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Lisa Cheby

@lisacheby.bsky.social
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#Poet, #Librarian, Daughter of Immigrants, author of 4 chapbooks Librarian Lisa: linktr.ee/LibrarianCheby Poet Lisa: linktr.ee/lisaevecheby

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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Here they are giving Silicon Valley like $17 million for a technology that you can get for free online that has not at all been designed or trained or customized for education at all, … There are no accountability mechanisms on this.” www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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Calif. colleges bought everyone ChatGPT. No one knows what to do with it.
California professors say they are left improvising as the CSU partners with OpenAI.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
ICE has detained more than 650 children in California under Trump's deportation crackdown edsource.org?page_id=762148 This is just outrageous and criminal.
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ICE has detained more than 650 children in California under Trump’s deportation crackdown
Under the second Trump administration, the number of children detained in California communities, rather than at the border, has risen.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is truly devastating for equitable access to students in CA to information literacy (including AI literacy) instruction. @governor.ca.gov you should be ashamed. Through actions like this, you show that you are more a friend to tech billionaires than to students in CA. @4csla.bsky.social
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Vol. VIII: “Lines” explores connection. The lines within this issue are physical & metaphorical & throughout—like on our custom cover by @nonstndrd.com—illustrate moments when art intersects reality, when we scrawl over the world & redesign what is into what could be: tinyurl.com/ExpoV8Lines
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners? - sf.gazetteer.co/why-do-these...
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Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?
A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Tweets disappear. Emails get buried. But a postcard on a desk? That gets noticed. civicmail.org/about-campai... via @civicmail.bsky.social
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Stop Trump's Proposed Elimination of IMLS!
Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries. This small but essential federal
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Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app · 07/03/2026
Paging @lisacheby.bsky.social
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Tweets disappear. Emails get buried. But a postcard on a desk? That gets noticed. civicmail.org/about-campai... via @civicmail.bsky.social
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Stop Trump's Proposed Elimination of IMLS!
Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries. This small but essential federal
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Kate Maruyama @katemaru.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A beautiful piece by @lisacheby.bsky.social in the vital work that CLUE does. Look for your local orgs, see what you can do. A lot of residents of this country could use your help. www.cluejustice.org/compassionat...
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Compassionate Witnessing  - Clue Justice
by Lisa Eve Cheby At a protest in downtown Los Angeles in 2018, we marched from city hall to the Metropolitan Detention Center. As the protest ended, taking a short cut through a pedestrian walkway in...
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Kate Maruyama @katemaru.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I missed this beautiful essay from @lisacheby.bsky.social yesterday, but it is a love letter for those living alone alongside the blaring trope of couplehood. www.rolereboot.org/sex-and-rela...
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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yes, I am STILL writing about this because it is still needed. @4csla.bsky.social @csunlibrary.bsky.social @edsource.org @aaslala.bsky.social Why teacher librarians are critical for students living in an AI-driven world edsource.org?page_id=752536
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COMMENTARY: Why teacher librarians are critical for students living in an AI-driven world
California lawmakers passed laws to improve student literacy in media and artificial intelligence, but without funding to implement these critical skills, students are being shortchanged.
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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 24/02/2026
“Why don’t victims tell someone about the abuse?” “Why I Didn’t Tell” from Excavation: A Memoir (Northwestern University Press, 2025; [1st edition Future Tense Books, 2014])
(Page 122 of Excavation: A Memoir by Wendy C. Ortiz) 

NOTES ON AN EXCAVATION
Why I Didn't Tell
I didn’t want to be average. 
I didn't want it to end.
I was comfortable keeping secrets.
I was afraid of being blamed.
I felt responsible for his acts.
I was numb.
I was told I exuded sex and therefore I must be to blame.
The truth is, I did tell.
I didn't want it to end.
I told an adult.
I grew comfortable with anguish. With hostility.
Tragedy.
I was numb.
That adult has since apologized for his inaction on my behalf, shared with me his fear of the situation, his own newness to the profession at the time.
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Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app · 24/02/2026
Tax billionaires until they're "merely" triple digit millionaires
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...
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The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!
The Los Angeles Public Library organized an author talk with award-winning children’s book authors Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad. Library administration abruptly cancelled the event because they...
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records" Oh, wow. The absolute privacy nightmare that this tech is, getting fed ppls sensitive medical info. Sure - no way that ends badly! #AiIsTheProblem #TechLit gizmodo.com/openai-launc...
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records
OpenAI's biggest play into the burgeoning health AI market is here.
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TheEnder @theender.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.
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Elizabeth Kate Switaj @ekswitaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This poem is by the woman ICE murdered. poets.org/2020-on-lear...
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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🎉 Success! Tell your friends to text SIGN PMPHZC to 50409 resist.bot/petitions/PM...
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Get ICE out of our communities and keep our neighbors safe
Text SIGN PMPHZC to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📢 Help this campaign grow and share: resist.bot/petitions/PQ...
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STOP Trump's invasions and misuse of the military
Text SIGN PQFGOY to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through.” - Katherine May, Wintering ...
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Kate Maruyama @katemaru.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Read this stunner from @lisacheby.bsky.social www.culturaldaily.com/lisa-eve-che...
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Lisa Eve Cheby: “Witnessing” - Cultural Daily
"Witnessing," a new poem by Lisa Eve Cheby: "I only wanted to imagine a world of liberation and joy, / not how to integrate the mundane with the horrific."
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Nichelle Henderson @nshlh.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor imposed a nationwide “Don’t Say Gay” effect—letting parents opt kids out of LGBTQ+ lessons and pressuring schools to erase queer voices. As the only real teacher in this race for CA State Superintendent, I know what’s at stake. Join me tomorrow.
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Amy Hermon @slupodcast.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Proud to protest the lack of #librarians in Philadelphia schools. To learn more, hear this conversation with Philadelphia Association to Restore #schoollibrarians!https://apple.co/3ZD0b9R
Newspaper coverage of librarians protesting a lack of librarians in Philadelphia schools.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/fJcqfbE1
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Join me on June 14
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
24 hours and 18+minutes @booker.senate.gov stood up and spoke up for democracy. Amazing.
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. @corybooker.com just hit the 24-hour mark!!! Only 19 minutes to go to beat the Senate filibuster record by Strom Thurmond.
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two men on a porch one of whom is saying " let 's go boy "
Alt: two men on a porch one of whom is saying " let 's go boy "
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Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app · 10/03/2025
So moving to commemorate the pandemic with these women Romaine Washington, @katemaru.bsky.social Noriko Nakada Hazel Kight Witham and @lisacheby.bsky.social who organized it all w Beyond Baroque around her chapbook Contact Tracing
Six women smiling towards the camera
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“I am forced to speak the language/of men…” @lisacheby.bsky.social reads from her poetic essay PERFECT DARK from #ExpoReview, Vol. VIII: “Lines” at our #ExpoPresents 10-year anniversary party. Read along: tinyurl.com/ExpoPerfect! #AWP25
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“If you don’t know what a database is, ask a librarian.” - @lisacheby.bsky.social at #awp25
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“One of the ways we censor books: We don’t fund our libraries.” - @lisacheby.bsky.social at #awp25
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
At the 5 year anniversary of the world retreating due to Covid19, we need to draw from what we learned about our resilience as individuals and in community. I will read from Contact Tracing at 3 upcoming readings. Mark the dates. Go to linktr.ee/lisaevecheby for details and registration.
Pink background with "Save the Date" in green and "Upcoming readings" in black and the following dates in dusty rose: 

March 8th, 2pm at Beyond Baroque 

March 15th, 11am, Altadena Poet Laureate Event, Location TBA 

April 19th, 3pm at Campo De Cahuenga 

Registration & Details https://linktr.ee/lisaevecheby
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It's been 5 years since our lives were upended by the Covid19 Pandemic. Everyone has their own story. Come hear ours and. Join us in person or on zoom. I am so grateful to read with these amazing writers at the historic @bblitarts.bsky.social. @katemaru.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social
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Kate Maruyama @katemaru.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Honored to be in this lineup of writers as we read from lockdown. I’ll be reading from @rdspress SAFER from BLEAK HOUSES March 8, 2pm @bblitarts ! @lisacheby.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social Hazel Kight Witham Noriko Nakada & Romaine Washington
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Excited to announce the re-release of my chapbooks through Strikethrough Press: Contract Tracing, Buffy Averts a Mid-Life Apocalypse, and, for it's 10th anniversary, Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thank you Noriko Nakada for making my books stay available! bookshop.org/lists/lisa-e...
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Beyond Mango Street: Updating and Diversifying Your 6-12 Curriculum” with Luivette Resto and Angie Nevárez. March 12 5:00- 6:30 RSVP for in-person at Library Events library.csun.edu/events @gomatadors.bsky.social @lausdlms.bsky.social @4csla.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social
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Ashley Hawkins @mangalibrarian.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The lists are actually for the country as a whole and include spots we know well, but the point is that I would not trust AI to spew out a mishmash of dated listicles when you can actually find out the information from trusted humans and sources.
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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
How do you encourage reluctant collaborators? Sign up for AASL Friday Forecast to receive tips in your email inbox weekly: bit.ly/3YQnwmv. Want to see an archive of tips shared? Visit: bit.ly/4hEWze2.
An image featuring a text box with a tip from the AASL. The text suggests ways to entice students to collaborate by asking them which standards they like and offering creative idea(s) like a BreakoutEDU or escape room session. It includes a signature from Sarah Somsbury, DeKalb County School District. The background is a gradient of purple hues, and there is a watermark with the AASL logo at the bottom right.
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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
As we celebrate Black History Month, we remember Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance figure and librarian at Fisk University, who preserved Black culture and history for future generations. #BlackHistoryMonth #CulturalPreservation
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e katherine kottaras @katherinekottaras.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I just downloaded @5calls.org — except for the fact that all my reps’ lines were full 😵‍💫 — I was able to leave a message with one and will continue to call.
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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
There are just a few more weeks to complete your concurrent session proposal for the 2025 AASL National Conference! Check out these tips from #AASL25 Social Media Collective member Tara. Be sure to submit your proposals by March 1st at national.aasl.org!
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
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Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app · 03/02/2025
Asi es
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“Sometimes genre is a cold word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about and to stay persistent.” - Beyoncé at the Grammys encouraging us to find our genres!
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Lisa Cheby @lisacheby.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Ran into @4csla celebrities @alilauer.bsky.social and Kirti, award winning #teacherlibrarians from #LAUSD #schoollibraries
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