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Claire S.

@readerpants.bsky.social
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Have you high-fived your neighborhood butchy youth services librarian today? PNW, she/her.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Pushy reminder from one school librarian to another: if you can alter your challenge policy, put a clause in there that prevents people not in your immediate school community (parents, students, staff, board) from placing challenges and limits each request to 1 book at a time. 1/2
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Congratulations!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/11/2025
Seattle, if you want Wilson to win, here's a great chance to help her out!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2025
Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"Pumpkin Spice Raktajino" is even more Federation-coded than Quark's entire Root Beer speech
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
👇👇 THIS 👇👇 the absolute worst offenders for being inconsiderate wrt noise and space in the library, and fully ignoring reminders or requests? White dads on weekends. As if their extremely loud parenting presence were a flag they were waving. (#notalldadsorwhatever but dramatically noticeable.)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 22/08/2025
that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/08/2025
The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/08/2025
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This is a treasure trove of fantastic romance recs.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 20/07/2025
Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever
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ALA Public Policy & Advocacy @librarypolicy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Senate has now shown support for maintaining federal library funding in next year's budget! Now it's time to tell the House to #FundLibraries. Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries! Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries
Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries. American Library Association.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025
In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
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The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project
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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
southernequality.org/tyep/
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Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth
Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/08/2025
Hey #BookSky!!! One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!! We need more Black women-owned bookstores. 🌝🌚 📚💙 gofund.me/60b14fa8
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Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel
Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
V different from her others but with the same Vonda McIntyre commitment to an 70s/80s-flavored queernormative, polyamorous, neopronoun-filled universe. Upper middle grade feel, short, standalone. Honestly a wholesome joy!
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Tween girl sneaks her cat onto a spaceship, shenanigans ensue! The joy is that extremely Big Deal things are happening on the ship, like first contact, but it's all happening in the background - the focus never wavers from the tween's real priority, her cat 😂. It's a weird delight.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 16/08/2025
I hope Rowling stubs her toe every day for the rest of her life
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Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 16/08/2025
This is the crux of racism, lmao. White people get to be autonomous and individual, while everyone else MUST be aligned with every single measure their government takes. *looks directly at camera*
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I can't wait! I'm sure this is prob already on your radar, but have you read Barbary by Vonda McIntyre? From your recs, I think it might be a win! I saw a giveaway copy down at the Clarion West table if you need some fun plane reading.
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The recs and commentary from @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social on this panel are so A++, I'm adding the DWJ podcast to my list immediately! (Lady Eve's Last Con was a delight, I don't know why I didn't do this earlier.)
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In the SFF Families panel and 1000000x yes to @cnkuster.bsky.social 's points on teens being portrayed tropily in fiction while their earnestness and desire to be seen are dismissed or invisible.
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My small but strong wish for WorldCon is for *somebody* to share how to find Vonda McIntyre's K/S fic. Somebody in this room definitely knows.
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
And when libraries start trying to emulate "business" or run a library like a "business" we get some of this same fuckery.
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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is my favorite work shirt. Get yourself this present (and support Sistah Scifi)!
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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Here’s today’s post: Reminder-- Announcing an Academic Journal Call For Papers Edited by Robin and Me and We Want YOU To Apply raforall.blogspot.com/2025/06/remi...
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Reminder-- Announcing an Academic Journal Call For Papers Edited by Robin and Me and We Want YOU To Apply
I am reposting this call for papers today because Robin and I will be there handing out bookmarks to encourage you all to submit. We will al...
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is why you don't give up on red states. You're leaving YOUR PEOPLE, who're fighting twice as hard for inches of progress, behind. Well done, Texas.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
every protest I've ever been to(and I've been to a lot) was like 95% normies, don't let the cosplayers on the internet fool you, the people out there are the ones who drive change, not the ones serialposting about how wrongly they're doing it
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PhishatMSG @phishatmsg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Philly showin' up today
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
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Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care
It’s as simple as love.
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K. C. Alexander Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter- @kacealexander.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Y’all who are protesting on No Kings Day (and at any time), PREPARE YOUR SHIT. Take care of yourselves, make sure you’re aware of your state’s laws, and make it difficult for the tools of fascists to identify you. Take care of each other. And pay ATTENTION to phone/mobile/data protections!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025
1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/06/2025
If you haven’t heard of Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove… you have now. When she stepped out from the back without missing a beat, I knew it was on🔥 @kamlager-dove.house.gov
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Never forget
A chart demonstrating that 98.2% of killings by police result in no charges
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
PLEASE NO, I would prefer not to pour out two bottles of water just to know what weird bug I am looking at.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
School and youth/children's services librarians, if you're still using "age appropriate" to describe your collections, consider this your warning bell to switch to "developmentally appropriate".
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/05/2025
So many signatories of the Harper’s Letter have been silent on pulling all published research with the word “transgender,” the national ban on orgs acknowledging transgender people, and the threatening of teachers who use trans people’s names. Almost like free speech is not what they cared about.
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