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Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?

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Started my day with a parent coming in to tell me I'm pushing the homosexual agenda on her daughter (7th grader) because I gave her a book IN PLACE OF a violent one she picked up (The Kite Runner). Previously this parent wasn't going to let her daughter read The Hunger Games because of violence so I was trying to avoid that by giving her a book (Meal by Blue Delliquanti) about eating bugs thinking she'd put it down after our 10 mins of reading. But she kept it and while reading it on a long drive saw the two characters kiss and threw the book away from her.

The whole time she is misgendering me while misinterpreting my actions, and I'm arguing with myself about whether I should tell her I'm queer while she is denigrating my community.

I didn't because I still had to teach (in TWO minutes) and figured that would be a longer conversation.

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Had to explain to a 6th grader today that carbs don't make you fat and that they are necessary for brain and muscle function 🤦🏼 fatphobia is rampant

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Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card.

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The rest of the queers aren't allowed to exclude asexuals anymore; we've got the JK Rowling Seal of Disapproval! It's official, we belong!

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they should make weight loss ads illegal and I’m not kidding

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Trayvon Martin should be turning 30 years old this week. As we honor his life, achievements, and joy, we send love to his family.

Trayvon Martin’s story reawakened a global civil rights movement under Black Lives Matter, uniting millions of us in the continued fight for racial justice. 

We remember him by the words of his mother, Sybrina Fulton: as a boy who was “a vessel that represents so many others;” a boy who sparked a movement; a boy who deserved to grow old.

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As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

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I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

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James Baldwin, 1979.

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