@BookRiot Editor. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her.
Apr 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Now the book ban stuff.
An anti-book ban billboard on private property in Louisiana was burned in protest. Now, they're raising money to put a new one up, with enhanced security: bookriot.com/anti-book-ban-…
Feb 11, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
A template for speaking and writing to your local school and library boards about banned books and censorship: bookriot.com/book-censorshi…
How to find and develop a local anti-censorship group, with big kudos to the incredible model for this, @FLFreedomRead: bookriot.com/anti-censorshi…
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The good news is my book BODY TALK isn't being pulled from Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle/High School...but just barely.
I didn't even know it was being challenged there. So that's fun.
I've heard a lot of silence, though, and I've spent a lot of time having a lot of heartache trying to do good work knowing that I'm a target myself.
Dec 20, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
So Huntsville Public Library (TX) has had an interesting year. By interesting I mean extremely concerning 🧵
Earlier this year, the city government decided they're actually in charge of the library and removed the library's Pride display: houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…
Dec 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"Increased demand has led CVS and Walgreens to limit purchases of children’s pain-relief medicine."
For all of the "think of the children" nonsense from the last few years on both sides, you'd think that there'd be some actual concern here.
cnn.com/2022/12/19/hea…
Given that kids who are outside the house during the day at school or in day care come home sick every week, the limit on medication is creating an even bigger disaster.
Jul 19, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Okay, y'all. This is going to be very important.
If you work in public education at all, get protected right now. Lock down. Remove all your personal info.
Do the same if you're in libraries.
Build your PLNs on Slack/Discord/Private groups.
Why? 🧵
This individual is who is responsible for the CRT panic. Now, it's the gay agenda in schools, starting tomorrow.
Do not take this lightly or ignore it. This is real, this happens as planned, and this is what is next. What we've seen so far is child's play.
Jul 17, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
A massive thread with a ton of links to resources/info that'll be helpful to anti-censorship work and what you can do, whether you're a citizen or work in schools/libraries.
First: how to combat book bans and censorship, whether or not you work in schools or libraries: bookriot.com/how-to-fight-b…
