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Free range librarian, neurospicy semicenturian, and lover of the Oxford Comma. (She/They)

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The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier. Cover shows an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill.

The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier. Cover shows an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill.

It's Queer Your Bookshelf day! 300+ queer ebooks of various genres on sale for $0.99 at queeryourbookshelf.com/

My book THE ANONYMOUS LETTERS OF C FORESTIER—about the crankiest woman ever to live, the thief who's smitten with her, and their murder roadtrip through magic 1820s France—is one of them!

14.03.2026 13:00 👍 57 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 5

I think about this a lot.

10.01.2026 16:11 👍 5410 🔁 2005 💬 0 📌 0
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queer bookshelves & queer little historical guys Hello friends! Once again, I am participating in the Queer Your Bookshelf event organized by author Hudson Lin. This year you can get my New York Times-...

my newsletter today: links to Queer Your Bookshelf and a few musings on Moby-Dick and 19th-century queerness.

buttondown.com/SharonJGoche...

14.03.2026 18:46 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A poster with the symbol π over a pie, with the text: Happy International Pi Day.

A poster with the symbol π over a pie, with the text: Happy International Pi Day.

Happy International Pi Day! Today is a celebration of the mathematical constant π, and has been recognized by UNESCO as the International Day of Mathematics. Will you be marking the day? #PiDay #PiDay2026 #πDay

14.03.2026 19:35 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

The cake is a lie, but what about pi*e*?

I hope your day brings tasty mathematical fun

14.03.2026 09:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning all!

I hope today your luck is good, your ducks are mighty, and your lances are free

13.03.2026 09:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning everyone!

I hope today brings you an interesting puzzle (and the joy of solving it)

12.03.2026 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

people make fun of lawyers for lots of things, and they're probably right to do so, but one thing a lawyer might have told you is not to appropriate people's identities in California.

11.03.2026 23:27 👍 697 🔁 122 💬 3 📌 4
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

11.03.2026 14:00 👍 13446 🔁 3460 💬 147 📌 251

Good morning

More sun or less, high temps or low, I hope today brings you a moment to recharge and dream

11.03.2026 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In case anyone is looking for guides, cards, stickers, and similar flyers for handing out with whistles (little free libraries are a great place to leave a few!)

11.03.2026 00:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning everyone!

I hope today brings you awesome music, fantastic hair, and an answer when you need it

10.03.2026 09:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Lady for All Seasons: a fake marriage to someone else, a manipulative woman (positive), a genderfluid poet down bad, art, meaning, and all the rest, Lord Byron is also there.

A Lady for All Seasons: a fake marriage to someone else, a manipulative woman (positive), a genderfluid poet down bad, art, meaning, and all the rest, Lord Byron is also there.

I heard we're still supposed to be telling people about our books.

A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS is out March 10 wherever queer books are sold.

10.02.2026 12:48 👍 83 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 8

Good morning all!

I hope your staplers are full and your maps are accurate

09.03.2026 09:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today's message brought to you by Bambi's mother and Pinocchio's whale

08.03.2026 11:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning everyone!

I hope today you have no regerts

(it's proofreading day, after all)

08.03.2026 09:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black & white line drawing/engraving of a pig headed trumpet raised above a spear carrying army.

A black & white line drawing/engraving of a pig headed trumpet raised above a spear carrying army.

For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958.
Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland.
#CarnyxCrazy

06.03.2026 10:15 👍 125 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 3

The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.

Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.

06.03.2026 17:54 👍 438 🔁 136 💬 6 📌 2

Good morning all!

I hope your day is filled with clear connections and shared joy

07.03.2026 10:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Light pink graphic titled “Eighteen Diverse Time Travel and Time Loop Stories”. Beneath the title is the logo for We Need Diverse Books, followed by an illustration of a blue and pink alarm clock. There are two curved pink arrows on either side of the clock face, imitating a sense of time change.

Light pink graphic titled “Eighteen Diverse Time Travel and Time Loop Stories”. Beneath the title is the logo for We Need Diverse Books, followed by an illustration of a blue and pink alarm clock. There are two curved pink arrows on either side of the clock face, imitating a sense of time change.

Changing the clock twice a year might be the closest we ever get to “experiencing time travel”, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun with it! Celebrate this weekend’s time change by diving into these 18 diverse books about time travel & time loops ⏰📚

06.03.2026 15:30 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1

CALL YOUR REPS & tell them NO banning books. Period. Ever. This bill will remove ALL trans content from public libraries in the name of keeping kids "safe" from every having to know we exist. Another part of this regime's push to kill all trans people by criminalizing our existence.

06.03.2026 13:49 👍 18 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
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Community responds to help and protest 95 book challenges filed by fired substitute teacher The Twin Falls School District leadership said the system is not designed to handle over a hundred challenges at once, but the district will follow its policy — with a slew of volunteers.

My take away from this story: Not only do the majority of people want open & accessible libraries, many people will also put in the work to make it happen

06.03.2026 14:05 👍 49 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation

This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

06.03.2026 03:21 👍 1832 🔁 527 💬 10 📌 0

Good morning everyone!

I hope your day flows in the right direction, at the right speed

06.03.2026 10:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

05.03.2026 23:24 👍 1538 🔁 518 💬 26 📌 45
Bessie Stringfield in stylish white overalls and a peaked cap, standing next to her motorcycle in B&W photo. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Bessie Stringfield in stylish white overalls and a peaked cap, standing next to her motorcycle in B&W photo. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Bessie Stringfield, Motorcycle Queen of Miami US motorcyclist 1st African-American woman to ride across US solo, starting in 1930. #WWII 1 of few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders for US crossing US 8 times. Inducted in2 Motorcycle Hall of Fame b #OTD 5 Mar 1911/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_...

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 32 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Charles de Lint: ICE Out (2026) Free Downloads Charles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend-all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. No one does it better. - Ali...

www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html

05.03.2026 23:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning everybody!

I hope today remembers your name

05.03.2026 10:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning everyone!

I hope today you learn a silly word and share a happy smile

(abecedarian is a good one, just to get you started)

04.03.2026 10:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning all!

I hope today brings you enough stubbornness to get it done, and something shiny to enjoy after

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