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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · Dec 30

Black Literature I plan on reading in 2025 a thread!
#booksky #diversebooksky

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 19h

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 15h

we taught you how to grow corn, now let's all learn to block lakota manicotti once and for all

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21h

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 15h

Anything helps! #MutualAid #HelpSky

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 16h

We’re so close.

Literally anything you can do, pls do it. Just need rapid fire help to go from $782 ➡️ $0 to be sheltered.

Please help us right now.

Help: bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #MutualAidRequest

Help Brittany Survive | Linktree

Trying to rebuild our lives, survive, and maybe even thrive. 🪻

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 8h

#writingprompt #authorlife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Writing prompt: Try a new genre

Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: Select a genre that you usually …

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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 12h

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Did you know I have a starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists? ✨

If you’re looking for Indigenous artists to support, this pack is full of them!

Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 19d

My starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists is now FULL!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tagged their friends, and submitted!

Please share this starter pack and support Black and Indigenous artists 💖

(NOTE: There are NSFW artists in this pack, myself included.)

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 9h

I love your new icon 🤣 its such a fun cartoon

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 9h

I fuckin love Swat Katz

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 9h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of 📺

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Starkly @starkly.bsky.social · 5d

It's my birthdayyy 🎉
Ordered myself some books to celebrate and the @rainbowcrate.bsky.social version of @essaychant.bsky.social by coincidence arrived today :D didn't expect the perfect timing on that lol

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 4d

🌈 Happy Thursday Rainbow Readers! We have a handful of shop updates for you today! 🧵

📷: Thank you @/LittleMissStar55 on IG for the photos.

A photo of a Rainbow Crate box on top of nine hardcover books. The spines face the camera and everything sits on an empty white bookshelf. Text at the bottom reads “Shop Updates” in all caps white font with a pink outline.

Books included (top to bottom): Outdrawn by Deanna Grey, Of Love & Libraries by Brenna Bailey, The First & Last Demon by Hiyodori, Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan, Faces by A.M. Rose, It’s a Queer, Queer Summer edited by Rachel Skelton, Upside Down by N.R. Walker, Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh, Where the River Meets the Soul by S. Nicole.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 4d

🌈 Introducing Book 2 of our November Small Town, Big Heart R.A.D. crate!

Welcome to To Catch a Firefly by Emmy Sanders @emmysanders.bsky.social ! 🧵

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 3d

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our first artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! First up is Nisnow @nisnow.art who illustrated the endpapers for the Starship Teapot Omnibus by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is an green-yellow ombre striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @nisnow.art”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in teal font.

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jonypony.bsky.social @jonypony.bsky.social · 2d

RainbowCrate Hoist The Colors Photo Challenge #RainbowCrate #RCJuly25 @rainbowcrate.bsky.social

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! Next up is Dani @/Danisaur.Art who illustrated the endpapers for Shroom for Improvement by Jemma Croft @jemmacroft.bsky.social

A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is an mint-navy ombre striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @danisaur.art”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in forest green font.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 17h

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Our August RAD I’d Kill for You photo challenge is officially underway! Entries are open until the end of the week. 🧵

A photo of a black branded Rainbow Crate box. To the right of the box is the spoiler card. Below them are the two hardcover editions of Hide n’ Seek by Ashley Pines & Eden Emory and On Silver Shores by V. T. Hoàng. Below the books are purple, fuchsia and blue flowers. Everything sits on a red brick background.

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

Photos of the edition are here:

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · Sep 5

#SapphicSeptember 5 once again a look at my TBR and a bit of promo. Featuring older Chinese-Canadian lesbians. AND ITS FALL THEMED! I adore this special edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social and I'm dying for some cozy fall reads. #booksky💙📚 #promosky #diversebooksky #queersky #readersky

Cover of. Of Love and Libraries by Brenna Bailey

The cover features and older librarian flirting with an older women checking out books.

Back of Of Love and Libraries with the summary

Hardcase of Love and Libraries which features falling leaves and tumbling books

Back cover featuring a qoute and a check out tag. 'Once upon a time, I met my best friend at the library. I fell in love with her but I didnt know it back then.'

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

Effective glimpse into the lives of everyone in the town across generations, race, and gender. This truly is such a quick but tender read. And if you're feeling some gentle fall vibes. I highly encourage this book.

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

The town feels full and lively. The festivals and descriptions for all the stores in town felt like a small adventure. I also loved the cute dogs named for Pride and Prejudice Characters. And the epistolary elements of the letters to save the library before it closes was such a fun break and

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

40 some odd years. Frankie is forced to confront her inability to feel and face her own emotions (what a mood) in an organic way. This is such a personal story for me despite not being a 70yr old Chinese Canadian. I adored the diverse cast that is handled with so much love and tenderness.

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

Strange grief and hollowness that comes from seeing a place frozen in time in your mind having moved on without you. The exploration into the lives of those left behind though brief is so rich and emotional. I especially loved the childhood friends to lovers over the period of longing and pining for

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

Diverse landscapes. Then she's thrust home with the news of her mother's death where she is tasked with cleaning out her childhood home and forced to face her own absence. Having lived in rural towns and then seeing them after decades of living elsewhere, I felt this story really captured the

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

Was absolutely emotional. I loved how complex this story was within few pages. Very quickly the reader is established into Frankie's life as an accomplished photographer for National Geographic, spending all of her young and late adulthood exploring the world and taking photographs of animals and

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

The narrative is so completely tender regarding Frankie and her mother's estranged relationship after her mother kicked her out and disowned her in the 70s/80s when she came out as a lesbian.

The grief is so raw and real, and looking back at a lost relationship due to pride and things unspoken

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

This story was absolutely precious and hit close to home for me. While I am not grieving the death of a mother I did recently lose my grandmother but I do have a tenuous relationship with my mother. And this story gently encouraged me to think about issues with her in another light.

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 13h

Rating: 5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆
Genre: Fiction, LGBT, Romance
Pages: 274

Review for Of Love And Libraries by @brennabaileybooks.bsky.social featuring the lovely @rainbowcrate.bsky.social edition, which can be seen in
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#booksky📚💙#diversebooksky #queersky#readersky#review

Photo collage featuring fall festivals. Hay rides. Letter piles. An old woman with purple hair. Photos and a camera. A golden retriever. A library. A book nook in front of a fall scene. A funeral. A Chinese ancestral altar

Of Love and Libraries by Brenna Bailey

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