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Travis Wagner (they/them) @drtlwagner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It was such a joy to talk through this paper and wish it was an approach more journals took!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Image credit: "A Collage about Gender Euphoria" by Lauren Poole, marked CC0 1.0.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Read the full artist's statement now at the link in bio.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In using "items removed from the library collection, which otherwise would have been discarded," the artist hopes "to reclaim a corner of librarianship where it intersects with queer community, to find joy in the strangeness and mess of transitioning at this point in history."

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🪶New in Murmurations: our first creative work, a piece by Lauren Poole titled "A Collage about Gender Euphoria" that is partially composed of weeded library materials.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thank you to @drtlwagner.bsky.social for trusting us throughout this process!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🪶New in Murmurations: our first Dialogue, a conversation with Travis L. Wagner about their article “What Is Trans Information Work in Trying Times?” In this new series, authors and editors come together to talk more deeply about the ideas, questions, histories, and processes behind published work.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They are very adaptable; they can drink brackish spring water without getting dehydrated and they benefit from living in close proximity to humans. Next time you see a Mourning Dove, scatter some pine nuts or amaranth seeds on the ground and tell them how much you love and appreciate them.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Mourning Doves are mainly ground foragers who subsist almost entirely on seeds, of which they can store an unhinged amount of in their crop (an enlargement of their esophagus) to digest later. Since they walk around on the ground a lot, they are susceptible to string foot and attacks from cats.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

About the bird: One of the most common birds in North America, this cutie is named for their low, mournful sounding call (coo-ah, woo, woo, woo) that sometimes leads to those uninitiated into the bird mysteries believing there is an owl nearby.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Image credit: "a bird is perched on a tree branch" by Robin Teng is used under the Unsplash license.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Read the article now at the link in bio!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This articles aims "to help colleagues... understand what the current informational landscape looks like around transgender people and transgender identities, so that colleagues can more effectively recognize anti-transgender misinformation and deploy counterstrategies as they engage in LIS work."

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🪶New in Murmurations: “A Library Worker's Guide to Anti-Transgender Misinformation, Part One: Understanding Anti-Transgender Misinformation” by Heath Umbreit heaththelibrarian.bsky.social. The first in a series on this topic!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Read the article now at the link in bio!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Summer Tanager diets largely consist of insects and berries and they will even break into wasp nests to eat larvae. They hunt with deliberation and can sometimes be hard to spot in the treetops. Lives of North American Birds describes their song as “sounding like a lazy American Robin.”

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

About the bird: Depending on their gender and age, Summer Tanagers (Piranga rubra) are either entirely bright red, bright yellow-green, or patchy yellow and red, with a pale bill. They mostly hang out in northern South America and southern North America.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Image credit: "Summer Tanager Male Corpus Christi" by tcantrell52, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Read the article now at the link in bio!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Originally published anonymously in Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries, we are delighted to share this version with a new preface by the author: "Trans people are allowed to struggle—and to articulate that struggle—when trying to navigate systems that were never designed for us."

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🪶New in Murmurations: K.R. Roberto's “Operationalizing Bias.” In this piece, the author describes "the problems in classification that I was personally experiencing" during an LIS PhD program, "namely, the ways in which my transness inexplicably led to medical issues and confused classmates."

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Travis Wagner (they/them) @drtlwagner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Truly honored to be one of the first contributors to this new journal. I can’t wait to see it expand and evolve and to see what other birds get featured in promotional posts!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

many thanks to @drtlwagner.bsky.social for trusting us with their (and our first) article!

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

They like to forage high up in trees and will even hang upside down to reach insects they wanna snack on. You can lure them into hanging out in your backyard with dark-colored, ripe fruit (purple grapes yes, green grapes no). Sometimes mated pairs of Baltimore orioles sing duets together :’)

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Baltimore orioles, as well as the city of Baltimore, are both named after Lord Baltimore of England’s Calvert family. In the case of the Baltimore oriole, it is because their plumage has the same colors as the family’s heraldic crest (the bird did it better tbh).

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

About the bird: Baltimore orioles (Icteus galbula) are not part of the Oriolidae family, but are named such because they were thought to resemble them (the resemblance is kinda there, but colonizers also just tended to default to naming most things after stuff back in England / Europe).

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Image credit: "Baltimore oriole May Count Howard County Bird Club 5.11.24" by Iwolfartist is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As they say, "trans information work is about not merely existing, but insisting on that existence being known." Read the article now at the link in bio.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thinking across libraries, trans technologies, information activism, and historical traces of trans care, the articles asks what it means to affirm trans existence in a moment of intensifying anti-trans hostility and how trans information work can help make other futures possible.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🪶New in Murmurations: “What Is Trans Information Work in Trying Times?” by Travis L. Wagner. This conceptual article explores the material, affective, and communal labor that attends the creation and circulation of trans information, both inside and beyond information institutions.

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mo @mosamsky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm super excited about this new journal, please check it out if you're a library person, a trans or gender diverse person, or possibly both ❤️

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maxgbowman @maxgbowman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today is the official launch day for @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social 🙌 Two years in the making, later today we’ll give a talk at GSISC about building a trans-centered publishing infrastructure! You can find our website at: murmurations.space And our insta, here: www.instagram.com/murmurations...

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

About the birds: The Nēnē, or “Hawaiian Goose” (Branta sandvicensis), is the only surviving goose species native to Hawai’i and is one of the rarest types of geese in the world (and also the cutest). Head over to nene.org if you’d like to learn more about how to support nēnē!

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Join our community effort to protect and monitor the Nēnē (Hawaiian Goose).

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Enjoy the piece and consider joining us as a community reviewer or submitting a piece to the journal! You'll find all those relevant links and more on our website murmurations.space Image credit: "Nene geese Branta sandvicensis Kauai" by ImagePerson, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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A Trans and Gender Diverse Library JournalContact: editors@murmurations.space

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The goal was to show the state of scholarly literature about trans and gender diverse people in libraries, highlighting gaps and serving as a foundation for future work on the topic. Much of the Editorial Board's impetus to start Murmurations comes from their findings in this literature review.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For our first article, we are republishing Keahi Adolpho and Stephen Krueger's "Decistifying Trans and Gender Diverse Inclusion in Library Work: A Literature Review," originally published in In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2024. murmurations.space/2026/06/15/d...

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

To learn more, please visit our website at murmurations.space (the link is also in our profile). Stay tuned for more info and our first articles in the coming days. Shoutout to @litesprite for our beautiful logo!

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A Trans and Gender Diverse Library JournalContact: editors@murmurations.space

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Trans and gender diverse” includes binary and nonbinary trans people as well as anyone whose gender does not fall into the binary of trans or cis.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We use “library profession” broadly to include school, public, academic, special, and corporate libraries; archives; library programs; library organizations; and professional expectations for library workers (including professional development, scholarship, and service).

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The journal publishes articles that address trans and gender diverse inclusion, issues, and experiences in the library profession. We are particularly interested in work that addresses trans and gender diverse topics with an intersectional lens.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our aim is to encourage research and discussion of trans and gender diverse topics in the library profession in order to develop and enhance policies and practices and to understand and improve the experiences of trans and gender diverse patrons, employees, and students.

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murmurations @murmurationsjrnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We are excited to announce the launch of Murmurations: A Trans and Gender Diverse Library Journal!

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