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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 29/07/2026

The irony if he used AI to write his op-ed on AI

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 02/07/2026

Ugh. This has been happening at the agency I work for as well. As if writers don’t already stress enough while querying

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 16/04/2026

Well, enjoy the trip to Barcelona!

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 10/04/2026

Also for all the folks complaining there are too many queer people in the creative industries ... maybe we wouldn't have to have creativity hardwired into our brains if bigots didn't constantly pull crap like this. It's in our DNA to find creative solutions to erasure and hatred

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 10/04/2026

"In Boise, the small but courageous flagpole gesture was felt earnestly. One Idahoan who stopped to admire the new display expressed just how important it was to see the city fighting back. "'I feel loved,' he told local news. 'I feel accepted by the people that matter. I feel hope.'”

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 07/04/2026

The violation of privacy this testing implementation imposes is insurmountable. It basically lets the entire world know when a woman athlete has an intersex condition, even if she was unaware prior to testing. The last time this rule was in effect, it literally led to a suicide.

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 26/03/2026

anti-trans virtue signaling that is not going to last, because a LOT of cis athletes are about to find out they are intersex

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Getting a book banned isn't an honor and also it's bad for sales.

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Catherine Hapka @catherinehapka.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to my trans&NB friends!🏳️‍⚧️ To celebrate why not buy a #kidlit or #YA book feat. trans/NB characters & authors? Here are some faves (deets in alt txt); more suggestions welcome! @sassinsf.com @aprildaniels.bsky.social @justinepwinans.bsky.social @kylelukoff.bsky.social

Book cover: ANA ON THE EDGE by A.J. Sass. Tagline: Step into yourself. Art shows a young person on ice skates, seen from behind, arms outstretched and with a spot light on the ice a short distance in front of them. My review: Read this one! It's such a sweet, age-appropriate story with memorable characters and just enough fascinating behind-the-scenes skating detail (the author is a skater himself and knows his stuff!).

Book cover: DREADNOUGHT by April Daniels. Additional text reads: Nemesis - Book One. "Daniels spins a classic coming-of-age superhero tale, but one that also tackles transmisogyny and sexism, as its young hero navigates what she owes the world and what she owes herself." - Entertainment Weekly. Art shows the silhouette of a superhero type figure with a cape blowing in the wind, standing on a hill overlooking a city skyline. My review: This one had me hooked from the first scene even though I'm usually lukewarm at best on superheroes. Really unique, exciting, action packed, and well done!

Book cover: WHEN AIDAN BECAME A BROTHER by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita. Art shows a family of three with a woman kissing the forehead of a small kid who is sitting on a smiling man's shoulders. The kid wears a rainbow striped shirt. There's a Stonewall Book Award sticker to the side. My review: I don't read many picture books (just not my thing) but this one is SO SWEET! The author also writes middle grade and I almost put one of those here (TOO BRIGHT TO SEE) but figured I'd mix it up with the picture book instead. But they're both good! Been meaning to pick up his latest MG title as well.

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 04/04/2026

Thanks, friend! I'm a little late to repost it but your allyship means so much <3

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 04/04/2026

This would've made past-me, who was a Georgian during middle school, so happy. It makes present-me, who is exhausted from all the hateful bills getting passed elsewhere and desperately in need of a win, so happy too 👏

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 06/03/2026

PSA to NYC-based editors!

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Brittany Pearson @britspixels.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

She is PURE JOY! Yay Alysa ! 🏅🎉 #alysaliu #kidlitart #illustration

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/02/2026

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 27/01/2026

Today we remember the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day and every day, we recommit to standing up against antisemitism and ensure that the horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten.

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 15/01/2026

Grateful that the Champlain Valley School District (VT) is pushing back against this attempt to ban trans girls from girls sports, as well as several districts in California. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/trans-a...

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Trans Athlete Policy Prompts Federal Probe of Champlain Valley Schools | Seven Days

The district was one of 18 educational entities that are under investigation for allowing students to play on the sports team that aligns with their gender identity.

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 07/01/2026

So proud of my state's efforts to protect trans youth!

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 01/01/2026

I'm gonna read a boatload of queer books. And write some too. I'm looking forward to both. Happy New Year.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 was *brutal*, in all those personal hard to explain ways I don’t really share online. It was also marbled with love and little moments of sweetness that made it survivable. I don’t know if I have the right to expect better in 2026, but I’m gonna look hard for the love

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I went to bed last night thinking about the shooting at Brown University and woke up to the news about the shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia. This is a sick planet. George Carlin said it best: "Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet."

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Jordan Hamessley @thejordache.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Please consider signing this petition to stop this debate and read the comments from alumni and students at the school expressing their thoughts on why this event should not be happening at their public high school. www.change.org/p/stop-the-w...

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Sign the Petition

Stop the WHS TPUSA club from pushing bigotry into our school.

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Jordan Hamessley @thejordache.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A local Irvine high school's Turning Point USA club has organized a debate on “transgenderism and same sex marriage”. Not only are people’s lives and identities not up for debate, but this is also dangerous, thinly veiled bigotry. I have friends with queer kids at this school and I'm livid.

change.org

Sign the Petition

Stop the WHS TPUSA club from pushing bigotry into our school.

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 21/11/2025

I've got a poem in NO BRAIN THE SAME. I'm so excited for everyone to see this special book next year!

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 19/11/2025

Shabbat Is and Just Shy of Ordinary made this list!

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 19/11/2025

Thanks so much for including Shabbat Is and Just Shy of Ordinary!

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A.J. Irving 🩷💜💙 @ajirving.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happy news! THE BI BOOK by Cynthia Alonso and me made ALA Booklist’s 2025 Editors’ Choice Books for Youth list! We are honored! Congratulations to all the creators of these fantastic books! ✨ tinyurl.com/5xkyavh6 #kidlit #booksky

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 15/11/2025

Oh hey, another reason to hate this timeline - attempts to deport people INDIGENOUS to North America. Make it make sense

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 14/11/2025

🤡 🤡 🤡 I am literally supposed to travel out of the country next week. Someone go to DC and smack these policymakers upside their heads for me pls

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 12/11/2025

Aww, I love this - thank you!

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 07/11/2025

Thanks. You’d think they’d want to focus on things that actually matter. Like the government shutdown maybe? And yet … 🫠

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 06/11/2025

Ughhh. So, what, this means the passport I paid for is unusable AGAIN?

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 31/10/2025

While saying they support inclusivity … I know the government is forcing a lot of orgs into terrible choices but compliance with discriminatory policies is still a choice you don’t have to make imo.

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 31/10/2025

Here’s the text of the email, part 1/?

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 31/10/2025

I thought when I wrote Ana on the Edge, we wouldn’t still be talking about trans folks’ place in sports half a decade later. Yet here we are. This is such a disappointing decision, to restrict those competing in women’s skating events by the sex on their original birth certificate.

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A. J. Sass @sassinsf.com · 31/10/2025

I’m so sorry. This is such a vast difference from my experience transitioning within the sport about a decade ago where all I had to do was update the gender on my USFS members account and was then good to go. You’re not alone in this 🩵

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