e katherine kottaras
@katherinekottaras.bsky.social
Writer for kids & adults. Most recent:
A 🌈 Inside My Body (Viking)
🦥 Yoga With Eleonora
M.A. English / M.S. Kinesiology
L.A. 🌴 25+ yr K-14 public educator
breathe/ listen/ write/ do
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www.katherinekottaras.com/
A 🌈 Inside My Body (Viking)
🦥 Yoga With Eleonora
M.A. English / M.S. Kinesiology
L.A. 🌴 25+ yr K-14 public educator
breathe/ listen/ write/ do
🏳️🌈🍕🌻
Rep’d by Jennie Kendrick, Red Fox
www.katherinekottaras.com/
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How to Come Out to the Jasmine First: On Writing and Loving in the Natural World | E Katherine Kottaras
In this exploration of creativity, identity, and healing, E. Katherine Kottaras invites readers to discover how writing and connection to nature can transform our relationship with ourselves and the w...
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Pre-orders opened last week for my forthcoming book! How to Come Out to the Jasmine First 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💚🌿
🌿queer mom memoir
🌿meditations on navigating chronic illness
🌿invitations to ground, write, reflect, and heal
#transdayofvisibility
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🌿queer mom memoir
🌿meditations on navigating chronic illness
🌿invitations to ground, write, reflect, and heal
#transdayofvisibility
www.katherinekottaras.com/product-page...
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“Storytelling can be more than a blog post, essay, or book. It can be an emoji, a meme, a selfie, or a tweet. It can become a movement for social change.”
—Alice Wong (1974–2025)
—Alice Wong (1974–2025)
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Storytelling can be more than a blog post, essay, or book. It can be an emoji, a meme, a selfie, or a tweet. It can become a movement for social change.”
—Alice Wong (1974–2025)
—Alice Wong (1974–2025)
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Small actions snowball and eventually become avalanches. And, above all, please support the voices you want to be heard. Big names aren't necessarily facing financial ruin when they are targeted, but smaller ones are.
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Small actions snowball and eventually become avalanches. And, above all, please support the voices you want to be heard. Big names aren't necessarily facing financial ruin when they are targeted, but smaller ones are.
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Senator Brian Schatz (@schatz.bsky.social) is calling out what happened to Padilla right now on the Senate floor:
"This is the stuff of dictatorships. It is actually happening."
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
"This is the stuff of dictatorships. It is actually happening."
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
June 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Senator Brian Schatz (@schatz.bsky.social) is calling out what happened to Padilla right now on the Senate floor:
"This is the stuff of dictatorships. It is actually happening."
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
"This is the stuff of dictatorships. It is actually happening."
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS is now on #Goodreads! Would love it if you added it to your TBR!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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Beyond Seven Forests
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.
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June 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS is now on #Goodreads! Would love it if you added it to your TBR!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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You can cry.
It doesn’t make you weak.
It just means you are hydrated.
It doesn’t make you weak.
It just means you are hydrated.
If Charles Bukowski Wrote a Children’s Book About Emotional Regulation
Sometimes you feel like a fist. Other times, you feel like the ashtray after a party no one invited you to. Both are fine. Just don’t throw the fis...
buff.ly
June 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
You can cry.
It doesn’t make you weak.
It just means you are hydrated.
It doesn’t make you weak.
It just means you are hydrated.
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Fellow Californians:
I'm going to draft some scripts and will be back shortly.
If you don't live in California?
Please call your electeds. Don't stop. You don't want this happening in your state either.
I'm going to draft some scripts and will be back shortly.
If you don't live in California?
Please call your electeds. Don't stop. You don't want this happening in your state either.
June 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Fellow Californians:
I'm going to draft some scripts and will be back shortly.
If you don't live in California?
Please call your electeds. Don't stop. You don't want this happening in your state either.
I'm going to draft some scripts and will be back shortly.
If you don't live in California?
Please call your electeds. Don't stop. You don't want this happening in your state either.
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There are over 10,000+ banned books in the US, nearly half of them are banned for LGBTQ content. Share and help spread awareness. Make sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay updated.
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June 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
There are over 10,000+ banned books in the US, nearly half of them are banned for LGBTQ content. Share and help spread awareness. Make sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay updated.
authorsguild.org/newsletter-s...
authorsguild.org/newsletter-s...
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Sharing again. Pretty sure I shared it before somewhere around 2017.
June 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Sharing again. Pretty sure I shared it before somewhere around 2017.
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Do not be distracted. What's happening in LA and in other parts of our country, yes, not good, not good at all. And as bad and in many ways much worse is this ugly bill being pushed through congress. Stay steady, determined, strong. Urge your Senators of every stripe to vote no.
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Do not be distracted. What's happening in LA and in other parts of our country, yes, not good, not good at all. And as bad and in many ways much worse is this ugly bill being pushed through congress. Stay steady, determined, strong. Urge your Senators of every stripe to vote no.
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Just tuning into the news.Not good. I am going to be out of commission for a while, but, friends, humbly I ask you to keep your practice steady, truly be of benefit to others, stand in your values of care, + do whatever you can to end the violence in our country and in our world.
June 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just tuning into the news.Not good. I am going to be out of commission for a while, but, friends, humbly I ask you to keep your practice steady, truly be of benefit to others, stand in your values of care, + do whatever you can to end the violence in our country and in our world.
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Also, ICYMI: Trump and Hegseth have both threatened to deploy the Marines.
Everyone, if you're not in CA and looking for a way to help? Demand your electeds call this out. Call them. Do it now.
I'll defer to the lawyers, but deploying Marines => using the Insurrection Act.
Everyone, if you're not in CA and looking for a way to help? Demand your electeds call this out. Call them. Do it now.
I'll defer to the lawyers, but deploying Marines => using the Insurrection Act.
LA Clashes Escalate; Trump Considers Deploying Marines
Demonstrations over U.S. immigration raids intensified for a third consecutive day in the Los Angeles area, with thousands of protesters clashing with security forces outside a downtown federal detent...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Also, ICYMI: Trump and Hegseth have both threatened to deploy the Marines.
Everyone, if you're not in CA and looking for a way to help? Demand your electeds call this out. Call them. Do it now.
I'll defer to the lawyers, but deploying Marines => using the Insurrection Act.
Everyone, if you're not in CA and looking for a way to help? Demand your electeds call this out. Call them. Do it now.
I'll defer to the lawyers, but deploying Marines => using the Insurrection Act.
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Kudos to the ABC7 anchor for calling the administration's tactics as being "war-like tactics" + stressing people are upset that members of their community are being taken away.
Jesus - I was just checking the KNX feed to make sure it was live and I just heard one explosion so loud, it actually made me jump.
Per KNX - likely tear gas.
ABC 7 is also live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iV...
Per KNX - likely tear gas.
ABC 7 is also live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iV...
LIVE: ABC7 Eyewitness News
YouTube video by ABC7
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June 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Kudos to the ABC7 anchor for calling the administration's tactics as being "war-like tactics" + stressing people are upset that members of their community are being taken away.
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My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
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They keep saying they’re implementing martial law because of violence by protesters provoking them — “insurrection.”
It’s a lie. They’re doing this to create terror, like they’re doing now by coming to Pasadena & hijacking a hotel. There’s no violence happening in Pasadena.
It’s a lie. They’re doing this to create terror, like they’re doing now by coming to Pasadena & hijacking a hotel. There’s no violence happening in Pasadena.
CONFIRMED: ICE IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. CURRENTLY POSITIONED ON ROOFTOP OF MARRIOTT AC HOTEL BY URTH CAFE.
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They keep saying they’re implementing martial law because of violence by protesters provoking them — “insurrection.”
It’s a lie. They’re doing this to create terror, like they’re doing now by coming to Pasadena & hijacking a hotel. There’s no violence happening in Pasadena.
It’s a lie. They’re doing this to create terror, like they’re doing now by coming to Pasadena & hijacking a hotel. There’s no violence happening in Pasadena.
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Here's the official release from the White House, and apparently, we're in a state "of rebellion". 😒
Fellow Californians, you know the drill. Every one of us should be speed dialing:
- Our federal electeds
- Our state electeds
- Newsom
- And Bonta right now.
Fellow Californians, you know the drill. Every one of us should be speed dialing:
- Our federal electeds
- Our state electeds
- Newsom
- And Bonta right now.
June 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Here's the official release from the White House, and apparently, we're in a state "of rebellion". 😒
Fellow Californians, you know the drill. Every one of us should be speed dialing:
- Our federal electeds
- Our state electeds
- Newsom
- And Bonta right now.
Fellow Californians, you know the drill. Every one of us should be speed dialing:
- Our federal electeds
- Our state electeds
- Newsom
- And Bonta right now.
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(PEPPER'S RULES FOR SECRET SLEUTHING, also by Briana McDonald, includes a very sensitively-written trans character, too. I'm just out of agent copies on that one. But put it on your list if you know a kid who needs to see themselves in media. Or if you love Nancy Drew.)
June 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
(PEPPER'S RULES FOR SECRET SLEUTHING, also by Briana McDonald, includes a very sensitively-written trans character, too. I'm just out of agent copies on that one. But put it on your list if you know a kid who needs to see themselves in media. Or if you love Nancy Drew.)
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For those of you in SF (especially teachers and school librarians, but also parents and allies!), if you would like copies of MG books with queer joy, I have lots of copies of Briana McDonald's GALAXY JONES AND THE SPACE PIRATES/SECRETS OF STONE CREEK. I'd be thrilled to see them go to good homes!
June 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
For those of you in SF (especially teachers and school librarians, but also parents and allies!), if you would like copies of MG books with queer joy, I have lots of copies of Briana McDonald's GALAXY JONES AND THE SPACE PIRATES/SECRETS OF STONE CREEK. I'd be thrilled to see them go to good homes!
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Along 20+ organizations, The Authors Guild urges Congress to reject proposed cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As news deserts expand—206 counties have NO local news source!—we can't afford to lose these vital community voices.
rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-a...
As news deserts expand—206 counties have NO local news source!—we can't afford to lose these vital community voices.
rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-a...
April 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Along 20+ organizations, The Authors Guild urges Congress to reject proposed cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As news deserts expand—206 counties have NO local news source!—we can't afford to lose these vital community voices.
rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-a...
As news deserts expand—206 counties have NO local news source!—we can't afford to lose these vital community voices.
rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-a...
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First, a baseline step: Know that autocratic leaders can be successfully challenged. @chenoweth.bsky.social has found that when at least 3.5 per cent of the population participated in nonviolent opposition, movements were largely successful.
April 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
First, a baseline step: Know that autocratic leaders can be successfully challenged. @chenoweth.bsky.social has found that when at least 3.5 per cent of the population participated in nonviolent opposition, movements were largely successful.
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“Let people thank you for your art, when they say thank you they want to dance with you, that connection means something
Say, “You’re welcome.” @rykaaoki @pcclancer
Say, “You’re welcome.” @rykaaoki @pcclancer
April 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“Let people thank you for your art, when they say thank you they want to dance with you, that connection means something
Say, “You’re welcome.” @rykaaoki @pcclancer
Say, “You’re welcome.” @rykaaoki @pcclancer
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CORY HAS PASSED THE STROM THURMAN MARK! History has been made.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
CORY HAS PASSED THE STROM THURMAN MARK! History has been made.
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I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.
In a video posted by Elon Musk’s PAC, a $1M check recipient linked voting to receiving the money:
“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
March 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.