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Laila Sabreen
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author of YOU TRULY ASSUMED || storytelling main character || PhD-ing || 1913🔺|| she/her || Rep: Beth Phelan

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Laila Sabreen @lailasabreen.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hi #KidLit friends!

I’m Laila Sabreen, and I write stories that center Black Muslim girls. I’m also currently pursuing my PhD and my research focuses on exploring how Black girlhood is portrayed in literature.

Looking forward to connecting with many of you!✨
Laila Sabreen is holding a copy of her book, You Truly Assumed. You Truly Assumed is facing outwards on a bookshelf. The cover features three Black Muslim teens.
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The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights.

I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique.
Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...
An orange-pink flier that reads “I’ve donated to the we the people summer fundraiser” + “August 18th through 27th to benefit #Kidlit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights”
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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WELCOME VIRGO SEASON! ECLIPSES ARE NIGH! GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER! ORGANIZE! GLOBAL STRIKE EVERY THURSDAY! BOYCOTT! NON COMPLIANCE AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! IT’S NOT COMPLICATED! NO TO APARTHEID! FREE PALESTINE! LET AID IN! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! END THE OCCUPATION! DO SOMETHING W YOUR LIFE AND BE OF SERVICE!
August 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 22
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per DHS & ICE sources, this afternoon, DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday. Notifications below 👇🏻
August 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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✨Please share and bookmark!✨

In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights!

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

+ A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:
August 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
lailasabreen.bsky.social
The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights.

I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique.
Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...
An orange-pink flier that reads “I’ve donated to the we the people summer fundraiser” + “August 18th through 27th to benefit #Kidlit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights”
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.
August 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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✨WE ARE LIVE!✨

Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza!

322 still without bids:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol and 2020 may have helped prominent Black authors finally get their due, but overall, not much shifted.

Pre-orders are a way to signal demand for a book. When you pre-order a book, you're telling the publisher "print more copies". #blacksky
Publishing Pledged to Diversify. Change Has Been Slow. (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol let me tell you something about the publishing industry:

It's very white. Like VEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRY white.
Opinion | Just How White Is the Book Industry? (Published 2020)
New data shows the extent of the race problem in the publishing world.
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
lol pre-ordering Black authored books ensures that more Black authors get published and get better deals. In this essay, I will-
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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My July Wrap-Up is ✨up✨ on Substack!

lailasabreen.substack.com/p/july-wrap-up
July Wrap-Up
on revising, summer, & my writing process
lailasabreen.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.
richardstupart.com Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · Jul 31
At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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richardstupart.com
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.

If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.

Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Readers, writers today is the last day to bid on some really cool items from the Lit for Queer Liberation auction! All proceeds go to the Queer Liberation Network, a charity my friend Garrett founded and I serve on the board of www.32auctions.com/LitforQueerL...
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · Jul 12
Health clinics across America are serving up injections of testosterone. Men younger than 35 are the most eager customers
American men are hungry for injectable testosterone
A legion of new health clinics are serving it up
econ.st
July 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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npr.org
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
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July 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Let’s try this again with a working link:

There are moments where you don’t know what to say. You just want to scream.

If you need somewhere positive to put some energy on, I’m trying to make this the biggest fundraiser! 75/1000 item goal met!

Donate an item or three here:
bit.ly/WeThePeopleF...
June 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.
June 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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lailasabreen.bsky.social
Happy Juneteenth to Black Texans and their descendants!

I’m glad I was able to shoutout some of our history in my YA novel, YOU TRULY ASSUMED!✨

Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta
Cover of YOU TRULY ASSUMED by Laila Sabreen. Features three Black Muslim teens in front of a tangerine orange background and surrounded by olive branches that have both olives and white flowers on them. The blurb from Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars, reads: “Powerful…a must-read for everyone.” A page from YOU TRULY ASSUMED that touches on Juneteenth. The specific paragraph in which Juneteenth is mentioned reads: “Nana’s parents bought the house after they moved to Inglethorne from Texas during the Second Great Migration, and the house has been in the family ever since. The house smells like fresh biscuits, the earthy incense that Nana always burns, and a lot of love. Music plays from the TV, which is sent to a Chanel that plays R&B songs that they call oldies but goodies.” The main character, Farah, reflects on Juneteenth in the pharaoh that reads: “Even though I haven’t been to Texas since I was little, Nana always cooks a big dinner every Juneteenth to celebrate. It’s a time to reconnect with my roots and also eat really good fried fish, mac and cheese, and 7Up cake. I can’t remember a time when I’ve missed Juneteenth dinner.”
June 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
lailasabreen.bsky.social
Happy Juneteenth to Black Texans and their descendants!

I’m glad I was able to shoutout some of our history in my YA novel, YOU TRULY ASSUMED!✨

Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta
Cover of YOU TRULY ASSUMED by Laila Sabreen. Features three Black Muslim teens in front of a tangerine orange background and surrounded by olive branches that have both olives and white flowers on them. The blurb from Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars, reads: “Powerful…a must-read for everyone.” A page from YOU TRULY ASSUMED that touches on Juneteenth. The specific paragraph in which Juneteenth is mentioned reads: “Nana’s parents bought the house after they moved to Inglethorne from Texas during the Second Great Migration, and the house has been in the family ever since. The house smells like fresh biscuits, the earthy incense that Nana always burns, and a lot of love. Music plays from the TV, which is sent to a Chanel that plays R&B songs that they call oldies but goodies.” The main character, Farah, reflects on Juneteenth in the pharaoh that reads: “Even though I haven’t been to Texas since I was little, Nana always cooks a big dinner every Juneteenth to celebrate. It’s a time to reconnect with my roots and also eat really good fried fish, mac and cheese, and 7Up cake. I can’t remember a time when I’ve missed Juneteenth dinner.”
June 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM