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📚 Don’t miss these 2025 middle grade releases from Indigenous authors and artists! Be sure to learn more about these titles, including plot summaries and creators’ tribal/nation affiliation, on the Indigenous Reads Rising website (also 🔗 in bio) 💻 indigenousreadsrising.com

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Iowa, you need to be getting on the phone to your state House reps to end this librarian criminalization bill. If you're in Des Moines or near, the meeting is TODAY in the House Education Committee, at 1 pm. Show. Up. legiscan.com/IA/bill/HF27...

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Happy Birthday to our ancestor Toni Morrison! So many of us would be lost without language she gave us. This giant of a storyteller & wordsmith & thinker we were privileged to briefly share the earth with.

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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Today a young person I work with who happens to be in 6th grade shared with me that he, too has a fondness for Lagaan and it made my whole week. #IYKYK

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Carla Hayden made history as the first Black Librarian of Congress! This Black History Month, we celebrate her work modernizing libraries and championing equitable access to knowledge. #BlackHistoryMonth #LibraryInnovation

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It's going to be more important than ever to avoid police when people are in crisis. Here's a useful list that includes crisis hotlines and warm lines that do not contact police: translifeline.org/resources/co...

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"The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free." --Ta-Nehisi Coates #BHM

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Teaching is one of the great loves of my life. Not because I like imparting knowledge to young people because...what do I know, really? I constantly stand corrected. But being able to be a young person's champion is really life giving. Happy VDay to those leading with love. #Edusky

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This is not new news but it's becoming clearer every year. I guess nobody actually read 1984...or the Cliff's Notes or the Spark Notes.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged Google to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America' for US users, adding the country could file a civil suit against the firm if necessary reut.rs/4hR5Bnu

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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

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Sometimes you get out of class so you walk your dog and you think about things way too hard so you get sad and once home you pet your dog on your couch in silence while still in deep thought until you both fall asleep in a comforting mutual cuddle and sure okay fine it is what it is whatever bed.

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I think what's being done to trans people in this country is a FUCKING SCANDAL. It's absolutely an attempt at eradicating trans people from public life and ALL OF US must refuse this. Everyone. Stop being a loser mealy mouth person. This is bullshit. You should say so in all the places you inhabit.

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How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading? For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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Also... www.asalh.org/black-history-month-2025-we-proclaim-it/ #blackedusky #blacksky

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I want this on every single one of my timelines. www.threads.net/@jenniferhud...

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One of the most beautiful, hopeful things I've seen all week. Amazing. www.reforma.org/challenging-...

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Courage can become contagious.

submitted 29 days ago • 59 comments

To my trans folx: I see you. Your lives, identities and experiences will not be erased on my watch or in my communities. I will not be silent about what I see happening in the circles in which I hold power.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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People adapt to fascism. That's what you learn when you read history. And it's easy for those who are not its direct targets to do.

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These young folks are Black history in the making. They stood up today and in their acceptance speech began with the words of Audre Lorde and ended with call and response reminding us that our liberation is bound to one another. Congratulations #yaaspa We celebrate you!!🎉🎉🎉

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Crossing platforms because GEEKING OUT. #booksky www.threads.net/@marabrockak...

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Tools, tips, and techniques for how to critically read a press release from the federal government. The example? That piece of propaganda from the Department of Education last week. That, plus an EXTENSIVE roundup of book censorship news this week: bookriot.com/guide-to-cri...

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If you live in Denver and you can't get any eggs or milk (or don't like them because you're vegan) you can still get fantastic fresh produce here: 5280produce.com

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Just in time @kwamembalia.bsky.social and @erinentrada.bsky.social (Congrats btw 🎉🎉) !! I just finished a little romance read-a-thon last weekend but yours looks so cute. I'm bumping it right to the top of the TBR pile 😁📚❤️

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With new threats to libraries & library workers already materializing, we need all library advocates to show up together. United in our advocacy for libraries and everyone we serve, we WILL make a difference. Join us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries. Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination. Our response: Book bans are real. Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

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Suggestion: stop referring to public facing positions in education as being "in the trenches". Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler and others have taught us to imagine and then create. Also, some people actually are in places that are at war where there are trenches and lives are being lost.

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