Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough

@marthabee.bsky.social

Out this year: FUTURE TENSE: How We Made Artificial Intelligence—and How It Will Change Everything and FRANK AND THE BIG MISTAKE. http://marthabrockenbrough.com

2,500 Followers 120 Following 35 Posts Joined Jul 2023
11 months ago
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Damn right he is. Thanks to @marthabee.bsky.social, @authorgracelin.bsky.social, & Julia Kuo for this phenomenal book, & to @peterhreynolds.bsky.social's Blue Bunny bookstore for helping spread the word. 🗃️

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11 months ago
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I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story The Wong Kim Ark Story

See relevant to today picture book⬇️ by Grace Lin @authorgracelin.bsky.social & Martha Brockenbrough
@marthabee.bsky.social, illustrated by Julia Kuo.

"An important picture book biography to augment classroom conversations about immigration and citizenship." -- @slj.com
bookshop.org/a/7256/97803...

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1 year ago
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Can generative AI be ethical? Experts Lori Fena and Martha Brockenbrough YouTube video by The Curious Cat Bookshop

New episode of our podcast is now up, an edited version of our live conversation with Lori Fena and @marthabee.bsky.social about the ethics of AI in publishing.

Can there be accountability and ethics when it comes to generative AI in publishing? Let us know what you think.

youtu.be/39LVh2T3HkY

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1 year ago
Cover of a biography of Donald Trump scowling entitled Unpresidented.

It's a good day to read and reread Unpresidented by @marthabee.bsky.social

She tried to tell people in 2018, and she deserves a LOT of credit. This YA book is well-cited w plenty of captioned photos. So many direct quotes from the man, it's like an interview at times.

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1 year ago

If I opened a wig shop for men, I’d call it Hell Toupee.

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1 year ago

Thank you!!!

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1 year ago

Thank you!

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1 year ago
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I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story He challenged the Supreme Court on his right to be called citizen—and won. When American-born Wong Kim Ark returns home to San Francisco after a visit to China, he’s stopped and told he cannot enter:...

And there’s a picture book for the younger readers who want to learn too. www.juniorlibraryguild.com/i-am-an-amer... By @authorgracelin.bsky.social and @marthabee.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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OTIS KNOWS (HOW TO BE A BEAR) & A GIFT OF DUST by @marthabee.bsky.social

The former is inspired by real-life Katmai National Park bear Otis, a 4 time Fat Bear Week champion. The latter illustrates how Sarharan Dust transforms our planet

Learn more about A GIFT OF DUST

Follow along with Martha

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1 year ago
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Via @marthabee.bsky.social Do you have small children you'd like to indoctrinate with the idea that it's perfectly normal and wholesome for a niece to visit her brown-skinned gay uncles, their tuxedo cat, and corgi puppy? What about a parrot who belongs to a lesbian couple who are away on a cruise?

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1 year ago
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Donate to Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC, organized by Martha Brockenbrough You might know Jess Huang as Celeste Pewter—the tireless educator on how … Martha Brockenbrough needs your support for Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC

We are almost halfway to the goal for the @celestepewter.bsky.social GoFundMe. You know what would be incredible? To get to 60 percent by the end of the day.

Celeste has educated so many of us about political engagement. Can you help? Might you share this post?

www.gofundme.com/f/back-jessa...

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1 year ago

It really is. And we need to keep telling the truth. Keep writing the stories. We need to look out for each other. The next few years will be chaos.

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1 year ago

These people are just so gullible.

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1 year ago

You da best.

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1 year ago
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Donate to Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC, organized by Martha Brockenbrough You might know Jess Huang as Celeste Pewter—the tireless educator on how … Martha Brockenbrough needs your support for Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC

Wow, everyone! Thanks for getting @celestepewter.bsky.social's GoFundMe off to a roaring start. Let's help this amazing public servant pack up and move her life to Washington, DC, where she belongs!
gofund.me/9c42b697

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1 year ago

Celeste does incredible work, I’ve learned so so much from them. Join in. 👇🏽

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1 year ago

I'm hopeful Scholastic can figure it out. I will be sending them an email with ideas. Every year at this time for like three years now, I get sad emails from parents around the world. They need the book.

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1 year ago

Trump's hatred of birthright citizenship is 100 percent pure racism against people of color. Without it, his grandparents would not have been citizens. His father wouldn't have been a citizen. His immigrant mother could not have granted him citizenship.

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1 year ago
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Donate to Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC, organized by Martha Brockenbrough You might know Jess Huang as Celeste Pewter—the tireless educator on how … Martha Brockenbrough needs your support for Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC

Friends! Have you ever been helped by Celeste Pewter's instructions on how to use your voice with your elected officials?

Celeste--also known as Jess Huang--needs some help. If you can pitch in, I'd be so grateful. gofund.me/9c42b697

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1 year ago

Aw, thanks, Billie. Copies are impossible to come by, or so it seems. Scholastic has failed to reprint--I'm working on a solution.

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1 year ago
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The immunity decision was ridiculous, unprincipled, made up, and indefensible, but birth citizenship is expressly granted by the 14th Amendment and upheld by the Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark, 1898, as detailed in my friend @marthabee.bsky.social in her book I AM AN AMERICAN

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1 year ago
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Hope to see you at #NCTE! I'm super excited about my panel with @marthabee.bsky.social, @dashkaslater.bsky.social and Katherine Marsh. Honestly, this work feels more important than ever.
#edusky #skybrarians #tlsky #medialiteracy

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1 year ago

And filled it with poo.

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1 year ago
Meme with side by side pictures of Marco Rubio and RFK, Jr, labeled “Marco” and “Polio.”

Who made this? Ahahaha

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1 year ago

We gave it our all.

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1 year ago

❤️

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1 year ago

On the plus side: autocorrect no longer thinks I mean ducking.

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1 year ago

Hello, my friend.

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1 year ago

Let's rebuild a community in a place of trust, love, and respect.

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