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iyana goes to the library
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she/her • 🗽 • talks too much about books • currently: assistant editor @publishersweekly // books contributor @swooon• bylines Popsugar, Shondaland, Essence + more • opinions my own
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iyana goes to the library @iyanaskye.bsky.social · Jan 21
time i say hello #booksky 👋🏾 🦋

I’m Iyana, a Black girly/ reader/ writer (tackling #kidlit book news at PW) who wants to talk about all her fave books! so if you want to see interviews with your fave authors, running book commentary, come join the party 🩷✨

IG: www.instagram.com/iyanagoestot...
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washingtonpost.com
“Sesame Street” has found itself a new home.

Netflix announced that the decades-old public educational television program will premiere its 56th season on the global streaming giant, along with 90 hours of previous episodes.
‘Sesame Street’ is coming to Netflix with new streaming deal
“Sesame Street” will release episodes on both PBS Kids and Netflix later this year.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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nytimes.com
CBS News faced another shock wave on Monday after its president, Wendy McMahon, abruptly said that she would exit her post, the latest development in an ongoing showdown between the news division and President Trump. nyti.ms/43BBjRp
Wendy McMahon is seated and talking to another person whose back is to the camera. Text reads "Head of CBS News to Depart Amid Tensions With Trump." Photo by Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
May 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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andreagonram.bsky.social
Wrote about Adriana Smith, who has been kept alive for months on a ventilator, brain dead, against her family's wishes—all because of Georgia's six-week abortion ban.

www.thecut.com/article/adri...
We’re Just Human Incubators to Them
Thirty-year-old Adriana Smith, who is brain dead, has been kept on a ventilator for months due to Georgia’s abortion ban.
www.thecut.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
very much swept away by #BethOLeary & her new romance Swept Away 🌊⚓️💕 we talk survival romance, her love of forced proximity, & how to find humor in a life-or-death scenario www.swooon.com/1185251/swep...
Inside Beth O'Leary's New Book 'Swept Away': Her Survival Romance Explained (Exclusive)
The author opens up about her most high-stakes romance yet.
www.swooon.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
The Trump administration violated *another* court order by deporting a professor despite her valid visa and a judge’s order halting her removal
Brown University Professor Deported Despite Valid Visa And Judge's Order
A representative for Customs and Border Protection told HuffPost, "Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States."
www.huffpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
an honor to speak with @mobrowne.bsky.social about her new collection A Bird in the Sky Means We Can Still Breathe, an incredible collection about NYC teens coming of age during the height of the pandemic🐦‍⬛☁️✨ pubwkly.omeclk.com/portal/wts/u...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
showing love to Black love all year round 💕🔐🤞🏾 here’s Swooon’s picks for Best Black Romances of 2025 : www.swooon.com/book-list/bl... feat : @kennedyryan.bsky.social @danielleallen.bsky.social @beebabs.bsky.social @reginablackwrites.bsky.social @myahariel.bsky.social @ettaeaston.bsky.social + more!
10 Black Romance Books to Read in 2025
From Kennedy Ryan's newest to second chance romances.
www.swooon.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
why yes indeed i did read all of ali hazelwoods books and ranked them in honor of Valentine’s Day!!: www.swooon.com/book-list/al... #romancebooks #romancelandia #alihazelwood #steminist
Ranking All 7 of Ali Hazelwood's Romance Novels
Find out where her latest romance 'Deep End' ranks.
www.swooon.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE I GOT MY BEYONCE TICKETS
February 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
NEW: A military fighter jet has crashed into San Diego Bay. This is the 6th plane collision (and 2nd military collision) since Trump took office.
Military fighter jet crashes into San Diego Bay off Point Loma coast
An ABC 10News crew was at the scene reporting on another story when they saw what appeared to be a military aircraft crash into the water.
www.10news.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
this is the worse day of my life (aka I did not get Beyonce tickets)
February 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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pallavi.bsky.social
if i text you this just know you’re cooked
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
New Orleans you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing in history
kylietcheung.bsky.social Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · Feb 7
they couldn't have booed just a LITTLE harder???? 💔
February 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
obviously have a crush all on the romance picks out this month on Swooon🩷✨ #romancelandia : www.swooon.com/book-list/be...
10 Best New Romance Novels of February 2025
Is February the peak of romance novels? Check out our top 10 book picks.
www.swooon.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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debbieohi.com
Thx @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social for incl me in round-up of opinions about #KidLit & social media, with @laurelsnyder.bsky.social @katemessner.com @studiojjk.bsky.social @katemckean.bsky.social @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social @ryanlasala.bsky.social & others:

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Where Is the Kid Lit Community Online?
As social media communities splinter, authors and publishers wonder where their next digital water cooler will be.
www.publishersweekly.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:
Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place. Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
social media platforms are basically burning themselves down and i talked to #kidlit professionals about finding the next best digital water cooler for fostering community (a hint: you might be on it rn) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Where Is the Kid Lit Community Online?
As social media communities splinter, authors and publishers wonder where their next digital water cooler will be.
www.publishersweekly.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
all this Cowboy Carter hate…y’all better stay home then 🙂‍↔️
February 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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popbase.tv
Beyoncé becomes the first black woman to win Album of the Year at the #GRAMMYs  since Lauryn Hill in 1999.
February 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
Abracadabra!!!! GAGA I’ve MISSED YOU
February 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
iyanaskye.bsky.social
BEYONCEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
Anyway I look forward to celebrating Black History Month.
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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maris.bsky.social
Not since people were dying from the high price of insulin and politicians were tweeting about it have I been at this level of FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!
January 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NBCC member Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviewed "We Do Not Part," written by Han Kang and translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, for WBUR's Arts & Culture:
Han Kang's 'We Do Not Part' counters unimaginable brutality with courage and empathy
Based on real-life events, the Nobel laureate's fifth novel highlights the generational trauma that flows through one family from the 1948 massacre on Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea. Critic…
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM