Kelly she/her

@bookcrushin.bsky.social

A queer book blogger for over 14 years - loves queer books, especially YA & comics! #QueerYA #BookCrushin Bookcrushin.com

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

A high school journalist from the award-winning Redwood Bark uncovered his Marin County community's connections in the Epstein files, prompting legal threats from a named individual and pressure from school administrators—but the student paper stood its ground.

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

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They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.

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Just checking in to see if all those men so concerned about "fairness in sports" have lobbied the NCAA to ensure that travel/facilities/accommodations for female athletes are equal to their male counterparts. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 (ᶦᵗ ʷᵃˢ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᶠᵃᶦʳⁿᵉˢˢ)