swordsdance:

coming out as a lesbian & being asked if you’ve ever dated a man is such a catch 22 cause you know if you say yes they’re gonna think you’re open to fucking men but you just “chose” women after having a bad experience with a man or something but if you say no they’re gonna tell you there’s no way you can know for sure if you haven’t tried being with a man. ladies tell me if this is a reach but i almost feel like the core tenet of lesbophobia is that no one sees lesbianism as a real identity & everyone thinks it’s impossible for women to not be attracted to men

Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued

historybizarre:

As some librarians today contemplate ways to decolonize libraries—for
example, to make them less reflective of Eurocentric ways of organizing
knowledge—it is instructive to look to Porter as a progenitor of the
movement. Starting with little, she used her tenacious curiosity to
build one of the world’s leading repositories for black history and
culture: Howard’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
But she also brought critical acumen to bear on the way the center’s
materials were cataloged, rejecting commonly taught methods as too
reflective of the way whites thought of the world.

Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued