When it comes to research subjects, it’s fair to say Jessa Lingel’s tastes run eclectic: drag queens, homeless women, craftspeople, punk rockers, transnational migrants, and people who like to fork their tongues, just to name a few.  

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Through Radical Reference, Lingel has done work to build up prison libraries, found an archival home for the “Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn library” from Occupy Boston, and helped staff a reference site (currently on hiatus) catering to activists and independent journalists. Activist librarians also organize book drives, run literacy programs, and hold fundraisers for libraries and archives — the group encourages just about any project around information technology and activism.

(via Faculty Profile: Professor Jessa Lingel | Annenberg School for Communication)