This is what we’ve been trying to tell the SBOE for months

it's not that there are no important books, it's that there are too many for any single person or entity to fix and dictate which ones they are

Early voting starts today!

have been thinking recently about how in the cases of both the disappearance of books from schools, and now the top down imposition of lists of books by states and curriculum corporations, individual subjectivity and discretion seem like problems to be eradicated

How Selena Called Me Home to Texas Growing up Black in a predominantly white city of less than 70,000 people, what Selena meant to me took years to understand.

Spent some hours illustrating Selena in honor of Selena Day on April 16. I wanted to do something special for this essay because it’s our social media manager @candibolden.bsky.social’s first byline, and I think it’s really lovely.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/04/15/b...

SEND AN EMAIL: Save School Librarians in Hays CISD Hays CISD is planning to cut their secondary librarians and we need your help!

Hays area residents! We need your support for this petition to restore library cuts in Tx district Hays CISD. Please share with your friends! @txfreedomread.bsky.social www.saveschoollibrarians.org/save_school_...

The May 2026 Book-Loving Texan's Guide to School Board Elections is Live! Let's make this a green-highlight year.

Here's a write-up of the general state of play in Texas school board elections right now: open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

Here's your summer reading list - Texas Edition 😍 #txed

Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Election Day: Saturday, May 2 Early Vo...

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas.

And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here we go, Texas!

Thank you!

@taniel.bsky.social

And reach out with tips, suggestions, or questions! This is very much a working document. #BookSky #BookBans #Freadom

Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Election Day: Saturday, May 2 Early Vo...

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas.

And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Image of a flower poking through snow.

It's a Good Question, But It's the Wrong One.

On being present in the moment and recognizing hope is an action as we battle cruelty, bigotry, and censorship: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

And my other alma mater is under attack by the other guy in a cushy chair in Austin looking to trade up to IS Senator.

We’re intimidating teachers and scaring them into submission of only instructing exactly what the state has decreed.

In America.

In 2026.

www.keranews.org/news/2026-04...

Bible stories would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list drawing attention | Houston Public Media Religious leaders, teachers, parents and students spent hours Tuesday before the state education board arguing about the reading list for the state’s 5.4 million kindergartners to 12th-graders.

Coverage of the Texas SBOE hearing about a required reading list that still awaits a vote. Thank you @frankstrong.bsky.social and @drannd.bsky.social for testifying in person, and to everyone who wrote in. 📚 www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...

Thank you!

ACTION ALERT TEXAS: STOP the Islamic + Communist Networks Fighting to SEIZE Control of Your Children’s Education – Mobilize on April 7 - RAIR Texas children are not bargaining chips for Islamic groups and radical leftist-wing organizations, they must be protected.

Texas extremists issued wild calls to action to get their supporters to show up. Like this ⬇️ rairfoundation.com/action-alert...

Islamophobes speaking in the lobby of the Barbara Jordan Building in front of a poster that reads “Sharia under the Islamic Republics GOUGES OUT THE EYES OF WOMEN.”

A man in a Patriot Academy t-shirt, the back of which reads, “Be Jefferson. Defend Freedom. Defeat Sharia.”

Texas Freedom Network’s “Teach the Truth” rally outside of the State Board of Education meeting in Austin.

Wild day at the Texas State Board of Education, which is considering a required reading list and new social studies standards.

(Most--okay, all--of the writers featured in this article will get you fired if you assign them in many Texas districts.)

Five of Our Greatest Novelists on What It Takes to Write Something True Margaret Atwood, Jesmyn Ward, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ottessa Moshfegh spoke to Bazaar about art, process, and why storytelling still matters

The article: www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Screenshot from article. Images of Joyce Carol Oates, over this quote: “If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?” Oates asks. And as a writer, Ward says, “I need to go through the entire process, because there are things that I’m learning and revelations that I’m working my way towards, and I need to do that work because it enables me to keep living.”

“If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?”

As a teacher in Texas, this quote caused me an involuntary sob.

Irving Public Library Board seeks to alter key policy language, remove most mentions of 'diversity' The potential revisions would remove most mentions of “diversity” and outline certain new standards of acceptance for books and other library materials.

The potential revisions would remove most mentions of “diversity” and outline certain new standards of acceptance for books and other library materials. kerane.ws/47FYps2

Texans, we really need your help.

I hear @annieabrams.bsky.social grinding her teeth.

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology.
Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

Screenshot from article that reads: "Frank Strong, a fellow teacher, said he noticed similar things at his school. This prompted him to co-found the Texas Freedom to Read Project, a nonprofit organization fighting censorship around the state by publicizing information about book bans, creating ballot guides and organizing parent groups. “'The first (misconception) is this is not being led by angry parents who are mad about what they saw in their kids’ book bags,' Strong said. 'This is a coordinated assault from national groups that are sharing information and inflaming culture wars.'"