Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿

We believe that every person, of every age, of every race, of every gender, no matter who they love, or where they live, should have access to books that reflect and expand their worldview. #UniteAgainstBookBans #BannedBooksWeek

Background of glittery gold and an open book. Blue heading: "Finding Your Voice: LGBTQIA+ Picture Books" Red print: "Replay in bio" Blue rectangle with "Everylibrary live presents... Banned Books Week 2025. Finding Your Voice: Friendship, Love, and Identity with Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Katherine Locke, Hosted by Gigi Howard from Drinks in the Library. Tues. Oct. 7 at 7 PM EDT on EveryLibrary's Facebook and YouTube Live. Head shots of the authors. Wild: close of face with light skin, subtle smile, wavy long dark blond hair. Locke: Smiling with light skin, long brown hair over one shoulder in red sweater with water behind them. QR code.

Similar design with decorative mauve heart in top corner and image of picture book Love, Violet in lower corner. Text in blue and red on soft gold box: “‘Book banning is about... holding up these myths that keep prejudice going. Prejudice depends on you not seeing the humanity of other people. You have to have stereotypes. You have to have lies [and] fear… Our stories do... the opposite. They humanize.’ Charlotte Sullivan Wild, author of Love, Violet” QR code.

Similar design with three accept lines around the first line of text. Image of picture books What Are Your Words? on side. Yellow and white text on dark blue box: “‘[Diverse] books are for everybody. Everybody can identify with some piece of this book and learn something… and find common ground. That’s what stories do best. And that’s how we build a bigger community. That’s what I’m always trying to do with my books.’ Katherine Locke, author of What Are Your Words?” QR code

What a great chat with @katherinelocke.bsky.social & #GigiHoward of @drinksinthelibrary.bsky.social & @everylibrary.bsky.social !

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTX...

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#kidlit #lgbtqiakids
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YouTube video by EveryLibrary Finding Your Voice: Friendship, Love, and Identity with Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Katherine Locke

Thank you for sharing this, friend! 🌈💜📚

I'm also thankful to @everylibrary.bsky.social and Gigi Howard of @drinksinthelibrary.bsky.social for this great conversation with @katherinelocke.bsky.social & me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTX...

#kidlit #BannedBooksWeek #BooksNotBans #FReadom #lgbtqia

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YouTube video by EveryLibrary Finding Your Voice: Friendship, Love, and Identity with Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Katherine Locke

What a great conversation with @katherinelocke.bsky.social and #GigiHoward of @drinksinthelibrary.bsky.social about the power of LGBTQIA+ picture books! Thanks to @everylibrary.bsky.social for hosting! #kidlit

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTX...

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YouTube video by EveryLibrary Finding Your Voice: Friendship, Love, and Identity with Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Katherine Locke

I can't wait for this FREE conversation with my SCOTUS Book Club pal @katherinelocke.bsky.social and #GigiHoward of Drinks in the Library!

Oct. 7 @ 7PM Eastern
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Check out @everylibrary.bsky.social's week of FREE events for #BannedBooksWeek!

I chat with @katherinelocke.bsky.social and #GigiHoward on Tues. 7 PM Eastern.

Here's to #FReadom #BooksNotBans #kidlit #lgbtqkidlit

Sign up here:
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Martyrs, Myths, and Moral Clarity A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

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Ira Wells' powerful response to book banning efforts in CA lays bare the true aim: to erase and degrade anyone of a marginalized identity. I appreciate this clarity that applies to so much banning. #booksnotbans #kidlit #FReadom #readingliberty @pencanada.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social

I love this. Your efforts clearly worked. The mood and spirit of the story moves through every page 💜🥰

So happy to be in this work with you, @charlenedraws.bsky.social !! 💜💜💜

Person with brown skin wearing a black shirt with a screened cartoon image of the 9 US Supreme Court justices each holding one of the picture books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor. In script: "SCOTUS Book Club"

Person with light skin wearing a white sweatshirt with hands in a kangaroo pouch, with a screened cartoon image of the 9 US Supreme Court justices each holding one of the picture books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor. In script: "SCOTUS Book Club"

Want to support #FReadom? For a short time, the book creators named in #MahmoudvTaylor are offering shirts, hoodies, & sweatshirts with art from @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social - to raise funds for @penamerica.bsky.social, who supported us during this case! #kidlit

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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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There is so much I could say for The Pink Pajamas, but so little time!

So this short video is just summarizing the story, and my hope for the book!

#kidlit #books #booksky

Four Questions for Charlene Chua A grieving girl finds the ideal way to honor her late aunt in Charlene Chua’s 'The Pink Pajamas: A Story About Love and Loss,' the second picture book Chua has both written and illustrated (after 2020...

Congrats @charlenedraws.bsky.social on your beautiful new #picturebook THE PINK PAJAMAS! This tender story about a pj-making aunt, loss, and love is so beautiful!

(Charlene created the gorgeous illustrations for Love, Violet)

#kidlit #weneeddiversebooks

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I had the time wrong - it starts tonight at 8 pm Eastern and goes for 24 hours. I'll be reading at 2:45 pm tomorrow! #ReadOUTLoud

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This weekend Read OUT Loud as part of a national day of action to support Queer Kids Books. Find in-person events near you or sign up to participate in an online action!

"given Mahmoud’s award of temporary relief to a single school district, it has no effect on the fundamental values of our State"

BOOM!!
There it is!!
Let this be the banner on every school board thinking their being pressured to follow crooked bans...

Yes!

Just a reminder, #MahmoudvTaylor is not a ban. Schools are still free to present #inclusiveeducation and to make sure every student is welcome and supported. See what NY is doing...

#kidlit ##booksnotbans #lgbtqia #@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

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How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench So what was the message of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding?

If you’re craving more on this topic, I interviewed the author of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding about Alito’s homophobic butchering of its message: slate.com/news-and-pol...

This may seem amorphous, but it is something that I and two of the authors in the case, @cswild.bsky.social and @katherinelocke.bsky.social, have all noticed, and I think it's very real.

My statement on the decision and dissent in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Please also read statements by all the authors via @penamerica.bsky.social, and statements by @robinstevenson.bsky.social, @katherinelocke.bsky.social, +Charlotte Sullivan Wild. 100% agree with everything they said.

"We would not expect schools to put Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in the sex education curriculum simply because it features a straight mom and dad. Why would Justice Gorsuch or others believe stories about families with two moms or two dads belong there?"

I love this article by @mombian.bsky.social about #mahmoudvtaylor & the importance of joy. There is power in sharing our joy & need for inclusive books with educators, school boards, & those deciding whether or not to include everyone at school.

#kidlit #lgbtq+

mombian.com/2025/07/10/t...

Green background with multiple images superimposed including the picture of a Black nonbinary person wearing glasses. There is also two children's books covers one entitled Marley's Pride, the other entitled Our World USA. the text reads SCBWI the official blog, interview with Picture Book author Joëlle Retener on a Stonewall honor, agents, disability and activism.

Cover of the picture book Marley's Pride, which features two Black nonbinary characters, one holding a trans flag in front of a rainbow at Pride. All shows an inside spread of the same Black characters at a Pride parade.

White text on a green background. Text reads " especially at a time when there is so much struggle within our community...To be reminded of radical joy is a gift."

White text on green background. Text reads " Becoming disabled led to a reframing of my activism. My storytelling is 100% activism."

Finally sharing this interview with one of my favorite humans @cswild.bsky.social. I talk about my agent, balancing #chronicillness and creating #kidlit, and what it feels like to win a Stonewall Honor as a Black nonbinary human. #writingcommunity #edusky

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We Cannot Give Up on Each Other We cannot give up on ourselves or on others because this fight is far from over.

We Cannot Give Up on Each Other

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Thank you for doing this interview @joelleretener.bsky.social ! You happen to be one of my favorite humans, too!

#kidlit #Stonewallbookaward #LGBTQIAP2

Supreme Court Says Parents Can "Opt Out" Of Positively-Affirming LGBTQ+ Public School Lessons Mahmoud vs Taylor asked whether or not parents could opt their children out of public classroom lessons that positively depict LGBTQ+ people.

What does the Mahmoud v Taylor Supreme Court case actually mean? A look at the ruling, its implications, understanding the Establishment Clause through the eyes of the far-right, and why we should be concerned about school voucher schemes with this outcome:

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