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“God Who Dwells on the Margins… let us be grounded in your mystery, for you are more than nation, more than law or hierarchy. You are the hidden strength in the fragile and the small.” -Kat Armas #LiturgiesForResistingEmpire #MorningPrayer

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

I’m currently listening to ‘The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea’ by Axie Oh because I adored Rosa Escoda’s reading of ‘Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop’ by Hwang Bo-Reum.

Please tell me there are other people who listen to audiobooks not previously on their TBR simply because they are narrated by the same narrator who read another audiobook they loved.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

It’s Independent Bookstore Day! Visit your local indie shop or choose one to support on @Bookshop.org and get free shipping all weekend. Plus today only Bookshop is offering a free e-book download Danny Caine's Guide to resisting Amazon! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

@thebossross.bsky.social Follow the # - Berlin has folks out, too.

The Teller of Small Fortunes Audiobook on Libro.fm USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this cozy fantasy debut, hailed as “perfection…a beautiful treasure of a book that will warm your heart and heal your so...

The most lovely cozy fantasy audiobook I’ve ever read is on sale right now on libro.fm! Grab it while you can and support a local indie bookstore in the process. I adore this book and cannot wait for @julieleong.bsky.social’s next one to be released later this year. ✨
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Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.

As Mariam Kaba said, "hope is a discipline."

As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”

Trans Rights Readathon Playlist on Libro.fm This year's Trans Rights Readathon runs from March 21-31. Use this playlist to help you get started and follow @TransRightsReadathon on social media to discover more.

Great resource for the Trans Rights Readathon! Nice mix of fiction and non. I just filled my @libro.fm and my Libby app wishlists with many books from this list I haven’t read yet.
Really looking forward to getting into these. libro.fm/playlists/tr...

PSA that we can support both our independent bookshop AND public library ❤️

They play such a vital role in our local communities, and they both need our support to stay open and keep offering valuable resources.

It's not either/or, but both/and 🥰

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

When I finish a great book on Libby and see people are waiting for it as I go to return, I always send warm thoughts that the next person’s day will be brightened it’s ready for them and that they will enjoy it as well. Just another little way libraries can remind us of our connection to others.

An image of the cover of the book, which has art depicting a nebula/cosmos in orange/red /magenta/sky/ink blue, shot through with rays and dappled in constellations. There are delicate renderings of medicinal plants and a clock face or sundial made of small brown beings consulting with each other. White text in the lower right reads: The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs. The authors name, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, is written in dark letters across the top. Note: image description borrowed from the authors, Instagram page.

‘The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs’ by
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-

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I did it! I went through my entire Faith + Climate list on X and found 30% of the folks + orgs here. @nuryalp.bsky.social @debrakrienstra.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RMWNiio

Picture of the book cover for NO MORE POLICE: A CASE FOR ABOLITION by MARIAME KABA and ANDREA RITCHIE The cover an orange and burgundy background, with the sun and white clouds, illustrated in the top right corner, with illustrations of People of Color attending a protest, several holding signs, one with a bullhorn, and a black person with long gray dreads pointing at the title, which reads: NO MORE POLICE: A CASE FOR ABOLITION The text along the bottom of the cover reads: MARIAME KABA ANDREA J. RITCHIE MITH A FORWARD BY BLACK VISIONS

‘No More Police: A Case for Abolition’ by Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie

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Picture of the cover of audiobook cover for Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. The cover fades from white on the left to blue on the right. There is a striped feather in the center with the top of the feather becoming birds that are flying away. The text on the reads: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng OUR MISERNG HEARTS A Novel READ BY LUCY LIU WITH A NOTE READ BY THE AUTHOR UNABRIDGED

‘Our Missing Hearts’ by Celeste Ng (Yes, I know this one’s fiction, but it’s also about resisting fascism, so I think it belongs here)

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Has anyone else tried lapse as an alternative to IG? I use it as a photo journal, no captions. Fun to look back on the past year of everyday moments, but I don’t know many others who use it.

A book cover with a black background and the title text BLACK DISABILITY POLITICS written in all caps with a red line above and below. The authors name, SAMI SCHALK, is printed along the bottom of the cover also in all caps in the same light yellow color as the title.

‘Black Disability Politics’ by Sami Schalk

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White book cover with a multi colored slinky arched across the bottom left side with text that reads Thinking in Systems A primer Donella H. Meadows

‘Thinking in Systems: A Primer’ by Donella Meadows (Author) Diana Wright (Editor)

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How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.

A cool thing I recently learned about @bsky.app is there’s a setting you can enable that requires you to add alt text in any photos you share so you don’t forget. Hint: I like to use voice-to-text to write my alt text and this article has other super helpful tips.

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White book cover with a brushstroke zigzagging across that fades from blue at the top to green at the bottom. Text reads: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life The Only Constant Najwa Zebian Author of Welcome Home

‘The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life’ by Najwa Zebian

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Book cover that’s half cream and half plum with two grayscale birds swooping and text that reads: Border & Rule Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism HARSHA WALIA Foreword by Robin D. C. Kelley. Afterword by Nick Extes

‘Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism’ by Harsha Walia

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Beautiful book cover with a side-view silhouette of a person’s face, adorned with colorful flowers, over an orange and yellow background. Text reads: Viral Justice How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin

‘Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want’ by Ruha Benjamin

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Yellow and orange book cover with text that reads: LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU ORGANIZING AND THE REVOLUTION OF RECIPROCAL CARE by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba With a quote that reads: “THIS IS A PROPHETIC WORK.” -NAOMI KLEIN

‘Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care’ by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba

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Light green book cover that reads: Not Too Late Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Edited by REBECCA SOLNIT& THELMA YOUNG LUTUNATABUA UNABRIDGED

‘Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility’ Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua

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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor a book by Kim Kelly This revelatory and inclusive book "unearths the stories of the people--farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees--behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes" (The New York Times) ...

‘Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor’
Kim Kelly

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Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too a book by Ijeoma Oluo NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism acros...

‘Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too’ by Ijeoma Oluo

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A few books I’ve read recently that would make great additions to your post-election reading list. I’ve been reading a TON of fiction too, because it helps me balance out the heavier topics, I just found these important/impactful and highly recommend: