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ARC UPDATE: Just finished "When I Picture You" by Sasha Laurens (pub date Oct 28) Started "Where There's Room for Us" by Hayley Kyoko (pub date Nov 4)

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Sapphic stories thrive when readers show up! Request their books at your local library Follow/engage with authors online Buy from indie, small, and mid-size publishers Leave positive reviews Together we make sure these stories are never pushed to the margins #WLWStories #GCLS

#SASS and @goldencrownls.bsky.social are coming together this week to stand up against book bans. Join us and add your voice to make sure we can keep using ours to tell our stories. #SapphicsWithTheBanned #BannedBooksWeek

Cindy Rizzo's Incredibly Useful Newsletter - Issue 47 cindyrizzo.curated.co/issues/47 Sapphic lit book club...Cherry Grove Women's Weekend...Lots about WNBA...Brandi Carlisle...Mae Martin...Jodie Foster

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NEW ISSUE! Cindy Rizzo's Incredibly Useful Newsletter - Issue 44 cindyrizzo.curated.co/issues/44 So Much Hunting Wives...Writing and Reading Retreats...Lesbian Lands...Robby Hoffman...Wednesday...Mae Martin

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ICYMI, the 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society "Goldie" awards were livestreamed. You can watched the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/UB0Tx3v... Spoiler - I won an award.

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Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. Musk calls for Trump's impeachment www.axios.com/2025/06/05/m...

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Glad for the 4-4 SCOTUS ruling that stopped Oklahoma from funding a religious school. But what happens when the next school reaches the Court, and their lawyer or advisor isn't a friend of Justice ACB?

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My GCLS board profile. Such fun!

It's Caturday. Get it together!

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"It’s not each new Trump action that alarms me nearly as much as each new capitulation. Each hurts America more than each new executive order.... We have the legal & institutional tools to deal with a man like Trump, but it takes courage & will to use those tools." David French NYT

International Transgender Day of Visibility #LwithT #lgbTqia We are in this together, you are not alone

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance!

Queer spaces should be about solidarity, not exclusion. Jewish dykes and queer Jews deserve to belong—without ideological litmus tests. Read & support this open letter at tinyurl.com/Shalom-Dykes-Open-Letter #ShalomDykes

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Has anyone tried unplugging the US and plugging it back in

From Rachel Bitecofer:

@schumer.senate.gov said in his NYT op-ed that if the govt shuts own, Trump and Musk would decimate it. Today, Trump ordered the closure of 7 more agencies. The only difference is that now Democrats are enabling him. @aoc.bsky.social must replace Schumer.

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The Dems who have made powerful impressions since Trump took office have done it not by shifting to the center or the right, but by taking the fight to the administration — Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Conn. Senator Chris Murphy, Reps Jasmine Crockett, Greg Casar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

February recap:

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"The people are rising because they looked around for someone else to rise instead and realized that what they had was a mirror." ESSAY: The people are rising - by Anand Giridharadas the.ink/p/essay-the-...

FYI 2/13/25

FYI

Apparently, there was some big football game on last night that my friends are posting about. I was in bed reading an advance copy of "A Fool's Kabbalah" by Steve Stern, one of my favorite authors, featuring Menke the Troublemaker and Gershom Scholem. #jewishbooks