“It isn’t that I’m more afraid of public speaking than death; it is that public speaking feels like it could cause my death. But I do it every month because I am a high school librarian in the state of Texas in times such as these.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@la-cac.org
www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-...
Stop plagiarizing. Pay artists and writers!
moms for liberty is mad that Des Moines Public Schools created a "loophole" allowing students to access materials they don't like — the loophole being a school library. the SPLC called them an extremist group. how is this still considered a normal parent group?
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
Book cover: stack of books with text--largest ones say "Banned Together Our fight for readers' rights. Edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, Illustrated by Debbie Fong. Others list contributor names: Elana K. Arnold, Nikki Grimes, Ellen Hopkins, Kelly Jensen, Brendan Kiely, Maia Kobabe, Bill Konisgberg, Kyle Luhoff, Marinaomi, Trung Le Nguyen, Isabel Quintero, Traci Sorell, Robin Stevenson, Padma Venktraman.
I highly recommend Banned Together, an anthology by @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social and @debbiefong.com with many great writers and artists.
If you want to learn more about censorship, enjoy great stories, or learn how to be an advocate, this book is for you! #YAbooks #freadom #freedomtoread
We’ve submitted hundreds of PIRs & what we're finding isn't surprising. We repeatedly warned the TX legislature that these laws would cause significant harm. But we're never not astounded at the stupidity of what's being removed from libraries. We'll be sharing our findings over the coming months.
Sigh. If only folks would listen…
Couldn’t go to @nttbfest.bsky.social this weekend, and I’m still a lil salty about it. #books
worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns
I love everything about this.
Reposted with alt text 💙📚
daylight savings-
the cardinal insists
on celebrating
#haikusaturday #haiku #amwriting
blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.
We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.
Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661
who made this
This paragraph, by Carole McGranahan, encapsulates my main beef with LLMs and writing.
“Writing is a commitment to people”, says Jason DeLeon, quoted by McGranahan. Why, then, are we so eager to outsource this commitment to a piece of software?
flyer to pre-order YOUNG IN IRAN link in post and bio
flyer to pre-order YOUNG IN IRAN link in post and bio
flyer to pre-order YOUNG IN IRAN link in post and bio
Our campaign relaunched and is live until March 22!
Every share, pledge, and bit of support right now helps rebuild the momentum! Please reshare this post and our link!
bit.ly/YoungInIran
Young in Iran is a moving collection of autobiographical comics by Gen Z artists.
Thank you all!!
“Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.”
Weekend plans- gardening and a book.
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
I love this so much, I’m now going to make this a plan for at least one of my classes next week! #poetry
Them, basically: I’m hurting you for your own good. Soon you’ll learn to behave. #abuse
fewer than 10% of students are restricted in school libraries by their parents
When parents can set reading limits for their own child, fewer than 10% choose to restrict access.
Most families trust guidance and conversation, not bans.
You can guide your child without deciding for mine.
Protect choice. Trust librarians. Keep libraries open.
#FreedomToRead #BooksNotBans
Lit prof here who encourages students use library books for our class when they can. My students do this. 😅
I’ll remind them to clean out the stickies before returning.
Exhibit A: The tangled web of corporate ed reform from Elena Aydarova.
Yes, I remember when I had my first child and had to build 30 data centers to feed them.
Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.
