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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️

@jqsponsel.bsky.social
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Librarian, Writer, Long-Distance Mom, ADHD / OCD. Existence is Resistance. (she/her)

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hidden Barriers: The Experience of Academic Librarians and Archivists with Invisible Illnesses and/or Disabilities. A good article with a good list of resources at the end of it. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... Learn about this flag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabil... #DisabilityPride
A charcoal grey flag bisected diagonally from the top left corner to the lower right corner by five parallel stripes in red, pale gold, pale grey, light blue, and green.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Rocky's ready to tune in for day two of #LibCALM. #petsofcalm
Rocky, exhibiting calm while tuning into the Conference on Academic Library Management
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
All those AI-powered tools library vendors are turning on by default (or your library is choosing to active)? Yeah, they aren't neutral, they aren't accurate, and the companies have no interest in providing clarity. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...
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“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Me after my AC broke twice during a week of heat advisories...
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
Alt: Animated gif of the "This is Fine" meme. A cartoon dog sits at a table in a room surrounded by fire and says, "this is fine" while drinking a cup of coffee.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My seven year old made me this bookmark at an activity station at a pride event yesterday. She said, "look I made it in your colors!!" 🥹 The timing's perfect because I get to use it right away to mark my spot in a new release by one of my favorite trans authors!
A home-made trans flag bookmark currently being used to mark a spot in Nicola Dinan's Dissapont Me
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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#LGBTQWriteAThon June 8: Line share - shine #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
#LGBTQWriteAThon
June 1-30
Hosts:
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites
Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

June 8: Line share - shine

Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky!
Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! 


Background image: a painted progress pride flag
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
When you inadvertently match your nails and your drink with the book you’re reading. Also, this book!!
Jayme holding a green, pink, and black can with light blue nails that matches the green, black, and green from the cover art of Jeanne Thorton's A/S/L.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Back in my home state for a conference and it's like the clouds knew how much I miss Minne"snow"ta. Also, funny how I see no snow when I visit in December and this is my hotel view in April. Just how I remember Spring growing up!
Snowy streets in Minneapolis
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Sharing with ALT text for those who aren't aware of the ongoing real world implications for trans people in the U.S. "I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state..."

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Seeing people deflate when I explain simple facts of my reality bums me out.
Vent
"No, I can't go on that cruise to Italy with you, because I'm struggling to get a passport that doesn't put me in danger. I'm scared I might have trouble getting home."
"Yes, I'm looking at other job opportunities/leaving my position working at school, which I love so much. It's becoming unsafe for people like me to work with children - I got a death threat the other day."
"Will the doctor/therapist/etc. you're recommending be safe for someone like me?"
"Before I meet your parents, I need to know if they know about me. Will I be safe?"
"I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue, I'm sorry."
Seeing it actually register on people's faces that this is my life- that these policies are real and affect real people they know and love- is a really bitter pill. On one hand, it's sad to have to break such depressing news. And on the other hand, it feels so isolating and infuriating that people who love me apparently have no clue any of this is happening unless I take the time to inform them.
Just needed to get that out. Thanks for listening.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I'm really grateful I got the chance to contribute to @newwordspress.bsky.social's citizen trans* {project}. Projects like this, which amplify trans and gender expansive voices are so important–especially at this moment where so many ppl are trying to erase our existence. www.citizentrans.com/joy/
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Joy* by Jayme Sponsel • citizen trans* {project}
My amygdala is fried–I feel no fear Maybe I should Stress over whereI will piss safelyOr the number of pillsIn my little orange bottles,Which are few but fillMy cabinet so clutteredStill empty…I can’t...
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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Trans Rights Readathon Reading Challenge, 2025 Edition! We have 5 core prompts to complete, and many “bonus” prompts that can be used to either find more specific books for the core prompts or as a bonus challenge to read all 30 prompts throughout the year, or some other personal goal in-between!
Cover Slide: Announcing the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon StoryGraph Challenge, with 5 main prompts and 25 bonus prompts.Slide 2 describes the 5 main prompts: 1. Transmasc/Trans Man rep, 2. Transfemme/Trans Woman Rep, 3. Nonbinary, Agender, Genderqueer, and Other Gender Expansive Rep, 4. Intersectional Trans+ Rep Outside Your Own Experience, and 5. 2Spirit, Indigiqueer, Third Gender, and Indigenous Gender Expansive Rep.Slide 3: 1/2 of the 25 Bonus Prompts list. - African Author of the Black Diaspora. - Indigenous Author. - Southwest Asian author or of the Diaspora. - Asian Author or of the Diaspora. -Latine/Latinx Author or of the Diaspora. - Hawaiian of Pacific Islander Author, of the Diaspora. - Biracial or Multiracial Author. - A book by a Disabled Author and/or Starring a Disabled Character. - A Book By an Author from a Country Other Than Your Own.Slide 4: Bonus Prompts Part 2/2. - T4T. - Trans Joy. - Neopronoun Rep. - History. - Memoir/Biography. General Nonfiction. - Poetry. - Picture Book/Middle Grade. - Young Adult. - General/Literary Fiction. - Graphic novels, Comics, and Manga. - Fantasy or Sci-fi. - Horror/Thriller. - Romance. - A 2025 Release.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excited to share I have a new poem out today. Super appreciative of The Crawfish for giving it a home: www.the-crawfish.com/features/res... #poems #poetry #poemsky
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Rest Stop//Jayme Sponsel — THE CRAWFISH
I step on the gas  On the West Virginia turnpike Hug the curve of the mountain road At 80 miles per hour The speed means more control Despite the wheel hubs almost brushing The guard rails and th...
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Easy path for the next administration to end the culture war over federal ID's for good: remove all sex markers to protect individual privacy and get the government out of the business of determining who belongs to which sex class.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I feel like I mention Homosaurus anew each time I'm on a new social media network. It's great! "Welcome to the Homosaurus! The Homosaurus is an international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) terms." h/t @circulatingideas.bsky.social homosaurus.org
illustration of a black allosaurus-type dinosaur standing in front of a large rainbow. Beneath it in large friendly letters it says HOMOSAURUS
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David Foster WallStreetBets @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Fun fact: the "-ai" search modifier generates completely different results from the AI version, complete with the normal info panel thing from a completely different source than when I ran the original search
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, now more than ever, we need to honour & remember those that came before us who we’ve lost to anti-trans hatred & violence. Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete. Their losses will not be in vain! Hate will not win!
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Here are the 28 transgender Americans lost to violence so far this year
The epidemic of fatal violence against trans people in the U.S. continues.
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Friends, it’s TRANS APPRECIATION FRIDAY! All trans/nonbinary people are welcome to join! How it works: tell us your name, pronouns, a bit about you, & post a pic, if comfy. Then, repost THIS post for visibility, say hey to those that join in & make new friends! I’m Alyssa. Hi! 👋 YOUR turn!
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
For Trans Awareness Week, here's a thread of trans-supportive organizations that are worth your time or money, if you're able. I've made my small donation and hopefully you can do the same. Please feel free to add other charities to this list, even just local ones. 🧵
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/11/2024
LGBTQ News Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/DVtrFQR
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Continuing my Halloween tradition of library themed costumes...Can you guess what I am? 🎃📚
Jayme in a costume with cat ears. The costume also has a playing card and a picture of a log.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/10/2024
Ben Shapiro is completely eviscerated live in front of an audience by a trans man. Part 1/4
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
welcome to bluesky! if you post transphobic shit every trans account 10x your size is going to put you on blast and make your day miserable be nice to the trans people here and feel free to bully anyone who misgenders us or minimizes the magnitude of the rights crisis we're in 🩵🤍🩷
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 14/10/2024
Here's the cover of my next novel, Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Aug 2025)!!! A young witch named Jamie teaches her mother Serena how to do magic. But Jamie doesn't understand all the reasons Serena has been hiding from the world. Plus Jamie uncovers the scandalous secrets of a novel from 1749.
The cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, with purple cracked dirt with daisies springing out of it.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
(It's also available on Bandcamp for pay what you want until June 7th -- as much as you want, or as little, truly you are free! but only until June 7th, when it will have A Price.) themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/moon-c...
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Moon Colony Bloodbath, by the Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice
7 track album
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
My latest cartoon for New Scientist.
First panel: a line of modern electric cars.

Second panel: A woman and a man are talking. She is holding a book.
She says "It's hard to get excited about these new electric cars when I've seen much ambitious possibilities in fiction"
"Sci-fi fan,huh?" he asks

Third panel. 
"Uhh... yeah. Sci-fi." she says unsurely, looking at her book.

Fourth panel: We can see a page of the book. It shows animals happily driving food-shaped cars in the style of Richard Scarry. The cars are labelled: Pickle car, Apple car and Hotdog car.
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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
More on the Cass Report from Sophie Labelle / Assigned Male Comics
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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Please read this clear and important thread on how preposterous the arguments are against @archive.org #InternetArchive and its important project of digitizing books for you and for posterity. Summary: there's no case of harm caused by the Archive's work. Thanks @fightforthefuture.org
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
"It is not a culture war." Diana Goetsch on why we need to speak out for the freedom to read and call a spade a spade. Book bans are a form of supremacy and the systematic erasure of queer and trans people. 📚 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/03/2024
When Beth Noveck donated her father's library to the Internet Archive for preservation & digitization, she used the DONATE BOOKS app to identify books that we didn’t already own. Learn about the app: help.archive.org/help/donate-... Learn about the Noveck donation: blog.archive.org/2024/03/11/t...
Donate Books app logo in blue & black.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Trans joy for me is that despite days like today, when I'm tired and stressed and exhausted, I have this bottomless source of happiness to get me through because I get to be the full me--something I'd written off for myself a long time ago. Joy and gratitude
A picture of Jayme looking tired, because she is
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
I wrote about Taylor Lorenz, ambulance chasing in the face of trans trauma, and why articles about dead trans kids should probably actually be about those dead trans kids. It's a lot to say but I might as well fucking say it all: jude-doyle.ghost.io/i-dont-care-...
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I Don’t Care About Your Brand
Nex Benedict, Taylor Lorenz, and why trans trauma is not your goldmine.
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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 14/02/2024
I think in general people underestimate the scale libraries operate at
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
This is a very good and sober look at where the data on detransition actually stands from an epidemiologist. The reason I mock the Usual Suspects for "just asking questions" isn't because I'm afraid of the questions--it's because they ignore the answers slate.com/technology/2...
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
trans people: they want to keep us from transitioning and detransition those who already have. they want to make all trans care illegal. cis people: overreacting isn't going to help your cause GOP: we are absolutely going to kill those transgenders
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Ohio, Michigan Republicans In Released Audio: "Endgame" Is To Ban Trans Care "For Everyone"
In audio released Friday evening, senators and representatives from Ohio and Michigan revealed the "endgame" is to ban transgender care "for everyone."
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
"don't let us die." i do not exaggerate. HRT is lifesaving medicine like antidepressants. for many of us, having the correct hormone is life, and not having it is death. gender-affirming care keeps us alive. our names, our gender markers, our medicines, our surgeries. agency is life.
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Spine label poetry at the library! 📚
Pretending to be asleep / a little dreaming / waiting for winterThe restless water / through different eyes / all occasions / practical magic
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
I found a kindred spirit! Not sure I've logged 16,000 hours of Civ 3, but it's got to be up there. www.pcgamesn.com/civilization...
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This mom has more Civilization 3 hours clocked than you do
A mom has almost thrice as many hours in Sid Meier's Civilization 3, an all-time classic, than the designer himself spent making the game.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 07/12/2023
Uh oh... The lobbying push for KOSA (a bill which purports to protect kids but will instead censor LGBTQ info from the Internet) is ramping up. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-... If you belong to any of these orgs, please tell them to stop supporting this trash.
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200 groups push Congress to pass Kids Online Safety Act in 2024
In a letter obtained by NBC News, the American Psychological Association and other groups encouraged Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to introduce the bill in January.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Researchers in Illinois are conducting a study of LGBTQIA+ identity among LGBTQIA+ academic librarians. Survey is available here: siue.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Mombian @mombian.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
For #WorldAIDSDay & any time, here are some #LGBTQ-inclusive picture & MG books abt AIDS & people living w/HIV or AIDS. HIV & AIDS are not LGBTQ-specific, of course, but have hit our community hard, & LGBTQ books are my focus. May these books offer insight into our history & a disease still with us.
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11 LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids' Books About AIDS and People With HIV or AIDS - Mombian
For World AIDS Day and any time, here's a roundup of LGBTQ-inclusive picture and middle grade books about AIDS and people living with HIV or AIDS. HIV and AIDS are not LGBTQ-specific, of course, but h...
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
There's nothing quite like checking your work email inbox after Rip Van Winkling your way through the past 48 hours due to illness.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
🚨 Important accessible new essay with neuroscientist Simón(e) Sun on anti-trans scientific misinformation, published as part of a series of OpenMind magazine and the Pulitzer Center. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.openmindmag.org/articles/ant...
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Anti-Trans Myths
How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Incredibly useful resource here for teaching about AI in education - thanks for sharing @charleswlogan.bsky.social
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
#LibraryJobs
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Jayme 🏳️‍⚧️ @jqsponsel.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
You know you are a librarian when your work costume is a library resource
Jayme dressed in J's with price tags (Jstor)
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