Alice Corble

@dralicecorble.bsky.social

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Transdisciplinary scholar-activist-educator working on anticolonial library and archival praxis at UCL. Neurospicy Queer. Always (un)learning. Own views not my employer's etc.

Drawing of an elephant's legs, stepping on the tail of the mouse, with the following quote by Desmond Tutu sandwiched between the legs and trunk of the elephant: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
A mechanized creature, half-human half-serpent, from Johannes de Fontana’s 15th-century manuscript Belli Corum instrumentorum liber cum figuris. (Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/frolicsome-engines-the-long-prehistory-of-artificial-intelligence/)
"Whoever scheduled perimenopause during the fall of democracy in the middle of winter did not read the room." A social media post by @lauricefattal - text is placed above a silhouette image of three women in a field with their heads back and arms in the air.
A picture of Dr SR Ranganathan made of sand on the seashore, watermarked with Parthinar Times and reading HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR SR RANGANATHAN National Librarians Day 12 August
A colourful hand-drawn placard reading LIBRARIANS for Queer and Trans LIBERATION next to a tabby cat on a sofa facing the camera. Above them are some framed graphic prints reading SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER and May 1.
A black and white photographic portrait of A. Sivanandan overlaid with a quotation by him in black bold text: "What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after." Image source: @irrnews.bsky.social
Title slide image of a black and white hilly landscape overlaid with text reading: Changing the Landscape: a roundtable discussion on de/colonial dimensions of LIS praxis. Marilyn Clarke (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Librarian) Sae Matsuno (King’s College London, Senior Library Assistant) Dr Nenna Orie Chuku (UCL, Teaching and Research Assistant, DIS) Dr Alice Corble (UCL, Lecturer in LIS and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) Dr Alison Hicks (UCL, Associate Professor: Library and Information Studies). CALC 2025
Black and white poster in a DIY-zine graphic style from 1971. All-caps header at the top reads MAYDAY!, connected to a subheading in the middle 'If the government does't stop the war, we will stop the government. The bottom third of the image is a group of protestors charging together forwards towards the right of the page, fists raised and mouths open with expressions of defiance and social outrage.
Poster features a red map of the USA filled with a black line drawing of a stylised face (presumably African male) and his horizontal arm holding a vertical gun pointing upwards. Bleow this image is white, red and yellow block capitals text reading: WE WILL DESTROY IMPERIALISM FROM THE OUTSIDE - THEY WILL DESTROY IT FROM THE INSIDE. Beneath this is a thumbnail of the OSPAAAL Logo and white text reading: "August 19th Day of International Solidarity with the African-American People."