JJ Pionke - Librarian, LIS Educator, Disability Advocate, and Lover of Cats

FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, Md. — The Fairmount Heights Branch Library in Prince George’s County is one of the latest locations to establish a free grocery store after partnering with Goodr, a company that has...

We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...

Add your name to congratulate and stand with employees of the American Library Association who are forming their union with AFSCME! @ILCWUAFSCME

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the qua...

Sensory inclusion is an oft-forgotten aspect of accessibility in academic library spaces. When sensory inclusion efforts are absent from the design and modification of academic library environments...

Neurodivergence is currently underrepresented among staff in higher education. Acknowledging such underrepresentation, this narrative review critically explores the experiences of neurodivergent ac...

As book bans escalate in schools and libraries across the country, a school district in Iowa is adding a new—albeit “deeply misguided”—move to this censorious trend by relying on ChatGPT to decide whi...

The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Shayda Kafai about her book Crip Kinship, how to improve the peer review process to be care-full, and the importance of art and creative works.

Definitions and Beyond There are many ways to identify. Everyone is different and that's good! This guide, “Definitions and Beyond,” will explain some of the ways people identify. Maybe you are…