Tasslyn - AKA Dr. Sasslyn

As an educator, as a fellow woman in science, I’m fucking horrified that Lia Smith who was just a year from
graduation felt her only option was to take her own life.

I lay her death at the feet of all the people hounding trans women athletes like her, you fucking monsters

Since we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, I’m bumping my thread about how from my perspective as a former Junior Olympic level track runner, this “fairness” transphobia is fucking bullshit blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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Animal Camouflage Book “Butt or Face” Sparks School Board Debate | The Fayette County Record The La Grange School Board was once again talking about books. A concern was raised by board member Calvin Mersiovsky as to the name of one of the books – “Butt or Face? Vol.

We are fighting this level of pearl-clutching stupidity in TX.

Have people who question why a school librarian would want to purchase a nature book about animal butts ever met a child?!

www.fayettecountyrecord.com/news/animal-...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Removed/ Discontinued The Truth About Alice Jennifer Mathieu Removed/Discontinued A Court of Wings and Ruin Sarah J. Maas Removed/Discontinued Crank Ellen Hopkins Removed/Discontinued All American Boys Jason Reynolds Parental Advisory Status (9-12 only) All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven Removed/Discontinued Beyond Magenta Susan Kuklin Removed/Discontinued Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda Jean-Philippe Stassen Removed/Discontinued Identical Ellen Hopkins Removed/Discontinued Almost Perfect Brian Katcher Removed/Discontinued And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell Did Not Remove/Discontinue/Limit Access Burned Ellen Hopkins Removed/Discontinued Crown of Midnight Sarah Maas Removed/Discontinued Cut Patricia McCormick Parental Advisory Status (9-12 only) Dear Evan Hansen Val Emmich Removed/Discontinued Drama Raina Telgemeier Access Limited: Grades 6 and up Eleanor and Park Rainbow Rowell Removed/Discontinued Fade Lisa McMann Removed/Discontinued Fallout Ellen Hopkins Removed/Discontinued Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes Access Limited: Grades 9 and up

Yesterday, Nassau’s Statutory Compliance Team decided eleven library removals/restrictions that conflict with the 2024 settlement agreement the district made with parents and authors.

Highlighted titles were previously returned to shelves per the agreement.

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🚨🚨 friends! Public library book bans! Anyone available to help in Victoria Texas?

Screen shot of books removed from Victoria Public Library

Screen shot of books removed and relocated in Victoria Public Library

Screen shot of someone claiming books about racism and gender are “perverse filth.”

47 books removed. From a Texas public library. “Weeded.” Targeted for removal based on ideological complaints. So not “weeded.” Censored. Banned.

Request Sparks Book Removals at Victoria Public Library - The Victoria Advocate The Victoria Public Library removed a large number of books from a list provided by the VPBC following the organization’s request.

“iT’s nOt a BoOk BaN bEcaUse YoU cAn GeT iT fRoM thE pUbLiC LiBraRy!”

So what is it called when you can no longer get from in the public library? 🤔

victoriaadvocate.com/2025/10/23/1...

Holy buckets. This is exactly what the Oregon Silver Shirt fascist I’m writing about thought children should be taught about Communism ca. 1965 (minus the more recent references).

Read this whole thread. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Facebook post from an affiliate of citizens Defending Freedom - Texas that reads, in part, “New Braunfels ISD suspended their library services to all schools due to the newly imposed SB effective September 1st.  What a win for our children!!!! It’s time we get this dangerous ideology out of our schools.  This is the law!!!!!”

“What a win for our children!!!!”

Imagine writing that about the *closure* of libraries for middle and high school students across an entire district.

New Braunfels ISD libraries could be closed for months while the district reviews every book in its collections.

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

“NBISD’s decision to shut down the libraries in order to complete a review of materials based on vague language showcases how quickly and easily public schools are and will continue to cower to far right politics”

So so so much deep good in the world. Mahmoud authors and illustrators and their bigger community - ripples of change. Together. Bumpy hard waters but ripples and persistence and love. Always.

😭♥️♥️ I don't know what to say except this means the world to me. And to be in community with you all - it's the only way thru.

You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.

Several people's backs with signs for no kings protest.

Back of several people on corner one with a no kings flag on their jacket

Protestor with sign that says power lies with the people

Prescott wi

A safety guide for No Kings peaceful protest. It encourages you to know your rights, stay in groups, and pack light. It discourages you from posting photos of unblurred faces, carrying weapons, or engaging with aggressors.

Goodnight, friends.

This is not a drill. If you can join in a protest tomorrow for #NoKings, do it!

If you can't, amplify the message, put a sign in your window, donate to a progressive cause, or write your elected officials. Just do something.

Stay safe. Use your voice.

I love you.

Last day! Tomorrow this survey closes and look, so far the results are depressing.

I think im a fan of calling out the orgs for being the racist and homophobic weaponizers of fear - some places pussyfoot around a bit.

I don't see how you can see it any other way? This is wild/scary.

The Censors Have Names. Use Them. Banned Books Week just ended, but the fight it highlights continues every other week of the year. This year’s theme was Censorship is So 1984: Read for Your Rights, invoking George Orwell’s famous nov...

YES to ALL OF THIS. thefulcrum.us/governance-l...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?

New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

Book Bans Continue to Threaten the Wellbeing of Authors - Electric Literature There are societal, financial, legal, and emotional consequences to book challenges, and writers are facing the brunt of these attacks

One weird thing about book bans is that the authors of banned books have been ignored or sidelined in a lot of the discourse and in the anti-censorship activism. So I’m not exactly “glad” to see this article, but I appreciate it a lot. electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...

I think about this all the time. Type in is there porn in school libraries and the moms begin a journey to a variety of purposely open groups where I've watched them be taught how to cause havoc in school libraries and trust is eroded in schools. Weaponization of moms is what I call it.

In addition to the roundup below, you can read @douglassoule.bsky.social article on Escambia’s nearly $1M spent arguing that students do not have First Amendment rights in the library.

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A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl–an optional state-wide competition intended to get kids excited about reading–has banned 8 books from its teen competition this year.

Among the banned books? @samiraahmed.bsky.social's book about banned books.

What the hell is going on?

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

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