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Susan Gray Foster

@susangrayfoster.bsky.social

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Writing and Art / Love creativity and empathy for all living creatures / SCBWI member / #PitchWars mentee + mentor alum / Vegan 💕🐾

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 19d

🗽Shouldn’t we all be anti-fascist?🗽
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#Epstein
#Art

Paper collage showing the words, “ Shouldn’t we all be antifascist?” Surrounded by spindly, fragile daisies in rainbow colors against a textured blue-gray background.

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doandraws.bsky.social @doandraws.bsky.social · 23h

#WorldMentalHealthDay2025 Look up at least once today. Just in case something really cool is happening. #draw #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #DepressionAndAnxietyAwareness FlyOver 6x9”

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 22h

🚫Portland is NOT burning. Protesters are NOT domestic terrorists. There is NOT an emergency that begins to justify sending troops into American cities.🚫
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#Chicago
#Portland
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing the word disinformation and its definition: false information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization. Murky gray background and a wilting daisy beneath the words.

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve tried to photograph the moon, so I know the feeling. Still love your photo though.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful!

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 1d

🗽The right to peacefully protest is fundamental to American Democracy.🗽
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#Chicago
#Portland
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing two doves carrying a banner that says, “The right to peacefully protest is fundamental to American Democracy.”

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 5d

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 5d

🕊️Anne Frank: “Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night or day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”🕊️
#AnneFrank
#NeverAgain
#Chicago
#PeacefulProtest
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#Art

Paper collage showing a quote from Anne Frank in white text against a stormy black background: “Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night or day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 6d

Gorgeous!!

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 6d

🌎🍃🕊️Jane Goodall: “Somehow we must keep hope alive—hope that we can find a way to educate all, alleviate poverty, assuage anger, and live in harmony with the environment, with animals, and with each other.” 🕊️🍃🌎
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing a handwritten quote from Jane Goodall: “Somehow we must keep hope alive—hope that we can find a way to educate all, alleviate poverty, assuage anger, and live in harmony with the environment, with animals, and with each other,” along with a white rabbit and butterfly, against a textured blue background.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 7d

This is Asher. He was found as a stray after being hit by a car. His pelvis was broken, and X-rays revealed his belly was full of rocks because he was desperately hungry. He needs a CT scan and full reconstruction of his pelvis. You can help him below ❤️‍🩹

15outof10.org/asher

the gray and white puppy from when he was found. he's covered in dirt and laying in a patch of dirt near a metal building. he's very skinny, and his back legs are tucked up close to his body.

an x-ray of the puppy reveals a shattered right hip, and his intestines are full of small rocks.

a gray and white puppy lays on an exam table in a blue vet's office. he has a blue cover over his body, and he looks toward the camera with fallen ears and an expression of concern.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 8d

😱Authoritarians use the military against their own citizens.😱
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing a glass jar labeled “Authoritarianism” holding a red and blue butterfly with the words “American Democracy” on its wings.

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 11d

🕊️We need a Department of Defense, NOT a Department of War.🕊️
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing a white dove with rainbow tipped feathers , surrounded by the words, “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” (John Lennon)

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 12d

🇺🇸 People who oppose the president are not “domestic terrorists” and have a 1st amendment right to free speech. 🇺🇸
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing a red, white, and blue butterfly with the words “free speech” on its wings against a dynamic blue background.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13d

War-ravaged Portland

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 13d

Currently re-reading Howl’s Moving Castle. It is SO delightful! 💕

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Alison Weiss @alioop7.bsky.social · 13d

Unapologetically read what gives you joy and strength and ignites a fire inside. Arm yourself with facts, with stories, with possibilities. There are those who don’t want you to know all you can be. Who want to imprison you with woe. They want you small. Devour words and build to dizzying heights.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 13d

🗽Freedom of speech & religion made America great.
🗽Immigrants made America great.
🗽Science & innovation made America great.
🗽Civil rights & workers’ rights made America great,
🗽Open-mindedness & empathy made America great,
🗽Democracy made America great.
🗽Education made America great.
#Resist
#Art

Paper collage showing a field of red, white, and blue flowers with the words, We, the people.

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Alison Weiss @alioop7.bsky.social · 14d

Are there topics you really wish you could get a presentation on from an editor at a conference, but they never seem to be covered? Let me know! I'm doing some plotting. Gathering ideas.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 16d

💙💜♥️🧡💛💚🖤🤍🤎
Trans rights are human rights.
Black Lives Matter.
Love is love.
Diversity makes us stronger.
Science saves lives.
Liberty and Justice for ALL.
💙💜♥️🧡💛💚🖤🤍🤎
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProtest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ScienceSavesLives
#Art

Paper collage showing butterflies, each a different color, along with the words, Trans rights are human rights, Black Lives Matter, Love is love, Diversity makes us stronger.

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Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 19d

Adorable!

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 19d

🗽Shouldn’t we all be anti-fascist?🗽
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#Epstein
#Art

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 21d

🇺🇸“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President … is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public.”🇺🇸
Theodore Roosevelt
#1stAmendment
#PeacefulProest
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#FreeDC
#NoKings
#StandUp
#HandsOff
#Resist
#ProtectAmericanDemocracy
#Art

Paper collage showing quote by Theodore Roosevelt against a textured gray background, framed by six small red, white, and blue flowers: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President … is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public.”

Susan Gray Foster @susangrayfoster.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks so much!😊