A young woman with blonde hair taking a selfie outside on a cloudy day. She is wearing a black puffer jacket, a patterned fleece, and is holding a black handbag. There is a brick house with a sliding glass door behind her, and in the background, an outdoor patio with string lights and a wooden fence.
Collection of various small, smooth, rounded pebbles of different colors, shapes, and textures arranged in a spiral pattern on a black background.
Collection of various small, smooth, rounded pebbles of different colors, shapes, and textures arranged in a spiral pattern on a black background.

Nicole Slattery is a queer and disabled academic librarian, advocate, artist, and writer. She works in the spaces where research, art, care, and resistance meet; listening, gathering, dreaming and attending to what often goes unnoticed.

You have found her soft and strange space - built to hold contradiction, community, care and creativity- where her art practice and academic library work have been left to intertwine. 

Guided by the belief that softness can be powerful, slowness can be radical, and care is essential, she seeks ways to create, learn, and support learning centers people, relationships, and equity. Her work drifts between inquiry and refusal, curiosity and care, insisting on alternative ways of knowing, making, and surviving within and against entrenched systems, exclusionary structures, and ongoing struggles for justice.