ニケ（おくた）📚

ほんとだ。これ見てスーパー行ってみてよかったです。いっぱい買ってきました。

「日本のメディアは国際情勢のこれこれについてまだ報道していない！」みたいなやつ、年明けからこっち真偽定かならぬ外国語情報に振り回される例を何度も見かけるので、ある程度情報がまとまってから文脈がわかる知ってるメディアでの報道を待ってるほうがよさそう……という気持ちが強まっている

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

Stay for the end of this short video. It’s perfect. 📚

激レアなので2000円札ですね

日本テリアも入ってほしいです

Sketch of a man and a woman seated at a table, each with a glass of wine. The man is speaking, and the caption reads "Let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence".

I saw this meme seconds before I saw this post, and it fits perfectly.

How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

Out today: SB 13 neutered librarians’ authority over their collections. I no longer determine what goes into my collection. I make recommendations, and a council of parents called a School Library Advisory Council (SLAC) decides whether or not to recommend approval.

しっかし「男がトイレに入ってくる」で、トランス差別してる人には野放しで、この状況下で「戦争反対」言ってる人にはどうかと思うと言いがちなの、こう、納得行くか？　行かねー　にはなってる……　推しの絵のアイコンでトランス差別すな、とか……あっても……よかったじゃん……

刀ミュのペンラを反戦デモに持ってったことが政治利用？政治家が自分の人気取りの為に作品の名前出して擦り寄ってきたことには嬉々として歓迎して、ペンラをデモで掲げたら「作品の政治利用だ！！！！」とかお笑い草ですわね〜

a stylized blender 3d render of a dog playing a lute with angel wings. it is based on the rosso fiorentino painting of the same name.

angel playing the lute

だと思いますー

😱

Cover image of a book called The Collected Hulderotica Year One, written by Kaya Skovdatter. Background is a figure in a shadowed figure in a scarf and dress, holding an umbrella. Their face too is covered in shadow, only two unnerving points of light shining out of that darkness. Around the figure is a lush, overgrown forest painted in a variety of greens, and before them is a rock-edged forest pool with the figure's reflection cast in its green-tinged surface. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.

So it's my birthday. And The Collected Hulderotica Year One is up for (discounted) pre-order (out 03/17). Anyone fancy a copy?

160k of queer paranormal romance/erotica+ in the vein of Lost Girl, Sanctuary, and Supernatural:

huldrahouse.itch.io/the-collecte...
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/pre-o...

So because Homer didn't think to put specific enough age range info in the metadata in 725 BC, kids can't read it.

600+ banned
800+ restricted

Some of the books are PART OF THE CURRICULUM. So instead of rethinking, they're put in a special section where only kids in that class can check them out.

This is a shocking report from @txfreedomread.bsky.social.

This district is just letting AI make random guesses at what books to ban, and since AI can't actually read or interpret books, it's just flagging any book not specifically listed as a kids book, even if they used to be required reading.

U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling While bans on trans youth’s care have been numerous in recent years, this is the first to restrict care for transgender adults.

NEWS: It was never about the children.

Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.

www.advocate.com/news/court-b...

CRAB HANDS PETE

Pete Kegsbreath spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, and barred Pentagon photographers for making him look bad.

Here he is, making the signal for MORE CRAB!

Thank you to 2026 Author sponsor @nadinepresley.bsky.social ! Inspired by her own childhood in Damascus, The City of Jasmine offers a sincere view of the city, brought to life with breathtaking illustrations by Heather Brockman Lee.

readyourworld.org/2026-author-...

#ReadYourWorld #ad #kidlit

A photo of 5 toads in a bucket, each with a different level of acceptance of their situation.

Helping the toads cross the road.

Happy 34th anniversary to the original Sailor Moon anime!

#SailorMoon
#セーラームーン

From @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social !

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

A photograph psted by the Iris Centre for Poetry Studies showing the page on which Alvy Carrager's poem Library is printed, from Carrager's collection What Remains the Same (Gallery Books). The book sits open on a wooden table, and a gold pen rests above it.

....And this gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite poems about the importance of books: "Library" by Alvy Carragher. She's a Dublin-based Irish poet, but her poem perfectly describes my troubled, library-loving young mother in New Jersey/Pennsylvania too.

I spent part of my childhood in New Jersey, still have family there, and really appreciate this focus on literacy from Senator Kim.

Meme from birdmissbox @ Instagram. A tiny black bat in white human hands in 4 poses. Texts: I am the darkness Oh, you want cuddles? Ok, I give cuddles. BUT I AM STILL THE DARKNESS!

Start the day with a timeline cleanser 😁
#Bat #meme

子どもに一番説明しづらいのは（予備知識が必要なのは）アセクシャル周りなのかも。

セックスという概念が前提だから。同性愛も異性愛も、「好きになる」がわかっていれば説明できるし

まあ世の中にはホモロマンティックあるいはパンロマンティックでアセクシャル同士の同性カップルだっているっちゃいるわけですが

考えてみたら、同性愛よりも同性婚の方が小さい子どもにも説明しやすいのではないか。

性交の知識がないと「結婚している夫婦がなにかとセックスしがち」と理解するのは難しいだろうが、子どもはセックスの知識よりも「夫婦」の概念の方を先に覚えるだろうから。

同性婚がない日本では、その分、子どもに同性愛を説明しづらいというハンデがあるかもしれないけど、同性婚のあるアメリカでやれ説明できないだのしたくないだの言ってるんだからさらにダメ。

Deer in field eating from tree line, golden glow of light, painting.

🖼️ Catherine Hyde