I missed this beautiful essay from @lisacheby.bsky.social yesterday, but it is a love letter for those living alone alongside the blaring trope of couplehood. www.rolereboot.org/sex-and-rela...

Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.

COMMENTARY: Why teacher librarians are critical for students living in an AI-driven world California lawmakers passed laws to improve student literacy in media and artificial intelligence, but without funding to implement these critical skills, students are being shortchanged.

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

The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians! The Los Angeles Public Library organized an author talk with award-winning children’s book authors Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad. Library administration abruptly cancelled the event because they...

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 OpenAI's biggest play into the burgeoning health AI market is here.

"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.

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

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

Lisa Eve Cheby: “Witnessing” - Cultural Daily "Witnessing," a new poem by Lisa Eve Cheby: "I only wanted to imagine a world of liberation and joy, / not how to integrate the mundane with the horrific."

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

Join me on June 14

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.

two men on a porch one of whom is saying " let 's go boy " Alt: two men on a porch one of whom is saying " let 's go boy "

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

“One of the ways we censor books: We don’t fund our libraries.” - @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.

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