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1. Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2019 19:51:42 UTC Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

   • Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

   Just your friendly neighborhood librarian reminder that Little Free Libraries is a group that does stuff like partner with cops and is often a part of gentrifying neighborhoods. You can read a really 🔥 overview of some of the major issues here https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/17

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   • Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2019 19:55:22 UTC Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

     The article had reccs for engaging, but you can also just make an un-branded book swap box or “take a book, leave a book”

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   • Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2019 20:06:11 UTC Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

     UNBRAND YOUR BOOK SWAPPING!

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   • Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2019 20:27:21 UTC Ruby Rhod

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     • Ruby Rhod
     @platypus nice, direct call out of Madison. There's a lot of LFLs here but they're in the rich and white hipster neighborhoods. I'm living in an area with a lot of impoverished AA and Latinx families and there are none around except some unbranded LFL clones sitting in front of the grade school nearby -- half the contents in English, half in Spanish.
     
     I've wanted one in my neighborhood for a while but didn't want to pay for one or have the LFL branding because it seemed like a waste of money.
     
     Closest libraries to my neighborhood are far out of the reach of the kids, so I think to would help to have something but it's reassuring I was right when my gut told me that giving these people money for LFL was a waste for several reasons