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Our official statement in response to the wave of anti-trans legislation. To our trans and nonbinary communities: We see you, we love you, and we side with you. #TransLivesMatter #TransIsBeautiful 🏳️‍⚧️

"Dr. Stacey Patton has built a career on saying what America would rather not hear." 🙌🏻 Good morning, America! Catch @drstaceypatton.bsky.social's Q&A in Rolling Out: buff.ly/T5tkDbX

Looking to vibe with cool people (for free!!) this Thursday in NYC? We got you. ✅ Writers Dr. Rob Gore, Patrick Dougher, and Katrina Brownlee are talking memory, survival, and what Brooklyn means to them with @serendipitylit.bsky.social. RSVP: bit.ly/nysoclib-oct29 📍6pm, @nysoclib.bsky.social

"I found out that Judy's next mission was to change Hollywood. ... I feel so privileged to pick up that baton and carry on, not just in my honor [and] in everyone else's, but in hers." —Ruth Madeley on Judy Heumann's legacy 🩵 #BeingHeumann in theaters 11/6, streaming on AppleTV 11/13 buff.ly/u2D5Qhs

Single this cuffing season? You'll live (literally).💍🔪 #CountdownToHalloween with us - 5 days to go! But you can get your copy of @editrixemma.bsky.social's LOVE NEVER DIES today: buff.ly/DzYLHMy #flashwarning

@drstaceypatton.bsky.social's STRUNG UP digs deep into a dark past revolving around Black children and how this past is still threaded deeply into current times. buff.ly/3CR1r4g

The question of how we can better support children in the classroom is a prevalent one. This list offers books, especially TOWARD LIBERATION, that will provide answers to this question. buff.ly/HSBZTzt

Kyle T Mays, author of AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, had a conversation at the Ford Garland Museum where he spoke about topics such as freedom, solidarity, and land in reference to Black and Indigenous people. buff.ly/FqrddNd

Gloria Browne-Marshall, author of A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, talks on the Salt Lake Dirt podcast about her family history, Martyrs' Day, and how ordinary people have risked it all for equal civil rights. buff.ly/cb1WOup

Turning back time on ⏳️Cover Reveal Friday⏳️ with @tobyrollo.bsky.social! A HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD IN THE UNITED STATES is the first 400-year history of the US shaped by the labor, exploitation, and resistance of children. Watch this space in March 2027! 👀 Cover design: Louis Roe

In this episode of Lost Ladies of Lit, Betty Rubiner not only discusses the importance of diary-writing but also some important lady diarists who would be fascinating to read. buff.ly/Jf8xy8I

Author of SEARCHING FOR JANE CROW, Talitha LeFlouria, shares the harsh realities that Black women have had to endure in past times of Slavery, current times of Incarceration, and how its all linked. buff.ly/PYvDLxP

"Looking to both history and the present moment, FOREVER FOR THE CULTURE is an essential meditation on who builds culture online, who profits from it, and what it means to preserve Black creative genius in real time." @blaqueword.blacksky.app. It's a pleasure to see this book featured on the list!

An unexpected problem at the polls shouldn’t cost you your voice. Here’s what to ask, what to document and where to get help.

What does the Empire State Building represent to you? Vaneesa Cook explains to @feministkelly.bsky.social why this association is no longer common. buff.ly/BuqJOqe

@drstaceypatton.bsky.social's powerfully explorative STRUNG UP has been included on @usatoday.com's bestseller list. buff.ly/6dxwCLs

"The glittering claims of what AI in education will do, offered by those who abandoned us in our hour of need, are not those rocks." -- Kamau Bobb in an excerpt of THE BULLWHIP'S ALGORITHM from @lithub.com.web.brid.gy buff.ly/FvHJNAi

"Identity and belonging can be a complicated undertaking for mixed-race people." This undertaking is exactly what @anneliukellor.bsky.social explores in her anthology, MIXED ROOTS, with the personal experiences of 29 writers. @seattletimes.com buff.ly/TG2jMnl

"Christianity does not teach that some people become less human because they are someone’s adversaries. It does not profess that God blesses battleships nor justifies genocide." @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org on Hegseth's unholy war for @theintercept.com buff.ly/FoXpPRW

Lynching is not an act that occurs in isolation. This type of racial terror and violence travels--it impedes upon every space around us. In our medical and educational spaces, and our juvenile and parenting practices. Dr. Stacey Patton talks about this with @thegrio.com.web.brid.gy buff.ly/Ht8Xkcn

“[Public execution] has nothing to do with innocence or guilt; it's rooted in lynching, genocide & a white supremacist societal impulse that treats open killing as entertainment.” Public killings are an everyday American reality—livestreamed or not, writes columnist @williamcson.bsky.social.

THE MATTER OF MOTHERHOOD will be out November 10th. Ahead of its release, @publisherswkly.bsky.social gave it a ⭐️starred review⭐️.

It's #PrisonBannedBooksWeek October 19-25! Raising awareness of this most pervasive practice of censorship in the US, the 3rd annual Prison Banned Books Week brings together over 60 organizations working for free expression. For more info, check out prisonbannedbooksweek.org

Judy Heumann's impact on the Disability Rights Movement is indispensable. This film, based off of her memoir of the same name, reflects that. Check out the trailer today! buff.ly/ztrMH46

"[Bettina] Love argues that the U.S. education system is sustained by, and profits from, the suffering of children of color." Love doesn't only call out the way the system fails Black children, but offers insights into how the system can be improved for Black students. buff.ly/HSBZTzt

In her interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Talitha L. LeFlouria talks about the shift from slavey to mass incarceration, how they're intwined, and how black women fit into the center of it. She further uncovers the topic in her book SEARCHING FOR JANE CROW. buff.ly/YDs8Hed

Life update: I’ve taught myself to draw and paint over the last 3 weeks, and I will attempt to only post words I write and images I draw, paint or videograph myself on social media until the end of the year. I invite you join me. I want to read your words & see your art, not just memes & “AI”!

There is a sense of community that can be created and shared through writing, especially when writing with other people. @anneliukellor.bsky.social felt this while in the process of making MIXED ROOTS. buff.ly/l21Awkt

This past weekend @beaconpress.bsky.social had the awesome experience of working a booth at this year's Boston Book Festival. Read up on how the day went on our Substack! beaconpress.substack.com/p/readers-ar...

@drstaceypatton.bsky.social's STRUNG UP isn't only an examination of a dark racial past, but also a challenge to think critically about what we pass down to the next generation of children who determine our future. buff.ly/5rba3aM

@samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social's anthology, LIVING, TOGETHER, starts a conversation around, and provides answers to, the central question of: "what are all the different possible ways we can live together?" @bostonglobe.com buff.ly/Sigssuu

NO NEW YORK is “required reading” for anyone interested in how some of our most iconic female musicians came up @oldstermag.bsky.social. buff.ly/XBW2SyK

WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN SURVIVE and TOWARD LIBERATION and the other books on this list offer up a new way to explore the educational landscape as a Black student, educator, parent, or community leader. buff.ly/V0ROvjy

Here is the book - The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World by Jonathan S. Adams. Thrilled it's still in print.

Years ago, I worked acquired and edited a book at @beaconpress.bsky.social on this topic. It's amazing to see these projects come on line and work so successfully. I hope the momentum is there to keep them going despite... everything.

Happy #PublicationDay, Kamau Bobb! 🤖 THE BULLWHIP’S ALGORITHM, a warning of the colorblind promises of AI in education in light of US society’s history of race and technology, “is dangerously and necessarily brilliant.” — @chrisemdin.bsky.social

On this day in 1870, a Black politician named Wade Perrin was assassinated by a white mob one day after he was re-elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives.

“The evidence of settler violence has been hiding in plain sight” and in Liza Black's HOW SETTLERS GET AWAY WITH MURDER, she uncovers this evidence and shows readers the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people. buff.ly/LoTSDjQ

It is still true that protest can change the world. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall tracks the arc of such struggles throughout US history in A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US; to show us how it’s done.

"The normalization of misogynistic attitudes and beliefs among men sets the table for even more egregious events."

Whether you come from a Christian background or not, NO ONE LOVES AN ANGRY WOMAN shows women how to process their emotions separate from anyone else’s terms or expectations. buff.ly/VlFi8pW

Boston, the city that reads! We had so much fun at the Boston Book Festival discussing books and love with you all. Looking to meet a fellow book lover in the city? We’re launching soon! Visit chapteronedating.com to join the waitlist.

What is a forgiving society? Joseph Margulies answers this question, among others, while in conversation about his book CAST OUT on Talk World Radio. buff.ly/cAxpUV8

In order to understand the current political climate we live in, we have to understand the ample amounts of history that have led up to it. STRUNG UP complies and thoroughly examines one of the darkest periods of American history @drstaceypatton.bsky.social. buff.ly/UJrzPw1

Big news: @drstaceypatton.bsky.social's book, STRUNG UP: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children, has hit the @usatoday.com bestseller list! bit.ly/4s4HTdQ @beaconpress.bsky.social

“For [Anne Liu Kellor], “both/and” is an acknowledgment that she cannot be pigeon-holed into one label. She can be Chinese and White* and mixed race. All three of those identities are equally hers to own.” This ethos is what helped create the anthropology, MIXED ROOTS.

It’s a reinvention kind of ✨Cover Reveal Friday✨ with Dana Frank! BALANCING ACTS is an early 20th-century immigrant’s story of perseverance—and his kidnapping by the US government. Watch this space in April 2027! 👀 Cover design: Louis Roe

Throughout history, things are always changing, but the only thing that remains the same is that the diary will always be a young girl's truest confidante. Betsy Rubiner explores this truth in her book, OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES, and while in conversation with Lost Ladies of Lit buff.ly/Jf8xy8I

While on the Salt Lake Dirt podcast, @drstaceypatton.bsky.social discusses how distant histories of racial terror and violence still continue to be prevalent in present day realities for Black families throughout America. buff.ly/3CR1r4g

As we settle back into the school year, its important to seek out the guides that will make us better, more inclusive, educators and community members and leaders. TOWARD LIBERATION does exactly that! @thegrio.com.web.brid.gy buff.ly/HSBZTzt

Here I address the hard questions about how opportunity is distributed or denied and speak plainly about the choices we face in this midterm election. We are in a tough moment but I have some cause for optimism. Listen here to see why. 🙂 @beaconpress.bsky.social faculti.net/brown-at-sev...