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Small actions to solve complex problems can feel like drops of water on a sea of too-big-to-fix issues, an ocean where idealism and ingenuity drift. Sometimes, however, a bit of good-hearted naïveté is all it takes for entire societies to change mindsets over time, even assuming that our brain is hardwired to resist change.

But can the saying “little drops of water make the mighty ocean” hold its promise? According to experts, it depends on how prepared we are to make an honest self-appraisal o

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It's a cold, hard truth: alternatives to plastic straws are annoying. Metal straws get gross if you forget to regularly clean them, while paper ones quickly get soggy.

But there's a reason why we deal with less-convenient straw alternatives: like all other single-use plastics, plastic straws are undeniably terrible for the environment and the organisms in it. And though the fervor behind the "Save the Turtles"-heavy anti-plastic straw move

This paper begins and ends with a provocation: I argue that refusal in librarianship is both impossible and necessary. Reviewing examples of crisis narratives which permeate both American and Canadian universities, I take a materialist perspective on the idea of refusal within academic librarianship. To do so, I draw on the work of Audra Simpson, Kyle Whyte, Eve Tuck, Mario Tronti, and Rinaldo Walcott to examine the sites of impossibility of refusal in the practice of academic librarianship with