For Día de Los Muertos, I created this altar in memory of those who have died in ICE detention and raids. Que descansen en paz. 🤍 #SchoolLibraries #Skybrarians #TLSky

Banned Books Week display —I’m really pleased at how this came out. 👊🏽 #SchoolLibraries #Skybrarians #TLSky

Last night in LA… Nightmare fuel on a freeway wall.

My students’ first display, so proud of them! #SchoolLibraries #Skybrarians #TLSky

Setup a calm/a corner on the library. Students began using it immediately. ❤️‍🩹 #schoollibrary

#tdih 1970 55 years ago, young Chicano activists took to the streets to proclaim, “our fight is in the barrio, not Vietnam.” Their protest still resonates to this day. Read "Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters" by Bill Gallegos in @thenation.com 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Ready for the next protest!

RIP Theo 😢

Ugh! Who’s is going to help me digest the awful daily world news now? This sucks! CBS to Cancel 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Citing Finances

Monterey, CA - Summer ‘25

“…our community has an incredible resilience, and, despite all the fear and uncertainty and challenges that we have before us, we show incredible strength as we have repeatedly in the past. I think it’s important to reclaim that power.” Dr. Erica Lubliner

Finished last week. I listened to it because I love the narrator, but I wanted to show off the book I got at an event with @blacktopkid.bsky.social who remains the master of noire! #booksky

So proud of my friend, she helps me keep hope alive! 🤎

Celestún, Mérida - Summer ‘25

Happy #Juneteenth! 🤎🙏🏾✊🏾

The fight continues!

Loved seeing the Master of Noire @blacktopkid.bsky.social at Vroman’s tonight! I’m 1/4 into his new book and am hooked!

Thank you @dansantat.bsky.social for this beautiful book that helped my little buddy regulate after post-nap grumpiness. He was gifted the book yesterday and has read it a dozen times already. 🥚 🪜 🪽

Honestly the best way to kick off my summer vacation, during such uncertain times.

Our baby turns 3 today! 🎂 His royal highness is also celebrating the start of Pride month. 🏳️‍🌈

30 Day Book Challenge Day 28 - Classic novel you haven’t read, but plan to #booksky

📽️🌱👩‍🌾 Community impact in the news! Our Roots Program supports LAUSD students with hands on agricultural & #environmentaleducation. 2K students will implement wildlife & habitat #conservation practices devised by Point Blue Partner Biologist Tracey Rice—gaining skills, confidence along the way. 🌎 🧪

NEW: 19 year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal who came to America at age 4 has finally been reunited with her family in Dalton, Georgia after ICE detained her for three weeks over a now-dismissed red light traffic ticket and was in the process of trying to deport her (Video: News Channel Nine)

I’ve been receiving these texts that appear to be very real.

30 Day Book Challenge Day 23 - A book quote you know by heart. “The most beautiful part of your body is wherever your mother’s shadow falls.” #booksky

“Writing is an act of care.” Ocean Vuong

Such a tragic day in history. I’m so grateful for this resource.

So relieved that she’s ok and that her surgery was successful ❤️‍🩹💗 #ACFC

I hope to visit this center one day. Feliz cumpleaños a Segundo Ruiz!

Feliz cumpleaños a Claribel Alegría. Hay una gran fiesta entre poetas en el cielo hoy.

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30 Day Book Challenge Day 22 - An LGBTQIA+ love story #booksky

30 Day Book Challenge Day 21 - An anthology you love #booksky

30 Day Book Challenge Day 20 - A book by an unreliable narrator #booksky

On repeat!

"That innocent people are disappearing into El Salvador's prisons is no secret—making the embrace of [President Nayib] Bukele a disturbing signal of just how far a strongman can go without losing political ground," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:

Got to hear some of my favorite authors/podcasters at the LA Times Festival of Books today 🤓 Jesse Katz @jasondeleon.bsky.social Vanessa Angélica Villareal @paolamendoza.bsky.social Danez Smith @samsanders.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social

Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling

Best (most terrible) anti-hero in TV history! 😬😵😳😱🫣

In preparation for LA Times FOB this weekend, I checked this audiobook out, not knowing anything about it. As I started listening, I realized that the main character grew up in the same neighborhood where I teach. It immediately hooked me! It’s well written, very informative, and tragic.

NYC 🗽- Spring Break ‘25

Harvard rolled out a new website alongside its rejection of the admin’s terms. Some people have been working very hard! Kudos. www.harvard.edu

I just finished reading this in preparation for seeing George M. Johnson at the LA Times Festival of Books. It was short and informative.

30 Day Book Challenge Day 19 - An audiobook you like because of the narrator’s voice Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White #booksky

This is Samson. He thought he was getting a simple piece of cheese. And then discovered the miracle that is mozzarella sticks. 13/10

30 Day Book Challenge Day 18 - A book you like by an author no longer living #booksky

30 Day Book Challenge Day 17 - A book with a person’s name in the title #booksky

30 Day Book Challenge Day 16 - A book you’ve read more than once #booksky

“Smugglers love Trump, because it’s a lot of bluster, and migrants don’t know that, so they can jack up their prices quickly. I would say Trump is good for the economy of undocumented migration.” Jason De León