Jenny Bradshaw

I think I just accidentally swallowed a street. Again.

Book cover for "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" edited by Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski

🌟May 8, 2025 at 7pm Eastern🌟

Let's celebrate "Ways of Knowing: The Worlds Words Create" with editors Amanda Belantara ( @abelantara.bsky.social ) and Emily Drabinski ( @edrabinski.bsky.social ) and series editor Violet Fox ( @violetbfox.bsky.social )!

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Asking for prayers and cares for my mom Marjorie Bradshaw and for our family, as Mom transfers to hospice this week.

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

The Indigenous Language Documentation micro-certificate provides training for those looking to engage in language documentation and reclamation initiatives.

Accepting applications until June 30th!

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Folks, CALC (Critical Approaches to Librarianship Conference) tickets are on sale today and the programme is 🔥🔥🔥
Massive congratulations to @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social for putting this together!
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Some core readings that sustain me..,

[a blue photo with these words - i woke up wanting to wrap every trans person in a love poem. i woke up remembering that we ARE love poems, whispered, shouted, sung, and slipped into the heart pockets of each other. - anna blaedel]

colleague & I submitted a proposal for the Illinois Information Literacy Summit, to present a roundtable on #criticalAI & #CritLib.

we’re trying to gather other IL-based library workers that are not interested in AI as the all-encompassing answer to mitigating our relationship with tech & power

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

Green backdrop. Anna Blaedel quote. Oppression and devastation come in so many forms, but so do resistance and resilience, nourishment and sweetness, togetherness and love. Creativity, too, emerges from chaos. The power of our collective care is ferocious.

Stained glass art of Bishop Budde

“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

This.

The fight over books isn't about books. It's a fight over queer folks, trans folks, folks of color, disabled folks, and every other marginalized group whose lives are truly at stake.

Books are one of many tools through which these people are being attacked.

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, used as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state #womensart

Book cover: YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES, text shown on illustrated floating globe, held by a brown woman with greying hair, red scarf in her hair and bare arms

It is not a sin, to love a wild thing… A witch falls out of the sky; a dragon joins the resistance; a smuggler of magical trifles loves a girl she can’t have. A spaceship lights up for Diwali; an arch in the woods leads to wonders; and in a small community in lunar orbit, for no reason understandable by normal people, romance has been abolished. Here are nine more stories, of hope and passion, grief and bureaucracy, and how you can’t go home again but it doesn’t mean you’ll never be found. (In a white room, full of ghosts, a woman cries and will never be found.) You Are Here is a follow-up to the author’s first collection of short fiction, Not For Use In Navigation (2019). This new volume collects eight more stories, plus an exclusive previously unpublished novella, Wish You Were Here. Published 1 January 2025.

Saturday night giveaway! You Are Here, my short story collection about junk food, spaceships, socialist dragons, middle-aged queers, a surfeit of women in power and many other magicks besides - to win a copy plz like & repost, and I'll pick three winners at random at midnight on Mon. blurb below.

Beautiful -- I love this!

Beautiful. -- I love this!

I see this graphic is unreadable, so here is the link: app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2024...

a 3 by 3 grid of sketches to match the text: Title: Blessings for the new year - may your wifi signal be strong - may your snacks be plentiful - may coffee never burn your tongue - may dogs smile upon you - may cats always choose YOUR lap (unless you are allergic) - may your houseplants thrive - may your naps always be refreshing - BUT above ALL ELSE... - May you be healthy happy and unburdened by fuckery by gemma Correll 2017

I like this one. New Year Blessings:

Cover collage from The StoryGraph of the books I read in 2024.

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The Naming Song and The Mars House very by far my favorite books of the year, especially with their focus on language. The picture book about Lorraine Hansberry, What I Must Tell the World, was inspiring. #booksky

The StoryGraph 2024 Wrap-Up for @jennywren129: Books 131, Pages 32,314. First: Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland. Last: The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. Longest: The Mars House by Natasha Pulley. Shortest: Compulsory by Martha Wells. 5-star Reads: The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry, The Mars House by Natasha Pulley, What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice by Jay Leslie. Top genres: Fantasy, LGBTQIA+, Science Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories. Top Authors: Charlaine Harris, R.B. Lemberg, Martha Wells.

Finally sharing my 2024 reading summary, with books by @justinaireland.com, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, @natashapulley.bsky.social, @marthawells.com, @jedediahberry.com, and Jay Leslie. #booksky

The full schedule of live events for World Endangered Writing Day (January 23rd) is now up at www.endangeredwriting.world/events, where you can also register for free. I hope to see you there!

I thought you should know that in 2024 New Jersey, Minnesota, Illinois, California, and Maryland have all enacted legislation that bans book bans & censorship in both, school and public libraries, and protects librarians.

Alt Text: What to Write Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period?

"End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text."

This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new!

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My New Year’s Resolution.
What’s yours?

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's Chief's Na’je Niŋe (No Heart)'s map of Baxoje (Iowa) lands, which he took to DC in 1837 to have the federal government recognize their claims.
This did not happen, there's no Native American reservations in Iowa. The Meskwaki had to buy their land back. 1/

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

Woo hoo! Dark Waters Volume 2 is now on pre-order.
Stories of trepidation, the unknown, the dangerous, the creepy, & the suspenseful.
My story is "The Sea is Full of Ghosts": A deep-sea merman encounters the ghost of a drowned sailor.
#DarkWaters #DannyeWrites #darkfantasy

What a stellar lineup of authors! I can hardly wait for this book to come out!