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Lauren the Librarian (she/her)

@theliterarylibra.bsky.social
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K-5 school librarian. Avid reader & book reviewer. Always leaning. Opinions are mine alone. 📚♎️ #ClearTheAir #LibCollab #TheBookChat

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
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Andrea @teachbk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
As a classroom teacher it's frustrating that my intellectuality and my perspective are systematically overlooked while my labor, my pedagogy & my time are never enough I feel this is even more true because I teach elementary.
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 25/05/2025
If you care about libraries, and the stories they hold dear, you should be following Kelly. She’s been reporting what’s happening from the beginning and we are so blessed she has been.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Remember that every time you deride "red" states you deem "bad," you're deriding the thousands of folks doing unbelievably hard, tireless work to stop these brutal anti-literacy/library/school bills. CONGRATS, Alabama library advocates and thank you <3
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I’ve been a @katemessner.com fan for a long time, but even I wasn’t prepared for her newest book, THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. Absolutely blew me away. 😭😭😭 Don’t miss it!!! (Also, the audiobook is excellent & @libro.fm is offering it to teachers/librarians for free this month thru their ALC program!)
The cover of Kate Messner’s newest book, THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. It features a white boy looking at the sky from the summit of a mountain. A happy, shaggy black dog sits at his feet.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef
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President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
a friendly reminder never to buy your books from Amazon, where they are used as a loss leader so that you'll buy a flatscreen TV and your toilet paper instead-- and then use that money to send Katy Perry to space. Books aren't just products. They're culture. Buy them from those who understand that.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This. And here's the thing - we need joy. We need connection. If we can't find that, even in these times, it makes fighting THAT much harder.
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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
When we silence books, we silence voices—and we risk raising a generation without the tools to think freely and compassionately. Because the real danger isn't in the pages of a book—it's in a world where people stop reading them. #FreedomToRead #StopBookBans #ReadBannedBooks
Quote by Lyndon B Johnson that says books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators
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An Open Letter to My Fellow Book Creators — Pretty Ok Maggie
Inside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing...
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My god she sucks. How many trans people read HP fervently and with wild delight under the covers as children. How can she have such disrespect, such contempt and outright hatred for the young adults whose imaginations she nurtured and fed? It's unacceptable.
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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Banning books is not about books. Banning books is about the erasure of stories. Banning books is about the erasure of identities. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism. Silence is complicity. Resist this regime. Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.
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Go Birds!💚🦅 @okoyessmile.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We had a Holocaust survivor speak at the school today. He told the kids 1930s-40s Germany was inspired by Jim Crow here in the USA.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/04/2025
Two children at school in uniforms and it looks like Japan, both of them look like girls or femmes. One is holding a giant tuba so that it's stuffed over the face of the other one that's pinned up against the wall. The one holding the tuba is labeled every company. The tuba is labeled unwanted AI And the one against the wall is labeled me
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Authors Speak Up About Their Books Being Misrepresented in a Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court buff.ly/xecdhKZ
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It’s no accident that the most commonly banned books frequently feature LGBTQIA+ folx and people/characters of color. pen.org/book-bans/
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Book Bans - PEN America
PEN America found more than 10,000 book bans in the 2023-2024 school year, more than double the banned books in the previous year.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Also: many many attempts to ban & censor books have nothing to do with the books themselves, but with the targeted, systematic erasure of marginalized and oppressed groups of people.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Please support the librarians in your life and in your community. We need it now more than ever. 💛
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Stay informed about book bans and censorship across the country, but especially in your community. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social has been doing amazing work around that for YEARS if you’re not sure where to start. bsky.app/profile/heyk...
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Related: if attempts are being made to ban or censor books where you live, speak up against it however you can. You can anonymously report to ALA OIF and PEN America using the links below. Both also offer help if requested. www.ala.org/tools/challe... pen.org/book-bans/re...
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Challenge Reporting
Reporting censorship and challenges to materials, resources, and services is vital to developing the best resources to defend library resources and to protect against challenges before they happen. He...
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Everyone has the right to put down a book that isn’t right for them. But banning a book or removing it from library shelves makes that decision for others and for others’ children.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Children absolutely deserve to see themselves, their families, and their identities represented and affirmed in the books they read.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Had a conversation with a friend today about censorship and book banning as it relates to my job as a school librarian. They asked if that was a hill worth dying on. Unequivocally and without reservation: YES.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Free Palestine and free all the people being kidnapped for saying free Palestine. (And, of course, free. them. all.)
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 13/04/2025
Pressure groups. Ask yourselves why and what do they get out if it. Follow the money. @la-cac.org @oif.bsky.social @ifrt-ala.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
My school library hosted a joyful, magical author visit with the wonderful @aramkimart.bsky.social 💞
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 10/04/2025
Pennsylvania says schools already comply with civil rights laws and are not ordered to scrap DEI www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2025…
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Pennsylvania signals it is not ordering schools to adhere to Trump’s anti-DEI order
Pennsylvania says the state is already in compliance with civil rights laws and is not ordering schools to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Shoutout to @ebonyteach.bsky.social for filling my feed with such beautiful blooms in such ugly times. 🌺🌸
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)
We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 06/04/2025
📚 Wishing you all a happy National Library Week! Libraries need your love and support right now, just as they love and support you. 💙📚 Big thanks to @goraina.bsky.social and @scottmccloud.bsky.social for being the Honorary Chairs!
A colorful poster promoting National Library Week, featuring four illustrated panels. The panels depict children engaging with books, asking a librarian for help, and drawing. The text "Drawn to the Library" is prominently displayed along with the dates April 6-12, 2025
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Being on an island full of tariffed penguins sounds pretty great right now actually
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now. That is not this assignment. Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.
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On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Got to spend my afternoon listening to @as-king.bsky.social speak, and as always, she is a fierce advocate and truth-teller: “We can only expand into the spaces we’re given, and our job is to make those spaces as big as we can so kids can expand into whatever they want.” 💜
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Dr. Betina Hsieh (she/her/ 她) @profhsieh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“History has shown us that authoritarian regimes target academics first, fearing the power of inquiry, free expression and the pursuit of truth. We do not choose the times in which we live, but we do choose how we act in those times.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
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Op-ed: A letter in defense of academic freedom, human rights and the First Amendment - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Definitely Attack of the Black Rectangles! 👍🏻
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is despicable and I’m so sorry. Your voice is such a powerful one, and we all need your stories. 💜
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am a grandchild of grandparents who were forbidden from getting library cards, who didn't have libraries they could visit. We celebrate libraries, celebrate one another. We celebrate togetherness ✨ We can't keep moving backwards 💔 Our only hope is marching forward, together 💛 🧵 2/2
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My now-rain drenched protest sign from two (three?) weeks ago.
No musk in our mail protest sign
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Also: if you don’t already know about or use @5calls.org, now is a great time to give it a try. The app makes it so easy to call your representatives and even provides scripts that you can use. It may be a small thing, but all of our small moves add up. 💛
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I needed this today. Maybe you do too.
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Lauren the Librarian (she/her) @theliterarylibra.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I don’t think so! To be fair, I don’t really use loose leaf, but they don’t bleed through printer paper…
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!
a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses
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