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🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 14. Julian is a Mermaid is about a little boy who wants to dress up as a mermaid and go and see a Mermaid Parade. It contains no "sexual excitement," "sexual conduct," or any sex whatsoever. It is recommended by Common Sense Media for children 4 and up. It is not obscenity.

Our new #BannedInTheUSA report details how rhetoric about "pornography" is applied to books that in no way meet the legal or colloquial definitions of “pornography.” That rhetoric also conceals the scope of subject matter targeted by today's book banners. pen.org/report/banned-…

.Angie Thomas—author of the frequently banned The Hate U Give—responds to a CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 segment on banned books that featured only white parents from the book banning group Moms for Liberty. #BannedBooks #BlackAuthors #BlackLives

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Another student is a professional seamstress, and she did research into how members of the Undergound Railroad may have used quilting patterns as messages - she is replicating some of these patterns into a quilt using scrap fabric to mimic what would have been available in war

Earlier this year, anti-LGBTQ parents pressured our high school into cancelling our spring play. Now we’re fighting back to put it on ourselves, but need your help. More at marianlives.org #marianlives

1) There have been a couple threads today about the importance of having writers on set, and a lot of them have focused on last minute changes to to physical locations, story continuity, etc, but there are two other reasons I want to hit a) dialogue and b) training

I am begging folks: If a workshop is providing and asking folks to use a mic, please do not refuse to use the mic and ask "can everyone hear me without this?" Just use the mic. Being heard is not just about the volume but also about the clarity of being able to hear the words.

Tomorrow is election day, Pennsylvania. And our majority in the PA House is on the line👀 That's why I'm all in for leaders like Heather Boyd. Let's show up for Dems up and down the ballot tomorrow!💪💯

In the comics, Spider-Man's eye color is brown. Tobey Maguire has blue eyes, and no one had a problem with that.

Wahoo! So, "Alt-Ac Skills in My Academic Role(s): Or, Discovering the Feelings I Have for Spreadsheets" is happening at #ChLA23 Look for the Building a Career Panel on Friday hosted by the brill Dr. Jeremy Johnston. Children's Lit Assoc

FYI: I'm not commenting on the Supreme Court's devastating affirmative action ruling because there are many others who know far more about every possible dimension of this issue, and I want their voices heard. Do not read my silence as a lack of interest. #RealCollege

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The Great Hunt begins September 1, but your hunt begins now. Watch the Official Trailer for #TheWheelOfTime season 2, and see what you can find…

Outrageous: To add insult to injury, Texas is claiming that Amanda Zurawski doesn't have grounds to sue because her fertility has been compromised as a result of being denied an abortion and now she doesn't have to worry about the bans because she might not get pregnant again.

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✨ JLR's Most Cited ✨ In one of JLR's most cited articles, Dr. S.R. Toliver argues that situating speculative fiction as counterstory creates space for Black girls to challenge dominant narratives and create new realities. Read this article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…