Caitlin Law Ryan
@caitlinlawryan.bsky.social
Literacy prof, teacher educator, lover/scholar of children’s lit, coauthor of Reading the Rainbow, queer 🏳️🌈, mom.
Say gay and protect trans kids.
Say gay and protect trans kids.
Just crying. Ugggh.
June 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Just crying. Ugggh.
This administration is worse than trash (obviously), but this particular case might not be totally true. Here’s what my historian BFF sent me: bsky.app/profile/kris...
The Smithsonian just confirmed:
— The Greensboro lunch counter is on view at NMAH
— One Woolsworth's stool is on view at NMAAHC (there are two but they rotate)
— The virtual Greensboro lunch counter interactive is up and running at NMAAHC
There's been no change. blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
— The Greensboro lunch counter is on view at NMAH
— One Woolsworth's stool is on view at NMAAHC (there are two but they rotate)
— The virtual Greensboro lunch counter interactive is up and running at NMAAHC
There's been no change. blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
blackpressusa.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This administration is worse than trash (obviously), but this particular case might not be totally true. Here’s what my historian BFF sent me: bsky.app/profile/kris...
Reposted by Caitlin Law Ryan
imo it's incredibly REVEALING about how these justices interpret the constitution itself that alito is out there blatantly lying about what this children's book is about
and that even when sotomayor proves it by QUOTING THE BOOK, both alito and the lawyer just ignore her and get to speak over her 🤡
and that even when sotomayor proves it by QUOTING THE BOOK, both alito and the lawyer just ignore her and get to speak over her 🤡
![[screenshot of a transcript of supreme court oral argument in mahmoud v. taylor, available online at https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/24-297_bp7c.pdf]
JUSTICE ALITO: Yeah, the book has -- the book has a clear message, and a lot of people think it's a good message, and maybe it is a good message, but it's a message that a lot of people who hold on to traditional religious beliefs don't agree with. I don't think anybody can read that and say, well, this is just telling children that there are occasions when men marry other men, that Uncle Bobby gets married to his boyfriend, Jamie, and everybody's happy and everything is -- you know, it portrays this -- everyone accepts this except for the little girl, Chloe, who has reservations about it. But her mother corrects her: No, you shouldn't have any reservations about this. As I said, it has a clear moral message. There may be –
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Wait a minute. The reservation is about –
JUSTICE ALITO: Can I finish, please?
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Counsel. Yeah.
JUSTICE ALITO: It has a clear moral message. And it may be a good message. It's just a message that a lot of religious people disagree with.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n67d6vhcx2ownx63bkql3avf/bafkreiafggao5rqvtn6pnpvchxftppqikngxqaf4zzov2cpbovl44g4y2q@jpeg)
![[screenshot of a transcript of supreme court oral argument in mahmoud v. taylor, available online at https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/24-297_bp7c.pdf]
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Counsel, a couple of questions to clarify things. Uncle Bob's Wedding, the character, the child character, wasn't objecting to same-sex marriage. She was objecting to the fact that marriage would take her uncle away from spending more time with her, correct?
MR. BAXTER: Again, it would be -- you know, courts would be engaged in religious discrimination entanglement if they –
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm asking you to answer my question. It wasn't that she was objecting to gay marriage qua gay marriage, period. She was objecting to having her uncle's time taken by someone else?
MR. BAXTER: I'm not sure that's correct, Your Honor. I think, for a child of that age –
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Then now we -- now –
MR. BAXTER: -- it's hard to express what their actual concerns are.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Well, when the character says he'll have less time for me, it seems self-evident, isn't it?
MR. BAXTER: You know, Your Honor, I -- again, Montgomery County's own principals objected to this –
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: All right. Now](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n67d6vhcx2ownx63bkql3avf/bafkreifss7yyrqrmxp77kegfpn37tggokrbm6v7vj2v52syyxveooub66a@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
imo it's incredibly REVEALING about how these justices interpret the constitution itself that alito is out there blatantly lying about what this children's book is about
and that even when sotomayor proves it by QUOTING THE BOOK, both alito and the lawyer just ignore her and get to speak over her 🤡
and that even when sotomayor proves it by QUOTING THE BOOK, both alito and the lawyer just ignore her and get to speak over her 🤡
Yes, but it's been reissued with human characters. littlebeebooks.com/books/uncle-...
Uncle Bobby's Wedding - little bee books
“Valiant, valid, validating, valuable.”-Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked Chloe’s favorite uncle is getting married, and she’s not happy about it. But after a magical day with Uncle Bobby and his boyf...
littlebeebooks.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yes, but it's been reissued with human characters. littlebeebooks.com/books/uncle-...