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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 6h

Please let people know. Maybe we'll see you there?

Events — Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans

Book Bans and the Art of Protecting Authors

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 1d

It's Release Day! 🎉 Friendship, strife, trust, discovery, and yes - squid gods - in Brandon Crilly's wonderful fantasy adventure Castoff. #BookSky #NewBooks

"Powerful, elegant, and filled with new surprises, bringing this epic fantasy to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion." - Julie E. Czerneda

Castoff by Brandon Crilly

New fears. Hidden clues. The Aspects cannot maintain what has been broken.

www.atthisarts.com

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 3d

Ban This Book Fest was so *awesome* - so so many thanks to the organizers and attendees.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

Good.

You want to give money?

Cool. Do it because you feel shame and then .. keep feeling that shame til you make better decisions without feeling the need to be coddled

And then heal based on actually changing not just finding was to be told you’re a good person by people

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7d

This amuses me so much .

Because it’s taking the assignment absolutely seriously while mocking ICE

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 7d

In the US, "Christian" is often just a euphemism for "white and racist."

Because again, the data shows that in the US, Hispanic folk attend church more frequently than white folk.
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And Black folk attend church more often than Hispanic folk. Black folk attend church more than any other race.
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 7d

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA announced they'll be hosting their own Super Bowl half-time show with "fully Christian, American" performers. 🤣
Bad Bunny is both Catholic AND American. Just not "white enough".

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 9d

I looked. There seem to be just a handful of posts about Zukiswa.

Our fellow writer is being held and likely tortured. Where are writers, saying her name? Saying they will stand with her?

Zukiswa Wanner must be freed.

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 11d

Reading this reporting that abductees are being dehydrated, dragged, beaten, photographed in humiliating poses, denied sleep, and exposed to hard surfaces and bed bugs in an Israeli desert prison.

I have been thinking of Zukiswa every moment since I last spoke to her four days ago.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12d

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 13d

The Israeli navy has abducted writer and editor Zukiswa Wanner, unarmed, on international waters. She knows we are with her.

We must not be silent.

Video here: www.instagram.com/p/DPTGgGMjMIE/

Zukiswa Wanner holding South African passport with caption Zukiswa Wanner Abducted by Israel

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 13d

The fight for expression continues, and we, as a community, must work together.

And we will. Follow along at: @authorsabb.bsky.social @pubprosabb.bsky.social

Publishing Pros Band Together to Root Out Censorship

Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans, a new resource-sharing community affiliated with Authors Against Book Bans and geared toward industry insiders, will host its first virtual town hall on Oct...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 14d

The thrilling conclusion to the Aspects of Aelda duology by Brandon Crilly, Castoff is now available for pre-order ahead of the 14 October release.

"Castoff is powerful, elegant, and filled with new surprises.” – Julie E. Czerneda

www.atthisarts.com/product/cast... #PreOrder #NewRelease #Fantasy

Castoff by Brandon Crilly

New fears. Hidden clues. The Aspects cannot maintain what has been broken.

www.atthisarts.com

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 14d

Episode 6: 30 September

Final Entry. One way or the other.

"I sail because I hope."

From Tunis to Gaza. « Why I Sailed. » - Episode 6

The South-African writer and activist Zukiswa Wanner publishes in Afrique XXI her logbook from the Global Sumud Fleet sailing to Gaza. As an Israeli interception is expected any time now, she (…)

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Chris Bell @chrisbell.atthisarts.com · 15d

“It wasn’t easy to carry out this study,” she added. “At various stages we encountered a certain degree of resistance, which in itself speaks to the sensitivity of the topic. I’ll leave it at that, but I think the difficulty is part of what makes the work both necessary and worthwhile.”

Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 15d

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find

When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...

www.psypost.org

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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 16d

In celebration of art & gratitude for space to share, enjoy a 10% discount off my INPRNT shop!

Add this code during checkout to use the discount: ITTTXU

🌸 www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydhiyanah

Valid from now till 3 Oct! Ships int'l.
#art #bsnm #artists #prints #sale #SupportArtists #SupportBipoc

A poster of a watercolor artwork showing a purple wash, a golden moon, and an intricate archway. The info on the poster is in the text post. All of Dhiyanah Hassan's art and illustrations are hand-drawn, human made.

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 16d

Absolutely wonderful to see The Factory featured by @lithub.com.web.brid.gy - thank you to Nelly Klos for seeing this wonderful book and sharing Ihor's beautiful story with the world. #Booksky #Ukraine lithub.com/ten-titles-i...

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

For decades, Ukraine remained in the shadow of the Russian imperial discourse. Foreign readers had access to only a limited number of translations of Ukrainian literature. Today, fortunately the nu…

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 16d

Much more about emma's novella soon. For today, with advisement to content notes of genocide and generational trauma, we hope you will read these words. The story and nota bene speak for themselves, but also - remember - there are *good* people in the world. There is Art. Bravery. Reflection.

Hope.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 17d

'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.

This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.

mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18d

You aren’t fighting Nazis if you go into a room full of white saviors with less Black and Brown people than Trumps cabinet

Talking about “saving us”

How are you fighting Nazis when you treat Black people worse interpersonally than MAGA ?!?

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Chris Bell @chrisbell.atthisarts.com · 17d

You’re late. It was your time 20 years ago when you dumped it all on the black community to bail you out. You have some catching up to do.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

Wine Moms and Soccer Dads, this is our time

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18d

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 18d

Yay! Sifiso is going to send a favorite excerpt tomorrow, in both isiZulu and the translated English. I hope people will see the deep beauty of allowing writers to write in the loom of indigenous languages, and also translating them for access. I hope I can give him good funding news then? #BookSky

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3380, 66%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 21d

Now that Zukiswa is at Sea, I will post her blog entries here, with her blessing and hope that you will follow along and do what you can for the people of Palestine.

Journal written by Zukiswa Wanner

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 20d

Dhiyanah is a wonderful person and a wonderful, healing, artist - and I hope you will support and check all of this out.

Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 20d

#WIP preview from the art demo I'll be presenting for the showcase!

I'll be interviewed by the amazing @mythjae.bsky.social and sharing new art. Excited/nervous, heh. Come through if you can 💚

🌸 Info on timing here: ko-fi.com/post/Upcomin...
#art #SupportArtists #illustration #DisabledArtist

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🎃 Lichcraft 🎃 @onwinedarkseas.blacksky.app · 20d

I was already radicalized and support mutual aid and UBI, but it wasn't until I got a tech job and was living in actual financial security that I understood just how fucking much more better off EVERYONE would be if we just had fucking UBI. My health LITERALLY improved within SIX MONTHS.

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Chris Bell @chrisbell.atthisarts.com · 20d

Most painful to me about this is the absence of even a speck of empathy from WM. Not one WM messaged me to simply ask if Emily is doing ok. Several have messaged me to tell me directly that they are afraid she is hurting THEIR standing among "industry professionals" (aka other WM).

E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 20d

For those "unsure" about me - and feel free to send this to the majority of them who pretend they aren't able to listen to me, I have some "do you knows" today to consider.

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Chris Bell @chrisbell.atthisarts.com · 21d

Yes, I know -- this is my WM hot take. I'll own it.

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