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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 16h

Given what my dad went through at the end, I have so much sympathy for Tom and his family. I HATE our stupid, for-profit healthcare system, which makes families struggle to afford palliative care & the dignified end that every person deserves.

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Threeriversbard @threeriversbard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing but not half as much as bad as a lot of ignorance.” Sir Terry Pratchett. www.nbcnews.com/news/us- news/florida-texas-lead-record-12000-school-book-bans-pen-america-report-fi-rcna601684

nbcnews.com

Schools banned a record 12,000 books in a year, according to annual report

Themes of race, sexuality and gender remain common reasons to ban books, as some school administrators use AI to determine what gets pulled, a new report finds.

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Artist! Quote with your art with an insanely strong silhouette! #art #resist

A teen graffiti artist watching an explosion across the city, while their robot friend desperately tries to get their attention

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Author Christian Prosperie @hurraychristian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'd pay for a social media platform that auto perma-bans anyone who posts AI bullshit

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After doing much, much better on her antivirals, Tater kitty took a turn for the worse this morning. Picked her up and she just went limp and glassy-eyed in my arms. At the emergency vet now & theyr trying stabilize her. Please think good thoughts for my sweet girl.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally took the time to read @katleyh.bsky.social's graphic novel THIRSTY MERMAIDS and it blew me away! I know it was nominated for a bunch of awards but I can't believe we're not constantly talking about this book. So fun, so confident, such a satisfying meal of a story in 250 pages

Panel of the three main characters from Kat Leyh's THIRSTY MERMAIDS as the central one, Pearl, casually says "Well, up until a few days ago, we were mermaids!"

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love pops of pink. Human artists! QT with your pink art!

Three women protesting. Sign: hearts starve as well as bodies. Give us bread, but give us roses.

Cover for my picture book dummy, FLORA’s PERFECTLY FINE FACE

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tater seems to be having a much better day today. I found her batting a toy around and realized this is the first time she’s shown any interest in playing for WEEKS. So that’s really encouraging.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s this one dude who works in my bakery who is mostly quiet, but every now and then just explodes out of no where. And I’m coming to realize my trauma response to emotionally volatile people is anxiously trying to read emotions in order to stay ahead of them, & rushing to soothe anger.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So my poor little kitty, Tater, is very sick. She has FIP. Vet says we caught it early, but she’s going to be on some serious antivirals for the next 12 weeks. He’s saying 80% survival rate. She’s not feeling very good rn, but we’re taking the best care of her that we can and staying hopeful.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to be the sort of person who makes space for forgiveness when people own up to the mistakes they've made, and try to make amends. But PR spin-doctoring has really made me quite cynical about celebrities' apologies. Especially when they come in the wake of financial consequences.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Corporations' only compass for decision-making is: Will this make us money, or will this cost us money? They're never socially-aware unless it's profitable for them to be*. (*See: Pride) But re: that #Converse ad... WTAF were they trying to do here?? What did they THINK the response was gonna be?!

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got anti-LGBTQ hate today on an IG post about a kids’ comics-drawing workshop I did with 3 other KidLit creators (2 of whom are also queer). The post: 1. Was about an event we did a year ago; 2. Was not about (nor did it mention) anything remotely queer. They’re literally just mad we’re alive.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Y’ALL. I love my jade plants. Some of them I’ve had for like 15 yrs. But my little goblin has decided they are her favorite place to sleep, and I can’t tell this face no.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I recently bought ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS, by Stephanie Lucianovic & Laan Cham, and it's really good: fun, cute and, best of all, UNEXPECTED. Even my 10yo ("but-I'm-too-old-for-picture-books") critic laughed through the story & said "I actually liked that one." Highly recommend.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just saw Ed Sheeran’s tattoos. And I know it’s really the least important thing right now to be fixated on, but JFC are they ugly.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I know it’s bc of all the 25th anniversary, but there’s so much 9/11 stuff on the “airwaves” right now, and I dunno. It’s hitting me harder this year than in years past. I was a journalism student when it happened, so every day, every class, every lecture, was steeped in every horrifying detail.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey, so I was told today by my local Barnes & Nobel that they won’t carry my book in their store, they’ll only sell it on consignment?? Anybody else run into this with B&N?? I’m not even sure how that would work??

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did a little reading. One of the founders was named Shatney. So shortening it to “Shat” was certainly a choice.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Naming things is hard. But did NO ONE at this kitchen-table brainstorm session say “I dunno about that one…”?

Sign for highland cattle that says “Shat Acres.”

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! Queer, fat, neurodivergent #KidLit illustrator here. I favor loose, sketchy lines, moody lighting, and a touch of whimsy. Available for PB & GN projects, especially if they’re cheeky, geeky, and/or social-justice-oriented. www.authorkellymangan.com/portfolio

Girl with cuts and scrapes canoeing through an eerie swamp

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Okay, maybe this makes me a bad person, but one of my fav schadenfreude tropes right now is ugly-ass white supremacists posting selfies as “proof” of their superior genes, then crashing out when they get ratio’d.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just remembering partner’s citizenship ceremony, 12 yrs ago. There was an old Nepali auntie sitting next to me. We mostly communicated through gestures, pointing out our people. She asked to hold my baby, & spent the rest of the ceremony singing quietly to him in Nepali. I wonder how she is.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The reasons for opposition vary, but: People want to breathe clean air and have clean water to drink. They want to enjoy being outdoors. They don't want to hand everything -- their income, their work, their schools, their communities, their freedom, their planet -- to tech billionaires.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Americans Hate Data Centers. Why? (Gift Article)

Three fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today sw*stikas and the n-word were written on the bathroom walls at my kid’s middle school. The school emailed tonight to say they held assemblies about it to ‘reiterate No Hazing, Harassment, or Bullying policies,’ & showed a “Office of Equity’s PSAs on hate speech.” I’m glad they acted quickly…

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP, Dolly. She was one of the good ones. She never forgot working class people, never stopped reaching down to pull others up. She used her money & platform to leave the world better off, and she wanted— above all else— to be remembered for how much she loved putting books in the hands of kids.

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Dolly Parton Sings 'I Will Always Love You'

ALT: Dolly Parton Sings 'I Will Always Love You'

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was in Montreal recently, & I was a tad nervous bc I don’t speak French, besides “Bonjour” & “merci.” But everywhere I went, people spoke English to me. In the hotel elevator, another American woman turns to me & says “ugh, FINALLY, somebody who speaks English! Apparently nobody here speaks it!!”🤨

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My youngest little coconut is 10 years old. 😭 Also, this raspberry-lime cake (yellow cake, raspberry buttercream, and alternating layers of homemade raspberry jam and lime curd) turned out to be the tastiest cake I’ve ever made.

Pink raspberry covered cake with capybaras on top

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love mapo tofu so much. Why doesn’t it love me back?? 😭

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1. Why do some people always feel the need to gatekeep their interests? It’s so fucking tedious. 2. Of all the things to gatekeep… reading books? Really? THAT’S the hill they wanna die on? 3. The dismissal of romance as a genre is rooted in misogyny. (No, I will not be taking questions).

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The paperback version of MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH! I love that the cover has the Jane Addams award nomination, and the review excerpts on the back are 🔥 🥰🥰🥰

Box of paperback copies of MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"The companies will regulate themselves."

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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My wife has been saying much the same about LLMs for a while now, and I’ve got to say, it makes a lot of sense.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Who can deadlift 165lbs, but fractures her elbow picking up a 25lb dumbbell at a weird angle? This gal! 😒 An Avulsion fracture is what they’re calling it. But I’m calling it SUCH BULLSHIT. It’s my drawing arm, so now I’m not gonna have my graphic novel ready for sub by the end of summer. 😡

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Men don’t like women who—“ WE DON’T CARE, DUDE. WE CHOOSE THE BEAR. #Art #Illustration

A blue-haired woman with tattoos in a crop top and jeans holding her morning coffee rides a bear through the forest. Text: I choose the bear

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So… I just found out that the teenager who works in the cafe at my job is named Safari— not because her parents were eccentric— but because her entire family are trophy hunters, who have traveled all over the world in search of exotic animals. Her profile pic is her posing with a dead jaguar. 😢

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Little sneak peak of my current project, a MG graphic novel retelling of a cult classic. It’s a story about facing the parts of yourself that scare you, so that you can break cycles of abuse, and grow into someone who knows & does better.

Character design of a child shushing his toy dinosaur. A parent is resting a hand on the top of his head.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I hope others will take a page out of Ashley Brouilette’s book and out their abusive exes who are now ICE agents. Because you know David Brouillette isn’t the only one. (Also, fuck ICE agent David Brouillette. May he never find a moment’s peace for the rest of his life.)

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One character design sheet (3 characters) done for my GN. Now starting on sheet #2.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 17/07/2026

Do you have #KidLit (picture bks up thru MG and YA) book recommendations? Post below in the thread! The more recently published, the better. Authors & illustrators: feel free to tell people about your latest book! Thanks to @scalzi.com & @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social for inspiring this thread.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hubs: Put the phone down and stop doom scrolling. Me: Hey! Only like 50% of my timeline is doom. The other 50% is cat and otter videos, thank you very much.

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