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〰️ julie mclaughlin 〰️ @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: please sign and share our petition, tell the Alberta Gov’t you don’t support book bans! Censorship escalates rapidly, put pressure on the gov’t now to ensure it doesn’t take hold in Canada. Change.org/AB-book-ban #CAIABB #ABbookban #FreedomToRead #NoBansInCanada

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Sign the Petition

Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I strongly support this organization and its efforts. I've seen what book bans do and who they target. Please see the official information below about the organization and how to get involved.

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Public Service Announcement...It's that time again, so manage your communications, prepare even more diligently for travel, and don't buy any houses. But you can let go of what no longer serves you. Honour your commitments to self (and others). Happy Mercury Retrograde! :)

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I’m picking up on where I left off in my Craft,Community, and Connection series by talking about how Caroline Fraser and Elizabeth Epperly recognized the importance of discussing how Laura Ingalls Wilder’s and L.M. Montgomery’s novels reach a diverse readership. open.substack.com/pub/melanief...

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Craft Community and Connection: How Writing Can Save the Humanities - Part Four

Mentor Texts; Reaching a Diverse Readership

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My latest Substack on why I choose to do smaller projects. open.substack.com/pub/melanief...

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Caroline Fernandez @parentclub.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today, my 14th #kidlit book goes out into the world. Asha And Baz Meet Gladys West is a chapter book series about #WomenInSTEM. Modern-day GPS is based on the mathematical work of Gladys West. Let's celebrate the number 14 with a cup of tea (or beverage of your choice). Cheers! ☕ #CanKidLit

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My latest publication took me outside my comfort zone but working with Jessica made me feel like I could contribute my perspective. The work that everyone is doing in preserving & reclaiming lost aspects of Yiddish literature is commendable. I'm honoured to be part of it.

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Three days left to submit! 🦚

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

calling all would-be Yiddish influencers…!

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy 10th Anniversary @ingeveb.bsky.social. I was quite surprised when Jessica asked me to write a review as Yiddish Studies. I've also used the journal for my research. I was also paid for my writing, which is I know is part of their fundraising efforts: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve.... Mazel Tov!

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In geveb is turning t(s)en! | In geveb

Put on your birthday hats and hang your streamers because In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies is turning ten this year!

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We have extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue on "Yiddish Science Fiction" to Monday, May 5th. We seek submissions for our blog, pedagogy, and translation sections, as well as a special section of minyaturn. More information: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This week on Substack I continue to discuss some of the theoretical approaches to writing and how it can be applied to scholarly writing. open.substack.com/pub/melanief...

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Craft, Connection, and Community: Part Two

Creating an Emotional Connection; or Challenging the Binaries

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“We, a diverse coalition of Jews at Columbia and Barnard, wholeheartedly reject the invocation of Jewish safety as a pretense to persecute, detain, and deport fellow students and community members without due process of law.” www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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Sh’ma Koleinu: A joint message from Jews of Columbia across the ideological spectrum

We, a diverse coalition of Jews at Columbia and Barnard, wholeheartedly reject the invocation of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-sem...

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Kate's great thread is in response to the (underdiscussed) phenomenon of voters who jumped from the NDP to the Conservatives this election. Some voters are drawn to the party they see as most anti-establishment. Poilievre has successfully rebranded the freaking CONSERVATIVES as anti-establishment.

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Office reorg part one: in which I find alll the pens!

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In which I begin to talk about creating "Craft, Connection, and Community" through writing in the humanities. open.substack.com/pub/melanief...

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Craft, Connection, and Community:

How Writing Can Save the Humanities (Part One)

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MCavert 🍁 @mcavert.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely...but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world. Don’t you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? ANNE OF GREEN GABLES #EarthDay LM Montgomery 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

artwork of an open door, a view of a bright yellow sunlit garden, blooming trees.

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Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

May be a bit before it's truly green, but @friedawishinsky.bsky.social's message in her upcoming #MG #NF book KEEP OUR WORLD GREEN: WHY HUMANS NEED GARDENS, PARKS AND PUBLIC GREEN SPACES from @orcabook.bsky.social is important all year round. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/04/keep...

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Keep Our World Green: Why Humans Need Gardens, Parks and Public Green Spaces

Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🧵 A MASSIVE WAVE OF ARMY REFUSAL IS HAPPENING IN ISRAEL. What does it mean? (1/8)

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Very excited to be speaking about L.M. Montgomery and her Creative Legacy this on Monday at the Kindred Spirits Exhibition Launch. The waitlist has been lifted so feel free to come. www.masseycollege.ca/events/kindr...

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L.M. Montgomery Kindred Spirits Exhibition Launch – Massey College

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thanks In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies for inviting me write about this translation of Yiddish Canadian Jewish writer, Ida Maze. It was way outside my comfort zone but grateful to the editor for guiding me with the right questions: ingeveb.org/articles/din...

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Book Review: Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze, trans. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub | In geveb

In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Y...

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Sal Sawler @salsawler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hey pals, if you’re hanging around the interwebs on April 23 and want to check out a big ol chat about Trans Joy and Authorship, I’ll be moderating this amazing panel. writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

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Beyond Survival: 5 Writers on Trans Joy and Authorship

Author panel (virtual) Wednesday, Apr 23 (7pm - 8:30pm) Free registration

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Learned this week that the LMM Kindred Spirits Exhibition Launch--for which I'm giving a keynote!-- is sold out with a waiting list. So that doesn't freak me out at all...no...not at all.. 😂 www.masseycollege.ca/events/kindr...

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L.M. Montgomery Kindred Spirits Exhibition Launch – Massey College

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MCavert 🍁 @mcavert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

…the winds of March swirled over the dunes and up the harbours and over the hills… 💦 And lo, it was April! With the laughter of April rain, the whisper of April rain, the trickle, the sweep, the drive, the lash, the dance, the splash of April rain. ANNE OF INGLESIDE 🎨 Alexander Volkov

lighted lamp and bulbs by a window, rain and tree outside

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Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"People expect you to, you know, play a certain part. They want you to present a certain narrative, and they don't love the complexity, they don't love the nuance. [...] 'Are you the good guys? Are you the bad guys? We can't make sense of it. This is too hard.'" - @ayelettsabari.bsky.social

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thousands came together in Toronto, standing united against the threat of US tariffs and calls to make Canada the 51st state. #cdnpoli But the message from Canadians is clear - Canada is strong, resilient and independent! 🇨🇦👇

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Reading the room with Canada’s favourite Wayne.

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Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Because everyone wants to find new people on Bluesky, I've got another starter pack of Canadian authors and illustrators of books for young people. There are so many wonderful ones & people keep joining (Yay!) So here's my second pack incl those who just joined go.bsky.app/TMk1FWY 👍🇨🇦📚

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It may seem strange to light a candle when there is so much awful happening, but when I saw this I had to purchase it. I send a circle of protection to all that I love around the world. To my country, Canada. I imagine whoever sees this in a circle of protection, away from harm. May you be safe. ❤️🕯️🌎

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Uma Krishnaswami @brokentusk1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Process Talk: Cynthia Leitich Smith Discusses On A Wing and a Tear on Writing with a Broken Tusk I used to make my students read Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith to get a feel for a book that was about more than one kid, more than one story. www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...

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Process Talk: Cynthia Leitich Smith Discusses On A Wing and a Tear — Uma Krishnaswami

Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith was one of the books I used to make my students read to get a feel for a story that was about more than one kid. A story, in fact, that was more than one st...

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Susan Juby @susanjuby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Not left out? Canada. Thanks Prime Minister Carney.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

They used "89" of mine. All my books plus short stories and some of my books translated into other languages. My copyrighted works supposedly protected by law. My labor I wept over, taken without permission to create nonsense that harms the planet but makes a couple of people more billionaire-y.

A screenshot of the LibGen search engine. I typed my name "Shannon Hale" into the search bar and it finds 89 results, starting with two of my books, The princess in Black and the Giant Problem and The Actor and the Housewife.

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Susan Juby @susanjuby.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is why Carney.

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Bob Rae @bobbyrae48.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hey all! So, given *gestures at everything* I wanted to take a moment to note that any of my Bold Strokes Books titles are available through the BSB webstore itself, if you wanted to bypass the Big-A. Ebooks have no geo-restrictions, files are yours (download to any e-reader or app). #BookSky 💙📚🏳️‍🌈

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Books | Search Results | Bold Strokes Books

Books from Bold Strokes Books, a boutique imprint producing quality fiction across a wide range of genres, including fantasy, historical, horror, mystery, paranormal, science fiction, and spiritual f...

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Melanie J. Fishbane🇨🇦 @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Merlin Cat woke up early to wish me luck on a PhD milestone—meeting with my dissertation committee to discuss my first submitted chapter. (Not to be confused as the first chapter…although I suspect a lot of it will be in the Introduction). Writing process…Am I right?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🔥 Meirav Solomon KILLS IT, placing responsibility for antisemitism exactly where it belongs: "it is not student protesters, but the bloody legacy of Pittsburgh and Poway, Charlottesville and the Capitol riots... Trump has highlighted and platformed neo-Nazis and white supremacists."

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J Street U Vice President Meirav Solomon's Testimony in the Senate Judiciary Hearing on Antisemitism

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