I write kidlit and work in a jail library. It melts my heart when my patrons request PB & MG during such a difficult time in their lives. These books are powerful and complex. They provide comfort and bring back beautiful memories. They make people feel seen and safe. They are for EVERYONE. #booksky

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Today is the day – it’s #PortfolioDay! Put your best work forward and show us what you’ve got! If you like what we do and want to leave a thank you or a nice note, please visit our Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/portfolioday Visit portfolioday.art for info, merch, and more! Thanks and good luck! 💛

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…to the disabled person the immigrant, the trans person, the queer person, the woman, the dissident, the Native person, the unjustly incarcerated person, the unhoused person, the disappeared person, the sick person who can't get healthcare, the childred who had their education and food access cut, t

Celebrate your community. Celebrate being alive. Celebrate being able to live as yourself in this world that tells you never. But there’s no reason to celebrate for America today.

Until all people are free and equal there is no America to celebrate today

My very first #KidLitArtPostcard 🫶🏼

Today, on this last day of pride, tell a trans person you love them & you will fight for them tooth & nail. Trans people deserve every right that cis people have access to, & every time we open another exception in the margins we harm them. Inclusion means for everyone. Show up for trans people.

Action Alert! Send an email to your county councilors, county executive, and the board of education, using your own words or a variation on the script below.

Here’s a link the Ta-Nehisi’s latest w/o a paywall. READ IT. archive.md/SSLbJ

I don’t shout about it all the time because I’m tired and trying to stay afloat but I am very much against AI. It’s a tool of fascism. It’s colonialism with a red bow. If you’re using generative AI, you are hurting authors, artists, musicians, the land—the heart of humanity.

Today I am at the Sandy Spring Museum Strawberry Festival in Olney, MD. I made a bunch of cute little strawberry pieces just for the occasion. #papercollage

Make art with your hands. It’s what humans do. #noAI #artistssupportingartists #humanart

Happy PRIDE!

Happy Pride Month! Support queer kids and families. Read queer books. Speak up for queer people in your public AND private life. #kidlit #lgbtqiakids

Happy Pride! May liberation for all come as soon as possible, and may we live our lives with as much joy as we can.

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

Cis friends, if the deliberate attacks on trans health, safety, identity and existence don't radicalize you... if you haven't noticed that "deliberately inflicting on [a] group conditions of life calculated to bring abt its physical destruction in whole or part" is a definition of genocide yet...

Co-signed

Happy #kidlitartpostcard for May! I create collage illustrations by painting and cutting various papers by hand. www.withoutaladder.com

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I am new to Bluesky and no clue what I am doing with this app but I know a lot about character development and visual storytelling 😆 Let’s connect, collaborate and make this world a bit funner✌️I am currently open for projects and seeking a representation. artnemu.com

Happy #kidlitartpostcard for May! I create collage illustrations by painting and cutting various papers by hand. www.withoutaladder.com

Every children's book is a whole world, not because of what is contained in its pages, but because what a child pours into it. What a child carries away from it. What a child uses to build something new. Each kid's book is a cause for celebration not smug castigation. I'm furious, but I'm also sad.

Picture books are a unique form with limitless potential. The combination of words and pictures allows multidimensional storytelling, the length encourages experimentation, and kids are a smart and discerning—but not yet cynical—audience.

May the Firth be with you

Seriously

Friendly reminder, #kidlitartpostcard is this Thursday. 💙❤️

Some recent work! #paperart #collageart

In these dark, sad, enraging times, we must turn to poetry, to music, to arts in all its manifestations. We must write and cook and dance all while imagining what is possible in radical hope. We must love as we fight, strategize, and organize. The world necessitates beauty and struggle. #resist

Absolutely killer #kidlit. 😄

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

Today is International Children’s Book Day, observed since 1967 on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, celebrating a love of reading and the power of children’s books. #InternationalBoardonBooksForYoungPeople #author #illustrator #folklore #ICBD26 #InternationalChildrensBookDay

Aging not like a fine wine but like a stone wall. Where I once was on a farm I now am a strange fixture in new england forests, I am crumbling but only a bit, and taking on a great deal of moss

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! The BookEnds team is showing off ALL of our artists AND we're all currently on the lookout for talented new clients. Visit us at www.bookendsliterary.com/illustrators

Today! 💙❤️ Related: I’m looking for an illustrator with a textured, painterly, elevated, serious, realistic, literary style to illustrate a lovely sports themed jacketed, hardcover picture book. Feel free to respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Maryland is far from perfect, but it's things like this that make me really proud to live there.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

I had some caffeine and made some more signs to give away. (Bottom right is a custom sign for a friend)

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

I'm traveling, so I can't be at a #NoKings protest today. But I am so grateful for all the people who are able to show up and make it clear that so many of us are against the atrocities being perpetrated by the current administration.

I feel so honored and grateful to have had one of my pieces selected for the Strathmore Arts "Steeped" exhibition, a wonderful celebration of all things tea. The opening reception was tonight and it was a lovely evening.

I feel so honored and grateful to have had one of my pieces selected for the Strathmore Arts "Steeped" exhibition, a wonderful celebration of all things tea. The opening reception was tonight and it was a lovely evening.

Hello lovelies! I’m currently on a deadline, so this post is a double dip.

“Happy Trans Rights Readathon! For those unfamiliar, the goal is to uplift/read/support trans, non-binary, 2Spirit, & gender expansive characters & author/illustrators as well as raise funds for trans causes. 1/

A person who justifies bombing school children has lost the right to make decisions for any group ever again. This is an easy litmus test. You accept bombing kids as an unavoidable outcome of your operations? Then no more leadership for you. That's it.

This is why I truly believe researching, checking and evaluating sources, branching out into teaching yourself about mundane and complex things is so important They have such little else to take from us, they’re trying to make using your own intelligence harder and behind a paywall Don’t let them

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me. I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.