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Fobazi M. Ettarh

@fobettarh.bsky.social
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Academic. Librarian. Creator of the concept “vocational awe.” PhD student at UIUC’s iSchool. Game designer of Killing Me Softly.

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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reminder to please join us this Saturday! You don’t have to have known Fobazi to attend. If her work ever impacted you, we’d love for you to join us. If you are at ALA, the event is a short walk from the convention center. Food provided. Come as you are. tinyurl.com/celebratefob...
Black and white poster featuring color headshot of librarian, scholar, and activist Fobazi Ettarh. Text: A celebration of life
Fobazi Ettarh
1989-2026
Please join us to celebrate Fobazi's life & legacy
Saturday June 27 2026
South Asia Institute - Chicago
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
More info & RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/celebratefobazi
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Please join us in Chicago to celebrate Fobazi's life and legacy. RSVP at tinyurl.com/celebratefob...
Black and white poster featuring color headshot of librarian, scholar, and activist Fobazi Ettarh. Text: A celebration of life
Fobazi Ettarh
1989-2026
Please join us to celebrate Fobazi's life & legacy
Saturday June 27 2026
South Asia Institute - Chicago
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
More info & RSVP:
https://tinyurl.com/celebratefobazi
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
gofund.me/a660f5efa
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Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my frien… Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026.

Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy.

We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
We’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/e475efa5c
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Hello everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0 ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Hi everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0 ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena Update here: gofund.me/506f89f9
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58
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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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Eee 🐸 Kay 😷 Emm 🇺🇦 Emm💙Dee 🐝@fiatslug on 🐳 @fiatslug.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Only appropriate flag for this country
A version of the American flag. All black background with “stripes” made of silver barbed wire, with the area where the stars usually are in a rectangle on the upper left that’s a framed silver chain link fence.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani
Yale from New Haven says: “This is insanely low, racist, and desperate. Glad to see they’ve just decided to be a tabloid. It sounds like he clarified it well enough with writing in “Ugandan.” Truly insane (and just unacceptable) that this was framed like this. Or reported at all! Who cares!”

Jennifer from Oregon says: “Please, please do not do hit pieces on this man who is one of the few sources of hope that most of us have in this country. Just stop.”PD from Brooklyn says: “This really does not feel newsworthy, when you see he made his best effort to clarify the check-box identity markers he was offered.”

Paul from Ohio says: “I’m a middle-aged white dude from the midwest. Not a socialist or communist, and never heard of Mr. Mamdani prior to this mayoral race.

But I have to say that the coverage of this guy, including by these reporters, seems biased against him.

Who cares what boxes he checked on a college application for a college to which he did not even get admitted? It tells us some things about some people. But none of them are Mr. Mamdani.”Taylor from New York says: “The media is desperately looking for anything they can use to smear this man. Adams and Cuomo have well-documented scandals that have landed them in legal trouble. How about we focus on the real corruption in this city”Ed the Rabbit from Baltimore says: “So you got a hot tip from a eugenicist and gave him anonymity in order to "out" an Asian person who was born in Africa as a person who checked some boxes on a form and thereby claimed to be "Asian" and "African American" before he officially became American, in an attempt to gain admission to a University his mother already worked at—and failed. 

This is not your finest hour.”

Robin from Greenpoint says: “Yep. More qualities about Zohran that I identify with. More nuances I see reflected in more New Yorkers.”
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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
2025 feels like being awake during surgery
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 29/06/2025
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 01/07/2025
How did I only learn today—as the episode played on a restaurant TV—that the classic Adam West Batman included an arc with a villain called The Bookworm, whose henchmen include Pressman, Printer’s Devil, & Typesetter??!! Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is exactly how librarians have been blamed for cuts to library budgets for decades. "You didn't do enough to communicate your value." What that really means is "you don't make any profit, and profit is the only legitimate value an organization can produce."
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skinslip is already a spooky name @skinslip.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Happy yuri day to all those who celebrate
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I have to say that growing up in the pop rock/alt/fueled by ramen fandom as well as 90/aughts comics/fantasy/sci I am used to being surrounded by misogyny/misogynoir. And yet, as I catch up on the John Wick series to prepare for Ballerina I must say I miss the variety of women kicking ass.
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hello friends! It’s been a minute, but I am doing a keynote! It’s for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries from Aug 12-14. There will be some a bunch of other amazing speakers too. Save the date! :) www.thrivelib.com/news/save-th...
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Save the Dates for ThriveLib: A New Conference on Creating Workplaces that Foster Well-Being, August 12, 13, 14 — ThriveLib
Mark your calendars for ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries , a virtual conference dedicated to supporting the emotional, psychological, and organizational well-being of l...
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Post a picture of when your pet was little. As a new dog mom you bet I’ll take any chance to post my dog baby!
A picture of a small black chiweenie with white colored paws sitting on the lap of a Black woman wearing a seatbelt.
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the corghoul from cowboy beBOO! 👻 @realqrampage.fightins.online · 22/06/2025
I’m glad I finally found the love of my life before the world ends in nuclear warfare or some other stupid shit, but also, come on, wtf
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/10/2023
Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is apocalyptic accelerationism VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world. That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke. And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/06/2025
My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 21/06/2025
One of the reasons AI is so insidious: 90% of good writing is sitting around and trying to figure out what the hell you're going to write next. I spent more time staring into the void at my laptop than I do writing the actual text.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 21/06/2025
*Ebeneezer Baptist Church of God in Christ on the Mount Gospel Chorus* WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO. *tambourine*
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
you want me to give up *research*? a priceless skill that also leads to all kinds of rabbit holes and the fizzing excitement of satisfying my curiosity? are you bananas
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Post a picture of when your pet was little. As a new dog mom you bet I’ll take any chance to post my dog baby!
A picture of a small black chiweenie with white colored paws sitting on the lap of a Black woman wearing a seatbelt.
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Lynne Gerber @thislynne.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We're bringing a new piece queer history to your podcast feed in the fall. Please support us in getting there. Thanks!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Wellness is the degraded Calvinism that says you are one of the elect who will be spared the coming inferno if you demonstrate adequate virtue (low enough bmi).
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
lol not Oops! All Slaves!
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/06/2025
"Harrington wouldn’t give him a clear answer about his funding request, telling him, 'Unfortunately you keep finding more slaves,' he said, and that “every new person is a source of guilt and shame for Harvard.'" Yeah, I'm sure that'll go away if you just bury it.
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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We found “culture of credit” programs introduced by TikTok framed attribution as “going above and beyond,” urging creators to “always assume good intent.” Warnings to “be nice” & “gently” request credit show how TikTok normalizes content theft and casts Black creators as unruly.
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Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Humor and Black joy persisted through both, but while #MelaninMansion optimistically focused on representation, the later strike represented refusal and frustration with the TikTok platform AND community. Also interesting if you’ve wondered about the aftermath of the strike:
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Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📣New Article 📣 out with @moniermel.bsky.social! In it, we argue the #MelaninMansion trend and later #BlackTikTokStrike show how Black TikTok has changed in their response to the platform’s culture of racism, appropriation, and creative theft. #OpenAccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Short🧵:
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/06/2025
Feminism isn't a bible. It's not a prescription on how to live a Perfectly Moral Life. Stop cultural Christian-ing up EVERYTHING. It's an analysis of how our social conditions are engendered, reproduced, and reified, and a lot of it has to do with portrayals of intimacy and sexuality. Sorry.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Thousands of Christians are being rounded up and deported by the U.S. government, but they’re not cottagecore tradmoms or their homeschooled goat milk enthusiasts, so these guys are fine with it. Actually, they’re thrilled.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16/06/2025
People will play in your face and run you through purity test… without a check or consideration for your well being
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16/06/2025
The number one responsibility of Black people under fascism … keep your job and your benefits
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
As someone who has had to use (and still does!) spirometers throughout my entire life it’s always wild to see how many ways race plays a role in the treatment and results in medicine. How many times was my anemia incorrectly judged by these machines?
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My dream (if I wasn’t a librarian) would be to make the beautiful indie movies I love with Black casts. I want us to see our beautiful interiority on screen. I too yearned while gazing out in the rain. I too danced outside under the stars. I too felt the fabric of the universe in my hands. -sigh-
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Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My dream (if I wasn’t a librarian) would be to make the beautiful indie movies I love with Black casts. I want us to see our beautiful interiority on screen. I too yearned while gazing out in the rain. I too danced outside under the stars. I too felt the fabric of the universe in my hands. -sigh-
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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Let This Radicalize You Chapter Six:
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
fuck those waymos
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/06/2025
Solidarity protests with Los Angeles for tomorrow (Mon, Jun 9th): • Chicago: 9:00am • Los Angeles: 11:00am • Seattle: 11am • Boston: 1:30pm • Raleigh: 2:00pm • Atlanta: 2:00pm • Charlotte: 2:00 PM • Sacramento: 4:00 PM • Asheville: 6:00pm Check link for updates and locations
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#FreeDavidEndRaids
On Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocat...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bravo, Glendale. Bravo. More, please. And it's time for Democrats to loudly say, "Abolish ICE." Someone please stand up and have a spine.
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