Spooky season is upon us! To celebrate I put together a few designs promoting books and libraries. If you like them, feel free to use them! These are four of my poster designs! Again, these posters are absolutely free for you to print and use!

Schools and public libraries are under attack and need your support. They are facing quiet defunding, book bans, and acts of hate. Please consider contacting your local representative to ask that these institutions remain funded and protected, and show your support by stopping by your local library.

For additional Halloween freebies celebrating libraries and reading, click the link here!

If you would like to see more of my library/activism designs or would like to get these designs on a T-shirt, book bag, or sticker, you can visit my shop here.

Imaging a World with You

A poster was created in collaboration with the School Library Journal and Children’s Book Council to support LGBTQIA+ children and teens. I was honored to make a piece in support of acceptance in literature, especially with how incredibly hostile folks have been to books in this, to quote Carl Lennertz, “era of intolerance and censorship”.

The poster is available for free download here.

Art Credit to Al Abbaz

Vintage I Read Banned Books Funny Book Lovers Button

#censorshipdividesus / #booksmattertoo Repost @scribesandvibes ・・・ Yellow caution tape adorned #TheBluestEye - and... #TheColorPurple. -Stevie #librarydiaries #haiku • The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple: #readBannedBooks Beyond #BannedBooksWeek ・・・ #vibewise: #BOOKSCOMEINALLCOLORS, #weallneeddifferentbookstolove. #shopscribesandvibes to #findyourtribe and #readwhatyouwant. -#scribesandvibes ● #RebelReader • #READstricted #BannedBooks • #fREADom • #ChallengedBooks 📚 (at Conyers, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciywa_sg76O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ban book bans

Book banning disproportionately impacts books by and about marginalized people. Oct 1-7, 2023 was Banned Books week, but supporting the fight for #freadom happens all year round!

The morning RSS - Wednesday Edition

Not a lot to scroll, but some pretty important stuff for those who champion libraries and access to diverse titles for young audiences.

Mark your calendar: Survey opens 9.6.

Next: Schools and school districts in Florida, Michigan, and Texas are the Book Saves Lives grantees for 2023.

Spooky season is upon us! To celebrate I put together a few designs promoting books and libraries. If you like them, feel free to use them! These are five of my poster designs! Again, these posters are absolutely free for you to print and use!

Schools and public libraries are under attack and need your support. They are facing quiet defunding, book bans, and acts of hate. Please consider contacting your local representative to ask that these institutions remain funded and protected, and show your support by stopping by your local library.

For additional Halloween freebies celebrating libraries and reading, click the link here!

If you would like to see more of my library/activism designs or would like to get these designs on a T-shirt, book bag, or sticker, you can visit my shop here.

Public comment period has opened for proposed vague Missouri Book Ban Law

Comment period has opened for the proposed vague MO law that would allow anyone to challenge access to books and undermines the professional judgment of librarians.

Libraries that do not comply will lose funding, which will lead to their likely closure.

MO Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said he did not have a librarian or a library representative help with drafting the proposed rule. He said the policy was inspired by conversations he had across the state with Missourians and librarians about book challenges.Utterly appalling.

If you are a MO resident you have thirty days from Nov 15th to write or email to comment on this proposed law.  

Comments may be submitted to the Secretary of State’s office via email at [email protected] or by traditional mail to Office of the Missouri Secretary of State, P.O. Box 1767, Jefferson City, MO 65102.

Comments submitted via email must include “15 CSR 30-200.015” in the subject line https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/comment-period-opens-on-missouri-secretary-of-state-s-book-ban-proposal

Remember baby Bagi feeling completly done with the cops giving up on the search for her brother

Remember young Bagi getting inside the system because she needs to be better than that cops that gave up

Remember Bagi who asked too many question and was changed of departments.

Remember Bagi that got so into the system that she was ready to make a deal for her criminal brother's freadom.

It is the tale of how a corrupted system won't ever produce anything good.

A system that care more for a murder's life when they are related to a cop than of the life of a innocent child, because it was too bothersome.

There is no good apples in a moldy basket.

Headcanons about Hotn characters:

(4/4) This is the last one 🥲

Seamour of Lycana:

He is the fastest vampire ever! Literally no one can beat him in a race

He tells the best jokes one could imagine

His favourite season is summer (he really likes when it's warm)

Thounderstorms are his favourite thing ever

He loves to shapeshift into animals (he just likes the feeling of freadom and to see everything through a different perspective)

He's gay...(just my opinion) and falls in love with Nicu (Yes, I said what I said)

He still mourns his dead family and at most times his mind is by them hoping they are ok wherever they are

His favourite colour are forest green and an earthy brown

Nicu:

He's bisexual

He reads ten books on avarage each month

Disappearing in books is literally everything keeping him sane

He got his love for books and reading through his father

He has a picture of his father in his pocket and always looks at it when he feels bad and imagines his voice telling him that everything will be alright (it helps a lot)

He often has deep conversations with Lars about dead parents

The two of them actually get really close and after some time Nicu can be happy for the couple and can move on

Even though he gets along with everyone his deepest friendship is with Inger (they both just understand each other the best)

Peace to the #rebelreaders... for #READINGistheREVOLUTION. Peace to @onyxedition and the #blackbookstagrammers that support #blackownedbookstores. This is for the #blackbookstagram and those that plan #blackbookstoretours. We're just here to chant #MorePOWERTOTHEREADER! ✊🏾 and affirm: #BLACKPUBLISHINGPOWER is the solution. As #fREADom is first birthed in the mind... We appear here and there to help #shakeupyourshelves, Flood your timeline with #blackexcellence, And challenge the quo to put #blackauthors on the shelf. #youknowthevibes at #scribesandvibes, This is where you #findyourtribe And discover #KNOWledgeofSELF. You can catch us on a #popupbookshop promo or #shopscribesandvibes online. If nothing else, we ask: Why them Willie Lynch isms got you walking around freely with your mind imprisoned? Why they poison us with radio and television? Why the need to effeminate the Black male in tell-lie-vision depictions? Why'd that white magazine advertise Future: The Best Rapper Alive on the cover of it's May edition? Why they wanna indoctrinate the #YOUNGGIFTEDANDBLACK with bleak futures filled with addiction and prison? Why must ye be forced to #readBannedBooks while mass media is publicizing drug addiction and womanizing to our children? It's time to change the frequency! Why they wanna force feed us negative images of self so frequently? Why do they censor #BlackWriters then author laws to put our babies in prison? What do they gain from keeping your mind imprisoned? What does it mean when they say they vow to keep woke politics out of public school systems? #staywOke! and keep one eye open whenever the guys behind the eye in the sky coin phrases to signal dog whistles for Blacks. Learn to listen to what's not being said in catchphrases like "Take Our Country Back." Why do you think Critical Race Theory is under attack yet no mentions of disparities within the juvenile justice system? #FREEYOURMIND! They're pushing this BIPOC agenda to efface #blackpublishing professionals right before our face, Yet we're not having it this time. By the way, Happy #IndieBookstoreDay! This time, we'll #FREEtheMIND! -Stevie #READINGisaREVOLUTIONaryact https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc-ioBfLzwX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Happy Banned Book Week! Honored to teach my students many of the books currently being banned around the country. fREADom!