Dana Alison Levy (she/her)
@danaalisonlevy.bsky.social
Writer of books, rouser of rabble.
50% books, 50% cats, 50% political rants, 0% math. I swear more than you might expect.
YA/MG author repped by Marietta Zacker @ Gallt & Zacker. www.danaalisonlevy.com
https://linktr.ee/danaalisonlevy
50% books, 50% cats, 50% political rants, 0% math. I swear more than you might expect.
YA/MG author repped by Marietta Zacker @ Gallt & Zacker. www.danaalisonlevy.com
https://linktr.ee/danaalisonlevy
TOMORROW!!!!!
If you are in Cambridge tomorrow evening join us!
If you are in Cambridge tomorrow evening join us!
Boston area folks who care about the freedom to read: Tomorrow, Tuesday 9/30 at 7 pm, come to @portersqbooks.bsky.social Cambridge for a workshop on how YOU can support legislation to protect libraries, schools, and authors in Massachusetts portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0... #bannedbooks
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
TOMORROW!!!!!
If you are in Cambridge tomorrow evening join us!
If you are in Cambridge tomorrow evening join us!
So excited for this event next week at @portersqbooks.bsky.social! Let's get together and work for the freedom to read!
September 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
So excited for this event next week at @portersqbooks.bsky.social! Let's get together and work for the freedom to read!
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Authors, illustrators, anthology editors, translators: Have you joined @authorsabb.bsky.social yet? I can't think of a better time to do so.
AuthorsAgainstBookBans.com
AuthorsAgainstBookBans.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Authors, illustrators, anthology editors, translators: Have you joined @authorsabb.bsky.social yet? I can't think of a better time to do so.
AuthorsAgainstBookBans.com
AuthorsAgainstBookBans.com
For the morning crowd! My next #nonfiction #kidlit #stem book will be out next year, and it’s all about FOXES.
Sometimes this job is the best.
Sometimes this job is the best.
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
For the morning crowd! My next #nonfiction #kidlit #stem book will be out next year, and it’s all about FOXES.
Sometimes this job is the best.
Sometimes this job is the best.
Book News!! I get to write a book about foxes!!! I’m the luckiest!!! #kidlit
New books on the way from @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social @lisachowart.bsky.social @sassquachcomics.bsky.social @devpetty.bsky.social + more buff.ly/JBxonYK
September 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Book News!! I get to write a book about foxes!!! I’m the luckiest!!! #kidlit
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Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
September 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
Yeah now is not the time, folks. Come on.
September 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Yeah now is not the time, folks. Come on.
The problem with knowing I'll feel better if I reduce sugar is that I also know I'll feel better if I eat a bag of dark chocolate sea salt caramels.
The duality of humankind is really messing with me rn
The duality of humankind is really messing with me rn
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The problem with knowing I'll feel better if I reduce sugar is that I also know I'll feel better if I eat a bag of dark chocolate sea salt caramels.
The duality of humankind is really messing with me rn
The duality of humankind is really messing with me rn
Given the state of things I think this is an entirely reasonable way to spend the night. Or the foreseeable future.
September 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Given the state of things I think this is an entirely reasonable way to spend the night. Or the foreseeable future.
I cannot begin to talk about what’s happening all around us so instead I will say that I just finished @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social and fam’s LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN and it was a joy.
Good medicine indeed. #kidlit
Good medicine indeed. #kidlit
September 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I cannot begin to talk about what’s happening all around us so instead I will say that I just finished @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social and fam’s LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN and it was a joy.
Good medicine indeed. #kidlit
Good medicine indeed. #kidlit
Deeply proud to be a masshole
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:
“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Deeply proud to be a masshole
When we fight, we win.
The vast majority of ALL Americans disagree with book banning. So grateful to be a part of @authorsabb.bsky.social (and esp @massaabb.bsky.social) so that we can fight for everyone's right to read freely!
The vast majority of ALL Americans disagree with book banning. So grateful to be a part of @authorsabb.bsky.social (and esp @massaabb.bsky.social) so that we can fight for everyone's right to read freely!
“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books
The 2023 law prompted educators to pull classic literature, popular novels and even children’s picture books from school shelves.
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
When we fight, we win.
The vast majority of ALL Americans disagree with book banning. So grateful to be a part of @authorsabb.bsky.social (and esp @massaabb.bsky.social) so that we can fight for everyone's right to read freely!
The vast majority of ALL Americans disagree with book banning. So grateful to be a part of @authorsabb.bsky.social (and esp @massaabb.bsky.social) so that we can fight for everyone's right to read freely!
I can’t speak to the efficacy of the strategy but it’s pretty damn funny.
(Unless you start thinking about the level of discourse our felon in chief is actually spouting unironically. Then it’s just another reason to start hyperventilating)
(Unless you start thinking about the level of discourse our felon in chief is actually spouting unironically. Then it’s just another reason to start hyperventilating)
August 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I can’t speak to the efficacy of the strategy but it’s pretty damn funny.
(Unless you start thinking about the level of discourse our felon in chief is actually spouting unironically. Then it’s just another reason to start hyperventilating)
(Unless you start thinking about the level of discourse our felon in chief is actually spouting unironically. Then it’s just another reason to start hyperventilating)
So much frantic energy. So much effort. So many millions and millions of dollars. All to take away rights and cause harm.
It’s almost like — and I’m just spitballing here — it was never about the price of groceries.
It’s almost like — and I’m just spitballing here — it was never about the price of groceries.
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
So much frantic energy. So much effort. So many millions and millions of dollars. All to take away rights and cause harm.
It’s almost like — and I’m just spitballing here — it was never about the price of groceries.
It’s almost like — and I’m just spitballing here — it was never about the price of groceries.
How we doing, Bluesky fam? Are my #kidlit pals writing? Are folks still making art? Gotta admit that everything feels So. Damn. Heavy. these days, but I’m finding pockets of joy (and maybe attempting a murder-y new WIP) and hey! We have sungold tomatoes and local corn and full moons.
Onward.
Onward.
August 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
How we doing, Bluesky fam? Are my #kidlit pals writing? Are folks still making art? Gotta admit that everything feels So. Damn. Heavy. these days, but I’m finding pockets of joy (and maybe attempting a murder-y new WIP) and hey! We have sungold tomatoes and local corn and full moons.
Onward.
Onward.
Reposted by Dana Alison Levy (she/her)
Stonewall Book Award-winning author @alexgino.bsky.social speaks about why they support Massachusetts' Freedom to Read legislation: because books gave them "language to describe who I was, and knowledge that there were other people like me." #MassFreedomToRead
August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Stonewall Book Award-winning author @alexgino.bsky.social speaks about why they support Massachusetts' Freedom to Read legislation: because books gave them "language to describe who I was, and knowledge that there were other people like me." #MassFreedomToRead
On Tuesdays we wear black and fight for the freedom to read!!!
Glad to be repping @massaabb.bsky.social and #MassFreedomToRead on Beacon Hill this week!
Glad to be repping @massaabb.bsky.social and #MassFreedomToRead on Beacon Hill this week!
Yesterday members of Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans delivered testimony at the State House in Boston in support of An Act Regarding Free Expression. Thanks to everyone who came, including members of our #MassFreedomToRead coalition!
July 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
On Tuesdays we wear black and fight for the freedom to read!!!
Glad to be repping @massaabb.bsky.social and #MassFreedomToRead on Beacon Hill this week!
Glad to be repping @massaabb.bsky.social and #MassFreedomToRead on Beacon Hill this week!
Today a crew from @massaabb.bsky.social will be in Boston at the Statehouse, in support of bills H.3594 and S.2328, both titled An Act Regarding Free Expression.
This is about the freedom to create, read, and share freely.
We cannot do everything, but must try to do SOMETHING.
This is about the freedom to create, read, and share freely.
We cannot do everything, but must try to do SOMETHING.
July 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Today a crew from @massaabb.bsky.social will be in Boston at the Statehouse, in support of bills H.3594 and S.2328, both titled An Act Regarding Free Expression.
This is about the freedom to create, read, and share freely.
We cannot do everything, but must try to do SOMETHING.
This is about the freedom to create, read, and share freely.
We cannot do everything, but must try to do SOMETHING.
Reposted by Dana Alison Levy (she/her)
this should be an essay in the new yorker like asap, tbh
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
this should be an essay in the new yorker like asap, tbh
DREAM TEAM!!
Follow these accounts, sign up at the link in my last post, and jump in with us! Let's do this!
Follow these accounts, sign up at the link in my last post, and jump in with us! Let's do this!
July 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
DREAM TEAM!!
Follow these accounts, sign up at the link in my last post, and jump in with us! Let's do this!
Follow these accounts, sign up at the link in my last post, and jump in with us! Let's do this!
Reposted by Dana Alison Levy (she/her)
If you support freedom of expression and the freedom to read, join us in supporting the passage of An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328) by signing up at eepurl.com/ji3oJw
Authors Against Book Bans
Authors Against Book Bans Email Forms
eepurl.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you support freedom of expression and the freedom to read, join us in supporting the passage of An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328) by signing up at eepurl.com/ji3oJw
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Follow, sign up for updates, and get involved!
Follow, sign up for updates, and get involved!
Mass Freedom to Read is a new coalition that represents Massachusetts parents and readers, authors and creators, libraries, booksellers, and publishers. We believe that freedom of expression, including the freedom to read, is a fundamental American right, protected by the First Amendment. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Follow, sign up for updates, and get involved!
Follow, sign up for updates, and get involved!
Hope the Bluesky #kidlit fam is hanging in there. These are hard days indeed, and yet the world needs our stories more than ever. Keep going.
July 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hope the Bluesky #kidlit fam is hanging in there. These are hard days indeed, and yet the world needs our stories more than ever. Keep going.
Random Question™ Time
If you're an author or illustrator of any sort (#kidlit, adult, nonfiction, self-pubbed, academic, comic, etc) are you a member of Authors Against Book Bans?
If so, drop a 👍🏽 in the comments! If not...WHY NOT?
@authorsabb.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social
If you're an author or illustrator of any sort (#kidlit, adult, nonfiction, self-pubbed, academic, comic, etc) are you a member of Authors Against Book Bans?
If so, drop a 👍🏽 in the comments! If not...WHY NOT?
@authorsabb.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Random Question™ Time
If you're an author or illustrator of any sort (#kidlit, adult, nonfiction, self-pubbed, academic, comic, etc) are you a member of Authors Against Book Bans?
If so, drop a 👍🏽 in the comments! If not...WHY NOT?
@authorsabb.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social
If you're an author or illustrator of any sort (#kidlit, adult, nonfiction, self-pubbed, academic, comic, etc) are you a member of Authors Against Book Bans?
If so, drop a 👍🏽 in the comments! If not...WHY NOT?
@authorsabb.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social