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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A donation to us will help us further professionalize this work, and ensure that this organization can keep living even once our original founders (including me!) step back. The goal here is long term health and efficacy. www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

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Donate - Authors Against Book Bans

Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social. We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Since I wrote this comic, the Senate introduced their own version of HR 7661, also called the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act” with nearly identical text. Please add NO ON S 4925 to your calls to reps about these federal book ban bills www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... #bannedbooksweek

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026

This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome October, paintings by Edith Holden, Edwardian naturalist.

Two books open at a kingfisher paint if and a fly agarics

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 01/10/2026

My friend is a trans woman who is trying to stabilize her living situation but is being confronted with thousands of dollars in dental bills for urgent care she needs for her teeth. Please chip in if you can! chuffed.org/project/2041...

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Hi, my name is Hazel. I'm a trans woman in desperate need of 2 dental crowns and possibly a root canal, and they aren't covered by insurance. I fear I’ll lose my two front teeth if I can’t get them fi...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026

Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re-sharing (and shares welcomed!!!), my upcoming class for @shipmanagency.bsky.social … Starting this Saturday, on pitching, open to nonfiction writers of all kinds … Enroll today, if you are considering doing so, it’s last call … www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

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Craft Seminar: The Art of the Pitch with Sandy Ernest Allen — The Shipman Agency

2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Lastly, this has been the toughest month of my career for subscription cancellations. I know money is tight for everyone right now, but I couldn't continue my career without reader support. If you have $5/mo or $50/year (or $10/$100), now would be a great time to subscribe. bsky.app/profile/kate...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 22/09/2026

The entire concept of acquiring life saving healthcare "fraudulently" sums up the absurdity of American capitalism. Healthcare is a right, not something that can be "stolen."

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Ezra Arndt @arndtezra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just a reminder that this is still a thing, I just had zero energy to properly post about my GoFundMe campaign today due to a migraine (that's still going on and getting worse). #mutualaidrequest #mutualaid #disabledcreators

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🏳️‍⚧️ ⛧ Nɯvꝡɩɛl ⛧ 🏳️‍⚧️ @nuvy-iel.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

🦇 If you donated money to a Democrat who went mask off as a transphobic bigot, you can request your money back by sending them a letter with your reason for the request being "Breach of Trust"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

My autoimmune disease is progressive and terminal; it will make me blind, paralyze me completely, end my life. I have to constantly battle back against it, and I've been doing the bare minimum for years because of cost. I need more, and I need help. Every single cent helps. ko-fi.com/cknightwrites

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 17/09/2026

I love Hailey's newsletter, and everything else she does <3 She's still rebuilding her life after being her mom's sole caretaker while her mom had cancer... if you can spare $5 that would be incredible and I would be so grateful

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it really does feel as if Democrats en masse are telling trans ppl that they don't want us as part of their coalition. if you disagree with them – if you *want* trans ppl to be a part of the coalition – then please call these trans-exclusionary Dems DIVISIVE because they are DIVIDING OUR COALITION!

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026

this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.

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Jonathan Lenore Kastin @someofourstars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With Dems like these, who needs Republicans?

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rich hues of autumn are illuminated by the soft light of early morning in this painting of Paso Robles wine country. The rolling hills of vineyards draw the eye into the painting and into the imagination. Autumn Dreams by Erin Hanson, 2023 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 in #autumn #winecountry #art

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

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What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Imagine if you spent a quarter of the time yelling at the politicians who are allowing themselves to be radicalized into transphobia as you do yelling at trans people online. with talarico, specifically, he KNOWS what the pro-trans stance is because HE HELD IT BEFORE THE PRIMARY. fucking hell

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missrobin @missrobin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This, right here! Both voting for these Democrats and abstaining from voting for them has significant risks and instead of spending their time yelling at us (and never at the politicians doing transphobia), cis people should maybe grapple with the fact that they've put us in a no-win situation.

In my opinion, this is the very worst part of all this: If Talarico, Turek, et al. lose their elections, cis Democratic pundits and consultants will inevitably blame the loss on trans people (just as they did with Harris’s election) no matter how we vote, and they will use it as an excuse to throw us under the bus during the next round of elections. Alternatively, if Talarico, Turek, et al. win their elections, these same dipshit cis Democratic pundits and consultants will use those wins as supposed evidence that “moderating on trans issues” (read: rescinding trans rights) is a politically sound strategy.

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Jonathan Lenore Kastin @someofourstars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Check out the story I wrote making fun of a certain famous children's author obsessed with trans people!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

So when a Dem says they agree with any of this, they are taking a position that is against what trans people ALREADY HAD just 5 years ago. That's why trans people won't accept it. It's not about progress, it's about preventing a managed decline in civil rights agreed to by Democrats.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

So when libs say, you need to do incremental progress like gay marriage, it completely ignores the rollbacks that have happened in 5 years. It is every aspect of trans life from where we use the bathroom, how we are addressed, what our IDs say, to even censorship on discussions about our existence.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We need your help! We still need donations for this year’s bookbag - a free book for every attendee at Fantasycon. If you can help, whether with 1 book or 100, please fill in the form here: shorturl.at/WD0lZ

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The Sword In The Stone: Merlin's Magic

Alt: The Sword In The Stone: Merlin is shrinking books to fit in his travel bag

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

like are trans people powerful enough to swing an election, in which case it'd be a smarter play to appeal to them, or are there so few it doesnt matter how many get thrown under the bus as long as a Democrat wins. all i ask is for them to pick a lane.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

one thing i think this president has been outstanding is reframing every fight as one where minorities and the marginalized have all the power and white folks are just smol beans along for the ride who are politely asking for things like segregation and open prejudice and lower gas prices

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Jene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

You don't get to argue that the number of trans people is so small that our rights can't be a major priority, while also claiming there are so many of us that we are going to destroy the whole country by withholding votes.

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i'll be honest, now that the goat has bitten me .... i'm starting to think the wolf has a point. maybe we should just kill and eat the goat. after all, the goat was literally mean to me! and it's piled high with sin, so it couldn'tve have ever been a good person. must be ethical to eat it

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

anyway i hope the goat knows that it still should vote for me in the midterms. it's lack of enthusiasm for our village's political apparatus is one of the many sins we've piled high upon its shoulders

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

doesn't the goat realize the wolf in the woods is gonna eat it? that seems way worse than what i'm doing (exiling it to the woods so that its easy prey for wolves) (which is necessary to absolve myself of my sins)

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026

The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

👇 THIS right here. Talarico, Turek, et al ARE THE ONES WHO CHOSE THOSE POSITIONS. if you're afraid those decisions may alienate pro-trans/LGBTQ+ voters, THEN BLAME THEM, NOT US!

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