May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

As a classroom teacher it's frustrating that my intellectuality and my perspective are systematically overlooked while my labor, my pedagogy & my time are never enough I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.

If you care about libraries, and the stories they hold dear, you should be following Kelly. She’s been reporting what’s happening from the beginning and we are so blessed she has been.

Remember that every time you deride "red" states you deem "bad," you're deriding the thousands of folks doing unbelievably hard, tireless work to stop these brutal anti-literacy/library/school bills. CONGRATS, Alabama library advocates and thank you <3

I’ve been a @katemessner.com fan for a long time, but even I wasn’t prepared for her newest book, THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. Absolutely blew me away. 😭😭😭 Don’t miss it!!! (Also, the audiobook is excellent & @libro.fm is offering it to teachers/librarians for free this month thru their ALC program!)

Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef

a friendly reminder never to buy your books from Amazon, where they are used as a loss leader so that you'll buy a flatscreen TV and your toilet paper instead-- and then use that money to send Katy Perry to space. Books aren't just products. They're culture. Buy them from those who understand that.

This. And here's the thing - we need joy. We need connection. If we can't find that, even in these times, it makes fighting THAT much harder.

When we silence books, we silence voices—and we risk raising a generation without the tools to think freely and compassionately. Because the real danger isn't in the pages of a book—it's in a world where people stop reading them. #FreedomToRead #StopBookBans #ReadBannedBooks

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators

My god she sucks. How many trans people read HP fervently and with wild delight under the covers as children. How can she have such disrespect, such contempt and outright hatred for the young adults whose imaginations she nurtured and fed? It's unacceptable.

Banning books is not about books. Banning books is about the erasure of stories. Banning books is about the erasure of identities. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism. Silence is complicity. Resist this regime. Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.

We had a Holocaust survivor speak at the school today. He told the kids 1930s-40s Germany was inspired by Jim Crow here in the USA.

Authors Speak Up About Their Books Being Misrepresented in a Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court buff.ly/xecdhKZ

Had a conversation with a friend today about censorship and book banning as it relates to my job as a school librarian. They asked if that was a hill worth dying on. Unequivocally and without reservation: YES.

Free Palestine and free all the people being kidnapped for saying free Palestine. (And, of course, free. them. all.)

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

Pressure groups. Ask yourselves why and what do they get out if it. Follow the money. @la-cac.org @oif.bsky.social @ifrt-ala.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

Pennsylvania says schools already comply with civil rights laws and are not ordered to scrap DEI https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2025/04/09/pennsylvania-not-ordering-schools-to-eiliminate-dei-per-trump-order/

Shoutout to @ebonyteach.bsky.social for filling my feed with such beautiful blooms in such ugly times. 🌺🌸

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

📚 Wishing you all a happy National Library Week! Libraries need your love and support right now, just as they love and support you. 💙📚 Big thanks to @goraina.bsky.social and @scottmccloud.bsky.social for being the Honorary Chairs!

Being on an island full of tariffed penguins sounds pretty great right now actually

The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now. That is not this assignment. Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

Got to spend my afternoon listening to @as-king.bsky.social speak, and as always, she is a fierce advocate and truth-teller: “We can only expand into the spaces we’re given, and our job is to make those spaces as big as we can so kids can expand into whatever they want.” 💜

“History has shown us that authoritarian regimes target academics first, fearing the power of inquiry, free expression and the pursuit of truth. We do not choose the times in which we live, but we do choose how we act in those times.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

I am a grandchild of grandparents who were forbidden from getting library cards, who didn't have libraries they could visit. We celebrate libraries, celebrate one another. We celebrate togetherness ✨ We can't keep moving backwards 💔 Our only hope is marching forward, together 💛 🧵 2/2

My now-rain drenched protest sign from two (three?) weeks ago.

Also: if you don’t already know about or use @5calls.org, now is a great time to give it a try. The app makes it so easy to call your representatives and even provides scripts that you can use. It may be a small thing, but all of our small moves add up. 💛

I needed this today. Maybe you do too.

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

I say this to myself every single day. 💛

One other resource, too: a collection of all the different threads from February on one page—particularly helpful for going back and exploring what was said and considered with each chapter! #BelovedFebruary (Also: sorry for not updating this while we read!) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

This whole thread 🙌🏻

Fantastic thread. Thanks for your insights, Sarah! ⬇️

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, HAV, HBV, HPV, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, VZV are largely preventable with vaccines. Covid & flu as well. HPV vaccines can prevent cervical cancer! Willful ignorance is a shameful way to get gravely ill or die. Believe in science. www.aha.org/news/headlin...

Hey #PoetryPeople Let’s start a thread of love poems for this day. I love I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca “I love you.”