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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 7h

Digital literacy may now be a cornerstone of modern citizenship. @heidsky.bsky.social’s CYBER CITIZENS serves as a wake-up call for those who seek to learn. buff.ly/lLJSn7M

How 'Cyber Citizens' Aims to Save Democracy from Big Tech

In her new book, "Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy", surveillance and privacy expert Heidi Boghosian offers...

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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day 👇🏼

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 10h

Sage advice from Jared Fox for #BackToSchool season: It’s important to stay authentic and flexible to what your students need. Not just in the classroom but also adjusting the learning so it meets them and sees them. buff.ly/hgrwH3J

Where Learning Can Take Place

a conversation with Jared Fox

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 11h

@marcossgonsalez.bsky.social’s IN THEORY, DARLING belongs on your #LatinxHeritageMonth reading list! 😉

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, a map of Tongva villages by Sutimiv-Pa’alat from the website of Julia Louise Bogany, the Tongva elder and educator who passed away in 2021. www.tobevisible.org/tongva-villa... #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Tongvaland

Tongva Villages

To Be Visible

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 12h

“I think that love is always constructive, even when some things fall apart. I think my mother is a great example of that…”—Sasha Bonét in convo with G’Ra Asim @literaryhub.bsky.social buff.ly/6sSoHYV

Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

I met my former MFA classmate Sasha Bonét on Admitted Student Night in the spring of 2014. I recognized her as a force of nature on sight. It couldn’t be more fitting that her new book finds her tr…

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 13h

In this interview with PEN America, Dr. Debbie Reese, founder of American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL), talks about stereotypes, how to change and shape the discourse, and why it is important to get it right in children’s literature. pen.org/native-ameri...

Native American Heritage Now: An Interview With Dr. Debbie Reese

For Native American Heritage Month, Dr. Debbie Reese discussed book bans of Native literature, how to change and shape the discourse, and why it is important to get it right in children’s literature.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 14h

Meaning, the kind Viktor Frankl writes about in MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING, is a crucial foundation in parenting and education. When we don’t have it, we know it. #MeaningfulMonday

Ep. 29: Parenting with Purpose: Pam Roy on Meaning, Legacy & Raising Resilient Kids

📖 YouTube Description What does it really mean to raise children for the future—not just for achievement, but for meaning? In this episode of The Manage Her, host Aimee Rickabus sits down with Pam…

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 15h

In a world that increasingly promotes carelessness and indifference toward queer culture, Margeaux Feldman’s TOUCH ME, I’M SICK forces us to look inward at our own intentions and daily manifestations.

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Fall books roundup 2025 part 2 – Ups & downs: disability determination, D&D gaymers, caregiver crises, food fun & trauma truths

Part 2 of our Fall books roundup series present some serious non-fiction titles on disabled rights, addiction, an uplifting food-centric anthology complete with tantalizing recipes, a special treat…

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 3d

G’Ra Asim’s BOYZ N THE VOID “was a guide for me on how to illustrate the universe of a family while also zooming out to the ways that cultural norms impact how we live, and love, privately.”—Sasha Bonét

📚 Worth the wait

The National Book Awards fiction longlist, a long-awaited sophomore novel, and more.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 4d

What does it really mean when a book is banned?
ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom breaks down the difference between challenges, restrictions, and bans—and how we’re fighting censorship every day.
Join the fight: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 3d

Bring it on this ✨COVER REVEAL Friday✨ for Sara Moslener!

AFTER PURITY is her intersectional analysis of evangelical purity culture’s influence on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the US.

Watch this space in December! 👀

Cover design: Louis Roe

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 3d

Why does the US still have teen pregnancy and STI rates rivaling those in emerging economies? You’ll find the answer in @margaretgmyers.bsky.social’s THE FIGHT FOR SEX ED, the 1st comprehensive history of sex ed in US schools.

New Book Offers the First Comprehensive History of Sex Ed in America

"The Fight for Sex Ed" is both a vital historical resource and an urgent call to action.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 4d

Octavia E. Butler saw the future—and warned us.

Aina Marzia reviews Positive Obsession by Susana M. Morris, a new biography tracing Butler’s journey to literary legend, showing how her vision transformed both sci-fi and Black liberation.

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Octavia Butler speaks passionately, set against a vibrant abstract background with bold geometric shapes and vivid colors, conveying energy and creativity.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 3d

THE CANCER FACTORY tells the story of a group of Goodyear Tire & Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals and the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf. And it won @sciencewriters.org’s 2025 Science in Society Journalism Award in the Books category!!

Announcing the 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners

The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the **2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.** This year, NASW is awarding prizes…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4d

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 3d

With ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, @sgriest.bsky.social brings stories about women artists to parts of the world that normally people wouldn’t get to hear from otherwise. Their stories are so inspiring!

Alumna, author Stephanie Elizondo Griest talks new book, ‘Art Above Everything’

Stephanie Elizondo Griest said she travelled to various countries over 10 years and interviewed 70 women to find the answer to a question that haunted her entire career. Transforming art into…

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 3d

Some #BannedBooksWeek thoughts from our Oregon chapter as well as some good news! In Oregon at least, the pace of bans and challenges seems to be slowing down.

Good News on Book Bans

Should Adolph Hitler’s book Mein Kampf be banned from libraries in Oregon? That is the question members of Authors Against Book Bans asked visitors to our table at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers…

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 3d

Need poetry that will give you life? Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE probes the many sides of queer Indigeneity. Get into it! 😉🏳️‍🌈

2025 Fall Preview: Short Fiction and Poetry - Quill and Quire

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s instalment features short fiction and poetry. Next week’s final instalment will feature…

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Chelle 🔵 @chelle78.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I’m just glad it went to someone standing up for democracy instead of tearing it apart!

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 4d

📣THIS SUNDAY!📣

Kristen Buras is hosting an event at the New Orleans Jazz Museum where teachers and alumni of Carver High School will join her to chat about her book WHAT WE STAND TO LOSE. There’s still time to get tickets! 🎟️

Remembering Black Teachers and the Culture They Created in New Orleans

Join teachers/alums of historic Carver Senior High School and Desire community for storytelling on school's legacy & city's Black teachers

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 5d

“As a Palestinian from Gaza, I can't go back. But white people — I can't go to their country without a lot of paperwork, but they can go back to my country.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social speaks with Plestia Alaqad on what it was like leaving Gaza in the middle of the genocide.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 4d

The book bans that have accumulated in the past 4 years are unprecedented and undeniable. This report looks back at the 2024-2025 school year. #BannedBooksWeek @penamerica.bsky.social

The Normalization of Book Banning

This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 4d

📣NEXT TUESDAY!📣

@greenlightbklyn.bsky.social is hosting Atash Yaghmaian’s book launch of her debut memoir, MY NAME MEANS FIRE, at 7:30PM. She’ll be in conversation with Molly Roden Winter. Come through, Brooklyn!

Book Event: Atash Yaghmaian with Molly Roden Winter

Local Iranian-American author Atash Yaghmaian launches her unflinching and stunning debut memoir at Greenlight!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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