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Video: Opinion | Dear ICE: Letters From Students Living in Fear ICE took their classmate. They started writing letters.

MN children's letters to CBP/ ICE agents. The consistent theme I hear from my friends in MN share is how much this violence is traumatizing children. These children ask agents to be kind, empathetic, and respectful to everyone. And that poem...💜

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

More ways to help. Many mutual aide groups could especially use help right now with Feb. 1 rent coming due. Thank you!

www.standwithminnesota.com

Inside the Dilley detention facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo-Ramos is being held Protests took place this weekend at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, where a 5-year-old Columbia Heights boy and his father are being held. The two were detained by ICE in Minnesota last Friday.

Keep contacting your reps. Demand an end to the human rights disaster inside (and connected to) detention centers. Demand that our govt. and CoreCivic be held responsible.

And thank you to everyone doing all you can. So much love to everyone in the middle of this.

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Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…

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Please read this witness from beloved Minneapolis poet and #kidlit author #BaoPhi about the heart of our MN community, and the violence of ICE and those condoning hate and violence.

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To start 2026, Julie's reading LOVE, VIOLET by @cswild.bsky.social, @charlenedraws.bsky.social & @fsgbooks.bsky.social! "I love the portrayal of a sweet & innocent childhood crush, & the courage Violet must muster to share her feelings."
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#amreading #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky

Oh thank you for sharing this on a hard day! 💜💜💜

The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde - Courage is Contagious YouTube video by westminstertownhall

This whole program was so healing for the heart broken and raging at this time of violet injustice. You might remember @mariannbudde.bsky.social 's inauguration sermon that spoke truth to power.

#Librarians and #booksellers, note the musical shout-out at 10:00! 💜

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RIGHT?????? How many of those different-sex couples are also queer?? You and I have experience with this...

@penamerica.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

Unexpected Ripples of Mahmoud v. Taylor (Vaccines?!) - Charlotte Sullivan Wild I’ve been reeling. We are starting to discover the real-life implications of Mahmoud v. Taylor – the Supreme Court case on school opt-outs that named Love, Violet and eight other LGBTQ+ picture books....

When #MahmoudvTaylor included #LoveViolet & 8 other #lgbtqia+ books, I knew SCOTUS would use this case to erase minority people at school. But to end vaccine protection in public schools? Which endangers vulnerable families like mine & children's lives?

#kidlit

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I didn't want to like this because I hate it. I really, really hate it. Terrible isn't enough for what it is. (A city in Texas threatened to evict the public library from a city-owned building a few years back because they refused to take Uncle Bobby's Wedding off the shelf. Where are we??)

Lexington Lawsuit Pushes Mahmoud to the Extreme - But...There's HOPE - Charlotte Sullivan Wild Mahmoud v. Taylor in Action It’s happening again. A father in Lexington, Massachusetts is suing a school district for reading two picture books about families to his kindergarten-aged child. He cites ...

Could #MahmoudvTaylor force educators to censor every reference to LGBTQ+ people, even in crowd illustrations, for some students? One dad thinks so.

(Spoiler: That's not religious liberty. That's discrimination.)

#kidlit #BooksNotBans @penamerica.bsky.social
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Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines

#MahmoudvTaylor may be used to dismantle vaccination protections in NY public schools, which make it safe for medically vulnerable children or those with vulnerable family members to attend public school.

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This has blindsided me. It had never occurred to me that SCOTUS would use the Uncle Bobby's Wedding case to remove basic health protections from the children in an entire state - and the entire country, eventually? I knew it would have drastic effects on schools and teachers, and it has.

SCOTUS' LGBTQ books decision destabilized secular, public education by effectively giving religious parents a veto over curricula they dislike.

I agree with @mtsw.bsky.social that this case could further harm public schools by making them unsafe for many children. The goal here is pretty clear.

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.

New Braunfels schools, by San Antonio, TX, closed their middle & HS libraries - a library-wide ban - to assess which books to remove under SB 13. See article for action steps. School board meets Nov. 10. Thanks for speaking out! #kidlit #bookbans @bookriot.bsky.social

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8 of the Best Recent Award-Winning Picture Books From the Caldecott to the Stonewall Book Award, these picture book awards will help you discover the best recently published picture books.

🥰💜 Thanks @isabellepopp.bsky.social and @bookriot.bsky.social for this great shout-out for #LoveViolet! So many gems on this list!

@charlenedraws.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlit #lgbtqiakids #pridebooks

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Stop the Book Bans & Demand Accountability from Lamar CISD Lamar CISD has quietly banned over 700 books — including The Paper Bag Princess, Pinkalicious, The House on Mango Street, The Glass Menagerie, The Bluest Eye, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.&nbsp...

This library needs your support today! 700 books have been challenged.

Please sign the petition and help @everylibrary.bsky.social fight for libraries in the United States.

#bookbans #booksnotbans

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Here's how I met Plymouth Congregational Church, which supported me personally (see below!), 2LGBTQIA+ and marginalized people generally, and reading freedom boldly during #MahmoudvTaylor. Organized religion is complicated for me, but I found love among these people. That gives me hope!

🥰💜🥰 We really couldn't have gotten through #Mahmoudvtaylor as we did without you! You and our community really are the amazing gift of these times! xoxo

📚 We also honored our departed friend Jack Pearson, who was a loving ally, at great personal cost. We love you forever, dearest Jack!

Learn more about his music and life here:

www.jackpearson.org/bio/

Home - Tasslyn Magnusson I’m a writer, a poet, a reader, a mom, and a bunch of other exciting things. These pages are devoted to my love of writing, especially writing for kids and my adventures in poetry.

💜 With Plymouth's gift, we chose to honor @tasslyn.bsky.social, who gave strength, wisdom, and encouragement to the authors/ illustrators named in Mahmoud. She supports students, educators, creators, & community members resisting #bookbans every day. We love you, Tass!

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🌈 My family selected these organizations to receive the 2k the Plymouth community raised. They do important work and could use your support, too.

#RainbowRailroad
#ThriveYouthCenter
@thetrevorproject.bsky.social
@lambdalegal.org
#MadisonReadingProject
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

Plymouth Congregational Church Supports Reading Freedom! - Charlotte Sullivan Wild Here’s a story of love, a story about people of faith doing the opposite of banning books. *** This year, my picture book Love, Violet became embroiled in the Supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor. Rel...

🌈💜📚 This is beautiful: In response to #MahmoudvTaylor, Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis not only purchased 100 copies of #LOVEVIOLET to donate, but raised 2k for #LGBTQIA+ causes!

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#kidlit #bookbans @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social

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 !

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#kidlit #lgbtqiakids
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

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!

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#kidlit #BannedBooksWeek #BooksNotBans #FReadom #lgbtqia

@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

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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