Melissa Gardner
@artgardner.bsky.social
illustrator/storyteller, psychotherapist, mom and maker of magic! 🏳️🌈& ND
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Melissa Gardner
@artgardner.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Wow! We’re doing it! Keep showing up!
June 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Wow! We’re doing it! Keep showing up!
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Employees of a Metro-East library district are unionizing to fight back against book banning and what organizers are calling “right-wing assault.”
Metro-East library employees organizing to fight censorship - The Labor Tribune
By ELIZABETH DONALD Illinois Correspondent Employees of a Metro-East library district are unionizing to fight back against book banning and what organizers are calling “right-wing assault.” The…
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June 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Employees of a Metro-East library district are unionizing to fight back against book banning and what organizers are calling “right-wing assault.”
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
🤣🤣🤣that’s probably a good idea— but sometimes you gotta!
June 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🤣🤣🤣that’s probably a good idea— but sometimes you gotta!
Any time there is rough! Hope you got in and out with answers and some relief!
June 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Any time there is rough! Hope you got in and out with answers and some relief!
Having just spent 24 hours in an ER, I concur.
June 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Having just spent 24 hours in an ER, I concur.
This is lovely in so many ways!
June 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This is lovely in so many ways!
Ugh. I can never tell what’s parody or not these days🤷🏻♀️
May 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Ugh. I can never tell what’s parody or not these days🤷🏻♀️
Please take the time to read this. I don’t know this person but her compassionate and dialectical approach echoes many thoughts I’ve had the past 1.5 years.
I'm dazed. My heart aches so, my whole body is flooded with anxiety, my brain racing to get ahead of what it means, for Jews here, for Gaza, for my family, for everything, what can I say, what will be helpful to say, about the murder of two Jews leaving an event convened to coordinate aid to Gaza.
May 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Please take the time to read this. I don’t know this person but her compassionate and dialectical approach echoes many thoughts I’ve had the past 1.5 years.
Thank you for sharing your thoughtfulness. This is not an either/or situation where we have to either support Israel or Gaza. Our hearts are big enough to grieve multiple tragedies at once and we can call for peace and healing for all w/out being ‘anti’ either side.
May 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thank you for sharing your thoughtfulness. This is not an either/or situation where we have to either support Israel or Gaza. Our hearts are big enough to grieve multiple tragedies at once and we can call for peace and healing for all w/out being ‘anti’ either side.
Yep! We’ve been here before. And earlier this week he claimed to have invented the word ‘equalize’ too!
May 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Yep! We’ve been here before. And earlier this week he claimed to have invented the word ‘equalize’ too!
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I believe deeply that teaching our children to love reading at scale is the only thing that can save us from ourselves.
May 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I believe deeply that teaching our children to love reading at scale is the only thing that can save us from ourselves.
Kidlit writer and student is still locked up. For what?
Stating her opinion. Yes, she locked up for free and protected speech.
Stating her opinion. Yes, she locked up for free and protected speech.
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Kidlit writer and student is still locked up. For what?
Stating her opinion. Yes, she locked up for free and protected speech.
Stating her opinion. Yes, she locked up for free and protected speech.
Reposted by Melissa Gardner
It’s Children’s Book Week! Julie Flett and Sophie Blackall sat down for a chat for the occasion
www.slj.com/story/Sophie...
www.slj.com/story/Sophie...
Sophie Blackall and Julie Flett in Conversation | Children
Award-winning author illustrators Julie Flett and Sophie Blackall sat down for a chat on the occasion of Children’s Book Week 2025. Flett created this year’s poster on the theme: “An Ocean of Stories”...
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May 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It’s Children’s Book Week! Julie Flett and Sophie Blackall sat down for a chat for the occasion
www.slj.com/story/Sophie...
www.slj.com/story/Sophie...
This cracks me up! Love it, Rekha!
Happy #KidlitArtPostCard
I am Rekha and I love to tell stories with illustrations. Stories that are silly, funny, whimsical and magical.
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I am Rekha and I love to tell stories with illustrations. Stories that are silly, funny, whimsical and magical.
Repped by Alice at @ashliterary.bsky.social
See more at Www.rekhasalin.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This cracks me up! Love it, Rekha!
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Today's #KidLitARTPostcard Day, when #KidLit artists worldwide share art on 1st Thu every month. Founded by
@ginaperry.bsky.social ❤️🎨
Note: Don't forget the "art" in #KidLitARTpostcard! Some are mistakenly posting #KidLitPostcard instead.
More info: ginaperry.com/postcard
@ginaperry.bsky.social ❤️🎨
Note: Don't forget the "art" in #KidLitARTpostcard! Some are mistakenly posting #KidLitPostcard instead.
More info: ginaperry.com/postcard
All about KidLitArtPostcard — Gina Perry Illustrations
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May 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today's #KidLitARTPostcard Day, when #KidLit artists worldwide share art on 1st Thu every month. Founded by
@ginaperry.bsky.social ❤️🎨
Note: Don't forget the "art" in #KidLitARTpostcard! Some are mistakenly posting #KidLitPostcard instead.
More info: ginaperry.com/postcard
@ginaperry.bsky.social ❤️🎨
Note: Don't forget the "art" in #KidLitARTpostcard! Some are mistakenly posting #KidLitPostcard instead.
More info: ginaperry.com/postcard
Beautiful!
It's #kidlitartpostcard day, so here's a drawing I've been working on, inspired by growing up near the sea.
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Portfolio: theodesign.com
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Portfolio: theodesign.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Beautiful!
That’s the thing- it’s not supposed to be jail. Jail implies that that have had due process and sentencing and the possibility or release.
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
That’s the thing- it’s not supposed to be jail. Jail implies that that have had due process and sentencing and the possibility or release.
It’s all so inhumane and so terrible.😣
April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It’s all so inhumane and so terrible.😣
I’m not certain that this is accurate, but I did read that the child was deported with the mom and older sibling so they weren’t alone, which is small comfort. Regardless, it looks like due process was neglected and the poor dad wasn’t given an opportunity to testify, make requests or say goodbye.
April 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’m not certain that this is accurate, but I did read that the child was deported with the mom and older sibling so they weren’t alone, which is small comfort. Regardless, it looks like due process was neglected and the poor dad wasn’t given an opportunity to testify, make requests or say goodbye.
Ah, that makes sense. They really should have a separate way of letting drivers indicate if they want to be matched again or not.
April 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Ah, that makes sense. They really should have a separate way of letting drivers indicate if they want to be matched again or not.
Exactly! There won’t be elections, at least not legitimate ones, if this continues.
April 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Exactly! There won’t be elections, at least not legitimate ones, if this continues.