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URGENT CALL TO ACTION: please sign and share our petition, tell the Alberta Gov’t you don’t support book bans! Censorship escalates rapidly, put pressure on the gov’t now to ensure it doesn’t take hold in Canada.

Change.org/AB-book-ban

#CAIABB #ABbookban #FreedomToRead #NoBansInCanada
Sign the Petition
Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans
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the apple suit is amazing, I hope someone nabs it!! (pic so everyone else can see its glory 🤩)
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Two more days left in our online fundraising auction. Who wants their own custom pet portrait from PRIDE PUPPY illustrator @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social ? Or kaleidoscopes, or sequinned shoes, or a truly amazing green apple suit with zero bids on it so far?
PRIDE PUPPY illustrator Julie McLaughlin is helping me raise money to sponsor a Ugandan refugee friend to resettle in BC. Want her to create a portrait of your dog (cat, pony etc)? Our auction is here: www.facebook.com/share/1GgGAY...
(And the dogs behind our book: my Tazza and Julie's Mr Pants!)
Let me draw your cat/dog/hamster/horse for a good cause! 💖
Want to get a custom portrait of your own very good dog from PRIDE PUPPY illustrator @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social (and also support refugee resettlement?) Here you go! www.facebook.com/share/16GdRb...
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STAR SAILOR: THE STORY OF WORDS is such a fun introduction to etymology! It prompted great discussions.

Written by Sara Cassidy, with gorgeous art by @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social, and published by @orcabook.bsky.social. #IReadCanadian #kidlit 📚👍
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And in Canada, follow @cai.abb (Canadian Authors and Illustrators Against Book Bans) over on Instagram! Here on bsky, follow @robinstevenson.bsky.social or @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social!
If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries!

If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social
We're stronger together!
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When I was a student in Alberta, I read a variety of enriching books in IB English classes. Many would no longer be considered "appropriate" for schools.

Also, these policies often target books that offer rep. to LGBTQIA+ students who deserve to see themselves in literature. Please sign. #CAIABB
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: please sign and share our petition, tell the Alberta Gov’t you don’t support book bans! Censorship escalates rapidly, put pressure on the gov’t now to ensure it doesn’t take hold in Canada.

Change.org/AB-book-ban

#CAIABB #ABbookban #FreedomToRead #NoBansInCanada
Sign the Petition
Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans
Change.org
Petition is good, direct email is even better!

Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans (CAIABB) has posted a doc with the addresses and an email template!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#abbookban #abpoli #abgov #CAIABB #bookban #freedomtoread #cankidlit #librarysky #nobansincanada
If they don’t consider this a book ban, I’d be afraid to find out what they actually do think is one… a burn pile?

#ABbookban #CAIABB #abpoli #abgov #freedomtoread #kidlit #kitlitcanada #bookban #censorship
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: please sign and share our petition, tell the Alberta Gov’t you don’t support book bans! Censorship escalates rapidly, put pressure on the gov’t now to ensure it doesn’t take hold in Canada.

Change.org/AB-book-ban

#CAIABB #ABbookban #FreedomToRead #NoBansInCanada
Sign the Petition
Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans
Change.org
the zaniest spider I’ve ever seen, happy to be on the photo/research and not IRL end of this run in! 😆
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Want to support #FReadom? For a short time, the book creators named in #MahmoudvTaylor are offering shirts, hoodies, & sweatshirts with art from @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social - to raise funds for @penamerica.bsky.social, who supported us during this case! #kidlit

www.customink.com/fundraising/...
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Canadian authors & illustators are speaking up against book bans in 🇨🇦. If you're a published Cdn author or illus, pls consider joining us? www.karijones.ca/canadian-aut...

Thx @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social (graphics), @robinstevenson.bsky.social, K. Jones (hosting).
#CanKidLit #CanLit #BookBans
our first shared reading and my first reading ever!!

also look at our extremely cute dogs / the editor & art director of pride puppy!!
Happy Pride day friends! I'm about to read Pride Puppy with @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social at a very cool queer event and it'll be our first shared author-and- illustrator reading! (Also, here are the two Pride pups who helped write the book. Our co-workers, you might say.)
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Pride Puppy illustrator @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social and I wrote a statement on today's SCOTUS decision in the Mahmoud v Taylor case. Here it is.
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A lot of kids need books. A lot of those kids sign their emails to authors “some random kid.”
Maybe before you ban books, you should talk to the kids about how they feel. That’s what protecting kids would look like. Not taking away books that help them feel seen while you ignore them. 👍🏻
this is jaunty little Mr. Pants, who makes a cameo on the Pride Puppy parade float!
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I don't think I will ever get over the absurdity of this.
Have to stay fully informed on all the recent Supreme Court cases
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The Supreme Court is on the brink of effectively banning the book Pride Puppy from public schools but IT CAN’T BAN MY PRIDE PUPPY🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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The author of PRIDE PUPPY (the book Neil Gorsuch horribly mangled/misrepresented during the Mahmoud argument) wants LAWLESS to be widely read!

So ... you can go to your local bookstore today & get a copy! Or support independent bookstores (discount code STRICT24): bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
The illustrator of Pride Puppy agrees!! I can’t wait to read it!
🎶 Woke Marxist Pope
He’s gonna keep on preaching
At the white smoke of hope
He’s gonna keep on preaching
Down on Vatican row🎶
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K is for Kavanaugh, chugging his beer; L for lies to fuel hate and fear...