are Opioid Users Overdosing in Libraries, and How Should Librarians Respond?
Librarians across the country are witnessing opioid overdoses on the job. Here’s how some library systems are responding.
Librarians across the country are witnessing opioid overdoses on the job. Here’s how some library systems are responding.
Ferries are a salve against a society that prioritizes productivity above all else.
“This is where I’ve come, to the America of lights and dreams. And if I am better off I cannot tell.”
“I generally try to keep politics out of the classroom, but this year it hasn’t been possible.”
“What a menace, to live in bodies that are so frequently assumed to be corrupt.”
Whether fleeing the Russian Revolution or running from martial law-era Taiwan, my families have made some narrow escapes.
Masami Yoshizawa hauled his radiated cows down to Tokyo, demanding that his animals be studied.
“Slathered with excess and sparing no luxury, a bleak, depressing vibe permeates the Mardan Palace hotel.”
“Stripped free of technology and social contact, maybe I can finally reflect on the man I’d like to be.”
As an educator, I’m still discerning what it means to try and protect my students while empowering them.
My partner and I were trying to have a baby despite our climate fears. Then Trump was elected.
“I’m not naïve enough to think that becoming Austrian will make up for everything that happened to my family.”
Notes from 2016’s Jerusalem Day, an Israeli national holiday.
“You hope and hope they’ll get their chance and you know it’s possible they won’t.”
“This is doing time. This is giving away a piece of your life. If I did get fixed, it wasn’t jail that did the fixing.”
The phrase used was “barbed wire fever”—what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder.
I witnessed my mother work twice as hard as the men under the hot sun. All she had were her hands.
The police are there, expecting us, academics in revolutionaries’ outfits.
“Gracias a Dios I still have all my fingers.”
“Tourists accumulate photos and mementos; travelers collect memories and friends.”
