Yes, I am STILL writing about this because it is still needed. @4csla.bsky.social @csunlibrary.bsky.social @edsource.org @aaslala.bsky.social
Why teacher librarians are critical for students living in an AI-driven world edsource.org?page_id=752536
(Page 122 of Excavation: A Memoir by Wendy C. Ortiz) NOTES ON AN EXCAVATION Why I Didn't Tell I didn’t want to be average. I didn't want it to end. I was comfortable keeping secrets. I was afraid of being blamed. I felt responsible for his acts. I was numb. I was told I exuded sex and therefore I must be to blame. The truth is, I did tell. I didn't want it to end. I told an adult. I grew comfortable with anguish. With hostility. Tragedy. I was numb. That adult has since apologized for his inaction on my behalf, shared with me his fear of the situation, his own newness to the profession at the time.
“Why don’t victims tell someone about the abuse?”
“Why I Didn’t Tell” from Excavation: A Memoir (Northwestern University Press, 2025; [1st edition Future Tense Books, 2014])
Tax billionaires until they're "merely" triple digit millionaires
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
"OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records"
Oh, wow. The absolute privacy nightmare that this tech is, getting fed ppls sensitive medical info.
Sure - no way that ends badly! #AiIsTheProblem #TechLit
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AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.
This poem is by the woman ICE murdered.
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“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through.” - Katherine May, Wintering ...
I guess I should log in her more LOL
Read this stunner from @lisacheby.bsky.social
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Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor imposed a nationwide “Don’t Say Gay” effect—letting parents opt kids out of LGBTQ+ lessons and pressuring schools to erase queer voices.
As the only real teacher in this race for CA State Superintendent, I know what’s at stake. Join me tomorrow.
Newspaper coverage of librarians protesting a lack of librarians in Philadelphia schools.
Proud to protest the lack of #librarians in Philadelphia schools. To learn more, hear this conversation with Philadelphia Association to Restore #schoollibrarians!https://apple.co/3ZD0b9R
While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/fJcqfbE1
💚 available now though their official birthday is a week from today 💚
24 hours and 18+minutes @booker.senate.gov stood up and spoke up for democracy. Amazing.
Sen. @corybooker.com just hit the 24-hour mark!!! Only 19 minutes to go to beat the Senate filibuster record by Strom Thurmond.
Six women smiling towards the camera
So moving to commemorate the pandemic with these women Romaine Washington, @katemaru.bsky.social Noriko Nakada Hazel Kight Witham and @lisacheby.bsky.social who organized it all w Beyond Baroque around her chapbook Contact Tracing
“I am forced to speak the language/of men…” @lisacheby.bsky.social reads from her poetic essay PERFECT DARK from #ExpoReview, Vol. VIII: “Lines” at our #ExpoPresents 10-year anniversary party. Read along: tinyurl.com/ExpoPerfect! #AWP25
“If you don’t know what a database is, ask a librarian.” - @lisacheby.bsky.social at #awp25
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
“One of the ways we censor books: We don’t fund our libraries.” - @lisacheby.bsky.social at #awp25
Pink background with "Save the Date" in green and "Upcoming readings" in black and the following dates in dusty rose: March 8th, 2pm at Beyond Baroque March 15th, 11am, Altadena Poet Laureate Event, Location TBA April 19th, 3pm at Campo De Cahuenga Registration & Details https://linktr.ee/lisaevecheby
At the 5 year anniversary of the world retreating due to Covid19, we need to draw from what we learned about our resilience as individuals and in community. I will read from Contact Tracing at 3 upcoming readings. Mark the dates. Go to
linktr.ee/lisaevecheby for details and registration.
It's been 5 years since our lives were upended by the Covid19 Pandemic. Everyone has their own story. Come hear ours and. Join us in person or on zoom. I am so grateful to read with these amazing writers at the historic @bblitarts.bsky.social. @katemaru.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social
Honored to be in this lineup of writers as we read from lockdown. I’ll be reading from @rdspress SAFER from BLEAK HOUSES March 8, 2pm @bblitarts ! @lisacheby.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social Hazel Kight Witham Noriko Nakada & Romaine Washington
Excited to announce the re-release of my chapbooks through Strikethrough Press: Contract Tracing, Buffy Averts a Mid-Life Apocalypse, and, for it's 10th anniversary, Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thank you Noriko Nakada for making my books stay available! bookshop.org/lists/lisa-e...
“Beyond Mango Street: Updating and Diversifying Your 6-12 Curriculum” with Luivette Resto and Angie Nevárez. March 12 5:00- 6:30 RSVP for in-person at Library Events library.csun.edu/events
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