{"id":14844,"date":"2017-01-20T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2017-02-10T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:17:36","slug":"alamw17-jacqueline-woodsons-closing-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/alamw17-jacqueline-woodsons-closing-session\/","title":{"rendered":"#alamw17 Jacqueline Woodson&#8217;s closing session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14845 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-8-414x650.jpeg\" alt=\"Jacqueline Woodson Closing session. We have to transform silence into language and action - Audre Lorde. Libraries transform us from being asleep to beign woke.\" width=\"414\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-8-414x650.jpeg 414w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-8-191x300.jpeg 191w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-8-768x1205.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-8-319x500.jpeg 319w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-8-57x90.jpeg 57w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14846 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9-403x650.jpeg\" alt=\"Why are conversations not being had? Don't  have skills to begin. These conversations are hard, painful, disruptive. To heal, we need to talk. Our culture's fear of silence holds us back from conversation. Libraries are safe spaces for conversation.\" width=\"403\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9-403x650.jpeg 403w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9-186x300.jpeg 186w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9-768x1238.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9-310x500.jpeg 310w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9-56x90.jpeg 56w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-9.jpeg 1929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14847 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-10-650x271.jpeg\" alt=\"A white, christian, hetero library is a value. Displaying queer books is representing voices.\" width=\"640\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-10-650x271.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-10-300x125.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-10-768x320.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-10-1199x500.jpeg 1199w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-10-160x67.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1153,1089,830,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2017","category-alsc-mini-institute","category-blogger-lisa-nowlain","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}