Becka Robbins
@beckarobbins.bsky.social
Covergirl, coffee addict, songwriter.
Founder: Books Not Bans
I throw literary themed parties and ship boxes of books across the country.
Working to expand access to queer books in America.
Fiction teaches us to dream.
Opinions are my own.
#booksky
Founder: Books Not Bans
I throw literary themed parties and ship boxes of books across the country.
Working to expand access to queer books in America.
Fiction teaches us to dream.
Opinions are my own.
#booksky
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Becka Robbins
@beckarobbins.bsky.social
· Dec 16
Books Not Bans
booksnotbans.com
I'm working to get 1000 LGBT+ books out to PFLAG chapters all over the country. They are going to LGBT youth - I don't need to tell folks how rough it is now for queer youth in red states. We have more resilience when we see ourselves in stories.
Read more at booksnotbans.com
#booksky #lgbt #books
Read more at booksnotbans.com
#booksky #lgbt #books
Riffing, I asked Chat GPT to create an inner life for me. The final line of a lengthy discourse: "Would you like a personalized ritual, meditation, journaling prompts, or even a fictional inner world you can retreat into? I can help build any of that with you."
June 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Riffing, I asked Chat GPT to create an inner life for me. The final line of a lengthy discourse: "Would you like a personalized ritual, meditation, journaling prompts, or even a fictional inner world you can retreat into? I can help build any of that with you."
Someone I've been friends with for years decided to tell me out loud that my spouse is more likable than I am. I've hosted this person at multiple dinners in my home.
Do I even need to say this is a man?
Do I even need to say this is a man?
May 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Someone I've been friends with for years decided to tell me out loud that my spouse is more likable than I am. I've hosted this person at multiple dinners in my home.
Do I even need to say this is a man?
Do I even need to say this is a man?
I totally get that everyone is afraid right now, and also -- that's their goal. When we're rooted in fear, we can't plan, we freeze up, we can't innovate or create or connect.
Sidenote, as a person with abandonment fears, hearing my friends talk about leaving the country is also scary.
#fear
Sidenote, as a person with abandonment fears, hearing my friends talk about leaving the country is also scary.
#fear
April 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I totally get that everyone is afraid right now, and also -- that's their goal. When we're rooted in fear, we can't plan, we freeze up, we can't innovate or create or connect.
Sidenote, as a person with abandonment fears, hearing my friends talk about leaving the country is also scary.
#fear
Sidenote, as a person with abandonment fears, hearing my friends talk about leaving the country is also scary.
#fear
I LOVE MY TRANS FAMILY.
I can't believe we are still sitting having to repeat the obvious truth that trans women are women. Everyone deserves to be safe living their beautiful truths.
My fellow cis women - do you think we are safe if trans women aren't?
#transrights
I can't believe we are still sitting having to repeat the obvious truth that trans women are women. Everyone deserves to be safe living their beautiful truths.
My fellow cis women - do you think we are safe if trans women aren't?
#transrights
April 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I LOVE MY TRANS FAMILY.
I can't believe we are still sitting having to repeat the obvious truth that trans women are women. Everyone deserves to be safe living their beautiful truths.
My fellow cis women - do you think we are safe if trans women aren't?
#transrights
I can't believe we are still sitting having to repeat the obvious truth that trans women are women. Everyone deserves to be safe living their beautiful truths.
My fellow cis women - do you think we are safe if trans women aren't?
#transrights
I have a lot of what the actual f moments here but seriously WHAT is up with all the young and glamorous neo fash? I can't wrap my head around the number of people who are insta ready, evil and apparently, everywhere. I have never sat around and hated on any young people before now. #old
April 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have a lot of what the actual f moments here but seriously WHAT is up with all the young and glamorous neo fash? I can't wrap my head around the number of people who are insta ready, evil and apparently, everywhere. I have never sat around and hated on any young people before now. #old
Feels like a great time remind people of a core truth:
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR GOVERNMENT
Do not penalize artists, authors, activists, small business owners and LGBTQ+ people for the actions of their falsely elected leaders. Not here, not in Russia, not in Iran, not in Palestine, not in Israel.
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR GOVERNMENT
Do not penalize artists, authors, activists, small business owners and LGBTQ+ people for the actions of their falsely elected leaders. Not here, not in Russia, not in Iran, not in Palestine, not in Israel.
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Feels like a great time remind people of a core truth:
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR GOVERNMENT
Do not penalize artists, authors, activists, small business owners and LGBTQ+ people for the actions of their falsely elected leaders. Not here, not in Russia, not in Iran, not in Palestine, not in Israel.
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR GOVERNMENT
Do not penalize artists, authors, activists, small business owners and LGBTQ+ people for the actions of their falsely elected leaders. Not here, not in Russia, not in Iran, not in Palestine, not in Israel.
Reposted by Becka Robbins
We're loving the energy! Now it's time to MARCH!!! Join the People's March with Alex U. Inn and Juanita More next Saturday, April 12 - we're starting on Embarcadero Plaza at NOON!
People’s March - Fight Fascism for Democracy — Juanita MORE!
WHAT: People's March / Fight Fascism for Democracy WHEN: Saturday, April 12, 2025 TIME: Noon - 3 PM / Gather 11:30 AM PLACE: Embarcadero Plaza, Market St & Steuart Street, SF CA 94105 The…
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April 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We're loving the energy! Now it's time to MARCH!!! Join the People's March with Alex U. Inn and Juanita More next Saturday, April 12 - we're starting on Embarcadero Plaza at NOON!
I can't think of a single fellow Jew gullible enough to believe that the GOP gives a damn about us. They're setting Jews up to be scapegoated.
71% of Jews voted for Harris, vs 57% of whites voted for Trmp. Jews make up .2% of the world population, but 1% of world's immigrants.
#jewish #resist
71% of Jews voted for Harris, vs 57% of whites voted for Trmp. Jews make up .2% of the world population, but 1% of world's immigrants.
#jewish #resist
April 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I am putting together a panel about the transformative power of fiction and just had the best chat with a researcher from Stanford about how books make us and society more resilient and connected. I'm very excited about this.
April 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am putting together a panel about the transformative power of fiction and just had the best chat with a researcher from Stanford about how books make us and society more resilient and connected. I'm very excited about this.
Never did 23andMe because my family is crazy and I fear finding more relatives.
April 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Never did 23andMe because my family is crazy and I fear finding more relatives.
I just got back from Saints and Sinners, an LGBT literary festival in New Orleans. I was honored to be able to present there on the importance of having queer books in a community. Stories bring us together and make us better as a society.
April 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I just got back from Saints and Sinners, an LGBT literary festival in New Orleans. I was honored to be able to present there on the importance of having queer books in a community. Stories bring us together and make us better as a society.
Books bans are a symptom of fascism.
That said, I don't use banned book lists as a list of what to read because I don't let fascists tell me what books should be on my nightstand.
Fascists don't know how to read.
#bookstagram #bookbans
That said, I don't use banned book lists as a list of what to read because I don't let fascists tell me what books should be on my nightstand.
Fascists don't know how to read.
#bookstagram #bookbans
March 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Books bans are a symptom of fascism.
That said, I don't use banned book lists as a list of what to read because I don't let fascists tell me what books should be on my nightstand.
Fascists don't know how to read.
#bookstagram #bookbans
That said, I don't use banned book lists as a list of what to read because I don't let fascists tell me what books should be on my nightstand.
Fascists don't know how to read.
#bookstagram #bookbans
Books Not Bans has now sent over 2200 LGBT books. We've sent them to US states where access to queer content is difficult to access and highly restricted. I'm very, very proud of this. Please join this effort. Let me know if your bookstore would like to participate. #bookstagram
March 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Books Not Bans has now sent over 2200 LGBT books. We've sent them to US states where access to queer content is difficult to access and highly restricted. I'm very, very proud of this. Please join this effort. Let me know if your bookstore would like to participate. #bookstagram
Flow!!! I’m crying all over again! That movie was everything!! #academyawwrds
March 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Flow!!! I’m crying all over again! That movie was everything!! #academyawwrds
I predicted Culkin for best supporting! He killed that complicated role! #academyawards
March 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I predicted Culkin for best supporting! He killed that complicated role! #academyawards
Academy Awards is like the superbowl for Angelinos who grew up with no football team and also don’t care about sports #academyawards
March 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Academy Awards is like the superbowl for Angelinos who grew up with no football team and also don’t care about sports #academyawards
I’m here for all #thesubstance jokes and he managed to make it even more cringey! Amazing. #academyawards
March 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I’m here for all #thesubstance jokes and he managed to make it even more cringey! Amazing. #academyawards
Susan Stryker should be mandatory reading and her book Transgender History should be on every single bookshelf.
February 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Susan Stryker should be mandatory reading and her book Transgender History should be on every single bookshelf.
Last night Books Not Bans packed up over 1100 books to ship out to queer community groups around America.
50) people in SF came to help out and dance and be together in community and show up for the most marginalized LGBT people.
I'm SUPER proud of this little nonprofit I started.
#lgbt #booksky
50) people in SF came to help out and dance and be together in community and show up for the most marginalized LGBT people.
I'm SUPER proud of this little nonprofit I started.
#lgbt #booksky
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have been saying for YEARS that homophobia and trans hating garbage has been driven by insecure jerks who are afraid of a world not driven by traditional gender roles.
I just want to get high, listen to dad rock and not do my hair. Leave me in peace to act like a depressed teenage boy. #gender
I just want to get high, listen to dad rock and not do my hair. Leave me in peace to act like a depressed teenage boy. #gender
February 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I have been saying for YEARS that homophobia and trans hating garbage has been driven by insecure jerks who are afraid of a world not driven by traditional gender roles.
I just want to get high, listen to dad rock and not do my hair. Leave me in peace to act like a depressed teenage boy. #gender
I just want to get high, listen to dad rock and not do my hair. Leave me in peace to act like a depressed teenage boy. #gender
I'm at the #winterinstitute in Denver and 1)I have taken 30 ARCs home, 2)Ocean Vuong's speech was dazzling and beautiful.
February 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm at the #winterinstitute in Denver and 1)I have taken 30 ARCs home, 2)Ocean Vuong's speech was dazzling and beautiful.
Reposted by Becka Robbins
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
February 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
BE THAT ADULT!
I'm reading Our Share of Night and it is super political, super relevant to today, and extremely queer and actually scary horror. I'm LOVING this book. #booksky
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'm reading Our Share of Night and it is super political, super relevant to today, and extremely queer and actually scary horror. I'm LOVING this book. #booksky
The Oscars in LA are like the big game day. I like to go in with my favorites picked so I can be disappointed later and yell at the screen like sports fans do when their team does something stupid.
Cramming to catch up on my viewing - Have to see Conclave, Nickel Boys, Emilia Perez, all the shorts.
Cramming to catch up on my viewing - Have to see Conclave, Nickel Boys, Emilia Perez, all the shorts.
February 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Oscars in LA are like the big game day. I like to go in with my favorites picked so I can be disappointed later and yell at the screen like sports fans do when their team does something stupid.
Cramming to catch up on my viewing - Have to see Conclave, Nickel Boys, Emilia Perez, all the shorts.
Cramming to catch up on my viewing - Have to see Conclave, Nickel Boys, Emilia Perez, all the shorts.