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Book Reviewer | Book Blogger | Writer | Artist | Editor | 18+ only
Reads: Mostly BIPOC authors- all genres
BSc: Natural Resources- Conservation Rangeland Ecology
BSc: Sustainability
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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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I might be a little quiet for a few days. I had surgery this morning and it is painful ngl
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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It seems like it should be intuitively obvious that in a capitalist society having even the tiniest amount of capital would lead to positive results?
streetroots.bsky.social Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 18d
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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rainbowcrate.bsky.social
Our December ✨ RUN AWAY WITH ME ✨ crate is now available for new subscribers and one time purchases!

🏳️‍🌈 Our December books are Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne and Static Crush by Alistair Reeves! 🧵
A graphic of a gray background with multicolored stamps of famous landmarks. At the top in a black font with a pale orange outline it reads “December Subscriptions Open Now!”. Below this is a translucent gray rectangle. In the rectangle is the December theme image with the cover of Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea on the bottom left and the cover of Static Crush on the bottom right. Both book covers are outlined in a light blue frame.
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It's the last day of our very GAY sale! 🏳️‍🌈
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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what if there was a YET to part of this statement 👀
rainbowcrate.bsky.social Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 7d
We might not carry Heated Rivalry, but we do have gay, sapphic, trans and queer special edition books! Several of which are on sale right now 👀
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The November boxes from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social with both RAD and the RC boxes. I adore the sprayed edges on these so much. Shroom For Improvement really is just so stunning. Photos don't even cut it.
#rainbowcrate #booksky #queersky #diversebooksky #promosky
Stack of 4 books surrounded by a wreath. Shifting Gears To Catch A Firefly Starship Teapot Shroom for Improvement
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I'm sure you've heard about the @rainbowcrate.bsky.social Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale that ends today! So snag some past boxes and on sale books while you can. Who'd Have Thought is definitely one of my favorite past books!
#booksky #queersky #promosky #readersky
Who'd Have Thought By G. Benson featuring two femmes lovingly gazing at each other while the plus size Love Interest holds an extremely fat cat in front of a large window opening up to a city. Book set on a background of scrubs and florals Who'd Have Thought dustjacket splayyed out Hardcase with a golf foiled fat grumpy cat on the front and a qoute on the back "Turns out this year was the weirdest of her life. In all of the best ways." Interior endpages with stethoscope, paw prints, and med bags
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Good morning everyone! I am in the process of building a reading challenge next year centered around Environmental Justice Reading and Climate Anxiety! While those prompts are in the works designed to build on one another from a wide over view to intense depth. I have more photos incoming!
#booksky
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I also have my Rainbow After Dark box! Which honestly this may be one of my favorite themes for this box yet! Spoilers ahead! @rainbowcrate.bsky.social honestly they have phenomenal quarterly risqué boxes.
#booksky #queersky #readersky #promosky
A Dark box with neon rainbows down the side that says RAD rainbow after dark. Surrounded by a wreath with frosted berries Theme card reads. Small town, big heart. In neon.
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Current Work Read between customers. I knooooow I've been slacking on RC reads. I'm working on catching up now tho! This is from Octobers box from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
#booksky #rainbowcrate #queersky #readersky
And They Were Roommates by Page Powars
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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And Last but not least and update on all the Challenges I Joined this year and their current progress!
#booksky #queersky #diversebooksky #readingchallenges
I will absolutely be joining @foreverinastory.bsky.social 2026 be intentional next year! And @becklovesbooks.bsky.social challenges!
2025 Reading Goals You have read 146 books this year Books 146/150 97% completed ahead by 8 Books Be Intentional 2025: Full Version 90% 126/140 prompts done Read more LGBT books in 2025 100% Tarot Reading Challenge 100% Diverse Reading Challenge 93% complete 28/30 The Trope Trials Fantasy Reading Challenge 2025 100% 40/40 prompts done 100% bonus
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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And since I'm back on my bullshit. I've created a diversify your horror reada challenge for 2026! It can be found on storygraph which will be linked at the end.
#booksky #diversebooksky #queersky #readersky #readingchallenge
Spooky 2026 Diversify your horror Reading across identities Prompts and recs by @whirloglyphics Featuring a red background with zombies coming out of a grave. Prompts Written by a Black Author Written by an Asian Author Written by a Latine Author Written by an Indigenous Author Written by A Middle Eastern Author Achillean MC/Author (mlm) Sapphic MC/Author (wlw) Bisexual MC/Author Trans and/or 2S MC/Author Nonbinary MC/Author Aspec MC/Author Set in or by an African Author Set in or Translated from Latin America Set in or Translated from a mainland Asian Author
December 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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rainbowcrate.bsky.social
We’re a queer special edition book box running a sale for Black Friday! All of our books feature queer main characters, we only hire human artists, and we support indie authors!
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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rainbowcrate.bsky.social
🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy Small Business Saturday!

This is a low stock warning for our AFTG set. There are under 75 sets left at this time. 🧵

📷: Thank you @/RunAwayShoudo on IG for the photo!
A photo of the Rainbow Crate All For the Game hardcover editions. All three books lay on a tan wooden surface in a patch of sunlight. The books are at an angle to the camera shot. A plant frond shadow sticks up on the bottom right corner of the image.
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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rainbowcrate.bsky.social
The Gods have left their mark. In the race for power, only the destined will rise.

The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our January 2026 theme is…

☀️ MARKED BY THE DIVINE 👑

Read on to learn more! 🧵
A sunset breaking over a mountain. The image has yellow-red colors and five rays from the sun can be seen shooting outward. Three distinct cloud formations are in the sky. Above the sun is text that reads “marked by the divine”. At the top is "Rainbow Crate" with a rainbow in between the words and "presents" underneath. At the very bottom it reads "- January 2026 Theme -" in all caps.
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
whirloglyphics.bsky.social
Back in action! I finally got my November boxes from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social (really I think I just got clueless to my own mail) I absolutely adore my November boxes
#booksky #queersky #diversebooksky #promosky #rainbowcrate
Spoilers ahead!
A rainbow crate box nestled in pine and frosted berries Queer & Quirky title card with rainbow colored mushrooms November 2025 Theme nestled in pine and presents
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Yeesh. Sorry I vanished y'all. I disappeared into nonfiction hyperfixation and forgot to come up to breathe. Without further ado. My November reading wrap up!
#booksky #diversebooksky #queersky #nonfiction
November 2025 reading wrap up. 26 books 6843 pages First book Dinner for Vampires Middle We Refuse A Forceful History of Black Resistance Last What My Bones Know 85% nonfiction 15% fiction Politics history memoir and race the largest genres 73% increase in books 30% increase in pages read 69% audio Cover collage for 26 nonfiction books read in December
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Still slowly making my way through The New Jim Crow on my down time.
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #nonfiction #diversebooksky
Photo of a highlighted book on a metal desk
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My current audio read while I do cleaning tasks at work:
#amreading #booksky💙📚 #nonfiction
The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Govt Segregated American by Richard Rothstein 23%
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Finished reading this last week as well. Hood Feminism is a great read for those who are new to feminism or looking to add a new layer of understanding to their practice.
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #nonfiction
Hood Feminism notes from the women that a movement forgot Mikki Kendall
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Finished reading Fearing The Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. And now I officially hate Ralph Waldo Emerson. I had no idea this man was racist af on main for the giggles.
5☆
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings. The imagery included is that from human zoos specifically.... hot n tot Venus...
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Current Physical Read while I'm at work between customers.
#amreading #booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #readersky #nonfiction
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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My current audio read for work tasks since I finished How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Emmerwhar.
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #amreading #diversebooksky
Fearing the Black Body the Racial Origin of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I really enjoyed this book, it was a wonderful accompaniment to Braiding Sweetgrass and highly reccomend reading these two books back to back.
#booksky💙📚 #nonfiction #diversebooksky
Theory of Water Nishnaabe Maps to The Times Ahead by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Just finished How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Emmerwhar 4.5☆ if only because it stated "Palestine got its independence by becoming Israel" boo tomato. But I learned a lot about American Colonialism
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #nonfiction
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM