Queer & Trans Studies Guide
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| Happy Swarthmore Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
Explore our Queer & Trans Studies Research Guide to learn about databases, journals, and other resources you can access through the libraries.
Questions or ideas? Contact Simon Elichko, social sciences librarian.
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Did you know you can get help from Swarthmore’s librarians and student workers by chat? You’ll hear back from an actual human being, not a bot.
Whether you’re curious about borrowing the latest Louise Erdrich novel or need some advice on finding Census data, we’ve got you covered. Just look for the red tab on the Libraries website and Tripod.
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History Commons (Formerly Accessible Archives) |
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Interested in primary source documents from North America? The Accessible Archives platform is now History Commons!
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Read digitized newspapers from the women’s rights and woman suffrage movements, the Civil War, the Reconstruction era, the Jazz Age, and much more.
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Join us for the following:
Pop-up Exhibition: Women Illustrators
Friday, Nov. 1, 2–4 p.m., McCabe Library Atrium (1st floor)
Gallery Walk: Women of the Pulps
Friday, Friday, Nov. 1, 3:30–4:30 p.m., McCabe Library Atrium (1st floor)
Walking Tour: Swarthmore College, the Underground Railroad, and Beyond
Friday, Nov. 1, 4:30–5:30 p.m.,
tour begins at Special Collections, McCabe 130 (1st floor)
Register for the walking tour.
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Pop-up: Our Disabled Futures
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This exhibition, curated by students Julia Stern '26 and Hannah Breithaupt '26, aims to highlight the organizing and community building efforts of Black and Brown, immigrant, queer and trans disabled people. They also hope to address archival silences within the collection through contemporary testimonies/artwork addressing the ableism students have experienced throughout the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. They aim to use these archival materials to imagine an anti-eugenicist, anti-imperialist, anti-zionist, anti-capitalist future rooted in community and commitment to collective liberation.
Saturday, Nov. 2–Sunday, Dec. 1, McCabe Library LibLab Hallway (1st floor)
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Pop by the Library on Election Day! We’ll be showcasing a selection of items from our Special Collections related to elections, political campaigns, voting, and more. Come in wearing your I Voted sticker for the chance to turn it into a bespoke button.
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., McCabe Library Atrium (1st floor)
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| Exhibition: WRL–100 Years of Resistance
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This exhibition introduces some of the remarkable activists — pacifist, socialist, religious, atheist, suffragist, anarchist, feminist — who shaped the War Resisters League (WRL). Founded October 19, 1923, WRL is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, and the Peace Collection has been the repository for their records since 1947. WRL collaborated with the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in order to create this exhibition.
Thursday, Nov. 7–Sunday, Dec. 15
McCabe Library Atrium (1st floor)
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Closing Reception: Reimagining Mythology of India
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Join us to celebrate this exhibition that features student final projects from CLST 029 Mythology of India, taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Varun Khanna, Classics/Asian Studies. Students were asked to use the theories of myth production and the context of Indian mythology that they learned in class over the Spring 2024 semester to create original illustrated mythological storybooks for children. Refreshments will be served.
Friday, Nov. 8, 4:15-6 p.m., McCabe Library Cratsley Lounge (2nd floor)
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Career Services + The Libraries: Ethical Uses of AI for the Job Search
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Interested in how you can explore the ethical use of AI tools to prepare for a job search? Join Career Services and Swarthmore Libraries for a workshop.
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 4:30-6 p.m., McCabe Library LibLab (1st floor)
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Megan is happy to join Swarthmore College Libraries as head of arrangement and description for the Peace Collection. Previously she worked at the American Antiquarian Society, UCLA, the Independent Seaport Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. She is passionate about music, collects books about museums and libraries, and never misses an episode of Dateline.
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By the Book: Roberto Vargas |
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Roberto is the head of research and instruction and humanities librarian. He is also working toward a Master's degree in philosophy at the European Graduate School, and is slowly trying to introduce inefficiency, slowness and exnovation in his life. His favorite part of the day is biking to campus as the sun rises.
What are you reading these days?
I am currently reading books by Jodi Dean and Denise Ferreira da Silva. I'm reading The Communist Horizon by Jodi Dean and Unpayable Debt by Denise Ferreira da Silva.
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