Malinda Lo
@malindalo.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
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Malinda Lo
@malindalo.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Malinda Lo - Author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Ash, and other novels.
Malinda Lo is the author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Ash, and other novels.
malindalo.com
Hi bluesky! I'm a NYT-bestselling author of 7 YA novels. My best known is Last Night at the Telegraph Club, winner of the 2021 National Book Award. My books are all about queer girls. More at malindalo.com or sign up for my monthly newsletter at malindalo.com/newsletter
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An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...
I used to think that getting involved with legislative work would inspire me and give me a sense of community. I have a sense of community now: with authors. Because we understand that nobody else gives a shit about us. That inspiration though is hard to find. I'm mostly feeling anger these days.
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I used to think that getting involved with legislative work would inspire me and give me a sense of community. I have a sense of community now: with authors. Because we understand that nobody else gives a shit about us. That inspiration though is hard to find. I'm mostly feeling anger these days.
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While the bill allows parents, students, and guardians to challenge book removals in state court, it does not allow creators and authors to do so. In its current form, the bill leaves authors unprotected from being discriminated against due to their identity.
The MA Senate will be voting on An Act Regarding Free Expression on Thursday 11/13. This Boston Globe article touts this as a positive development, but while the protections for libraries are welcome, this version of the bill strips all protections from authors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
Republicans have made it easier for book bans across the country. Massachusetts Democrats are looking to curb them here. - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Senate will vote Thursday on legislation that would create a set of rules and restrictions for school districts to follow when adding or removing school library materials.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
While the bill allows parents, students, and guardians to challenge book removals in state court, it does not allow creators and authors to do so. In its current form, the bill leaves authors unprotected from being discriminated against due to their identity.
The MA Senate will be voting on An Act Regarding Free Expression on Thursday 11/13. This Boston Globe article touts this as a positive development, but while the protections for libraries are welcome, this version of the bill strips all protections from authors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
Republicans have made it easier for book bans across the country. Massachusetts Democrats are looking to curb them here. - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Senate will vote Thursday on legislation that would create a set of rules and restrictions for school districts to follow when adding or removing school library materials.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The MA Senate will be voting on An Act Regarding Free Expression on Thursday 11/13. This Boston Globe article touts this as a positive development, but while the protections for libraries are welcome, this version of the bill strips all protections from authors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
Enjoying the good news this morning! Take the wins when you get them
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Enjoying the good news this morning! Take the wins when you get them
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Also a surprise upset in St Paul, Minnesota as Kaohly Her, who came to the United States at age 4, becomes the city’s first Hmong (and first Asian) mayor.
www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...
www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...
Kaohly Her wins historic election, will be St. Paul’s first Hmong mayor
Her, who entered the race in August, defeated her former boss Mayor Melvin Carter in his bid for a third term.
www.startribune.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Also a surprise upset in St Paul, Minnesota as Kaohly Her, who came to the United States at age 4, becomes the city’s first Hmong (and first Asian) mayor.
www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...
www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...
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I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
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Me, with a lady knight book from 2019: I would also like to be at this party.
This is the PW article, in which they also report that “First, it was fairies, courtesy of Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses,” to which I have to object: This is Holly Black erasure!! Also I wrote about fairies a long long time ago (2009).
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Lady Knights Are Having a Moment
A spate of new novels featuring strong and sometimes sapphic women warriors could presage the next big thing in fantasy.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Me, with a lady knight book from 2019: I would also like to be at this party.
According to Publishers Weekly, “lady knights are having a moment,” so let me share with you my lady knight story, “One True Love,” first published in 2012 and available to read for free at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/one-...
One True Love - Lightspeed Magazine
It is never lucky for a child to kill her mother in the course of her own birth. Perhaps for this reason, the soothsayer who attended the naming ceremony for Princess Essylt was not a celebrated one. ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
According to Publishers Weekly, “lady knights are having a moment,” so let me share with you my lady knight story, “One True Love,” first published in 2012 and available to read for free at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/one-...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Enshrining the right to read in the state would be a start. So, too, would overturning this particular law in the state.
What we need are people getting this vicious and cruel laws overturned.
We do NOT need people sending copies of the book to these kids.
What we need are people getting this vicious and cruel laws overturned.
We do NOT need people sending copies of the book to these kids.
I wonder what the best way would be to make these books available to every Utah school kid—and to let them know that they can access them.
The state of Utah quietly banned their 19th book from all public schools last week: bookriot.com/utah-bans-th...
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Enshrining the right to read in the state would be a start. So, too, would overturning this particular law in the state.
What we need are people getting this vicious and cruel laws overturned.
We do NOT need people sending copies of the book to these kids.
What we need are people getting this vicious and cruel laws overturned.
We do NOT need people sending copies of the book to these kids.
Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social
Battling book bans in Beantown and beyond - The Tufts Daily
I consider myself to be generally aware of the state of book banning in the United States. I read about the fights going on in school districts and libraries throughout Florida, Tennessee and Texas. I...
www.tuftsdaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social
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I realized yesterday one reason I am so angry at "AI" is because the companies behind it stole my words to make the monster they worship. I don't want my words to be part of this, but they gave me no choice. May the monster they created eat them and destroy them. 🧙🏻♀️
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I realized yesterday one reason I am so angry at "AI" is because the companies behind it stole my words to make the monster they worship. I don't want my words to be part of this, but they gave me no choice. May the monster they created eat them and destroy them. 🧙🏻♀️
This news is so intriguing! The prize will be focused on books published for children ages 8-12. It will be judged initially by 3 adults who come up with a shortlist, then 3 children will join the judging. Huge financial award to author, plus 30K copies of the honored books will be given to kids.
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This news is so intriguing! The prize will be focused on books published for children ages 8-12. It will be judged initially by 3 adults who come up with a shortlist, then 3 children will join the judging. Huge financial award to author, plus 30K copies of the honored books will be given to kids.
This article (top link) is excellent. 👏👏👏
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This article (top link) is excellent. 👏👏👏
I realized yesterday one reason I am so angry at "AI" is because the companies behind it stole my words to make the monster they worship. I don't want my words to be part of this, but they gave me no choice. May the monster they created eat them and destroy them. 🧙🏻♀️
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I realized yesterday one reason I am so angry at "AI" is because the companies behind it stole my words to make the monster they worship. I don't want my words to be part of this, but they gave me no choice. May the monster they created eat them and destroy them. 🧙🏻♀️
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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If you're at the Boston Book Festival this weekend, make sure to visit us at the Beacon Press Booth 55
Boston Book Festival 2025 — Mass Freedom To Read
Mass Freedom To Read will be at the Boston Book Festival! Come see us at the Beacon Press Booth #55 and write postcards to your legislators urging them to support An Act Regarding Free Expression.
www.massfreedomtoread.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you're at the Boston Book Festival this weekend, make sure to visit us at the Beacon Press Booth 55
A thoughtful essay on Last Night at the Telegraph Club and censorship today.
"Telegraph Club’s depiction of the anxiety connected to the threat of arrest, deportation, and erasure is a shockingly, depressingly relevant overarching story in the midst of which Lily is trying to find her own truth"
"Telegraph Club’s depiction of the anxiety connected to the threat of arrest, deportation, and erasure is a shockingly, depressingly relevant overarching story in the midst of which Lily is trying to find her own truth"
Determined to finish my established chosen set, I closed out this year’s series with @malindalo.bsky.social’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club, to talk about the importance (esp now) of access to diverse stories and how unsettling it is to be writing about a book published in the last 3 years
[On Literary Censorship]: Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club
On finding connection amidst societal anxiety
katelynwrites.medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A thoughtful essay on Last Night at the Telegraph Club and censorship today.
"Telegraph Club’s depiction of the anxiety connected to the threat of arrest, deportation, and erasure is a shockingly, depressingly relevant overarching story in the midst of which Lily is trying to find her own truth"
"Telegraph Club’s depiction of the anxiety connected to the threat of arrest, deportation, and erasure is a shockingly, depressingly relevant overarching story in the midst of which Lily is trying to find her own truth"
PSA to all authors affected by the Anthropic settlement: You don't have to file your claim right now. You have until March 2026 to do so. My agent advised that I should wait a little while and let things shake out. You *can* file now but it won't hurt to wait a bit and it might benefit you.
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
PSA to all authors affected by the Anthropic settlement: You don't have to file your claim right now. You have until March 2026 to do so. My agent advised that I should wait a little while and let things shake out. You *can* file now but it won't hurt to wait a bit and it might benefit you.
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If you need a shot of righteous adrenaline on a Monday, I highly recommend @malindalo.bsky.social's acceptance speech from the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards. The whole ceremony is now online, but here's Malinda's speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aD...
The Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards 2025 10 11 25
YouTube video by ERVK
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you need a shot of righteous adrenaline on a Monday, I highly recommend @malindalo.bsky.social's acceptance speech from the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards. The whole ceremony is now online, but here's Malinda's speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aD...
Many excellent inflatables in the responses to this post!
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Many excellent inflatables in the responses to this post!
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For authors, email offers a way to connect with readers and professional opportunities. For some, it also becomes a pipeline for harassment. Katherine Locke, a children’s and YA author, has experienced that firsthand. (1/3)
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For authors, email offers a way to connect with readers and professional opportunities. For some, it also becomes a pipeline for harassment. Katherine Locke, a children’s and YA author, has experienced that firsthand. (1/3)