Brittani Sterling's (Libraries) article, "Can't We All Just Cathect Along? ," was published in the WeHere publication UpRoot: a publishing collective that exists to center the works, knowledge, and experiences of BIPOC within the context of the library and archives community. It encourages interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches, analyses, and lenses that are uncompromising in the centering of justice. In particular, it encourages both readers and contributors to hold themselves accountable to those BIPOC folks from the past, present, and future who interrupted or intervened in oppressive library and information science systems, but were harmed in doing so and had to leave the profession or never even made it into the profession because of structural racism.
In this article, she discusses the impact of the life of the incomparable bell hooks and the concept of Cathexis –the investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea – which hooks discusses at large in All about love: new visions. The article is available in both print and audio format.
