Engaging Antiracist Conversations: Foregrounding Twitter Feeds in Library Guides as a Way to Critically Promote Discussions of Racial Justice

Academic librarians have often been hesitant to foreground real-time engagement with social justice in our public facing library guides. The guides, more than not, serve merely provide access points “academic” materials and traditional news sources. Perhaps there is a different path. This chapter suggests that Twitter can point patrons toward the real conversations happening outside (and sometimes inside) academia are missed when we rely on critical issues such as race technology, or migrant justice, right front of eyes Twitter. discusses how adding feeds guides engage libraries students) around racism foregrounding traditionally marginalized voices. A problem they center voice opinion librarian curating guide. Adding complicate this. from voices centers those time opposed centering authority the, white, initially creating occurs because while chooses which feature, continuously updating time. reflects why this non-white important, it engages counterpublic discourse Twitter, doing so push us all be little critical, subversive, work.