If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message.
You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too.
We need help, not acclaim.
No more of this hero stuff. Didn't you get that out of your system in 2020?
Stand with us, not behind us.
Agree with everything you post pretty much but sometimes (at least for me) it’s nice to get verbal acknowledgement about the good we do.
Agreed that people need to back it up with action
May 14, 2025 02:00I’m all about recognition but the hero rhetoric (for librarians, teachers, nurses, all feminized labor) needs to stop. It’s exactly what we do to moms:
