@lightningrose42.bsky.social
Trying to be the good I want to see in the world. But also, so tired.
From Brenna Twohy's book, Swallowtail: bit.ly/swallowtailBK
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Mychal smiles and holds his blue-eyed cat, who is white and brown, and goes by the name Kissin’ Kat Barlow
Mychal smiles and holds his yellow-eyed cat, who is grey and white, and goes by the name Machine Gun Kitty
Kissin’ Kat Barlow & Machine Gun Kitty 🩵💛
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QUICK SIGNATURE: Support moms leading the way in Congress action.momsrising.org/sign/proxy-v...
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“Hillel said…In a place where there are no mensches, show up to be a damn mensch.”
Pirke Avot 2:5, adapted
From The Essential W.S. Merwin: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
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From Cameron Awkward-Rich's book, Dispatch: bookshop.org/a/862/978089...
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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From Mary Oliver's book, Devotions: bookshop.org/a/862/978039...
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At an ani DiFranco concert many moons ago, she mused how we all think we are Animal, but we are really truly “beaker or something.” Long live beaker.
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The godfather
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From Rita Dove's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/978039...
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From @webbish6.bsky.social's book, Flare Corona: bookshop.org/a/862/978195...
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Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
📚 Author Samuel Teer and Jackie Bush, Chair of the Printz Award Committee, joined CBS News New York's Mary Calvi to discuss "Brownstone" and the Printz Award. #ALAYMA
youtu.be/W40-zAfqbqo?...
From Garous Abdolmalekian's book, Lean Against This Late Hour: bookshop.org/a/862/978014...
Translated from the Persian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey.
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"We are a creative, disruptive people who have never accepted silence."
In this op-ed, @raquelwillis.com offers advice to trans kids on resisting discriminatory times and calls on the strength and resolve of trans trailblazers throughout history. ⤵️
Science flatters me deeply
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Book Bans Are Real. American Library Association
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination.
Our response: Book bans are real.
Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
Howdy
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Credit: LunarBaboon
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From The Essential W.S. Merwin: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
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I've probably reread this collection of poems more than any other. From Richard Siken's book, Crush: bookshop.org/a/862/978030...
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