Books

There are far more fantastic queer books being published every month than I can keep up with, and I am deeply grateful for that. In the last few years, we’ve especially seen a surge in books being put out by mainstream publishers that have queer women main characters, which is exciting. We’re also starting to

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Workers at a large Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y. have voted to join a union. Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer of consumer goods, the second largest private employer in the United States, and the “world’s largest bookstore.” The union vote is the company’s first. The workers voted 2,654 in favor of being

On March 30th, Follett Learning — the creators of Destiny, a popular library management system used in school libraries — posted a letter on LinkedIn saying that they are developing technology to allow parents to more easily monitor and restrict their children’s choice of library books. Many school librarians were also emailed the letter. The

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Bridgerton is one of Netflix’s most-watched shows, and they have already announced a season 3 and 4 as well as the upcoming prequel series. The spinoff Bridgerton prequel was announced in May, and now Netflix has released the cast list. The series will follow a young Queen Charlotte in her rise to power, and it

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When the bookish world celebrates marginalized voices in literature, I rarely see disabled, chronically ill, d/Deaf, and neurodivergent writers highlighted by non-disabled related outlets. Or, if they are highlighted, their disabilities are erased from their stories. But disabled people, especially folks of marginalized genders, have long been at the forefront of social change. Non-disabled society’s

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Tupac Shakur wrote a booklet of haikus when he was 11 for his imprisoned Black Panther godfather, Jamal Joseph, and that booklet is now up for auction at Sotheby’s. His childhood poems dealt with Black liberation, masculinity, and other themes that he explored in his adult work. He signed the booklet, “Tupac Shakur, Future Freedom

H.E.A.L. Together (Honest Education Action & Leadership) is an event organized by Race Forward to “bring together a multiracial movement of students, parents, and educators to demand honest, accurate, and fully funded public education — not book bans, censorship, and whitewashing of history.” The guests are Congressman Jamaal Bowman, Emmy-winning social justice storyteller Sarah Eagle Heart,

I always thought that nonfiction was boring. It didn’t help that the only nonfiction I read while in school was trapped within the bowels of my textbooks. I did read The Diary of Anne Frank twice, though it made me cry. But nonfiction doesn’t have to be boring or make you cry (well, sometimes it’s

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There’s a really horrifying censorship story unfolding in Anchorage, Alaska. But much as I wish I could tell it, part of the reason the true depths of what’s going on there aren’t being shared broadly is because of how officials are using their state’s FOIA laws to keep that information impossible to access. The story

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid was published in 2018, but it has found new popularity through word of mouth and on TikTok, driving it to 54 weeks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list. It’s the story of Evelyn Hugo, an aging movie star who has tapped Monique Grant, a fairly

During confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Ted Cruz held up a copy of The End of Policing by Alex Vitale while discussing the teaching of so-called “Critical Race Theory” in schools. (Critical Race Theory is a specific legal education framework, which is rarely what pundits or politicians are actually

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