Copyright Waffle Episode 23 with Emily Drabinski

Chris and Jane (https://copyrightliteracy.org/) talk to incoming President of the American Library Association Emily Drabinski about critical librarianship and its relationship with copyright literacy. We hear about Emily's journey to library leadership, how she first encountered copyright questions, her plans for engaging with the library community and some weird facts about books. We also get to hear the song she commissioned to soundtrack her forthcoming presidency.

Music video for Emily Drabinski Rocking the ALA Presidency: https://youtu.be/L1teapiZDVw

Emily Drabinski's website: https://www.emilydrabinski.com/
Emily on twitter: https://twitter.com/edrabinski?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Emily Drabinski's pre-keynote talk for LILAC 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztq_tjtl4zg
Press release when Emily became ALA President: https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/drabinski-wins-2023-2024-ala-presidency
Emily on critical librarianship: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/537/
Laura Quilter: https://polsci.umass.edu/people/laura-quilter-0
Life story of Christine Jorgensen https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/cold-war-beginnings/christine-jorgensen/
Emily's presentation in 2021 at FestivIL - Teaching the Radical Catalogue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IfrVFiKyc
Radical Teacher journal: https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/
The film with Judith Butler 'Examined Life'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HZaPkF6qE
Commentary on Emily winning the ALA Presidency: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/drabinski-wins-2023-2024-ala-presidency/
Library Futures discussion with Emily: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/four-questions-with-emily-drabinski-and-kelvin-watson

Emily's Heroes
Dean Spade founder of the Silvia Rivera Transgender Archives: http://www.deanspade.net/projects/sylvia-rivera-law-project/
Mariame Kaba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariame_Kaba and Million Experiments: https://millionexperiments.com/
Ruth Gilmore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wilson_Gilmore

Boise Idaho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise,_Idaho