LVRobin
@robinreadsbooks.bsky.social
Bibliophile. ES teacher-librarian. Advocate for certified teacher-librarians in every K-12 school. Hockey fan, broke up w/VGK. She/her.
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Banning books is not about books.
Banning books is about the erasure of stories.
Banning books is about the erasure of identities.
Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.
Silence is complicity.
Resist this regime.
Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.
Banning books is about the erasure of stories.
Banning books is about the erasure of identities.
Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.
Silence is complicity.
Resist this regime.
Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.
April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Banning books is not about books.
Banning books is about the erasure of stories.
Banning books is about the erasure of identities.
Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.
Silence is complicity.
Resist this regime.
Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.
Banning books is about the erasure of stories.
Banning books is about the erasure of identities.
Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.
Silence is complicity.
Resist this regime.
Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.
One of two Hands Off protests in Las Vegas today. This is in the Downtown Arts District.
April 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
One of two Hands Off protests in Las Vegas today. This is in the Downtown Arts District.
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Get me to God's country
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Get me to God's country
I know it’s likely to be a paper victory only, but DAYUMM! This feels good!
apple.news/AwdrGB5QAR9W...
apple.news/AwdrGB5QAR9W...
New York judge upholds Donald Trump’s hush-money conviction, schedules sentencing for Jan. 10 — The Washington Post
Donald Trump was found guilty in May of falsifying business records to conceal a payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
apple.news
January 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I know it’s likely to be a paper victory only, but DAYUMM! This feels good!
apple.news/AwdrGB5QAR9W...
apple.news/AwdrGB5QAR9W...
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Buckle up, friends. 2025 is slithering our way. But we have each other. We have love and poetry and history and laughter and world-quaking imaginations. We’ll get through this, too. ✊🏻❤️
December 31, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Buckle up, friends. 2025 is slithering our way. But we have each other. We have love and poetry and history and laughter and world-quaking imaginations. We’ll get through this, too. ✊🏻❤️
“I feel compelled to address four areas of illegitimate activity that, in my view, do threaten the independence of judges on which the rule of law depends.”
Odd that among the four he didn’t mention justices who’ve been bought and paid for in one way or another? 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
Odd that among the four he didn’t mention justices who’ve been bought and paid for in one way or another? 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“I feel compelled to address four areas of illegitimate activity that, in my view, do threaten the independence of judges on which the rule of law depends.”
Odd that among the four he didn’t mention justices who’ve been bought and paid for in one way or another? 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
Odd that among the four he didn’t mention justices who’ve been bought and paid for in one way or another? 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
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I have the same wish!
December 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I have the same wish!
Not that the banners won’t keep trying, but small victories are still victories.
ICYMI:
“A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.”
apnews.com/article/arka...
“A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.”
apnews.com/article/arka...
Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional
A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.
apnews.com
December 25, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Not that the banners won’t keep trying, but small victories are still victories.
And protected by thoughts and prayers, apparently.
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 PM
And protected by thoughts and prayers, apparently.
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Here are the anti-library & pro-censorship bills already prefiled for the 2025 legislative session across the US. It's your job to keep tabs on these, write your representatives, & speak up about the dismantling of public institutions of access + democracy.
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
The Pro-Censorship and Anti-Library & Bills Already Filed for 2025
Killing the Department of Education is one we already saw coming.
wellsourced.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Here are the anti-library & pro-censorship bills already prefiled for the 2025 legislative session across the US. It's your job to keep tabs on these, write your representatives, & speak up about the dismantling of public institutions of access + democracy.
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
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The workers who teach, fight fires, nurse, serve in law enforcement and the military, and work for our communities deserve to retire with the money and benefits they’ve earned. It’s time to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (introduced by OH Senator Sherrod Brown).
December 12, 2024 at 4:02 AM
The workers who teach, fight fires, nurse, serve in law enforcement and the military, and work for our communities deserve to retire with the money and benefits they’ve earned. It’s time to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (introduced by OH Senator Sherrod Brown).
Please call your Senators!!
Big news from Washington DC. Sen. Schumer said today the Senate will vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which would repeal GPO and WEP. The bill has already passed the House 327 to 75.
Let's keep the calls to your senators going: 1-844-912-1779
Let's keep the calls to your senators going: 1-844-912-1779
December 12, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Please call your Senators!!
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This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
![I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.
And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bb6m3nt3ohlter5c35zjlt6z/bafkreibs7rspksh3k7ekvnnmxzeenwwuvr4ab6fs4usuckmu2zpdzq3hcq@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
Great news!!
December 9, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Great news!!
I shouldn’t have to be jealous.
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
www.theolivepress.es
December 7, 2024 at 12:57 AM
I shouldn’t have to be jealous.
Not going back
We were just with @genderlib.com at the Cannon House Office Building outside Speaker Johnson office. Disrupting business as usual, we occupied the bathroom outside is office.
Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace: our bodies, trans bodies, are NO DEBATE.
Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace: our bodies, trans bodies, are NO DEBATE.
December 5, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Not going back
And still we rise…
Today I’m expressing my immense gratitude for the librarian community. Whatever difficulties you may be facing - book challenges, budget cuts, burnout - no librarian fights alone. Thank you to all librarians - school, public, academic, special - for all you do for your communities. 🧡
November 28, 2024 at 5:21 PM
And still we rise…
And to provide students with the books about the people and events they are trying to erase.
November 26, 2024 at 9:26 PM
And to provide students with the books about the people and events they are trying to erase.
“Be more aggressive and more public in fighting book bans and censorship at local, state, and the national level.”
An Open Letter to our Publishers has been sent to over 90 Publishing CEOs this morning in response to the concerns of our members. 1/4
![With the election of the trump administration and its policies as embodied by Project 2025, we authors have deep concerns about how our publishers will be operating and how publishers will advocate for and protect authors. Trump's agenda explicitly calls for the criminalization of authors, teachers, librarians, and publishing professionals with the consequences including, "imprison[ment]," and being "classed as registered sex offenders" (pg 4 Project 2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5jnockxrg63tj4sh24j2y6br/bafkreifuobvu6qojz5fectj7ptbwrzp4t3mpvojwwcnapxprdhn7oc6c5a@jpeg)
November 26, 2024 at 6:45 AM
“Be more aggressive and more public in fighting book bans and censorship at local, state, and the national level.”
In my ES library, I thought about doing the opposite: moving a nonfiction book about the Electoral College to the dystopian section.
Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
ALT: a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:54 PM
In my ES library, I thought about doing the opposite: moving a nonfiction book about the Electoral College to the dystopian section.
I stan the Oxford comma: today, tomorrow, and always!
November 25, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I stan the Oxford comma: today, tomorrow, and always!
At the Beverly Theater in Las Vegas today for a viewing of the documentary film ‘Banned Together.’ It’s the story both of three particular student activists and the increasing attacks on the rights of students to read and learn freely.
November 25, 2024 at 2:27 AM
At the Beverly Theater in Las Vegas today for a viewing of the documentary film ‘Banned Together.’ It’s the story both of three particular student activists and the increasing attacks on the rights of students to read and learn freely.
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Avery and I got an exceedingly helpful hashtag correction on the previous post so we’ve deleted and are reposting, and edited on Instagram as well. Sharing again for anyone who wants to spread these far and wide on socials! Current tally is over 3500 🎉
November 22, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Avery and I got an exceedingly helpful hashtag correction on the previous post so we’ve deleted and are reposting, and edited on Instagram as well. Sharing again for anyone who wants to spread these far and wide on socials! Current tally is over 3500 🎉
This is really disappointing. If Marsha Johnson and so many others hadn’t stood up at Stonewall, would McBride have even had the opportunity to run for Congress?
How to fight tyranny, rule 1: Do not obey in advance.
Dumbass Sarah McBride: "what was that? I was busy obeying in advance"
Dumbass Sarah McBride: "what was that? I was busy obeying in advance"
November 20, 2024 at 10:12 PM
This is really disappointing. If Marsha Johnson and so many others hadn’t stood up at Stonewall, would McBride have even had the opportunity to run for Congress?
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If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
1) Reading is critical to democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
November 18, 2024 at 2:05 AM
If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
1) Reading is critical to democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/