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Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
@cswild.bsky.social
📚 Picture books!
💜 LOVE, VIOLET (Chua FSG)
🍎 THE AMAZING IDEA OF YOU (Lundquist, Bloomsbury)
✏️ former educator, bookseller, SCBWI RA
🌈2LGBTQIAP+ she/her
♿ ME/CFS

🌿 www.CharlotteSWild.com 🌿
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New Braunfels schools, by San Antonio, TX, closed their middle & HS libraries - a library-wide ban - to assess which books to remove under SB 13. See article for action steps. School board meets Nov. 10. Thanks for speaking out! #kidlit #bookbans @bookriot.bsky.social

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A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries
In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This library needs your support today! 700 books have been challenged.

Please sign the petition and help @everylibrary.bsky.social fight for libraries in the United States.

#bookbans #booksnotbans

www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/st... @everylibrary.bsky.social
Stop the Book Bans & Demand Accountability from Lamar CISD
Lamar CISD has quietly banned over 700 books — including The Paper Bag Princess, Pinkalicious, The House on Mango Street, The Glass Menagerie, The Bluest Eye, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.&nbsp...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Here's how I met Plymouth Congregational Church, which supported me personally (see below!), 2LGBTQIA+ and marginalized people generally, and reading freedom boldly during #MahmoudvTaylor. Organized religion is complicated for me, but I found love among these people. That gives me hope!
October 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🌈💜📚 This is beautiful: In response to #MahmoudvTaylor, Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis not only purchased 100 copies of #LOVEVIOLET to donate, but raised 2k for #LGBTQIA+ causes!

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#kidlit #bookbans @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
Plymouth Congregational Church Supports Reading Freedom! - Charlotte Sullivan Wild
Here’s a story of love, a story about people of faith doing the opposite of banning books. *** This year, my picture book Love, Violet became embroiled in the Supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor. Rel...
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October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
We believe that every person, of every age, of every race, of every gender, no matter who they love, or where they live, should have access to books that reflect and expand their worldview. #UniteAgainstBookBans #BannedBooksWeek
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ira Wells' powerful response to book banning efforts in CA lays bare the true aim: to erase and degrade anyone of a marginalized identity. I appreciate this clarity that applies to so much banning. #booksnotbans #kidlit #FReadom #readingliberty @pencanada.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Want to support #FReadom? For a short time, the book creators named in #MahmoudvTaylor are offering shirts, hoodies, & sweatshirts with art from @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social - to raise funds for @penamerica.bsky.social, who supported us during this case! #kidlit

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August 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
There is so much I could say for The Pink Pajamas, but so little time!

So this short video is just summarizing the story, and my hope for the book!

#kidlit #books #booksky
August 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congrats @charlenedraws.bsky.social on your beautiful new #picturebook THE PINK PAJAMAS! This tender story about a pj-making aunt, loss, and love is so beautiful!

(Charlene created the gorgeous illustrations for Love, Violet)

#kidlit #weneeddiversebooks

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Four Questions for Charlene Chua
A grieving girl finds the ideal way to honor her late aunt in Charlene Chua’s 'The Pink Pajamas: A Story About Love and Loss,' the second picture book Chua has both written and illustrated (after 2020...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
I had the time wrong - it starts tonight at 8 pm Eastern and goes for 24 hours. I'll be reading at 2:45 pm tomorrow! #ReadOUTLoud
August 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
This weekend Read OUT Loud as part of a national day of action to support Queer Kids Books. Find in-person events near you or sign up to participate in an online action!
Read OUT Loud Press Release
Read OUT Loud Contact Information: Jeannie Regan (she/her) jeannieregan.mail@gmail.com Emily L. (they/them) sorryimallbooked88@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/readoutloud4ever Release Date: July ...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
"given Mahmoud’s award of temporary relief to a single school district, it has no effect on the fundamental values of our State"

BOOM!!
There it is!!
Let this be the banner on every school board thinking their being pressured to follow crooked bans...
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
If you’re craving more on this topic, I interviewed the author of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding about Alito’s homophobic butchering of its message: slate.com/news-and-pol...
How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench
So what was the message of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding?
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July 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
This may seem amorphous, but it is something that I and two of the authors in the case, @cswild.bsky.social and @katherinelocke.bsky.social, have all noticed, and I think it's very real.
July 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
My statement on the decision and dissent in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Please also read statements by all the authors via @penamerica.bsky.social, and statements by @robinstevenson.bsky.social, @katherinelocke.bsky.social, +Charlotte Sullivan Wild. 100% agree with everything they said.
July 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
"We would not expect schools to put Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in the sex education curriculum simply because it features a straight mom and dad. Why would Justice Gorsuch or others believe stories about families with two moms or two dads belong there?"
July 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I love this article by @mombian.bsky.social about #mahmoudvtaylor & the importance of joy. There is power in sharing our joy & need for inclusive books with educators, school boards, & those deciding whether or not to include everyone at school.

#kidlit #lgbtq+

mombian.com/2025/07/10/t...
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July 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM