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Leveling the Ice: Confronting Racism in Hockey by Steven Sandor The prevalence and impact of racism in North American hockey are explored by sports journalist Sandor (Called Up) in this notewo...

Often seen as a “white man’s game,” hockey has a history of trailblazing players of color.

Steven Sandor spotlights prominent players like Willie O’Ree, the first Black player in the NHL, in LEVELING THE ICE. @publisherswkly.bsky.social

October 7, Two Years On Two years into its war on Gaza, Israel faces global condemnation and a growing Palestinian solidarity movement. Yet, as analyst Mouin Rabbani explains, US support remains unwavering, and Israel shows little concern for the world’s outrage.

Two years into its war on Gaza, Israel faces global condemnation and a growing Palestinian solidarity movement.

Yet, as analyst Mouin Rabbani explains, US support remains unwavering, and Israel shows little concern for the world’s outrage.

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important i…

What would a path toward a democratic and decolonized state for Palestinians and Israelis look like? Ilan Pappé outlines a path imagining mini-revolutions in the form of a fictional diary, from 2027 to 2048. #October7 #FreePalestine

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Happy #PublicationDay, @dinagw.bsky.social! ✨

WHO GETS TO BE INDIAN, her investigation into how Native American identity became commodified through cultural appropriation, ethnic fraud, and disenrollment, is an “incendiary j’accuse.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social, ⭐Starred Review

"History didn't start on October 7," says Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, who became famous for her viral video dispatches from Gaza in the early days of Israel's genocide. Her new book is "The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/7/plestia_alaqad

You Can’t Worship God and Money It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture

“We must build the strength to make a theological and spiritual vision of everybody-in-nobody-out a reality and create the capacity, powered by faith, to make it so. Now is the time.” — @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org

Librarians Supporting Each Other to Confront Book Bans. Tuesday, Cotober 7, 2025. 12pm CT. Law for Librarians. Intellectual Freedom Helplines. Censorship is so 1984. Read for Your Rights. Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025

TOMORROW: Join @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @oif.bsky.social staff to learn about Law for Librarians & Intellectual Freedom Helplines, how these programs provide censorshp support, and other resources for our communities.

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#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984

Touch Me, I’m Sick! Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since you heard from me. I’ve been working on my next anthology, Disability Vulnerability, and enjoy summer after a harrowing 9 weeks of bed rest. I’m delighted…

Did you enter for a chance to win a hardcover copy of Margeaux Feldman’s TOUCH ME, I’M SICK from @sfdirewolf.bsky.social?

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Failures of America’s Drug Laws and Addiction Treatment w/ Dr. Melody Glenn!!! Brittany Page is joined by Dr. Melody Glenn, associate professor of addiction and emergency medicine at the University of Arizona and author of the new book, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a…

Contrary to popular misconception, #HarmReduction for addiction doesn’t encourage drug use. Physicians like @melodyglenn.bsky.social are letting recovering addicts know that their lives matter, that they’re cared for. @brittanyepage.bsky.social

YouTube video by enochprattlibrary Gloria Browne-Marshall: "A Protest History of the United States"

Watch Gloria J. Browne-Marshall discussing her book, A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, with @lisasnowden.bsky.social at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5BM... @beaconpress.bsky.social

It’s Banned Books Week! It’s time for the MA legislature to pass a Freedom to Read bill that protects librarians & educators from harassment, and protects authors, creators, booksellers & publishers from economic harm. We support An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328). #MassFreedomToRead

If only someone had warned us....

Fall books roundup 2025 part 2 – Ups & downs: disability determination, D&D gaymers, caregiver crises, food fun & trauma truths Part 2 of our Fall books roundup series present some serious non-fiction titles on disabled rights, addiction, an uplifting food-centric anthology complete with tantalizing recipes, a special treat…

Margeaux Feldman’s 6 meaningful essays in TOUCH ME, I'M SICK stress the importance of intimate care for those we love within our own communities but also caring for strangers and not expecting anything in return. An ethos we need now. @bayareareporter.bsky.social

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

How 'Cyber Citizens' Aims to Save Democracy from Big Tech In her new book, "Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy", surveillance and privacy expert Heidi Boghosian offers...

About 1/3 of young adults now support the idea of a strong leader who can bypass elections and legislatures.

@heidsky.bsky.social’s CYBER CITIZENS argues that this is a democratic emergency fueled by our collective failure to teach civics and digital skills.

In case you needed another reason to love her 💗

Where Learning Can Take Place a conversation with Jared Fox

What does passion-driven pedagogy look like and how can teachers bring it to their classrooms? Jared Fox has a few ideas from his own experiences. #BackToSchool @thebrokencopier.bsky.social

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

Opinion | This disabled sharecropper is a civil rights hero you need to know Fannie Lou Hamer didn't need a good education to know that access to the ballot would mean more power.

Fannie Lou Hamer would have turned 108 today. 🎂 It’s hard to imagine there being a Voting Rights Act without her. May she #RestInPower.

YouTube video by Banned Books Week George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."

#BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984

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Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History I met my former MFA classmate Sasha Bonét on Admitted Student Night in the spring of 2014. I recognized her as a force of nature on sight. It couldn’t be more fitting that her new book finds her tr…

To make the transition from having a concept for a book to writing her memoir THE WATERBEARERS, the first step Sasha Bonét took was talking to her grandmother. Her grandmother is the first of 3 generations of Black single mothers.

My current thoughts on this book coming out:

AAAHHHHHHHHHH EEEEEEE YAYYYYY!

I’m such an eloquent writer.

Alumna, author Stephanie Elizondo Griest talks new book, ‘Art Above Everything’ Stephanie Elizondo Griest said she travelled to various countries over 10 years and interviewed 70 women to find the answer to a question that haunted her entire career. Transforming art into…

Is art enough? @sgriest.bsky.social was grateful to realize that there’s a whole cadre of fellow art monks forging their way on what she calls the path of most resistance. #ArtistsLife

2025 Fall Preview: Short Fiction and Poetry - Quill and Quire Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s instalment features short fiction and poetry. Next week’s final instalment will feature…

The poems in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE take various forms, from sonnets to field notes to fragments. So honored to publish his collection in the US in our Raised Voices series!

📚 Worth the wait The National Book Awards fiction longlist, a long-awaited sophomore novel, and more.

As Sasha Bonét prepared to write THE WATERBEARERS, she looked for works that maintained the tricky balance of personal narrative and cultural criticism. That work is G’Ra Asim’s BOYZ N THE VOID, which does so seamlessly. 👌🏽

The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant

So great to see this profile of Andrea Bartz in her (and all authors’) fight against Anthropic.

It’s COVER REVEAL Friday for @lodrinkswater.bsky.social!

Written through the lens of chronic illness, BODY WEATHER traverses science, history & memoir to explore the interconnected relationships between the human body and Earth’s meteorology.

Out in April 2026!

Cover art: @kyrianna.bsky.social

To atone this Yom Kippur, you must drop your lizard. Yes, lizard It's Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking how they could have done better. And, maybe, how they can put down their lizard.

Better late than never but I was on npr