A beautiful piece by @lisacheby.bsky.social in the vital work that CLUE does. Look for your local orgs, see what you can do. A lot of residents of this country could use your help. www.cluejustice.org/compassionat...

I missed this beautiful essay from @lisacheby.bsky.social yesterday, but it is a love letter for those living alone alongside the blaring trope of couplehood. www.rolereboot.org/sex-and-rela...

Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.

Yes, I am STILL writing about this because it is still needed. @4csla.bsky.social @csunlibrary.bsky.social @edsource.org @aaslala.bsky.social Why teacher librarians are critical for students living in an AI-driven world edsource.org?page_id=752536

“Why don’t victims tell someone about the abuse?” “Why I Didn’t Tell” from Excavation: A Memoir (Northwestern University Press, 2025; [1st edition Future Tense Books, 2014])

Tax billionaires until they're "merely" triple digit millionaires

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

"OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records" Oh, wow. The absolute privacy nightmare that this tech is, getting fed ppls sensitive medical info. Sure - no way that ends badly! #AiIsTheProblem #TechLit gizmodo.com/openai-launc...

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

This poem is by the woman ICE murdered. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

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“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through.” - Katherine May, Wintering ...

Read this stunner from @lisacheby.bsky.social www.culturaldaily.com/lisa-eve-che...

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

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

💥🇭🇺 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.

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

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...

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