Tina Coleman ➡️ #AASL25
@arystocrat.bsky.social
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Library World resident, liaison to Comics Librarians and Gaming Librarians , idea-generator, connection maker, sparkler ✨
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"Libraries don't just store books. They store empathy, justice, and truth." - Steve Hofstetter, keynote speaker at #AASL25
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I don’t, but just chiming in to say it’s never dawned on me to use Twitch this way 😮
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
#BannedBooksWeek is in the home stretch for this year but it’s ALWAYS a good time to Read For Your Rights and doing your part to make sure all of us can continue to make our own choices about what we read. Support your library and your library workers - they fight for you every day.
In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
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OMG we had such a great first day @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social !

More than 300+ people stopped by today to #showupforlibraries - including #bannedbooksweek Honorary Chair @georgetakei.bsky.social

#skybrarians #libcomix #booksky #tlsky #comics #graphicnovels
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You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...
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AASL and ALSC Partner with Pokémon to Launch School and Public Library Pokémon Clubs https://bit.ly/4gYtcUl
Logo of Pokémon Club featuring stylized colorful text and two Pokéballs on either side.
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New article posted! I’ll be talking about this and more during my presentation at the AASL National Conference next week. #aasl2025 #tlsky #comics #graphicnovels #edusky @aaslala.bsky.social
Comic Conventions as POWerful PD (Part 2): Implementation and Impact https://bit.ly/48dKf2o
Graphic with bold text reading 'COMIC CONVENTIONS POWERFUL PD PART 2: IMPLEMENTATION & IMPACT' styled in a classic comic book fashion with 'POW!' in a burst bubble against an orange background.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!
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Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

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No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.
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Join the round tables of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social (GameRT, GNCRT, FMRT, IRRT, RRT, & IFRT) on 10/24 for a day of interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, and moral panic, as well as conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read: bit.ly/4gLpmh4
Promotional graphic for Intellectual Freedom Spectacular happening Friday, October 24 from 10:00-4:30 p.m. CT
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‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
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Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'
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Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
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this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious
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As an added bonus, libraries also have films, games, audio books and more to check out. Plus all kinds of programs, activities, and such.

And if IMLS funding holds out things like interlibrary loan opens up an entire world of other collections.

You really should go back and update your card, tbh.
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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Comics are under attack in Canada. We cannot stay silent.

Read and share TCAF’s statement on censorship in Alberta’s public schools, then join us in taking action! www.torontocomics.com/post/comics-...
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The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby