Reposted by Erika MezaStill We Rise @lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025💔 11-Year-Old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 5313
Reposted by Erika MezaCarrie Kruck @carriekruck.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Love seeing @erikadraws.bsky.social on this list! 021
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/12/2024You can do it, Grace!!! I kept feeling judged as well, or like I was breaking their heart somehow. I kept making up all kinds of excuses!! 010
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Particularly hard when the cashier is wearing what can only be described as an amazing turkey hat. 110
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/12/2024It only very nearly took me 38 years to be able to say “because I don’t want one” when the cashier asked me, yet again, why I would not let her sign me up for the store’s Loyalty card. 120
Reposted by Erika MezaRashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 09/12/2024In light of the findings in the CLPE Reflecting Realities report, in 2025 I’m going to be starting regular free Ask Me Anything Zoom sessions for UK children’s writers of colour and BookTrust will host the first in March to help reach more writers! 📚 48646
Reposted by Erika MezaFleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Beira, Scotland's Queen of Winter, (Cailleach, Irish), is a personification of winter in Gaelic #mythology. ❄️ As a #weather deity she can create mountains, make winter storms, herd deer, fight off spring, & she uses her staff to freeze the ground. #FolkloreSunday #Witchsky 🎨 John Duncan, 1917 510026
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Big sketch deadline coming up. Normally I would stay working until late and produce my best stuff after dark. Now, I am looking at my phone refreshing social media and trying to think of how to paint 12+ characters quicker 🥲 I should’ve read that text and measured my time more carefully…! 😂 030
Reposted by Erika MezaSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 26/11/2024This is the case in the UK because of PLR, which did not happen by magic, but because of two queer feminist writers: Maureen Duffy & Brigid Brophy, who also formulated & fought for ALCS. Know your history & also sign up for both! 6276113
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Bluesky!!! Let me toot my little horn for the first time and share this interview - we spoke about To The Other Side, since I was lucky enough to receive the Diverse Book Award on the Picture Book category. And it was a lovely time - hope it makes ANY sense! C: 082
Reposted by Erika MezaLaura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Took this the other day 111
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Aaaaayyyyyyy - if I ever get corny Quinceañera photos taken, they will be by that fountain. 🥹 000
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Y sus amarillos y sus rojos y naranjas y violetas. 131
Reposted by Erika MezaWayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024keep a place open in your history-bruised heart for Luis Barragán pink 417312
Reposted by Erika MezaJohn W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024From the comments on the original thread: "Crazy little thing called Tierra y Libertad" (It's good to see @miblogestublog.bsky.social posting here regularly now.) 1133
Reposted by Erika MezaCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content. 451025395
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Not sure of the way the artist intended for this piece to be seen. One of these has got to be right. 000
Reposted by Erika MezaEl Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Thank you so much to Kirkus Reviews for naming MAGICAL/REALISM one of the Best Essay Collections of 2024, and for listing it among such incredible nonfiction titles this year. I can't believe my luck, truly. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...kirkusreviews.comBest Essay Collections of 2024 | Kirkus ReviewsWeekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews. 59616
Reposted by Erika Mezaeileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 06/11/2024“Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable. ..Be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love, and the ones who are coming for your life." -Alexander Chee Read the whole essay. I will, with my students today. #everynightapoem 415345
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hi, Bluesky! Figured I’d introduce myself properly. I’m the author and illustrator of To The Other Side, as well as illustrator of other books. I tuit in Spanish and English about migration, politics, books, walks, dogs, and now about being a parent. Basically, if it’s in my brain, it comes out. 0141
Reposted by Erika MezaMarcelo Hernandez Castillo @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The premise that mass deportations shouldn’t happen because immigrants pay more in taxes than what it would cost to deport us is 😵💫 how about don’t tear families apart period. 051
Reposted by Erika MezaSam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Agree completely. They’re being seduced by dollar signs and ignoring the environmental impact entirely 1206
Reposted by Erika MezaSam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...lithub.comHarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S… 58756
Reposted by Erika MezaJohn Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Was that the one I put together perhaps? go.bsky.app/RDKBN2i 272
Reposted by Erika MezaAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/11/2024"You have a subscription? Enjoy your clean, hygienic, fact-checked news. Then come with me into the information sewers, where we will wade through the shit everyone else consumes. " Carol Cadwalladr, on the dawn of a new era www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole CadwalladrThe era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite 21951328
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Oh gosh. My mojo is back. The twitter muscular memory works! 010
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Don’t take me wrong, I’m living my best life. Before, I would’ve forgotten I had brunch and would still be in my pj’s. Now I just have company and an excuse. 010
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 18/11/2024“Hi Erika; sorry, I’m gonna have to cancel our brunch for today. I do hope that’s ok…” Erika, who had forgotten she agreed to said brunch and is currently walking a napping creature on the sling while still wearing pj’s, is VERY MUCH OK WITH THAT. #ParentGlamour 110
Reposted by Erika MezaBárbara González @barbaragonzalez.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Hice un starter pack para política, historia, cultura de México ¿quién se suma?😊 go.bsky.app/B6tVrU7 8198
Reposted by Erika MezaJames Fredrick @jameslfredrick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Wow, this UNHCR data visualization “No Escape” is amazing. The intersection on conflict and climate crisis is making the global displacement crisis even more severe dataviz.unhcr.org/product-gall...dataviz.unhcr.org UNHCR Dataviz Platform - No Escape Tens of millions of people uprooted by conflict and violence are increasingly left with nowhere to escape from the devastating effects of the global climate crisis. 002
Reposted by Erika MezaChrissy Davis @chrissydaviswrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024#querying tip from someone going on sub: If you find agents by reading acknowledgements pages from comps… (If you don’t, that’s tip 1 😁) …keep a list of the #editor & #publisher too. That way, you can give your #agent suggestions when it’s your turn on sub! #WritingCommunity #kidlit 0226
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I look forward to the day Princess Drago joins us properly. She’s currently getting her brain sucked through a straw out of its socket by a carnivorous thesis. 020
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/20241000?? Already?!! And though you protest Your disinterest I know clandestinely You're gonna grin and bear it! Your new found popularity! 120
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The thing about starter packs is, @flaviazdrago.bsky.social and I - do we count as UK Publishing? US? Mexico? Very recently we were lumped into - what was it? “Transplanted representation”. Starter pack International Publishing: GO FOLLOW @flaviazdrago.bsky.social. 010
Reposted by Erika MezaOlaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The most fragrant of all the popes was Pope Pourri. 1325626
Reposted by Erika MezaNicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 17/11/2024#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Lara Hawthorne. From the stylish and touching picturebook Silent Night. The pictures, in paint and collage, tell the story of the Nativity, while the text is the words of the carol, with a brief account of its history. Out in paperback from Frances Lincoln since October. 1337
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024That’s how I used to find cool people in the old days. I’m still doing it XD 110
Reposted by Erika MezaGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.” 14395980415907
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Hell yeah. Everyone was kind of scattered to the winds for the last few years - it all feels like stumbling upon old mates coming back home at Christmas :D 120
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024OH GLAD I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. Woke myself at 1 am the other day going “THE HANDLE WAS @executivesteve.bsky.social !!!!!” 210
Reposted by Erika MezaKaryn Curtis @karyncurtiswrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024i am just helping surely Mama understands i am integral #HaikuSaturday 2292
Erika Meza @erikadraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2024That’s to say, if you want me the way I used to be (randomly tweeting the single word ‘COFFEEEEEEEEEEE’ in all caps), i probably already said it out loud and it is out of my system. Having said that, HI FOLLOWERS :D and hi old friends. It’s so nice to see you all c: 000