The Paradox of Pace: Slow Librarianship Through a Disabled Lens

The emerging concept of slow librarianship offers a promising framework for reimagining academic library work, particularly in supporting inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility efforts. However, the intersection of slow librarianship with disability and neurodivergence remains largely unexplored. This chapter aims to complicate and enrich our understanding of slow librarianship by examining it through the lens of a disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill mid-career academic librarian. Drawing on personal narrative and critical analysis, this chapter explores the inherent paradoxes of slow librarianship for those with non-normative bodies and minds. This personal experience grounds subsequent interrogations of broader contradictions within the slow librarianship movement.