Kelly Jensen

It's just such a fantastic mix and really packs in lots of different flavors of horror.

Horror, as our editor Kelly Jensen loves to remind us all the time, even though we treat it like one, is not technically a genre.

It is a feeling, like a mood.

And cor then can be many, many things.

Welcome to Liberating Lit, a podcast dedicated to diving deep with literary and library advocates about their work.

My name is Kelly Jensen, and I'm your host for the show.

Each episode of Liberating Lit spotlights a local or national level champion and focuses on what got them started and what keeps them going.

The show explores the highs and lows of literacy advocacy with frank conversation about sustainability, mental health, community, and of course, joy.

Welcome to Liberating Lit, a podcast dedicated to diving deep with literary and library advocates about their work.

My name is Kelly Jensen, and I'm your host for the show.

Each episode of Liberating Lit spotlights a local or national level champion and focuses on what got them started and what keeps them going.

The show explores the highs and lows of literacy advocacy with frank conversation about sustainability, mental health, community, and of course, joy.

I'm so excited to welcome Samira to the show.

Welcome, Samira.

Hi, Kelly.

I can't believe it's been that was 2015.

Really just being exposed to all these amazing, diverse literature that I didn't have access to when I was younger and being able to be like, you need this book.

But content creation is its own world, right? And so just being able to talk to Michael Librarians or even Kelly Jensen and seeing the way that they're able to combine their work.

professional career with their passion, I think was very inspiring because I think sometimes I felt like I have to either do this or this, or I have to keep these two worlds somewhat separate.

So I really appreciate just being able to see that you can combine the worlds and also that who knows what opportunities are going to come out of these experiences.

Alana, you and I have talked about this in other contexts, the way folks turn that in on themselves, we turn it towards ourselves when there are not those spaces to process or to be recognized externally.

I had actually underlined that in Kelly Jensen's article.

Kelly Jensen, by the way, is just another incredibly important advocate in this space.

And I'm so grateful to her work.

Right.

I mean, I definitely got some new authors to read and found a lot of my old favorites in there as well.

So it was wonderful.

Kelly Jensen did write almost your exact words.

Welcome to Liberating Lit, a podcast dedicated to diving deep with literary and library advocates about their work.

My name is Kelly Jensen, and I'm your host for the show.

Each episode of Liberating Lit spotlights a local or national level champion and focuses on what got them started and what keeps them going.

The show explores the highs and lows of literacy advocacy with frank conversation about sustainability, mental health, community, and of course, joy.

Uh-huh

... by Kelly Jensen.

Mm-hmm.

Um, that was actually, of books that were banned for the first time in our index this year, uh, that was the most banned.