April Kendra
@ank2025.bsky.social
Host of Literative, a new podcast for active literacy, engaging with others' words so we can find our own. Join us at https://shows.acast.com/literative
All fantastic ideas! Thanks so much for sharing this. One more recommendation for history buffs: When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning.
How to Support the Freedom to Read/Anti-Book Censorship Work Through Your Holiday Giving.
Y'all, this post was a fun one to write and to highlight so many organizations doing *great* work.
bookriot.com/gifting-with...
Y'all, this post was a fun one to write and to highlight so many organizations doing *great* work.
bookriot.com/gifting-with...
How to Support Anti Book Censorship Work Through Holiday Giving: Book Censorship News, December 5, 2025
In addition to gifting a banned book, what can you do to help someone get excited and engaged in the fight for the freedom to read?
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December 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
All fantastic ideas! Thanks so much for sharing this. One more recommendation for history buffs: When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
Just went to my bookcase and counted 8 of these (though not all from the 1970s).
The most perfect form of social media is, and I am deeply serious here, the 1970’s church charity cookbook
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just went to my bookcase and counted 8 of these (though not all from the 1970s).
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English teachers! Explore our new resources designed to help widen the representation of ethnically diverse authors in your classroom. Find a timeline charting South Asian writing in Britain, articles and short films on Andrea Levy, Olaudah Equiano and more: bit.ly/BLDiscoveringLiteratureResources
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
English teachers! Explore our new resources designed to help widen the representation of ethnically diverse authors in your classroom. Find a timeline charting South Asian writing in Britain, articles and short films on Andrea Levy, Olaudah Equiano and more: bit.ly/BLDiscoveringLiteratureResources
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New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Journalist Ibtisam Mahdi reports from Gaza on the role of women writers, artists, and journalists in preserving humanity and Palestinian culture. If it weren’t for them, one writer told Mahdi, “so many stories would have died with their owners.” Read: pen.org/women-on-gen...
In Her Words: Women on Genocide and Rebuilding Gaza
What we did not lose was the voice. Women’s voices were like a thin thread guiding us back to our humanity when the war tried to rip it away.
pen.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Journalist Ibtisam Mahdi reports from Gaza on the role of women writers, artists, and journalists in preserving humanity and Palestinian culture. If it weren’t for them, one writer told Mahdi, “so many stories would have died with their owners.” Read: pen.org/women-on-gen...
Thanks for putting this book on my radar. Will definitely read!
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Thanks for putting this book on my radar. Will definitely read!
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PEN America Condemns Use of "Prohibited Words" List to Censor Native American Author Darcie Little Badger https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-condemns-use-of-forbidden-words-list-to-censor-native-american-author/
PEN America Condemns Use of Forbidden Words List to Censor Native American Author
Native American author withdraws from speaking engagement at a Utah university after being given a list of words she cannot use.
pen.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
PEN America Condemns Use of "Prohibited Words" List to Censor Native American Author Darcie Little Badger https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-condemns-use-of-forbidden-words-list-to-censor-native-american-author/
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It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
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From the Washington Post: All library grants reinstated at Institute of Museum and Library Services. Read more about the great news: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
But the fight isn't over. We need to tell Congress to #FundLibraries: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag... #ForOurLibraries
But the fight isn't over. We need to tell Congress to #FundLibraries: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag... #ForOurLibraries
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
From the Washington Post: All library grants reinstated at Institute of Museum and Library Services. Read more about the great news: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
But the fight isn't over. We need to tell Congress to #FundLibraries: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag... #ForOurLibraries
But the fight isn't over. We need to tell Congress to #FundLibraries: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag... #ForOurLibraries
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Student journalism is dealt a blow as the nationwide crackdown on DEI causes the shuttering of two magazines at U. Alabama. Student voices continue to be silenced in this ongoing assault on free speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Student journalism is dealt a blow as the nationwide crackdown on DEI causes the shuttering of two magazines at U. Alabama. Student voices continue to be silenced in this ongoing assault on free speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html
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Along with our actions today, @newsguild.org is hosting a town hall tonight. It's not too late to sign up! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Along with our actions today, @newsguild.org is hosting a town hall tonight. It's not too late to sign up! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Gorgeous!
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Gorgeous!
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
"[F]iction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." --Virginia Woolf
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"[F]iction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." --Virginia Woolf
Books allow us to communicate with people we will never meet, inhabit spaces we will never visit, share identities and experiences we will never have in our own bodies. Welcome to Literative, bringing literature out of the classroom and into the real world. Join us! shows.acast.com/literative
Literative
A podcast about engaging with writers' words so that we can find our own!
shows.acast.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Books allow us to communicate with people we will never meet, inhabit spaces we will never visit, share identities and experiences we will never have in our own bodies. Welcome to Literative, bringing literature out of the classroom and into the real world. Join us! shows.acast.com/literative
Proud to be a member of PEN America
2025, meet '1984.'
The Trump administration is scrubbing from government websites and documents references to DEI, climate change, vaccines—and more. At PEN America, we're fighting for the freedom to speak all year round. To support our work this #GivingTuesday, please visit: pen.org/GT25TH
The Trump administration is scrubbing from government websites and documents references to DEI, climate change, vaccines—and more. At PEN America, we're fighting for the freedom to speak all year round. To support our work this #GivingTuesday, please visit: pen.org/GT25TH
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Proud to be a member of PEN America
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The White House “media offenders” list isn’t just a stunt but a dangerous attempt to silence credible reporting. Using presidential power to shame reporters is an attack on press freedom. A healthy democracy doesn’t target journalists for doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories
Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The White House “media offenders” list isn’t just a stunt but a dangerous attempt to silence credible reporting. Using presidential power to shame reporters is an attack on press freedom. A healthy democracy doesn’t target journalists for doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Free people read freely!
Advocacy Groups, Major Publishers Reject Call by Tennessee Demanding Compliance with White House Executive Order on Gender Identity pen.org/press-releas...
Advocacy Groups, Major Publishers Reject Call by Tennessee Demanding Compliance with White House Executive Order on Gender Identity
PEN America today joins 33 major publishers and national library and literary advocacy groups denouncing directives from the Tennessee Secretary of State warning public libraries to review their colle...
pen.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Free people read freely!
"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.” - Arcadia
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PEN America mourns the death of Tom Stoppard, one of the world's most influential playwrights and a tenacious defender of free expression.
Along with multiple Tony Awards and an Oscar, Stoppard was also the 2020 winner of the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award.
pen.org/press-releas...
Along with multiple Tony Awards and an Oscar, Stoppard was also the 2020 winner of the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award.
pen.org/press-releas...
PEN America Mourns Death of Playwright Tom Stoppard, a Tenacious Defender of Free Expression
PEN America statement on Tom Stoppard death: “From his early plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that shocked audiences, to his most recent and most autobiographical play Leopoldstadt— in...
pen.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.” - Arcadia
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@zeitounpictures.bsky.social I love how the scene and the montage both show the couple may be in sync, but anxiety about communication gets in the way. He offers the cigarette but not the lighter. She relies on words as if he’ll suddenly understand. Language isn’t the real barrier. Very evocative!
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
@zeitounpictures.bsky.social I love how the scene and the montage both show the couple may be in sync, but anxiety about communication gets in the way. He offers the cigarette but not the lighter. She relies on words as if he’ll suddenly understand. Language isn’t the real barrier. Very evocative!
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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Are you sick of big corporations using your $ to fuel harmful practices? Then it’s time to put your $ where your values are! From Nov 27-Dec 1, join a nationwide consumer blackout targeting Amazon, Target, & Home Depot. Don't let your spending support harmful policies!
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Are you sick of big corporations using your $ to fuel harmful practices? Then it’s time to put your $ where your values are! From Nov 27-Dec 1, join a nationwide consumer blackout targeting Amazon, Target, & Home Depot. Don't let your spending support harmful policies!
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Mayor Wu stunting on em heavy
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Mayor Wu stunting on em heavy