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Amie with an ‘i.e.’ is not checking Bluesky right now
@librarylandia.bsky.social
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Public Historian, Librarian, TCAF Director
Former NYorker🗽Current Canadian 🇨🇦
she/her // opinions all me

Writing my PhD on comic book censorship

Probably drinking coffee ☕️ and rewatching #SlowHorses

https://carleton.ca/history/cu-people/amie-wright/
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Hi all - a heads up I will be pretty quiet on here for the next little while as I work on my PhD.

Pls text, email or Signal - for all things @torontocomics.bsky.social
please send an email to [email protected] with me cc’ed.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of me & velvet hippo Ziggy
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Well put SVA

“Art illuminates dark times”
A picture of a poster in the MTA 23rd street subway station - the poster is Portrait of George Orwell by Frances Jetter with the caption “Art illuminates dark times” Poster produced by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) NYC
October 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This might be the worst timeline - and there’s also the first new episode of #SlowHorses s05 to watch - including this delight of a scene 🎬 with the #simplyirresistable and ever ridiculous #RoddyHo
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Other big #ottawa news - walks to fight existential dread continue…
A picture of sunset along the Ottawa River A picture of the Ottawa waterfront at night time with a brightly colored floating tiki bar speeding across the river
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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When the week feels like this…and it’s only Tuesday
September 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A needed spark of awesome in today’s mail - thank you @explodingarrow.bsky.social and the #Comics Courier

(And yes it takes forever to mail stuff to Canada 🇨🇦)

ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...

Also best headline for the now, “Young Romance and the Fight Against Fascism”
A picture of the first issue of the Comics Courier - a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism: https://ko-fi.com/thecomicscourier
September 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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A lot of today was stressful but I did get to catch up with this delightful human being in an epic Toronto diner (cc: @thescottmacd.bsky.social)
September 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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NOTE: Objection #2 Some “comics” present a distorted, unhealthy and immoral concept of sex & marriage:

archive.org/details/P010...

#comics #bookbans #Alberta #PublicHistory #censorship #graphicnovels #comicbooks
A page from the 1956 pamphlet ‘What’s Wring with Comic Books?’ Created by the Alberta Advisory Board on Objectionable publications. This page contains Objection #2 which argues that, Some “comics” present a distorted, unhealthy and immoral concept of sex & marriage and featured quotes from notable figures to support this point. Quotes included are from Charlotte Whitten, mayor of Ottawa, the former chief of the Girl Guides and Frederic Wertham.
September 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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And the #banning of #comicbooks in Alberta under the auspices of ‘protecting the children’ is even older - my MA research focused on Alberta’s ‘forgotten’ censor - the AB Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications and their anti-comics campaign from 1954-1976

carleton.ca/ccph/wp-cont...
September 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Deadline for Community Voting for #SXSW #PanelPicker is today at 11:59pm PT >> VOTE to see libraries represented at #SXSW:

Save the Library, Save the World:
participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

The Secret History of the “Radical Militant Librarians”
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An image of people standing in line for South by Southwest to promote community voting in SXSW panel picker program. General Voting link: https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting A screenshot of a panel listing for South by Southwest panel: Save the Library, Save the World Link to vote for this panel: https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1753655686895001Mlrr Libraries have been increasingly under attack the past 5 years for defending community access, privacy laws, and the freedom to read. With the uptick in censorship - particularly of graphic novels and LGBTQIA+ & BIPOC stories - and slashing of budgets, how can you support your libraries & schools? Learn about the history of censorship, what library workers are doing to unite against book bans, and what you can do in your city or town to fight back. Because when we lose access to libraries, we lose access to public education, knowledge, and community centres. Save the Library, Save the World. A screenshot of a panel listing for South by Southwest panel: The Secret History of the “Radical Militant Librarians” Link to vote for this panel: https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1753660748200001vwG6 In 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft called out the “radical militant librarians” for pushing back against the Patriot Act.Today, library workers are fighting to keep libraries open during times of crisis, fighting books bans, fighting recent IMLS funding cuts while still holding the line for everyone’s right to access information. Learn more about the secret history of the “radical militant librarians” - far from the stereotype of shushing people and reading books all day, they've been defending your access to information, your privacy and your freedom to read for more than 150 years.
August 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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While I’ve been working on PhD stuff I also got to spend time with this meatball.

And yes that’s my overturned coffee mug in the background 😂

#velvethippo #pittsky #dogsky
A smiling Pitt bull
August 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Proof of life selfie

#PhDlife #reallytryingtowritethatdissertation
#gradschool
A smiling person with cats eye glasses, a denim shirt,
August 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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When you’re not at #SDCC but your name card is 😞

With thanks to @librarianmc.bsky.social for the pic - I miss you!!!
A picture of a table at San Diego Comic Con with two name cards - one for Amie Wright and one for Megan Halsband
July 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Might be time for a re read of Calexit

blackmaskstudios.com/calexit/
A front cover of a comic book issue of Calexit - a comic series published by Black Mask Studios starting in 2017. Descriptions of the Calexit series from the Black Mask Studios website “What if a fascist, autocratic President took over the United States? And what if that President lost California, the sixth largest economy on Earth, by nearly 2-to-1… a margin of almost 3 1/2 million votes? What if the day after that President took power, the largest mass demonstration in history occurred, and the state with the largest turnout was California. And then, the following week, two of the largest international airports in the world, California’s LAX and SFO, were blockaded by protesters? What if California refused to be ruled?”
July 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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So much awful today but I did get to spend time with my favourite velvet gremlin

#pittiesofbluesky #pittsky #dogsky #velvethippo
July 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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While in Philadelphia for #alaac25 I stopped by indie comics shop & Philly Comics Expo #PCX sponsor @partnersandson.bsky.social for an event w/ Cara Gormally (Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder cc: @streetnoisebooks.bsky.social )

New items at Partners and Son >> partnersandson.com

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New books on display at indie comics shop Partners & Son in Philadelphia New books on display at indie comics shop Partners & Son in Philadelphia Philly Comics Expo returns Oct 4, 2025! Picture taken during an event with Cara Gormally (Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder published by Street Noise) on Thursday June 26, 2025 at indie comics shop Partners & Son in Philadelphia, PA
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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My #lcs in Toronto is legendary #localcomicshop & principal @torontocomics.bsky.social sponsor @thebeguiling.bsky.social

New this week @ the Beguiling: www.beguilingbooks.com/browse-by-ca...

Missed #TCAF this year? Check out spotlighted titles at the Beguiling >>

#ncbd #readmorecomics

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The front of legendary Toronto comic shop the Beguiling A picture of spotlighted TCAF comics titles at the Beguiling A picture of more spotlighted TCAF comic titles at the Beguiling A picture of the Beguiling spinner tacks where you can buy postcards of TCAF past posters
July 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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My #lcs in Edmonton 🇨🇦 was @rollingtales.bsky.social and I even had an office there!

(Jay was always so happy when I took his picture!)

New this week at RT: shop.rtpop.com/tags/new-Jul...

(btw YEG folks, check out events & available office space options and more at: rtpop.com/events/)

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A smiling comics librarian and historian holds a copy of Spy Family #1 A grimacing Jay Bardyla - owner of Rolling Tales Pop Culture - poses for a photo behind the front counter of Rolling Tales. Photo taken by Amie Wright. Picture of an office door in a local comic shop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The front of the office door has a sign that says, “Amie Wright, PhD candidate, Department of History, Carleton University” as well as an illustration from Will Eisner from 1974 on comic books in the library.
July 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Never have I looked so small - except the last time I visited the big chair at #alaac23
June 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I visited the big chair and gave a big shout out to Sex is Funny Word by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth.

The #alaac25 #BannedBooks big chair is open today until 5pm cdmcd.co/d6mJE9

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social
A smiling librarian sits in a big chair holding a copy of Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth and a poster that says, ‘Read For Your Rights’
June 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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And then talking debut middle grade books 📚 tomorrow at 12:30pm

annual2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp?pr...

#alaac25 #libcomix
June 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Hey #alaac25 catch me talking comics and libraries tomorrow at 9:30am with Katie Fricas (cc: @dandq.bsky.social)

annual2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp?pr...
June 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Seven years ago today @libcomix.bsky.social was approved by @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Council - with great thanks to @comixace.bsky.social for the photo

#libcomix #alaac18
Seven comics librarians smile happily after the approval of the American Library Association Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table in New Orleans in June 2018.
June 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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We are at #alaac25! Stop by the ALA Connect Lounge and get your #libraryselfie in front of @natepowell.bsky.social Drawn to Freedom (cc: @oif.bsky.social )
Two adorable librarians being adorable and standing up for the right to read at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia - stop by the ALA Connect Lounge and get your library selfie in front of Nate Powell’s Drawn to Freedom.
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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2025 Postscript: Buddy lived to be 13 (or 15...? we were never quite certain on his age) years old and my uncle took him to cancer treatment the last 1.5 years of his life. My aunt, uncle, and cousin have a new rescue pittie, Ziggy, who is the bestest velvet gremlin.

#deaddadclub (9/ )
a woman with cat's eye glasses looks at the camera - in the background sits a dark gray pitbull with ears like that of a bat - or gremlin. he has white fur on his neck.
June 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM