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Author of TWO DOGS ON A TRIKE, LISTEN, COUNT ON US, TODAY, and LOOK | Rep: Natalie Lakosil, @lookingglasslit.bsky.social | she/her

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT FARM WORKERS: Click to tell your congressmember to support legislation to cap H2A visas. The runaway growth of the current H2A program is a disaster for US farm workers' wages and jobs. We have to stop it. act.seiu.org/a/h2avisacap... #WeFeedYou
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PROTECT FARMWORKERS:
from unchecked H2A visa expansion resulting in wage theft and human rights abuses

ASK YOUR CONGRESS MEMBER TO SUPPORT THE PROTECT U.S. FARM WORKERS ACT OF 2026
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United We Dream @unitedwedream.org · 14/01/2026
2025 was marked by unprecedented political attacks to chip away at DACA. In early December, USCIS halted renewals for over 1,800 DACA recipients from 19 countries among other benefits. Congress must deliver permanent protections NOW. Text DACA INFO to 787-57 to demand action by Congress.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 13/01/2026
📣Join us! We’ve already sent 9,469 letters to Congress, but we need your help to reach representatives in New Hampshire, Washington, Illinois, Arizona, and Texas! Write your Representatives and tell them to cut ICE funding today! 🔗bit.ly/noicefunding
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Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding!
We need you to take action NOW! Coming into the New Year the House and Senate are proposing to expand immigration detention. Currently the proposal on the table includes funding to detain an additiona...
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Global Refuge @globalrefuge.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Congress plays a critical role in funding and overseeing this bipartisan program. Urge your representatives to speak out and advocate for changes to the USCIS policy memo that keep refugee status intact and ensure refugees can reach permanency. 🚨 TAKE ACTION: bit.ly/3Mp2M2w #RefugeesWelcome
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Contact Congress on harmful USCIS refugee memo
USCIS is pausing green card processing, planning reinterviews for refugees already here
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 25/11/2025
We demand justice for those who survived CECOT. We call for accountability for the officials who sent people to a known torture site. Take action: act.nilc.org/page/86829/a...
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Take Action!
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Americans of Conscience Checklist @aocchecklist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We are inspired by the energy at United We Dream, an immigrant-youth-led network.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 17/11/2025
Trans people are your neighbors, family members, colleagues, and friends. But most importantly, we are HUMAN. #Trans #TransAwarenessWeek
Trans people are beautiful, creative, talented, funny, artistic, brilliant, parents, friends, siblings, neighbors, partners, loved ones, needed, loved, brave, inspiring, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HUMAN.
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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🎉 Congrats to @gabisnyder.bsky.social! 🎉 Her book 📚 LOOK was named an Oregon Spirit Book Award Honor Book by the Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE)! 👏 We’re so proud of you, Gabi! 💛 #12x12PB #kidlit
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I'm so excited that LOOK has been named by the Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE) as an Oregon Spirit Book Award honor title in the picture book category! Thank you, OCTE, for this honor! @simonkids.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Corvallis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Corvallis · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Hooray! TODAY, illustrated by @steph-graegin.bsky.social, is featured in the El Reno Carnegie Library's inaugural StoryWalk on Sunset Trail. And LOOK is featured in the Wilsonville Public Library's StoryWalk in Tivoli Park! @simonkids.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'm attending “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON” on July 17 - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
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GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: · John Lewis Actions
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fun to see TODAY featured in the El Reno Carnegie Library's inaugural Storywalk on Sunset Trail! @simonkids.bsky.social @steph-graegin.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social www.news9.com/story/68669e...
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El Reno Carnegie Library celebrate 'Storywalk' on Sunset Trail
Join an innovative health initiative at Lake El Reno with 'Storywalk'—a project by El Reno Carnegie Library, integrating reading and walking in monthly rotating book displays.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion.  They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.  Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hooray! LOOK is featured in the current STORYWALK® at Tivoli Park in Wilsonville, OR. And...I'll be reading LOOK at storytime this coming Saturday, June 28th at 11am at the Wilsonville Public Library. I hope you'll bring your littles and join me. @simonkids.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
Cover of the picture book LOOK set against a close-up of a leaf
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What I fear Trump will do with his new war with Iran robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-f…
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What I fear Trump will do with his war
Centralize even more power and curtail even more civil liberties
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 23/06/2025
MAGA is destroying America day by day for the benefit of the wealthy with the blessing of the ignorant and cowardly. Vote out every member of Congress who isn't raising holy hell right now. wapo.st/3T8gMxY
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Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests
The USDA announced it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest system.
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Kirsten Pendreigh @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Please enjoy a dorky author enjoying her window display at Kidsbooks Vancouver! (Edgemont location) signed copies of WHAT FISH ARE SAYING at both locations! #kidlit #fish #marine @sourcebooks.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
author in front of window display for WHAT FISH ARE SAYING
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 04/06/2025
On June 6th at WorldPride in DC., we are joining @immdef.bsky.social & @votesaveamerica.crooked.com to demand justice for Andry, a 31-year-old gay makeup artist from Venezuela, and the many others who were disappeared to El Salvador. Join us: www.mobilize.us/hrc/event/79...
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Action for Andry · Human Rights Campaign
Join Vote Save America, the Human Rights Campaign and the Immigrant Defenders Law Center for a protest in support of Andry José Hernández Romero. This is an opportunity for World Pride attendees, DMV ...
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Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It's a BIG day at Picture Book Summit as we reveal the theme of this year's online #writingconference for #picturebook creators. Join us on Oct 4, 2025, for: BIG, BOLD, & BRAVE: SUPERCHARGE YOUR PICTURE BOOKS! Early Bird registration begins 6/12! #amwriting #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky
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Kirsten Pendreigh @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Out today! I’m going to celebrate with a cold dip in the North Pacific and a (very short) party with whoever is under the waves making noise 🤣! 1/3 #fish #oceans #reefs #kidlit #librariansofinstagram #teachers #worldoceanweek
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excited to see LOOK among the nominees for the Kentucky Bluegrass Award! @simonkids.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
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Veronica Bartles @vbartles.com · 28/05/2025
BUT!! You will be pleased to hear that I DID in fact post a new #KidLitConfections recipe to my blog today! Watermelon Lime Sugar Cookies, which I paired with a very sweet picture book about mindfulness: TODAY by @gabisnyder.bsky.social & @steph-graegin.bsky.social #KidLitChat
close-up photo of pink Watermelon Lime Sugar Cookies on a white plate with a blue and green flower border on a granite countertopcover of the picture book TODAY by Gabi Snyder and Stephanie Graegin - a child with short brown hair, wearing a yellow t-shirt and blue shorts,  is lying in the grass, with wildflowers growing around them and butterflies flitting by against a pale yellow background. A small bird is flying in on the top right corner of the cover, and centered near the top of the image is the title, TODAY, written in a simple, all-caps, thin-lined font in red letters
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Abbie James @abbiewjames.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is such a gorgeous book! LOOK by @gabisnyder.bsky.social with artwork by Samantha Cotterill is a beautiful way to talk about patterns and enjoying the world around you. 📚👍 #kidlit
cover of LOOK shows purple and white flowers in the foreground, a boy with a book looking at a snail in the middle under a tree canopy, and bright yellow and white shining in the background; the illustration is a diorama made from cut paper
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 06/03/2025
Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Happy book birthday to IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY: POEMS OF POSSIBILITY, with poems selected by @charleswaters.bsky.social and Irene Latham and stunning illustrations from Olivia Sua. We had a wonderful book launch yesterday, hosted by @thewritingbarn.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social
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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's 8:00 ET on the LAST DAY to join #12x12PB! Let's clock how #picturebook author @gabisnyder.bsky.social's membership helped her go from brand new writer to multi-published. Join us at 12x12challenge.com/m... before it's too late! #kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 28/02/2025
💙❤️
Poster of a red rabbit on a blue background with the following text:

ECONOMIC BOYCOTT
DON'T
BUY STUFF
FRIDAY FEB 28
WE HAVE
POWER

NO
AMAZON
WALMART
TARGET
FAST-FOOD
GAS

OK
SMALL
BUSINESS

USE
CASH
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien
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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.
"Economic Blackout on February 28, 2025 Take Part & Share the News
If you haven't heard there will be an economic blackout Feb 28th, nationwide. This means don't buy anything unless it's from a small business: No gas, no fast food, and definitely nothing from places like Target, Walmart, or Amazon. Get the word out! We want THEM to see that WE have the power. We will start with 1 day, then 3, then specific companies until our message is heart. Please spread the word! Thank you!"
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hooray! My copy of CAN YOU IMAGINE? The Art and Life of Yoko Ono arrived! This gorgeous picture book was written by my talented critique partner @lisatolin.bsky.social and illustrated by @yasimamura.bsky.social Highly recommended! @simonkids.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Murphy: "Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law is unprecedented. What we are all watching right now is Donald Trump throw away the idea that laws apply to everyone equally. And it is astonishing to watch so many of my Republican colleagues fall in line."
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Rough-skinned newt! I saw four of these cuties on my run-walk yesterday. ❤️
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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Find out how her membership in #12x12PB helped author @gabisnyder.bsky.social improve her writing, research agents, and get #picturebooks published! youtu.be/ohS7qQAm_44. Then be sure to join us at 12x12challenge.com. #kidlit #kidlitart
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Gabi Snyder Success Story
Author Gabi Snyder talks about how 12 x 12 helped her writing improve enough to sign with an agent and then get published. Visit Gabi at https://gabisnyder.com. To learn more about The 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge, visit https://12x12challenge.com.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/02/2025
This isn’t Donald Trump’s America. This isn’t any president’s America. It’s ours, and we the people will fight for it.
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thank you, libraries and librarians, for providing a welcoming space for everyone in our communities and for defending the freedom to read! Librarians rock! @authorsabb.bsky.social Special shout out to the Corvallis Public Library!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the USAID, which would put a quarter of its employees on leave and recall overseas staff within 30 days.
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Sarah Beck (she/her) @sarahgbeck.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Parents who want their children to have the freedom to read— we need to be as organized and loud as the (smaller in number) parents who want to ban anything they disagree with. Tell your child’s teachers and librarians that you have their back (as a Valentine’s Day treat).
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Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
They want to ban and censor our stories. They want us to disappear from the narrative of this country. Then we need to keep telling our stories. We can not let them erase us! Writers, artists, musicians - this is the most important time to keep creating our art!
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thrilled that TODAY has been chosen as one of the Best Kids’ Books about Mental Health of 2024 from the Child Mind Institute! Explore the full list at childmind.org/article/the-best-kids-books-on-mental-health-of-2024 @simonkids.bsky.social @steph-graegin.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-…
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Congrats, @heatherkinser.bsky.social! 🤩
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Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I'm excited to share that LOOK was selected for the 2025 Texas 2x2 Reading List! You can see the full list here, along with links to the fun 2x2 coloring hat and 2x2 one-pager activities for each of the selected titles: txla.org/current-list/ @simonkids.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
AABB stands with our trans members, friends, colleagues, heroes, and the countless trans Americans who will be affected by this needlessly cruel Executive Order from the Trump Administration. We are proud to do so alongside so many of our comrades in the fight against book bans.
Statement on the Trump administration's january 20,2025 EO Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary and Gender Non Conforming Americans

On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that
the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and
female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will
undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature
that is shelved in both.
Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender,
intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens
unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature
for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities,
the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to
dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public
forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion
through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin
with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the
government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of
all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements
imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and
institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be
manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature
could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like
the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for
the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund.
Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in
literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023
school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or
themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the
American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint
LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on

others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly
what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have
done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The
fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology,
it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression.
Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans,
regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place
in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and
at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19,
2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary
perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while
insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to
McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of
American history.
Sincerely, the undersigned,
• American Booksellers
Association
• American Booksellers for Free
Expression
• Andrews McMeel
• Annie's Foundation
• Audio Publishers Association
• Authors Against Book Bans
• Berry Powell Press
• Cardinal Rule Press
• Charlesbridge Publishing
• Chestnut Publishing House
• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• Deborah Sloan and Company
and Kidsbuzz
• Developmental Texts
• Empowering Latino Futures
• EveryLibrary
• Firewater Media Group
• Florida Freedom to Read Project
• Foreword Reviews

• Freedom to Read Project
• Gryphon Publishing Consulting,
LLC
• Independent Book Publishers
Association (IBPA)
• IngramSpark
• Judging by the Cover: A
Bookstore
• Lafayette Citizens Against
Censorship
• Lambda Literary
• Latino 247 Media Group
• Lee Wind, author
• Levine Querido
• Library Futures
• Livingston Parish Library
Alliance
• Louisiana Citizens Against
Censorship
• Macmillan Children's Publishing
Group
• The National Book Critics Circle
• National Coalition Against
Censorship• NorthSouth Books
• Nosy Crow
• Patagonia
• Publishers and Writers of San
Diego and Orange County
• PEN America
• PFLAG Fresno
• PubWest
• Rattling Good Yarns Press
• Read Freely Alabama
• Red Comet Press LLC

• Rutherford County Library
Alliance
• Sara Paretsky, Writer
• SCBWI
• SEAT
• SparkPoint Studio
• St Tammany Library Alliance
• Stone Bridge Press
• Texas Freedom to Read Project
• Walker Books Group for
Candlewick Press, Holiday House
Books, and Peachtree Publishing
• We Need Diverse Books
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Let Utah Read @letutahread.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
ACTION NEEDED TODAY - THE CLOCK IS TICKING TO OVERTURN TWO NEW STATEWIDE BOOK BANS AND RETURN DECISION-MAKING TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS Click now to send an email today: letutahread.org/localcontrol @wgawest.bsky.social @authorsguild.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social
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Eleana P @psinapod.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
An amazing #WorldReadAloudDay with visits from @gabisnyder.bsky.social @elainebvickers.bsky.social @fleurbradley.bsky.social The students were thrilled to hear the stories and hear from these wonderful authors! #WRAD
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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · 04/02/2025
A tremendous thank you to the many humanitarian heroes around the world fighting to save lives in the face of such callous disregard for human life. Read more: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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