Iterative Librarian

02/24/2026

Announcement:
I am excited to announce I am refocusing my energies on Iterative Librarian work. If you are looking for anything L Spot Shop (or Girlpond for that matter), please contact me for archive access.

Visit my new website and find me on Patreon! Please spread the word--and as always thank you for all your support through all of my many iterations.

Iterative Librarian – write. consult. gather.

write. consult. gather.

11/02/2025

I had a wonderful time Pop-Up Book Fair today. We were in great company Eat My Words Bookstore Once Upon A Crime Mashkiki Studios! Blossom is the best at community engagement🙏 Very grateful for the continued support 💞 We heard nothing but rave reviews for the current production-- Primary Trust---check it out!

Many curious folx asked if I had a brick and mortar shop....which brought me back to days gone by.... 2017-2019 FeMN Fest my residency at Zamore Vintage --- all beautiful days--wanna see more? Visit my website (link in bio☝️) under "curatorial archives"💜 Last 2 photos are from today--my table & the new Sapphic bookseller on the block---The Violet Shelf---she'll be keeping Sapphic Lit 🔥 in circulation--don't fret ❤️. Today was likely the last L Spot Book Shop effort, but follow my Out with Lanterns 🔦 to read musings & check out zines hot off the press. Coming soon: "How Should We Then Live (Without You Here)" --a perzine by Alexandra Olilla--dedicated to my late sister 💔 Hugs to all the folx over the years that have given me so many incredible experiences! Much Sapphic love & hygge!
*I haven't heard this PM Dawn song in ages--great album BTW

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10/30/2025

Come see me at the Pop-Up Book Fair Saturday, November 1 🕙 10 am - 🕓4 pm before during and after the current production Primary Trust! This will be the very last L Spot Book Shop appearance, and I am bringing a treasure trove of vintage, Sapphic / Q***r books 📚, periodicals, random zines & buttons, and my latest Iterative Librarian / Alexandra Ollila zines ✍️ Best of all--I am celebrating the official coming-out of the hot 🔥 new Sapphic bookseller in town>>>>>The Violet 💜 Shelf (she'll be my neighbor at the fair)!!!! Come say hai-hai! Give us a hug! 🫂 Everything priced to go home with you!
Art: Elizabeth Champion
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10/29/2025

Come See Me Saturday, November 1, 10 am - 4pm & Celebrate the Coming-Out of The Violet Shelf – The L Spot Shop https://share.google/bNYVVxvVR3Tlvq4GF

08/09/2025

Dick Hewtson, friend of many, and co-founder of the Minneapolis' Quatrefoil Library, has left this earthly plane. A stalwart champion of NO CENSORSHIP, he was instrumental in changing his then partner--- David Irwins' life (co-founder of Quatrefoil Library) by encouraging him to STOP throwing away GAY BOOKS. As a result, the library came into existence and has been serving the LGBTQIA community for nearly.40 years.
📷 Nicole O, Iterative Librarian, Reading the Quatrefoil Library as (Self) Censorship Resistance | PDF to Flipbook https://share.google/gYKoY4p7xUoAODU0z

Every day the library volunteers open the doors is an act of resistance against the people that would have us silenced, nay------erased. Someone asked me once--how did they do it? They just did---they didn’t ask, or wait for permission--and the library persists--today.
You can read their story in my zine--available on my website (link in bio).

Make a donation to the library in honor of Dick Hewetson today--send me some kind of receipt---and I will mail you a free copy of my zine as a thank you! Email me at [email protected].
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07/28/2025

The storms of this life can be relentless...generating wild, undulating expressions of energy that move along the sea bed….gathering, pulling, taking more energies…then swelling…creating the waves that break and crash on the rocky shore where I am out …reaching in the dimness…trying to find my way along the winding shoreline--the line that draws us out, and comes between us. I am out with lanterns….looking for myself and promise to fill this page (another page in my upcoming…...

The storms of this life can be relentless…generating wild, undulating expressions of energy that move along the sea bed….gathering, pulling, taking more energies…then swelling…creating the wa…

07/15/2025

RIP Andrea Gibson--a true seer, a moved mover.
"What’s the worst thing that ever happened to you? my mind asked me long ago. I said: Not believing in what I couldn’t yet see."

07/10/2025

Working on getting my Reflective Librarians Book Club up & running. If you are interested sign up! Books are selected via poll, but the first book has already been selected: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker. A vintage must-read exposing the myth of paper fragility. Check out my book club — you’re invited! Join me on Bookclubs at https://bookclubs.com/clubs/5991095/join/05e729/

05/25/2025

I have had this on my "to-do someday" list forever and here I pulled up to park..... The Bookhouse in Dinkytown (U of Minnesota, Minneapolis) Going in.....oh my heavens!

I have had this on my “to-do someday” list forever and here I pulled up to park….. The Bookhouse in Dinkytown (U of Minnesota, Minneapolis) Going in…..oh my heavens!

05/22/2025

Yes, yes--yet another work-in-progress has come into being. The others are still Coming Soon, but this wild one insisted on budging to the front of the line---demanding my time and energy. I will share the current iterations of pages of this new zine with you--here--and hope they will stir some emotion in you, engender something of value that may be of some use as you traverse this wild and wonderful, albeit worried world....

Yes, yes–yet another work-in-progress has come into being. The others are still Coming Soon, but this wild one insisted on budging to the front of the line—demanding my time and energy.…