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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Communities can be great but they’re also the thing that forces you into a Wicker Man to bring back their bees.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

A white banned says FEED GAZA in front of a digital drawing of red poppies with black and white details and green leaves in front of a blue sky with clouds

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ten authors by whom I’ve read more than five books: Viano Oniomoh Nyssa Kathryn Kimberly Lemming Alice Oseman Susie Tate Michelle Heard Jenna Myles Patricia D Eddy Natsuki Takaya Nikita Gill

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Mariah Ankenman author (she/her) @mariahankenman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s Stuff Your E-Reader Day!!!! Over 1,600 free romance books including mine: Daemon Uprising. Head over to www.romancebookworms.com for all the details and happy reading!

Graphic for stuff, your E reader day with the cover for Damon uprising by Mariah Ankenman

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Sleepiest Vamp🩸 @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Feels like a good time to post this illustration again. Keep fighting. Keep creating. Keep living. #art #digitalart

Illustration of a skull with dandelions growing out of its eyes and holes. A banner wraps around the skull and says: Live to see them die.

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Having to share a birthday with absentee parent and stupid men day is such a mean annual joke from the universe

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Current read plus my cat’s damn feet because I put the book down for 5 seconds so now it’s apparently his 🤦‍♀️😂 #booksky #catsky

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Viano Oniomoh⁷ @vianoniomoh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Y'all want another free book? 👀 Ofc you do 🤪🥳 Continue your Pride celebrations by grabbing a copy of EASY AS FALLING completely FREE! Featuring a guardian angel who breaks all of heaven's rules when he falls for his charge 🥹😩 🔗 mybook.to/easy-as-falling

A graphic illustrating the main post. Sale valid till Wednesday, June 11th, 2025. Link in bio.

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Mecireads🌸 @mecireads.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

You want to know the upcoming fantasy/Romantasy trad pub books written by black authors? Well I’ve created a spreadsheet listing all of the upcoming books so that you can plan your preorders now 🤎. Romantasy Click this link #booksky #blackbooksky #fantasy

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Upcoming Fantasy-Romantasy Books by Black Authors

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Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

To celebrate pride month, I'm making my eBooks completely free for the foreseeable future. So if you want complex stories featuring gays, guns and sentient AI, feel free to download at your leisure. constelisvoss.com/collections/... #writingcommunity #booksky (reskeets appreciated)

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CONSTELIS VOSS eBooks by K. Leigh

Need some LGBT+ indie eBooks to read? We've got you covered. Sci-fi, action, adventure, and much more. Every download comes with multiple formats to make e-reading a breeze. Shop quality novels by K. ...

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My precious tiny grumpy puppy that I’ve had for literally half of my life crossed the rainbow bridge today. 15 years is a long time to have a pet but still not long enough 💔

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AAPD - The American Association of People with Disabilities @aapd.com · 21/05/2025

Your voice has the power to effect change! Contact your representatives, share your story, and make it clear: NO CUTS TO MEDICAID 🛑 aapd.quorum.us/campaign/125... Image description in alt-text and comments.

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Tell Congress: No Cuts To Medicaid!

Congress is considering voting for a budget that will kill disabled Americans. Tell your reps to vote no on cuts to Medicaid.

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“Cats are independent” Ok well mine have learned when I sit at my vanity it means I’m leaving soon so they take turns yelling at me 😂

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 11/05/2025

Happy Mothers day 🧡❤️🩷🌟

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Help, my sister meme’d my criminal cat 😂😂😂

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 02/04/2025

Sen. Booker just broke the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history—a record set by Strom Thurmond trying to block the Civil Rights Act. The irony ain’t lost on us. From fighting against justice to fighting for it. This is what courage & being on the right side of history looks like!

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 30/03/2025

Eid Mubarak! I’m wishing our Muslim neighbors a peaceful and blessed celebration with good food and good company.

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John Chen @johnchen.com.au · 29/03/2025

hear hear

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hallooo! My open door cozy fantasy novella (24k) is publishing May 6, and I'm looking for ARC readers! Tropes: -Arranged marriage -Forced proximity -Unrequited love -Cozy magic/fantasy -Friends to lovers -The misunderstanding -Happy ending Sign up here: virginiaduan.com/LASADS_ARC #AsianWriters +

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Much success at the library book sale today 💙📚

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Picked out my TBR for the #TransRightsReadathon 🏳️‍⚧️💙💗🤍 Uplift Trans and NB voices March 21st - March 31st! 📚💙

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Read “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” with my students today, a list of the places they want to go 1. The beach 2. Canada 3. Space 4. The park 5. The bridge to Canada 6. CandyLand (Yes, in that order) 😹

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Justice for Emily Pike. Justice for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. This is a crisis. The murder rate is ten times higher than the US national average for women living on reservations. Murder is the third leading cause of death for Native women. Emily Pike. Say her name. #MMIW

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Mariah Ankenman author (she/her) @mariahankenman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day to all the women out there! Except for TERFS Trans women are women!

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If a disabled friend of yours is grieving something painful and likely permanent (loss of fertility, loss of ability to walk, loss of a planned future) it is not only fine, it’s wonderful to say, “I don’t know what to say, but I’m here.”

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Looking to add some trans+ books by Black authors to your TBR? Here’s a list to get you started! We’ve included titles by African-American writers, African writers, and other storytellers from the Black diaspora, with a mix of books by trans+ authors and/or books starring trans characters. 🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍

Trans Rights Readathon Bonus Prompts: Books by Black Authors.

Book Recs 1/2: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase. Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith. A Dead Name that Learned to How Live by Golden. Splinter by Jasper Hyde. Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton. Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. Sing Me to Sleep by R.M. Virtues. The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola. The Unbroken by C.L. Clark. A Wolf Steps In Blood by Tamara Jerée.

Book Recs 2/2: I Am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams. Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey. Thirsty by Jas Hammonds. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender. Yemaya’s Daughters by Dane Figueroa Edidi. Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major. None of the Above by Travis Alabanza. Hiding My Candy by The Lady Chablis. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me. More to Love by Georgina Kiersten. Blackward by Lawrence Lindell. Star Fruit by Kamryn Kingsberry (releases June 3, 2025).

Join us March 21st-31st, 2025, as we read trans books, fundraise for your local organizations, and show some love for this community. For more info, visit our website at transrightsreadathon.carrd.co

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Looking for some book recs for your #TRR25 #tbr? We’ve put together some suggestions for one of our five core prompts, trans women and transfemme rep! You can see what other people have suggest on our #transrightsreadathon StoryGraph challenge. We’d love to know your suggestions, too.

Rep to Read: Trans Women and Femmes. What We Mean: A work by an author and/or featuring a main character who identifies as a trans woman or on the feminine side of the trans experience, which can include people who view their gender along the expansive nonbinary spectrum.

Book recs 1/3: She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya. Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon. The Default World by Naomi Kanakia. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom. Embodied Exegesis, anthology.

Book recs 2/3: Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao. Dulhaniyaa by Talia Bhatt. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. Paper Doll by Dylan Mulvaney. Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul by Ryka Aoki. The Price on Her Head by Suzanne Clay.

Book recs 3/3: Didn’t Nobody Give a 💩 What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham. Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo Duvall. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. US by Sarah Soler. Fairest by Meredith Talusan. Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust.

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Just a girl stuck in the world’s most uncomfy position cuz her cat with separation anxiety demands a pillow sacrifice 🫡

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If you don’t wear a mask in medical centers when you’re sick I truly hope you choke 😘

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

DO NOT spam the End Dei Portal that snitches on educator so they lose funding for their programs 👀 enddei.ed.gov

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Flu+chronic illness is not a combo for the weak 💀 even with the vaccine

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Senator Jeremy Moss @jeremymoss.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face!

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Oh good, can’t wait to lose my healthcare 🫠

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

My students keep trying to tell me there’s a serial killer next door, it’s an art studio that has splatter paint classes😅😅

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Mecireads🌸 @mecireads.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Vicious Bonds-There are very few adult romantic fantasy books written by Black authors & with a Black FMC. I’ve been raving about this series, and this Friday at 8pm, I’ll be interviewing with Shanora Williams on TikTok Live! Now is the time to read book 1 before the event. #booksky #blackbooksky

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Sad but slightly amusing how every vet staffs face looks like this when we have to start listing all the bs my poor cat has gone through before we adopted him

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ALT: a woman wearing a red vest is making a funny face

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Vet just diagnosed my cat with separation anxiety but it’s specifically when we sleep cuz he’s rarely home alone 😅

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/02/2025

The House could vote next week on drastic cuts to Medicaid that would gut critical programs that protect the civil rights and dignity of millions of Americans — including people with disabilities. Contact your member of Congress: No cuts to Medicaid.

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Congress: Save Medicaid Now

Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Friends to lovers vs opposites attract is basically a tie but I’m a sucker for the grumpy x sunshine trope

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Melissa 🐝 @lissabee15.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My fiance has to do active shooter training for their remote job🤨

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The headless horseman was thought to be nothing more than a myth until Drusilla Van Tassel had a frightening confrontation with him. She is plunged into a world of magic and family secrets. Splinter by Jasper Hyde. buff.ly/4e4eOHa

a paperback and iphone mockup of Splinter by Jasper Hyde - Slow Burn, Black Witches, 2nd Chance Romance, Bi/Demi Relationship, Black/Asian Romance, Enemies to Lovers.

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