All those AI-powered tools library vendors are turning on by default (or your library is choosing to active)? Yeah, they aren't neutral, they aren't accurate, and the companies have no interest in providing clarity. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

Me after my AC broke twice during a week of heat advisories...

My seven year old made me this bookmark at an activity station at a pride event yesterday. She said, "look I made it in your colors!!" 🥹 The timing's perfect because I get to use it right away to mark my spot in a new release by one of my favorite trans authors!

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 8: Line share - shine #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity

When you inadvertently match your nails and your drink with the book you’re reading. Also, this book!!

Back in my home state for a conference and it's like the clouds knew how much I miss Minne"snow"ta. Also, funny how I see no snow when I visit in December and this is my hotel view in April. Just how I remember Spring growing up!

Sharing with ALT text for those who aren't aware of the ongoing real world implications for trans people in the U.S. "I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state..."

I'm really grateful I got the chance to contribute to @newwordspress.bsky.social's citizen trans* {project}. Projects like this, which amplify trans and gender expansive voices are so important–especially at this moment where so many ppl are trying to erase our existence. www.citizentrans.com/joy/

Trans Rights Readathon Reading Challenge, 2025 Edition! We have 5 core prompts to complete, and many “bonus” prompts that can be used to either find more specific books for the core prompts or as a bonus challenge to read all 30 prompts throughout the year, or some other personal goal in-between!

Excited to share I have a new poem out today. Super appreciative of The Crawfish for giving it a home: www.the-crawfish.com/features/res... #poems #poetry #poemsky

Easy path for the next administration to end the culture war over federal ID's for good: remove all sex markers to protect individual privacy and get the government out of the business of determining who belongs to which sex class.

I feel like I mention Homosaurus anew each time I'm on a new social media network. It's great! "Welcome to the Homosaurus! The Homosaurus is an international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) terms." h/t @circulatingideas.bsky.social homosaurus.org

Fun fact: the "-ai" search modifier generates completely different results from the AI version, complete with the normal info panel thing from a completely different source than when I ran the original search

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, now more than ever, we need to honour & remember those that came before us who we’ve lost to anti-trans hatred & violence. Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete. Their losses will not be in vain! Hate will not win!

Friends, it’s TRANS APPRECIATION FRIDAY! All trans/nonbinary people are welcome to join! How it works: tell us your name, pronouns, a bit about you, & post a pic, if comfy. Then, repost THIS post for visibility, say hey to those that join in & make new friends! I’m Alyssa. Hi! 👋 YOUR turn!

For Trans Awareness Week, here's a thread of trans-supportive organizations that are worth your time or money, if you're able. I've made my small donation and hopefully you can do the same. Please feel free to add other charities to this list, even just local ones. 🧵

LGBTQ News Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/DVtrFQR

Continuing my Halloween tradition of library themed costumes...Can you guess what I am? 🎃📚

Ben Shapiro is completely eviscerated live in front of an audience by a trans man. Part 1/4

welcome to bluesky! if you post transphobic shit every trans account 10x your size is going to put you on blast and make your day miserable be nice to the trans people here and feel free to bully anyone who misgenders us or minimizes the magnitude of the rights crisis we're in 🩵🤍🩷

Here's the cover of my next novel, Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Aug 2025)!!! A young witch named Jamie teaches her mother Serena how to do magic. But Jamie doesn't understand all the reasons Serena has been hiding from the world. Plus Jamie uncovers the scandalous secrets of a novel from 1749.

(It's also available on Bandcamp for pay what you want until June 7th -- as much as you want, or as little, truly you are free! but only until June 7th, when it will have A Price.) themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/moon-c...

My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

More on the Cass Report from Sophie Labelle / Assigned Male Comics

Please read this clear and important thread on how preposterous the arguments are against @archive.org #InternetArchive and its important project of digitizing books for you and for posterity. Summary: there's no case of harm caused by the Archive's work. Thanks @fightforthefuture.org

"It is not a culture war." Diana Goetsch on why we need to speak out for the freedom to read and call a spade a spade. Book bans are a form of supremacy and the systematic erasure of queer and trans people. 📚 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

When Beth Noveck donated her father's library to the Internet Archive for preservation & digitization, she used the DONATE BOOKS app to identify books that we didn’t already own. Learn about the app: help.archive.org/help/donate-... Learn about the Noveck donation: blog.archive.org/2024/03/11/t...

Trans joy for me is that despite days like today, when I'm tired and stressed and exhausted, I have this bottomless source of happiness to get me through because I get to be the full me--something I'd written off for myself a long time ago. Joy and gratitude

I wrote about Taylor Lorenz, ambulance chasing in the face of trans trauma, and why articles about dead trans kids should probably actually be about those dead trans kids. It's a lot to say but I might as well fucking say it all: jude-doyle.ghost.io/i-dont-care-...

I think in general people underestimate the scale libraries operate at

This is a very good and sober look at where the data on detransition actually stands from an epidemiologist. The reason I mock the Usual Suspects for "just asking questions" isn't because I'm afraid of the questions--it's because they ignore the answers slate.com/technology/2...

trans people: they want to keep us from transitioning and detransition those who already have. they want to make all trans care illegal. cis people: overreacting isn't going to help your cause GOP: we are absolutely going to kill those transgenders

"don't let us die." i do not exaggerate. HRT is lifesaving medicine like antidepressants. for many of us, having the correct hormone is life, and not having it is death. gender-affirming care keeps us alive. our names, our gender markers, our medicines, our surgeries. agency is life.

Spine label poetry at the library! 📚

I found a kindred spirit! Not sure I've logged 16,000 hours of Civ 3, but it's got to be up there. www.pcgamesn.com/civilization...

Uh oh... The lobbying push for KOSA (a bill which purports to protect kids but will instead censor LGBTQ info from the Internet) is ramping up. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-... If you belong to any of these orgs, please tell them to stop supporting this trash.

Researchers in Illinois are conducting a study of LGBTQIA+ identity among LGBTQIA+ academic librarians. Survey is available here: siue.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

For #WorldAIDSDay & any time, here are some #LGBTQ-inclusive picture & MG books abt AIDS & people living w/HIV or AIDS. HIV & AIDS are not LGBTQ-specific, of course, but have hit our community hard, & LGBTQ books are my focus. May these books offer insight into our history & a disease still with us.

There's nothing quite like checking your work email inbox after Rip Van Winkling your way through the past 48 hours due to illness.

🚨 Important accessible new essay with neuroscientist Simón(e) Sun on anti-trans scientific misinformation, published as part of a series of OpenMind magazine and the Pulitzer Center. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.openmindmag.org/articles/ant...

Incredibly useful resource here for teaching about AI in education - thanks for sharing @charleswlogan.bsky.social

It's been a little irritating to watch people who've spent the past decade yelling about colleges having a responsibility to host speakers who call for the literal "eradication of transgenderism" now going, "Student protests must be stopped bc some of them take a position I disagree with."

You know you are a librarian when your work costume is a library resource

Banned Books Week may be over, but the need for quality, inclusive books continues. That’s why I’m proud to announce that the Mombian Database of LGBTQ Family Books now has 1,400+ items in it! Search/filter for what you want, & read in-depth reviews! #LGBTQ #QueerKidLit mombian.com/2023/10/10/m...