Karuna Riazi
@karunariazi.bsky.social
Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming. Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025). Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le No means to donate currently 💔
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
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okay i have the go ahead to say that ahhh i'm so excited Hello Sunshine won first inaugural Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table (GNCRT) Outstanding Comics Award from the American Library Association!! I FEEL SO HONORED THAT LIBRARIANS LIKE MY BOOK ❤️🔥
Outstanding Comics Award
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Love to see #ALAyma trending this morning. Here is a list of all the winners of the 2026 ALA Youth Media Awards! Congratulations everyone! 🏆 And thank you librarians everywhere. www.ala.org/news/2026/01...
American Library Association announces 2026 Youth Media Award winners
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Prin...
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sending out love to everyone in kidlit today, award winners, authors, illustrators, readers, librarians, booksellers, teachers...books for children matter.
I LOVE TO SEE THE RIGHT CHOICES BEING MADE I SIMPLY LOVE IT!!!!
Carolyn Foote@technolibrary.bsky.social · 8mo agoCaldecott winner announced!
The Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot for this year just went out, and congratulations to everyone whose work appears on it, be it under their name or their editor!! I am glad to see WHY I LOVE HORROR on there but I am also excited for 4 of my authors to make the Short NF list.
Renée Watson wins the Newbery! She is a treasure and so is this book. I just gifted it to a young reader friend. It's a book in verse, so accessible, about grief.
Children's Bookshelf@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnd the 2026 John Newbery Medal goes to Renée Watson for ‘All the Blues in the Sky’! #ALAyma
Congratulations to all the wonderful #ALAyma winners today - and for everyone else who had a book out in 2026 that didn't get a nod, hold fast (as I am) to how many names are there who have worked hard for so long to reach this point, and turn the next page. ❤️
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
“don’t give them what they want” they are manufacturing their justifications post-hoc. they are already doing what they want. you are not responsible for the actions of your oppressor. you are only responsible for keeping your neighbors safe and that will always be seen as defiance
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
The actions required to fight fascism only get more challenging the further along we are. If two executions in broad daylight in two weeks doesn't cross your line, what will?
The bravest, kindest men of my generation are being killed. Here. Palestine. Sudan. Congo. Point to a wound on the globe. They are there, and they are being killed by the same vicious system. Enough. Enough. Divest from the system. Uproot it from your mind and heart. Abolish it. Burn it down.
I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
these are the last people I want being “better trained”
All we needed was 50% of white folks two years ago. We didn't have it then. We likely don't have it today. And yes, I know about marching, boycotts, strikes, and suffering. Have done all of the above. I'm not feeling self-righteous today. I am feeling SAD that bigotry is leading to more death.
When people tell Black folks that we're being sanctimonious instead of a light bulb going off, it is quite telling. Black people didn't want to be right about murderous fascism. We wanted none of this to happen in the first place. Minnesotans are not new to this. They have BEEN on the vanguard...