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๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ 26 | she/they | queer and nonbinary ๐Ÿ“ Reader, writer, and bookseller in love with LGBTQ+ book recs โœจ Future physicist (or librarian) ๐Ÿ“š 2025 Reading Goal: 15/50 ๐Ÿ“– Currently Reading: Lavender House

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๐Ÿšจ Support Los Angeles immigrant communities ๐Ÿšจ

Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:

Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate

LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...

Uniรณn del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

07.06.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4041    ๐Ÿ” 3881    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 146
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Congress: Save Medicaid Now Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

Congress is feeling the heat and we must keep up the pressure before Medicaid cuts wreak havoc on our communities.

Contact your representative now and tell them: NO cuts to Medicaid.

13.05.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 543    ๐Ÿ” 349    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Worth remembering that libro.fm exists -- human narrators, independent experience, supports indie bookstores.

13.05.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 724    ๐Ÿ” 267    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

13.05.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1291    ๐Ÿ” 945    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63
trope graphic for Hammajang Luck. the cover in the center shows a person with brown skin and brown hair in a red hoodie sitting on a pile of junk. behind them is a futuristic cityscape with gold clouds. the background of the graphic is the same cityscape with a teal sky and gold clouds. the tropes read โ€œfound family,โ€ โ€œcrimes and heists,โ€ โ€œOceanโ€™s 8 meets Blade Runner,โ€ โ€œchildhood friends to enemies to lovers,โ€ โ€œnonbinary MC,โ€ and โ€œlesbian cast.โ€

trope graphic for Hammajang Luck. the cover in the center shows a person with brown skin and brown hair in a red hoodie sitting on a pile of junk. behind them is a futuristic cityscape with gold clouds. the background of the graphic is the same cityscape with a teal sky and gold clouds. the tropes read โ€œfound family,โ€ โ€œcrimes and heists,โ€ โ€œOceanโ€™s 8 meets Blade Runner,โ€ โ€œchildhood friends to enemies to lovers,โ€ โ€œnonbinary MC,โ€ and โ€œlesbian cast.โ€

another intro post! Iโ€™m Makana, a hapa haole mฤhลซ lesbian from Maui! I write sci-fi about AAPI lesbians being messy in space. my adult cyberpunk lesbian space heist debut HAMMAJANG LUCK is out NOW in the UK and North America!!! shoots! ๐Ÿค™

02.02.2025 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Me: *working at an indie bookstore and telling customers that we can order books we donโ€™t have in stock for no extra fee and that orders will arrive in 3-5 days, if not earlier*

Them: โ€œthatโ€™s alright, I think Iโ€™ll just get it from Am*zonโ€ ๐Ÿซค

Me: *screams into the void*

01.05.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NYT headline: โ€œKennedy Advises New Parents to โ€˜Do Your Own Researchโ€™ on Vaccinesโ€ 
Subheader:
โ€œIn an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.โ€

NYT headline: โ€œKennedy Advises New Parents to โ€˜Do Your Own Researchโ€™ on Vaccinesโ€ Subheader: โ€œIn an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.โ€

โ€œAnd Iโ€™m like, what do you mean, you โ€˜do your own researchโ€™? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?โ€
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

30.04.2025 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27233    ๐Ÿ” 6718    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 747    ๐Ÿ“Œ 371
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Happy Lesbian Visibility Day AND Independent Bookstore Day ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿค๐Ÿฉท #booksky ๐Ÿ“– 1/4

26.04.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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i'm lamby๐Ÿ‘‹ the pkmn world will inspire me forever !! i'll never forget those memories & always want to share that magic ^_^

28.04.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 617    ๐Ÿ” 224    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE donโ€™t buy into Amazonโ€™s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

23.04.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3399    ๐Ÿ” 2811    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 101

If you are a marginalized author writing books about characters from marginalized groups. I need you to know that it may look hopeless right now, but your books are needed now more than ever.

23.04.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 155    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
CREATOR: โ€˜my art is worthless. thereโ€™s no point in finishing this work in progress because nobody will care about it. i quit.โ€™

THE SAME CREATOR AFTER RECOGNIZING THEY WIELD THE GRAND POWER OF THEIR OWN UNFATHOMABLE COSMIC UNIQUENESS:(picture of walter white) we're done when i say we're done'

CREATOR: โ€˜my art is worthless. thereโ€™s no point in finishing this work in progress because nobody will care about it. i quit.โ€™ THE SAME CREATOR AFTER RECOGNIZING THEY WIELD THE GRAND POWER OF THEIR OWN UNFATHOMABLE COSMIC UNIQUENESS:(picture of walter white) we're done when i say we're done'

creation as an act of love. love as an act of creation

12.04.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 850    ๐Ÿ” 224    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Do not post photos of protesters' faces.

Do not post photos of protesters' faces.

Do not post photos of protesters' faces.

05.04.2025 19:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1198    ๐Ÿ” 454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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This EPA employee asked me not to show his face for fear heโ€™d be targeted, a sad statement in itself that testifies to who weโ€™ve become as a nation:

05.04.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 432    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

05.04.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45099    ๐Ÿ” 8619    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 517    ๐Ÿ“Œ 470

We see you all! Incredible turnout so far across the country โ€” current estimates put participation at around 750,000 and counting! More accurate numbers are still coming in, with many events yet to begin.

05.04.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16687    ๐Ÿ” 2161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 346    ๐Ÿ“Œ 76

Erasing books, libraries, museums is but a step in the erasure of people.

Protect these institutions at all costs to protect people.

05.04.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 325    ๐Ÿ” 96    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkadโ€™s new book, โ€œOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,โ€ that will stop you in your tracks.

29.03.2025 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11555    ๐Ÿ” 4373    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 130    ๐Ÿ“Œ 166
cover of cinderella is dead by kalynn bayron

cover of cinderella is dead by kalynn bayron

cover of sleep like death by kalynn bayron

cover of sleep like death by kalynn bayron

cover of this poison heart by kalynn bayron

cover of this poison heart by kalynn bayron

cover of you're not supposed to die tonight by kalynn bayron

cover of you're not supposed to die tonight by kalynn bayron

i love @kalynnbayron.bsky.social as a person, but her books are also unmatched. the way they elevate and celebrate black women! the covers ALONE!!!

anyway, do yourself a favor and buy a kalynn bayron book today: bookshop.org/contributors...

22.03.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow โค๏ธ

07.03.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14480    ๐Ÿ” 4305    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 234    ๐Ÿ“Œ 166

So being late to my appointment saved me from having to evacuate a building with a gas leak while in the middle of a pap smear. Truly a horrible possibility I had never faced until today

24.02.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Guess who took the very first opportunity I had while working at the bookstore today to make a banned book display ๐Ÿคญ

24.02.2025 03:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is my โ€œdaughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteerโ€ coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

18.02.2025 02:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12010    ๐Ÿ” 2717    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 92    ๐Ÿ“Œ 105
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Octavia Butler was a black female science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

16.02.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8342    ๐Ÿ” 1538    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111    ๐Ÿ“Œ 72

Great list of arospec books here! โฌ‡๏ธ
Full list in alt-text. #booksky #queerbooksky

16.02.2025 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"well as long as it's age appropriate" no fuck you guys actually, i read adult books when i was 12 and now i'm weird as hell, as i SHOULD be

11.02.2025 04:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1811    ๐Ÿ” 348    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 152
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta. A teenage Black mixed heritage boy sits with black feather boa, surrounded by pink flamingos

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta. A teenage Black mixed heritage boy sits with black feather boa, surrounded by pink flamingos

Black queer book rec of the day

A gay British mixed heritage boy grows up questioning his identity. When he discovers drag however, he learns to truly love himself

This is a beautiful illustrated novel told in verse. The last chapter made me happy cry!
#booksky #queerbooksky #blackbooksky

07.02.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 130    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Remember, fighting the good fight is exhausting. Take tips from marginalised folks whoโ€™ve been doing it all along. Breaks need to happen to prevent burnout. Pacing is important. Community is important. Community means sharing the load so you DO get rests. Donโ€™t feel bad for resting & finding joy.

06.02.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 225    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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