Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor imposed a nationwide “Don’t Say Gay” effect—letting parents opt kids out of LGBTQ+ lessons and pressuring schools to erase queer voices. As the only real teacher in this race for CA State Superintendent, I know what’s at stake. Join me tomorrow.

Proud to protest the lack of #librarians in Philadelphia schools. To learn more, hear this conversation with Philadelphia Association to Restore #schoollibrarians!https://apple.co/3ZD0b9R

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/fJcqfbE1

💚 available now though their official birthday is a week from today 💚

24 hours and 18+minutes @booker.senate.gov stood up and spoke up for democracy. Amazing.

Sen. @corybooker.com just hit the 24-hour mark!!! Only 19 minutes to go to beat the Senate filibuster record by Strom Thurmond.

So moving to commemorate the pandemic with these women Romaine Washington, @katemaru.bsky.social Noriko Nakada Hazel Kight Witham and @lisacheby.bsky.social who organized it all w Beyond Baroque around her chapbook Contact Tracing

“I am forced to speak the language/of men…” @lisacheby.bsky.social reads from her poetic essay PERFECT DARK from #ExpoReview, Vol. VIII: “Lines” at our #ExpoPresents 10-year anniversary party. Read along: tinyurl.com/ExpoPerfect! #AWP25

“If you don’t know what a database is, ask a librarian.” - @lisacheby.bsky.social at #awp25

“One of the ways we censor books: We don’t fund our libraries.” - @lisacheby.bsky.social at #awp25

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

At the 5 year anniversary of the world retreating due to Covid19, we need to draw from what we learned about our resilience as individuals and in community. I will read from Contact Tracing at 3 upcoming readings. Mark the dates. Go to linktr.ee/lisaevecheby for details and registration.

It's been 5 years since our lives were upended by the Covid19 Pandemic. Everyone has their own story. Come hear ours and. Join us in person or on zoom. I am so grateful to read with these amazing writers at the historic @bblitarts.bsky.social. @katemaru.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social

Honored to be in this lineup of writers as we read from lockdown. I’ll be reading from @rdspress SAFER from BLEAK HOUSES March 8, 2pm @bblitarts ! @lisacheby.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social Hazel Kight Witham Noriko Nakada & Romaine Washington

Excited to announce the re-release of my chapbooks through Strikethrough Press: Contract Tracing, Buffy Averts a Mid-Life Apocalypse, and, for it's 10th anniversary, Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thank you Noriko Nakada for making my books stay available! bookshop.org/lists/lisa-e...

“Beyond Mango Street: Updating and Diversifying Your 6-12 Curriculum” with Luivette Resto and Angie Nevárez. March 12 5:00- 6:30 RSVP for in-person at Library Events library.csun.edu/events @gomatadors.bsky.social @lausdlms.bsky.social @4csla.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social

The lists are actually for the country as a whole and include spots we know well, but the point is that I would not trust AI to spew out a mishmash of dated listicles when you can actually find out the information from trusted humans and sources.

How do you encourage reluctant collaborators? Sign up for AASL Friday Forecast to receive tips in your email inbox weekly: bit.ly/3YQnwmv. Want to see an archive of tips shared? Visit: bit.ly/4hEWze2.

As we celebrate Black History Month, we remember Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance figure and librarian at Fisk University, who preserved Black culture and history for future generations. #BlackHistoryMonth #CulturalPreservation

I just downloaded @5calls.org — except for the fact that all my reps’ lines were full 😵‍💫 — I was able to leave a message with one and will continue to call.

There are just a few more weeks to complete your concurrent session proposal for the 2025 AASL National Conference! Check out these tips from #AASL25 Social Media Collective member Tara. Be sure to submit your proposals by March 1st at national.aasl.org!

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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“Sometimes genre is a cold word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about and to stay persistent.” - Beyoncé at the Grammys encouraging us to find our genres!

Ran into @4csla celebrities @alilauer.bsky.social and Kirti, award winning #teacherlibrarians from #LAUSD #schoollibraries

This means no money to IMLS for libraries, museums and archives. State libraries depend on the Institute of Museum & Library Services “grants to states” for all LSTA local grants. We need this funding to provide library service.

Excited to share two new poems out in the world. Thanks #BonnieSKaplan & #WomenWhoSubmit for encouraging me to submit here. #WickPoetryCenter #NNAI natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/tag/lisa-eve...

Take part in an Open Science Primer train-the-trainer program! 🔓📖🖥️ How are you meeting the evolving Open Sciences needs of your research community? Learn approaches and techniques to teach, communicate, and advocate for the various aspects of Open Science: guides.library.cmu.edu/opensciencep...

Awesome! Congratulations on this new, much needed book!

The Los Angeles Public Library and the Library Foundation are thrilled to announce the next open call for creative Angelenos to apply for the LAPL Creators in Residence program: lapl.org/creators ⁠

Do you love @npr.org @scifri.bsky.social ? ME TOO! An amazing list to help add to your school library collection or to the households of children in your life! Give them accurate Science and inquiry skills to investigate. Ask the big - and small - questions! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sci...

“…designed to engage creative Angelenos from diverse backgrounds to produce new work that is informed or inspired by the Los Angeles Public Library’s collections and services, while also highlighting the impact of the library as a creative haven.” The residency comes with a $20,000 award.

Frankly, it's because people of color would be covered, too. Wouldn't do.

Hypothesis: Surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you and who have no agenda for your reform. —Jess Lair

My gosh, the substack by @egmarro-spark.bsky.social is so beautiful! Please do read her moving post about DISPOSSESSED, and the following interview with me. elizabethmarro.substack.com?r=4i5j&utm_c...

#FlashbackFriday: Earlier this spring, researchers published a report examining the 15-minute neighborhood concept in New Jersey, which is available to download and read here: policylab.rutgers.edu/report-relea... #edusky #climate #academicsky #rutgers

Great article by @ladeziree.bsky.social about the often unknown history of “expatriation” that is the basis for her new novel, Dispossessed. Read the article and her book!

This year, we are Stronger Together! 2025 Annual Conference January 30 - February 2, 2025 San Jose Signia Hotel, San Jose, CA Registration is open now! whova.com/portal/regis...

2005. Adventures in Weeding.

“The theater of any poem is a collection of decisions about space and Time—how are these words to lie on the page, with what pauses, what headlong motion, what phrasing, how can they meet the breath of the someone who comes along to read them?” -- Adrienne Rich

The norms????? GIRL, where????? That man is already cracking “jokes” about staying in office beyond the end of his next term. And y’all are trying to talk to me about norms?????? Let me go change into my nightgown because y’all are telling bedtime stories.

Their mission in progress

“The First Amendment is written into the Constitution of the United States; yet it needs defending everywhere. Jones’s book, in its simplicity and clarity, is a testament to that.” www.ft.com/content/f78f...

Even though libraries are closed today, we have Black Friday deals online! 📚 Free e-books 🎶 Free music 🎞️ Free movies All at lapl.org

This your reminder that librarians, authors, educators, residents, parents, and students are actively fighting all across the U.S. for books, the people they represent, and libraries. Extremists are actively trying to destroy libraries. And books. And people. I will not be silent. Will you?

Do something BEFORE they ban it. Show up, speak out, sign that petition, email governing authorities, donate to a grassroots organization, use the library, write an op-ed, resist. After they ban it, continue. Make noise, file a lawsuit, and don’t stop. Support those doing the work. Repeat.

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

“More and more, I am becoming convinced that poetry is not a form of writing, but a form of reading. And a form of thinking and being in the world.” -- Solmaz Sharif

I am grateful for a day to eat with friends, but let’s also remember the violent history the myth covers up. See this thread to learn ways you can learn and give.