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I’ll often be on the side of Poison Ivy. I actually dressed as the most recent animated version of her at the local convention! (Photo with the amazing Nnedi Okorafor at her book signing.)

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Me when the bus I think is my bus rolls on by.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

After my book being out more than six years, it was very cool to see it featured on the homepage of my publisher, North Atlantic Books, right next to Jessica Hernandez’s Fresh Banana Leaves!

Screenshot of the North Atlantic Books website, with Growing Sustainable Together and Fresh Banana Leaves listened under Environmental

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This comic hits way harder now than when it came out in the late 1980s. Especially because I was Calvin’s age then and see so much of him in my kid now. It’s true that kids both care and will call us out if we’re being hypocrites.

Calvin and Hobbes strip:
Panel 1: Calvin approaches his mom, who is watering flowers; Calvin: "Hey mom, what's this I hear about the greenhouse effect?"
Panel 2: Calvin holds his arms out wide while his mom listens; Calvin: "They say the pollutants we dump in the air are trapping in the sun's heat and it's going to melt the polar ice caps!"
Panel 3: Calvin by himself, yelling even more; "Sure, you'll be gone when it happens, but I won't! Nice planet you're leaving me!"
Panel 4: His mom turns to camera and says, "This from the kid who wants to be chauffeured any place more than a block away." Calvin: "Hey, nobody told me about the ice caps, all right?"

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Not well-known in the US at all, but even into the 90s, the UK post-punk band the Manic Street Preachers wore very gender-bending outfits, in purposeful contrast to grunge. Their bass guitarist /lyricist Nicky Wire still sometimes wears skirts on stage.

Richie Edwards, the Manic Street Preachers’ rhythm guitarist, in a leopard print shirt with a lot of eyeliner

Nicky Wire, jumping up in the air with a blazer jacket, a skirt, gym socks, and sneakers

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We have one last chance to demand that President Biden's Department of Energy stop the massive liquefied methane gas (LNG) before Trump takes office. Join me in urging the Biden Administration to deny pending LNG permits! app.sosha.ai/s/YQK5ihxS

Urge Biden to stop LNG gas exports before leaving office

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Seeing your kid light up in delight at one of your favorite bands playing is truly amazing. Thank you @tmbg.bsky.social for giving us an awesome experience!

They Might Be Giants playing on a stage with reddish lighting and fans watching

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Many days, my energy is more like this.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie. (I don’t know if this is my energy so much as what I wish my energy is, but you know.)

Vibrant but ordered teal and green artistic interpretation of photos of diatoms in the ocean

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

There is such a lack of third spaces where a diversity of people can interact freely. That’s why I’m so glad our city has them. And plenty of bike accessibility and parking!

A town square area with several parked bikes, a book return sign, stores, and several teens walking down a brick path

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Biking places normalizes non-car transportation. I've been biking in my city for 10+ yrs. In the last year, I've had multiple people tell me that I inspired them to start biking. I hope I've also helped people be more supportive of bike lanes. Public displays of sustainability make a difference.

Me on my cargo bike with my younger son on the back of it and my older son next to me on his own bike. We're stopped at a stop sign on a neighborhood road.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Getting my chai latte a while back to fulfill the delightful Coffeeneuring challenge! chasingmailboxes.com/category/cof...

Me (a white woman in a Harris-Walz shirt) holding an iced chai latte in a plastic cup with my bicycle helmet on

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had the honor of being at a celebration of our bike committee’s now-retired chair. Describing the whole group, our city’s mayor said, “Our community is better because of you.” It was an amazing thing to hear and is true of all of you advocates, even if people don’t say it to you in-person.

A group of bicyclists gathered for our city’s Halloween themed Bike Party

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Visiting the Harriet Tubman Community Museum & Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park inspired a sense of hope. If this woman in the most dire of circumstances could carry out such acts of bravery, what can we do now? #FindYourPark.

Mural of Harriet Tubman at 12 years old helping a young boy out the door to keep him from getting captured by a slave overseer

Bronze-colored statue of Harriet Tubman sitting on a bench with the words “The midnight sky and silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and your heroism.” - Frederick Douglas

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

This is a rabbit who will judge you if you don’t vote. (And if you don’t give him snacks.)

A photo of our rabbit (who is white with brown splotches) with his paws up on the table and a serious “so are you going to do something?” look

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I would normally have posted our rabbit, but this horse is too dang cute and I found him in my photos first.

A very cute Icelandic horse looking straight at the camera with his mouth open in what looks like a goofy smile

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Standing on the ice, watching the croquet players in the distance, little did I know that I was already stranded on a glacier.

"Tell us a true, one-sentence story from your life that absolutely opens more questions than it answers and demands further context."

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

For Earth Day, we attended a protest to move America’s climate case forward and stop the Department of Justice from blocking it in court. Tell Biden to let it go forward! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #SaveJuliana

A young Black man in a blue t-shirt speaking into a mic with various young people behind him holding signs that look like speech bubbles about America’s Climate Case

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Me too. I was never a rabbit fan, but they are my kid’s kindred animal and I’ve gotten quite fond of them. People underestimate how destructive they are. B/c a lot of shelters don’t take them, people also tend to abandon them in awful ways. I’ve started volunteering at a rescue w/my kid and ooof.

A white lip rabbit with brown splotches standing on a hardwood floor

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Marge Gunderman (played by Frances McDormand) in Fargo

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Ideally… Quote post with the fictional character you are in your head. (Also, older Lisa Simpson and in my more ridiculous moments, Leslie Knope.)

Clara Oswald from Doctor Who, a white woman in a blue sweater

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

This is actually me at 23, but it’s part of a batch of the oldest digital photos I have! Weren’t my husband and I stupidly cute? (We’re still cute, but 17 years older.)

A young white woman with long brown hair and a white tank top leaning on a young white man with a red t-shirt, floppy brown hair and sunglasses with his arm around her. They’re both smiling.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Parents - please, please let us all commit to not valuing our children’s future “success” over their current selves. Love kids for who they are now, not who they may be in the future. We don’t need our kids to be the “highest achievers” or “NY Times bestsellers.”

Screenshot of CNBC article preview that says “Kids who do these 12 things have ‘highly sensitive brains’ - Parenting experts: Highly sensitive kids are some of the most empathetic people and highest achievers” with a photo of a white brunette girl looking thoughtful

Screenshot of an ad for Outschool for a class to “Inspire the author in your child” that says “Could your kid be a New York Times best selling author?” with a photo of a white boy on a bed reading a book

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Hands-down. There were so many times watching this show that I could relate entirely too much to her.

The version of Poison Ivy from Batman in the Harley Quinn animated show. She has green skin, red hair and a slim black blazer.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Reminds me of this bit from Dropout’s Dimension 20. (This is in-game - I think - but both Erika Ishii and Aabria Iyengar have said similar things on the Worlds Beyond Number talk-back show.)

Erika Ishii (a non-binary Asian person in a fuzzy sweater pointing at the camera) sitting next to a white male. The text says “I’m a monster f***cker, monster f***cker nation rise up.)

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Me reading climate change research for work: Oh, this is just *great.* Everything is fine.

Cartoon of a dog with a hat and cup of coffee, sitting surrounded by flames

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

But what if I'm a mermaid in these jeans of his with her name still on it

Best single line from a song - not best chorus, not best verse, not best bridge - Just one line

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

This is with costume, but it’s pretty hilarious.

A white rabbit with brown blotches wearing a pair of costume reindeer antlers with holiday lights printed on them

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Certain social media posts about inclusivity of "special needs" kids rub me the wrong way and I didn't realize why for a long time. I explore why in my newsletter this week: welleatyouupweloveyouso.substack.com/p/why-posts-...

Why posts about shallow inclusivity make me cringe. I was once the type of kid could be the topic of these posts. I know what it's like to be the kid sitting alone in the cafeteria. I also know what it's like to be the kid who befriends a kid sitting alone in the cafeteria.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Definitely considering doing crime this instant. Probably while I’m in a meeting.

A white rabbit with brown splotches in loaf position in a hardwood floor

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

We’re watching early Simpsons episodes with our kids and we just watched the one where Homer discovers he has a half-brother and the half-brother has Homer design a car for his company. It’s a bust and yet is still better than the real life Cybertruck.

The car Homer designs, which has two sound proof bubbles, fins on the back and three horns

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Hey, you can do both and point out to your kids how awesome the fungi are!

A cluster of small, brown round mushrooms up against a concrete wall with grass beyond

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Happy Halloween from Wonder Woman!

Me (a white woman with glasses) in a Wonder Woman dress, standing in front of a bookshelf with plants in it

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Who you gonna call? We just randomly spotted it on the road. And the driver was in full Ghostbusters gear.

A replica of the Ecto-1 car from the Ghostbusters movie with a variety of tubes and “ghostbusting” equipment on the roof. The only difference is that there is a Maryland flag behind the ghost on the back and the license plate Ecto MD

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Reskeet with an album you still know every damn word to, fellow olds who still remember listening to albums

Cover of Billy Joel’s Piano Man, which has a weirdly haunting photo of his face

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

What would *your* ideal sustainable city look like? I asked kids this question at a local outreach event and got everything from “lots of parks” to “a city for butterflies” to “a rooftop water treatment plant.” I loved hearing their visions to work towards! #ClimateJustice

Adults and kids gathered around tables, working with craft supplies

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 03/06/2023

“We need to demand safe streets and we need to demand them now!” - @MoCoFSS Powerful message at this rally for safe streets.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

When the news of the world sucks, I at least have the small adorable joy of watching our rabbit clean his ears.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 22/04/2023

How are you celebrating #EarthDay? We were a #climatejustice rally in DC! Photo 1: Young activists on stage with people watching with signs Photo 2: A large blow up globe

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 05/04/2023

Want some ideas of how to celebrate Earth Month with your family? Check out my book, Growing Sustainable Together: Practical Resources for Raising Kind, Engaged, Resilient Children:...

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