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creatingcrista.bsky.social
@creatingcrista.bsky.social
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Queer | She/her| Disabled & chronic pain | AUDHD |Special Ed TA |Lover of books! | Cat and dog mom | Book goal 44/33 | 🌈📚🐱🐶💪🏼
Reading is political and I’m loud about it 💖

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creatingcrista.bsky.social @creatingcrista.bsky.social · Feb 17
Just a reminder -

I am lesbian
I am first generation Latina
I am disabled
I am audhd
I grew up on many of the programs this gov is ending

This page is for love, friendship and community.

You may call me radical, I simply call myself human.

Do not bring your bullshit onto this page.
creatingcrista.bsky.social
First real shower at home, after a surgery. Amazing
July 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
If you’re able to shop my Amazon list, I’d be so grateful!
(I avoid shopping here as much as I can but for equipping a full classroom- it is the easiest)

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

#teachersky #specialeducation #wishlist
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
Sorry I’ve been absent for so long!
Application season for teaching jobs is no joke.
But- I got my dream position!

Summer will be reading books and classroom prep

#booksky #teachersky #specialeducation
June 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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theailingwitch.bsky.social
Full on eugenics.

Reminder disabled people exist in ALL social groups— this is aimed at eradicating us too.

“… [CBO] estimates 13.7 million people will lose health coverage. LGBTQ+ people — especially those living with HIV, people of color, and low-income families — are among the hardest hit.”
cwnewser.bsky.social Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · May 22
The Republican-passed “big beautiful bill” takes away health insurance coverage from ALL transgender people, regardless of age.

HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: In a heartbreaking declaration, a gay Guatemalan man ("OCG") tells a federal judge about his tortured life in hiding since DHS unlawfully deported him to Mexico without a reasonable-fear interview (he's now in Guatemala). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
3. I am living alone in a house my sister owns. I don't stay in any of the places I used to stay because the story is the same as ever here: gay people like me are targeted simply for who we are. This produces constant fear and panic. My mother and cousins and other relatives have been helping me out so that I don't have to go outside very much, because this situation is so dangerous for me. 4. I feel fear and the danger any time I go out. For me, it's not easy. The people who targeted me before know who I am and they have shown me twice before what they're capable of. I don't want to get attacked a third time. The first days when I got back, I had to go out and get groceries because I had nothing. And just then, one of those who had threatened me before passed on a motorcycle. I was out with a hat on and I do not think they spotted me, but I saw them. They are out here, and I don't feel safe. In any moment, I could go out and they could be walking there and they would recognize me. I have so much panic because of this. 5. When I leave, I wear hats and try to camouflage myself so that no one recognizes me and sees that I have returned. But living a normal life is impossible here, and I live in fear because of the past hateful incidences I experienced. 6. I can't be gay here, which means I cannot be myself. I cannot express myself and I am not free. I feel so vulnerable for many reasons - I can't be a person who can walk in the streets, who gets a coffee, or who buys groceries because someone might hit me or threaten me. Anything could happen to me in the street. My family is always warning me to be careful, be careful. The situation here has been so difficult for me here. Since I've been back, I've had to be more private. I can't be the same me as I was before, because I am constantly afraid. I am the smallest version of myself because I have so much more fear.
May 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
19 working days left to this school year.

Phew

Hug your friends who work in special education yall, we are not thriving lol
May 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
When you are down about your chronic illness, just cheer yourself up by remembering that you only live once.
May 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
11 like new books for $10
Man I love thrifting!

Haul to come.

#booksky #thriftsky
May 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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lilibetbombshell.bsky.social
Here’s 20 sci-fi or sci-fi blend novels I’ve rated 4-5 ⭐️. May the Force be with you.

Post: bit.ly/3ET9uun

#bookrecs #bookish #scifi #addtotbr #BookSky #Maythe4thbewithyou #Maythe4th
May 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
Book 44 of 2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Just go read it!
It’s quirky, emotional, historical, very queer.

So glad I got it from @netgalley.bsky.social and @alcovepress.bsky.social

#booksky #bookreview
A picture of the cover for “disco witches of fire island”
May 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
Writers: gen ai is theft

Artists: gen ai is theft

Narrators: gen ai is theft

Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet

Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet

Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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indivisible.org
(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal
May 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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cameron-sidhe.bsky.social
Feels pretty crummy to get less than 30 downloads for my completely free #LGBTQ #fantasy fairy tale. Like damn, can't even give this stuff away?

Please consider downloading it, if only to make me feel better 🥺 it literally doesn't cost you a thing. books2read.com/b/luridalr 🖋️📚
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Saint Luridalr and the Peony Phoenix by Cameron Sidhe
books2read.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
May reads so far.
Recommend both!

#booksky #bookreviews #mayreads #bookarcs
Graphic for what I’ve read in May. 2 books shown so far, “flirty dancing” and “disco witches of fire island”
May 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
Chugging along through my May ARCS!

#booksky #bookreviewer
Graphic of “last now next” for my reading. Last “disco witches of fire island” Now “hotter in the hamptons” Next “get real Chloe Torres”
May 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
April wrap up
Excited to see what books I get into for May

#booksky #bookreview
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May 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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daxaeterna.ink
It's both Independent Bookstore Day and Lesbian Visibility Day! You can grab my books from Bookshop in paperback and hardcover to support indie bookstores or in ebook on Itchio at a special price

Bookshop; bookshop.org/lists/by-dax...
Itchio; itch.io/s/151852/les...
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day To All the Disaster Lesbians. A row of book covers including A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams, Birthing Orion, Shades and Silver, Stars and Soil, Smoke and Steel, Shackles and Shards. Revolutionary Fantasy, Sapphic Romance.
April 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It’s also my first book’s birthday—‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ came out on April 26, 2022, and it’s been an absolute wild ride ever since.

Buy it here on Bookshop to support the ILWU Local 5 strike fund! bookshop.org/p/books/figh...
Me (white woman with facial piercings and blue eyes) smiling and giving a thumbs up next to a stack of my then-new book at the Strand in NYC
April 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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riengray.bsky.social
For Lesbian Visibility Day (and Week!) I've put all of my titles on itch at 50% off, or you can get all of my works together at a further discounted bundle price!

Get your monstrous, magical, and otherwise magnificent lesbians and sapphics here: itch.io/s/151891/les...
Five of Rien Gray's sapphic romances presented against a lesbian flag gradient background. They're all on sale!
April 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
April has been a good reading month so far!
5 more days, how many books will I read?
#booksky
A chart of books I’ve read in April. Shows 9 book covers Chart of books I’ve read in April part 2, shows 2 book covers so far
April 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
Definitely recommend!
Quick queer read.
Great Debut Novel!
@netgalley.bsky.social

#booksky #queerbooks
Picture of book “everything is fine here” with 3.5 gold star rating. African grasslands in background of photo.
April 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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screwedjoan.bsky.social
legal hrt is getting squashed out this year, full stop. try to get your cis friends to understand this is genocidal in intent. people will die and they know it and they want it and these orgs are willing to allow that so they can continue to operate as sycophants.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Apr 12
Shame on Planned Parenthood of Arizona for dropping their trans patients because of threats from Trump.

What happens when they make you stop providing abortions? Birth control? PReP? Gonna roll over then too?

These orgs complying are cowardly.
ket.bsky.social Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · Apr 12
GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals.
HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what.

can't make this shit up man
April 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
This was the cutest read!
Only took me about 2.5 hours to read. Found it to be a great palate cleanser reading wise.
Cute cozy found family fantasy!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Releases April 15th, 2025

@netgalley.bsky.social @jpennerauthor.bsky.social
#booksky #bookreview
A floral fantasy background. The words “book review” overlapped and the cover of A fellowship of Bakers and Magic on top
April 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
creatingcrista.bsky.social
Book Review
Woodworking by Emily St.James

Absolutely stunning piece of work!
Go read this book!
Attached are some of my favorite thoughts and a brief summary of my thoughts.

For more go follow my storygraph and insta.
#booksky #bookreview #queerbooks #transbooks
A photo of an exterior wall with the words “trans is divine” written on it and a blurb of my opinion on the book. “A 6 star read! What an incredible and addictive read. This book examines community, womanhood, patriarchy, oppression, trans identity and so much more.” A trans flag hanging in a window and the shadow of a house plant against it. Over lapping are 3 quotes I found impactful from the book. “To be more oneself, she realizes now, can be seen as a great violence by anyone who thinks they understand how the world works. Or how you work.” “You are a promise you make to yourself. It’s called woodworking.” “…her body was not a tomb to die in but a foundation to build upon.” A picture of the book cover “Woodworking” by Emily St. James
April 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM