Ontario College of Art & Design Faculty Association
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Happy Friday OCADFA! Today we present to you TIS Assistant Professor Amy Swartz (and former OCADFA Director)’s cat Jiji, pictured here engaged in an inspired direct action.... Jiji protests wasted human food with her bread hat made with leftover mouldy bread. She looks displeased but she was purring, which is a feel that many of us at OCADFA can relate to. also: WE STILL OUR LIBRARIANS #animalcompanionsofocadfa

May is Asian Heritage Month, and there is a lot of amazing work going on to highlight the Asian/South Asian experience in Canada. This powerful video is part of that, as is the Scholar Strike Canada Anti-Asian Racism Undone programming that's just been announced for this May 29th and 30th. You can find more details about that event at https://www.scholarstrikecanada.ca/.

THANK YOU YORK U LIBRARIANS! In solidarity. https://yufalib.info.yorku.ca//open-letter-to-ocad-univer/

WE LOVE AND RESPECT OUR LIBRARIANS. We've created an open letter asking that OCAD U pause their restructuring actions, including the layoffs of our librarians, until meaningful consultation with students, faculty, senate, staff, and the community be taken. Click the link in the bio to sign. Our librarians have already created excellent programming and collections with the scant resources they have. Imagine what they could do if they were heard as co-creators with access to ...adequate resources! Images by Richard Hunt, Associate Professor of Graphic Design and OCADFA Director @ocadsu @ocadulibrary #ocaduniversity #ocadulibrary #ocadstudentfeels #weloveourOCADUlibrarians

Every Wednesday we highlight our solidarity with our community, and this week that's very close to home. Many of us are aware that our four librarians have been summarily terminated as of June 2021. We are appalled at the callous way in which this is being handled by the admin, and t the attitude that our librarians could be replaced. Alex, Daniel, Marta and Victoria can NOT be replaced. They have been wizards at weaving together a university library with scanty resources. T...heir pedagogical contributions to our students are invaluable. And the process that was employed to enact this "restructuring" is deeply flawed and lacked meaningful consultation with our students and our academic staff and faculty colleagues. Letters of support are already poring in, because this is an event with a national profile. We look forward to sharing those with you soon. For now, please read and sign this position, and share to your networks. DON'T PUT THE HOOK TO OCADU PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS!