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Often viewed as a stepping stone to other more authentic or impactful careers in academia, I've made a home in the craft of Access Services, which I see as the avant-garde of contemporary librarianship. It’s practices are a direct reflection of the state of the art. It's practitioners some of our most thoughtful and articulate troublemakers. Their daily work activates at the intersection of labor, equity, identity, power, and access. And their solutions agitate the dominant ideologies about which most think nothing can be done. And yet, right now, they are in the library, doing things. Instigating change. Advocating for themselves, their coworkers, the scholars they serve, and the profession as a whole. Developing their honed and tested counter rhetoric to properly describe the access they facilitate, the institutional contributions they generate, and the daily experience of their lived political reality as librarianship’s advancing guard.