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Robin Stevenson

@robinstevenson.bsky.social
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Author: Pride Puppy; Pride Colors; Queer History A-Z; A Hug on the Wind and 30+ more. Spring 2026: The Book of Jupiter Spring 2027: Pride Puppy Countdown! www.robinstevenson.com linktr.ee/pridepuppy 🏳️‍🌈🍁📚

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 28/12/2025
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As kids say, I have a connection! Sarah Isgur lied about Pride Puppy, claiming it had "graphic sex stuff," that C was for "clamps," and every character wore leather chaps. When the illustrator pointed out that this was all untrue, she replied that the facts about our book weren't "legally relevant."
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Florida officials demand that public schools and character schools throughout the state begin banning books proactively or face punishment. There's no Miller Test here. The state claims they have no list, but they point to several lists for schools to begin with. bookriot.com/florida-educ...
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"Weed On Purpose, Not Only After a Fight": Florida Official Demands More School Book Bans
Florida's Commissioner of Education is demanding all public and charter schools in the state proactively ban books–or face punishment.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is state-mandated book banning being perpetuated here. It is the Dan Patrick level "we're going to downgrade your school" banning from Texas, but in Florida. Thousands of books will be removed, and you'll probably never know about it.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apparently it's bisexual visibility day and I almost missed it. I feel like we should get a notification or something. A calendar reminder, maybe. Anyway, hi, here I am 🏳️‍🌈
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have at least one (and possibly two, fingers crossed!) exciting pieces of book news that I can't share until October. In the meantime, can I brag a little about the very cool game my son made? I think it's brilliant. Give it a try, and if you like it, please share! breakdown.today
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A daily game about how the whole splits up. Guess the split, reveal reality, share your score.
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Rachel Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 22/09/2026
"As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes and the works they subsequently produce." www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7774 - Petitions
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Iowa Lawmakers Hate Reading Books Almost As Much As They Hate Queer Kids There's no requirement for a whole book to be read before it's banned in Iowa under SF 496. A new proposal to the bill could speed up bans even more. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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Iowa Lawmakers Hate Reading Books Almost As Much As They Hate Queer Kids
There's no requirement for a whole book to be read before it's banned in Iowa under SF 496. A new proposal to the bill could speed up bans even more.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read bookriot.com/book-censors...
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“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read
Advocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good grief. Are they going to hire Alex Jones as the lead investigator?
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kind of hooked on this game my son made! I think it's the combo of the cool sliders, the trivia, and my determination to eventually score something better than "solid" 😜 Breakdown #8 · 11/15 What is the air you're breathing? 🟩🟩🟥 breakdown.today
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Breakdown
A daily game about how the whole splits up. Guess the split, reveal reality, share your score.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looking forward to the Washington post's next article about how women really should stay with their abusive, gaslighting, violent husbands.
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 16/09/2026
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly canceled $68M in teen pregnancy prevention funding, two years early—cutting off a grant to Children's Aid, which serves 1,200 NYC students a year with sex ed on consent and healthy relationships.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My kid, who happens to be one of my very favorite humans, just made a cool game which I think might get added to my daily Wordle-Reunion-Connections-SquareWord habit. Check it out! breakdown.today
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Breakdown
A daily game about how the whole splits up. Guess the split, reveal reality, share your score.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes, just to cheer myself up, I like to watch Anita Bryant getting a pie in the face. youtu.be/5tHGmSh7f-0?...
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Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
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The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We’re so honored to win an Emmy! It’s a win for the entire Freedom to Read movement and we hope our librarians' stories continue to inspire audiences nationwide to turn their library love into library action. Find tools & resources to join us in speaking up for our books at TheLibrariansFilm.com
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Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking: 78th Emmy Awards
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My latest is THE BOOK OF JUPITER, about a girl who has grown up in an isolated community with an authoritarian, charismatic leader. Ara's been taught never to ask questions- the book is about what happens when she does. Starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist! It's my favorite of all my novels!
Book cover. An illustrated cover showing a girl with long red hair and a white dress standing in an orchard. Behind her is a wire fence, and in the night sky overhead hangs a huge planet. The title is in white and reads "The Book of Jupiter." The author's name is at the bottom of the page- "Robin Stevenson"
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey American friends, help spread the word: Canada has an immigration stream for HC workers. "For Tyson, the targeted recruitment worked. It took him just 3 months to get his B.C. nursing licence through a fast-track process, and 8 days to receive a provincial nomination for permanent residence."
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Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@heykellyjensen.bsky.social’s new podcast series Liberating Lit just dropped, and as usual, she pulls no punches, which is why we love her. 👏 I cannot wait to hear the first discussion! www.liberatinglit.com
What that experience taught me was that sometimes people whose job it is to defend the right to read simply don't. Sometimes, you're going to feel like you're the one in the wrong, despite being the one absolutely in the right, with facts, figures, and stellar reviews to point to as to why a book belongs on the public library shelf.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labour Day everyone! It has been a Canadian statutory public holiday since 1894. Prior to that year, many Canadian cities held their own Labour Days. In fact, it was an event in Toronto in 1882 that inspired the creation of Labor Day in the United States.
Canadian flag–style watercolor background with a red maple leaf centered between painted red stripes and the greeting "Happy Labour Day!"
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“The women in The Librarians were willing to tell those stories publicly. They let people see what was happening inside schools, libraries, board meetings, and communities. They showed what this fight actually looked like for the people living through it … That took an incredible amount of courage.”
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The Librarians Won an Emmy. And This One Means Something.
For those of us who lived through the attacks on librarians, watching these stories receive national recognition feels deeply personal.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Librarians WON AN EMMY! If you haven't seen it yet, you really should.
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Book banners tried to have me arrested. Tried to have me fired. Tried to destroy my life. Thankfully, I didn’t run into any of them at the Emmy Awards.
Martha holding an Emmy Award for The Librarians documentary
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 06/09/2026
Guess who won an Emmy!!!! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was so thrilled and grateful to have the chance to meet and interview Judy when I was writing MY BODY MY CHOICE. A Canadian hero. I look forward to reading her new book.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/09/2026
For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.
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Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete
The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you haven't already done it, today's another good day to download Duck Duck Go and MapQuest.
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
After SCOTUS declined to hear Little v Llano in Dec 2025, Llano County Library has spent the last 8 months removing hundreds of books from its collection, including every title written by @ellenhopkins.bsky.social
Shelf of books written by Ellen Hopkins
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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 30/08/2026
Didn't even realize I could still be disappointed by Google.
The word "Cowards" styled like the Google logo
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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 28/08/2026
Neither storms, nor rain, nor paper cuts could stop us from getting the #VWF2026 program guide in your hands. VWF Members—as well as teachers and schools across the Lower Mainland—look for the program guide in your email inbox now, and in your mailbox in the days to come! 📫
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Never get tired of this ferry ride. Feeling very lucky to live in BC.
Photograph of the view from the ferry, showing blue sky with white clouds, water, and the shores of rocky, tree covered islands. A large white ferry is passing by.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hydronyms 😘
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I haven't seen anyone mention my unlikely favorite Tim Curry movie (not counting Rocky Horror obvs!). Times Square came out in 1980 and was one of the first movies I saw with a queer relationship between two girls. Tim Curry plays a radio DJ, Johnny LaGuardia, and was so good (as was Robin Johnson!)
Movie poster for Times Square, showing the images of Tim Curry and two teenage girls- one wearing a hat and one smoking- against a yellow background.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Utterly heartbreaking read- the bigotry and the blatant discrimination are vile and the lesson to students is devastatingly awful.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I would love to see this same thinking applied to so many things!
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also, I am absolutely delighted that this book is coming out simultaneously in BOTH OF CANADA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES!!! (I would be happy about this at any time, but I am especially happy about it at this particular moment in time!)
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〰️ julie mclaughlin 〰️ @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ayyy there’s a new Pride Puppy in town!! 🐶🌈🎉 what a journey this has BEEN. I had the most fun working on this with @robinstevenson.bsky.social, so excited to share the cover & can’t wait for you all to see the rest of the book! 💜
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 25/08/2026
One way you can help show your support for Canada 🇨🇦: boost / borrow / buy books by Canadians. To those with little ones in their lives: browse finalists in @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social CCBC Book Awards! I also highly recommend following @hkubiw.bsky.social for book suggestions & #CanKidLit hashtag.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026
The upshot of the Supreme Court's mail-in voting opinion is that the conservative justices think you are very stupid. They think Trump should be able to hijack the midterms, and do not think you can see that they are doing what they can to help.
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The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid
The conservative justices are reserving for themselves the power to decide whether Trump can hijack the 2026 midterms.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are thrilled to share the cover of our new picture book, Pride Puppy Countdown! We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social and I enjoyed creating it. Pride Puppy Countdown comes out April 2027, and is available for pre-order now: www.orcabook.com/Pride-Puppy-...
Slide shows the cover of a picture book with the title Pride Puppy Countdown. A child with curly red hair, cat ears, a purple shirt and a rainbow necklace dances on the grass at the center of the image, with a brown and white dog holding a long rainbow ribbon in its mouth. Several adults, children and dogs dance, chat, and play musical instruments behind them. Further back, outlines of tall buildings can be seen against a sunset sky,as can the silhouette of a parade going by. 

The author and illustrator's names are at the bottom of the image- Robin Stevenson and Julie McLaughlin.

Text reads: cover reveal, coming April 2027 , pre-order now!Slide shows the cover of a picture book with the title Le Compte a Rebours d'Arc-en-Ciel. A child with curly red hair, cat ears, a purple shirt and a rainbow necklace dances on the grass at the center of the image, with a brown and white dog holding a long rainbow ribbon in its mouth. Several adults, children and dogs dance, chat, and play musical instruments behind them. Further back, outlines of tall buildings can be seen against a sunset sky,as can the silhouette of a parade going by. 

The author and illustrator's names are at the bottom of the image- Robin Stevenson and Julie McLaughlin.

Text reads: en francais, arrivee en April 2027 , precommandez des maintenant!A slide with a starry dark blue, purple and pink background shows a number of small images of illustrations of dogs, children, rainbow flags, cake and balloons. Two full pages from the book are also shown here: the first is of a group of people dancing, with text that reads "10 good friends dance in the sun, puppy plays with everyone" and the second shows a scene inside an apartment, where a person seated in a wheelchair holds a tray of cookies while a child hands a bag of cookies to another child, and text reads "8 fresh cookies in a bag, puppy's tail starts to wag." 

Additional colorful text boxes on the slide read: more cute dogs (and some cats too!), more rainbows, 100+ search items, more queer joy (and cookies!)
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Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Using a children’s book to make fun of children being detained, neglected and isolated from their parents is next level fucked up
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Absolutely this. And some Conservatives in Canada are pushing it here as well. It's utterly fake and this rhetoric needs to be called out loudly whenever it shows up.
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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I have been noticing a real upswing in images without alt text in my feed lately, which means it is time to repost this handy guide: What is alt text? Why it is important! How to write it. How to change your settings so you don't forget to include it.
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Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull
Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! Here's some basic info about alt text, its importance, and how to wri...
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
THIS. Unbelievable that it even needs to be said, but apparently it does, and loudly, and repeatedly.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hahaha this is exactly where I am right now, why does this not get easier 😅
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good for Carney and Canada, standing up for themselves. The US trade war demand is essentially “let us bully you into subservience.” Appeasement doesn’t work. What a stupid, self-harming effort by the US. Took one of the most productive, mutually beneficial alliances in history and threw it away.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump is *illegally and unconstitutionally* imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadians products *after his attempt to bully the erstwhile U.S. ally into an unfair new arrangement failed* Those details seem pretty important
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Rachel Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 22/08/2026
I know both sides are claiming the other side asked for unreasonable last-minute changes, but who are you actually going to believe in that scenario
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Darth Vader Alter The Deal
Alt: Darth Vader saying "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."
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