Kyle Stewart

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UX Research | Design | Strategy | Accessibility | Humanities | Libraries

I believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

Fascinated by the human mind

PronounsHe / Him
LocationMetro Detroit Area
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-stewart-8951a628/
Kyle StewartFeb 16, 2023

Related to recent discussions about trans intolerance but widely applicable elsewhere, I am once again evangelizing Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.

"We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant"

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1

#Trans #Transgender #TransRights #Politics

Kyle StewartFeb 14, 2023
Finished Salman Rushdie's latest #Book and it was an absolute delight. The setting of ~1300-1500s southern India is fascinating, and the "found manuscript" style works wonderfully. A 9-year old girl is given divine power by a godess after witnessing the ritual burning of widows including her mother. She spends the next 250 years trying to create and maintain a more equitable kingdom, succeeding and failing. Torn on whether to read more Rushdie or Indian history next.
#Books #Bookstodon
Show threadKyle StewartFeb 13, 2023
@jillrhudy The pushback on this library of the year award stuck with me as an example of just how hard some of these decisions are. Full disclosure, I work at the awards sponsor (Gale) https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/libraryoftheyear/A-Statement-from-LJ-on-the-2020-Library-of-the-Year
A Statement from LJ on the 2020 Library of the Year

When we announced The Seattle Public Library (SPL) as the 2020 Gale/LJ Library of the Year yesterday, many librarians protested our celebrating a library that had allowed the Women’s Liberation Front, an anti-trans group, to rent a meeting room for an event in February.We hear the anger and disappointment and take these concerns seriously. We understand why SPL’s board of trustees made the decision it did, but we wish that the library had not allowed that event to go forward. Nonetheless, Library Journal stands by the award, and we want to explain why.

Library Journal
Show threadKyle StewartFeb 13, 2023
@PavelASamsonov i don't love the phrasing, but I've been part of an org that struggled to prioritize technical debt and infrastructure upgrades because Product didn't see those thing as "customer facing" aka revenue generating. Is that too generous an interpretation of the quote?
Kyle StewartFeb 13, 2023
Jill MinorFeb 13, 2023
To my knowledge, there is no consensus in the LGBTQIA+ community that public libraries cannot give one more cent to Pottermore Publishing, ever, and that if they do, librarians are transphobes. If there is such a consensus, which I doubt, I submit that being a librarian and managing a library collection for the entire general public (while being under pressure from that same general public from all sides) is far more difficult, and less morally unambiguous, than that community imagines it to be.
Show threadKyle StewartFeb 13, 2023
@jillrhudy Y'all librarians are walking some damn narrow tightropes when it comes to balancing patron needs, free speech and representation. I can't think of any profession I trust more to make those choices, even the ones I disagree with.
Show threadKyle StewartFeb 9, 2023
@nirak oh hey, I did that for a good portion of last year. At least it generated some productive introspection about my skills, limitations and organizational communication skills.
Show threadKyle StewartFeb 9, 2023
@jonny fucking gorgeous! I work with library database aggregation and regularly despair about the readability and accessibility of the content publishers give us. I'm curious how or if you approached alt or descriptive text for all your beautiful diagrams? It feels futile at times, because the chain from author to aggregator loses so much of that context
Kyle StewartFeb 8, 2023
@mapodofu I've had a great manager, and worked adjacent to one, with an attitude of "No such thing as not my job". I'm thinking in particular of a director of QA who used to deliver mail and packages when they piled up in the copy room. Makes a big difference to lead that way imo
Show threadKyle StewartFeb 4, 2023
@mark yes, I'd like to relax via the most dangerous activity I do: driving amidst of sea of people checking Twitter with one hand and steering poorly with the other.