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<div style="text-align:center">Call for Proposals</div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><font face="Calibri">ACRL WA-OR Joint Fall Conference</font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="Calibri">October 24-25, 2019</font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="Calibri">Pack Forest Conference Center, Eatonville, WA</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><font face="Calibri">Deadline for Submissions: August 9, 2019</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="Calibri">Whiteness and Racism in Academic Libraries: Dismantling Structures of Oppression</font></b></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">The Fall 2019 conference takes place amongst intensified organizing of white nationalists on college campuses, continued brutality against black and brown communities, policies that restrict immigration and border movement, and policing
of body rights. In libraries we are making strategic claims towards equity, diversity and inclusion, yet our profession remains centered on cultures of white supremacy. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">This conference is an effort to openly acknowledge the ways that whiteness and racism are supported in our libraries, and strategies for practicing anti-racism across the breadth of our work. The goal is to explicitly name the racist
hegemony that underpins libraries and library work. Intersectional anti-racist practices must be central to our work in order to resist causing further harm. Investigations into how racism operates in tandem with white supremacy are essential to our work of
making libraries sites of equity and social justice. This conference calls on each of us to take active engagement in understanding and learning about racism in libraries, making ourselves and our library systems those that resist oppression. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">We invite proposals to join and extend these conversations. Sessions will consist of presentations, facilitated conversations, or trainings and workshops. While theory and praxis are central to this
work, we seek sessions that help library workers to examine and name </font>racialized<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> power dynamics, and to practice building anti-oppressive communities and services. We recognize that anti-racism work is not perfect, and
we expect proposals may include lessons learned for approaches that did not go as planned. Proposals that highlight these lessons learned should keep the focus on the ongoing work of dismantling racism and those most impacted by it. </font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Example topics for presentations and workshops may include, but are not limited to:</font></div>
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<li><font face="Calibri">Addressing white fragility and its impacts in libraries</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Policy audits and changes</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Resisting white nationalist organizing</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Leadership, recruitment and hiring practices that support library workers of color</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Support, retention and graduation of students of color</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Experiences of library workers and students of color</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Activism and programming that centers students of color</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Addressing and resisting cultures of white supremacy</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Affinity and caucus organizing in libraries</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Bystander intervention training</font></li><li><font face="Calibri">Lessons learned from interventions, policy changes, programming, etc.</font></li></ul>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="Calibri">How to Submit</font></b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="Calibri">Submit your proposals using our online form by
<b>August 9, 2019</b>.</font></div>
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<div><b><font face="Calibri">Resources</font></b></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">If you are just beginning to engage with racism and whiteness and need a starting point, we recommend beginning with Tema Okun’s<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dismantlingracism.org_uploads_4_3_5_7_43579015_whitesupcul13.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&r=z0rr0SiNBDBzhvfhoVBX4sCPIQ7aHETqnhMvkmnO-3U&m=BrnutHrcGf23u5v8QKwgSAsrB4SL-47op8lvssPscuQ&s=KLfB0VRf4MhwI6aEnPmGyBJZ7ppxVkzzqLEBH4L-HdM&e=" target="_blank"> </a></font><i><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dismantlingracism.org_uploads_4_3_5_7_43579015_whitesupcul13.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&r=z0rr0SiNBDBzhvfhoVBX4sCPIQ7aHETqnhMvkmnO-3U&m=BrnutHrcGf23u5v8QKwgSAsrB4SL-47op8lvssPscuQ&s=KLfB0VRf4MhwI6aEnPmGyBJZ7ppxVkzzqLEBH4L-HdM&e=" target="_blank">white
supremacy culture</a>; </i><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Jennifer Brown, Jennifer Ferretti, Sofia Leung, and Marisa Mendez-Brady’s</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> 2018 article
</span><i style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__muse.jhu.edu_article_706994_pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&r=z0rr0SiNBDBzhvfhoVBX4sCPIQ7aHETqnhMvkmnO-3U&m=BrnutHrcGf23u5v8QKwgSAsrB4SL-47op8lvssPscuQ&s=Kl36YixuKGh3pwjICk2GAeiovMRcKgvyycElBRKhsWo&e=" target="_blank">We Here: Speaking Our Truth</a>;
</i><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Robin DiAngelo’s book </span><i style="white-space:pre-wrap">White Fragility: Why It’s Hard for White People To Talk About Racism;</i><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> and Lorin Jackson and LaQuanda Onyemeh’s web-based
forum <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wocandlib.org_&d=DwMGaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&r=z0rr0SiNBDBzhvfhoVBX4sCPIQ7aHETqnhMvkmnO-3U&m=BrnutHrcGf23u5v8QKwgSAsrB4SL-47op8lvssPscuQ&s=UkKV1mnOimrPhLN0oWmNjFU8fJAvl1kbQS3GLqL-Vek&e=" target="_blank">WOC+Lib</a>. </span></font></div>
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<div>For questions or comments contact <a href="http://president@acrlwa.org" target="_blank">president@acrlwa.org</a></div>
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