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Elaine Burnes 🏳️‍🌈
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I (she/her) write stories about women who are bold, flawed, and love other women. SF: Endurance and Tenacity (books 1 & 2), Wishbone, and A Perfect Life and Other Stories. More at https://elaineburnes.com/
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I write stories I want to read, that I wish I had been able to find as a queer young adult. I read, I write, and I support sapphic and women-loving-women stories.
#bannedbooksweek
#SapphicsWithTheBanned
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Image shows book cover for Tenacity by Elaine Burnes. Headline: My Book. My Right To Write. Text points out features: Science fiction, Heroic, but relatable sapphic space adventure, Goldie winner!, Secret Tech. Bottom banner has text: Our Books. Our Rights. Banner has Golden Crown Literary Society logo, #SapphicsWithTheBanned, and Sapphic Action Support Squad logo
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Stories silenced are lessons not learned, truths denied, human beings ignored. Remember, minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.
#BannedBooksWeek
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Stories Silenced 1 in 4 banned books has LGBTQ+ characters. Image shows a meter, 25%, and arrow pointing out LGBTQ+ Characters Source: PEN America – Freedom to Read Program
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Do something revolutionary! Read a book!
#bannedbooks 🏳️‍🌈🪐📚
Image shows book cover for Endurance by Elaine Burnes. Headline: Our Books. Our Rights. Text points out features: “The trip of a lifetime,” kick-ass space adventure, Science fiction, Sapphic love story. Bottom banner has Golden Crown Literary Society logo, #SapphicsWithTheBanned, and Sapphic Action Support Squad logo
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Once again, this time with the alt text!
#Ineedcoffee #BannedBooksWeek
I stand with GCLS & SASS Efforts to silence diverse voices, including sapphic and women-loving-women stories, are a direct threat to free expression and to the readers who need to see themselves represented. I believe every story matters, and I am committed to promoting, protecting, and uplifting sapphic literature as an act of resistance, visibility, and pride. I offer my full support to those working to ensure these stories remain accessible and celebrated.
October 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Stories matter. Point of view matters. Who gets to tell stories matters. Stories change lives. Stories can save lives. I write stories I want to read, that I wish I had been able to find as a queer young adult. I read, I write, and I support sapphic and women-loving-women stories.
#BannedBooksWeek
October 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I'm trying!

#amwriting #writingsky
Own your main character energy. Dove Promises foil wrapper copy.
July 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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My sapphic sci fi adventure book Endurance is part of the IHS Great Pride Giveaway today! You have till July 7 to enter for a chance to win 58 ebooks. shorturl.at/oyHr1
🏳️‍🌈🪐📚 #SapphicReads #sapphicbooks #SapphicFiction #bookgiveaway
Book cover of Endurance by Elaine Burnes
June 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I loved Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. Beautiful writing and she ends the book before the hare dies. I did skip most of the chapter Blood Harvest. You can guess what that’s about. Beautiful illustrations by Denise Nestor.
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#booksky
Book cover, Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton shows an illustration of a hare.
June 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Takeaways from a No Kings protest yesterday:
1. Even small, red towns turn out big numbers. With a population of about 7,000, the town next to mine, saw some 600 show up to line Main Street.
2. It’s rained every Saturday for the past three months here. Still people come.
No Kings in America written with an American flag upside down
June 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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My latest sapphic sci fi adventure, Tenacity, is included in today’s I Heart SapphFIC Great Pride Giveaway of 53 ebooks! Wow! One winner chosen June 17 will get all 53 ebooks! So enter now! 🪐📚🏳️‍🌈
iheartsapphfic.com/2025/06/15/g...

#booksky
#SapphicReads #sapphicbooks #SapphicFiction #bookgiveaway
Book cover for Tenacity by Elaine Burnes shows two women sihlouetted against a planet seen from orbit.
June 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Got my copy today! And since I have covid during peak migration and it's raining for Noah, this will keep me happy!
May 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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The River Has Roots is magical! Loved it! And I read to the end of the acknowledgements, as should everyone. Now I'll go back to the sneak peek story.
Cover of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Illustration of a mill and chicken. Milwich Eggs & Loaves
April 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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It's not a prison in El Salvador. It's a concentration camp.
Max Burns @themaxburns. From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: "What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process." Welp.
April 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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That alternate reality where, once again, I agree with Liz Cheney.
"Speaking the truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants." -Liz Cheney
April 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A very rich man, with a case before a state court, is spending a lot of money to elect a state supreme court judge who might rule favorably in his case once it reaches that level. Do you see a problem with this?

Welcome to Wisconsin.

Don’t let Musk get away with this.
Photos of a woman and a man. Text: Judge Susan Crawford represented public school teachers in a lawsuit to overturn Act 10; represented Planned Parenthood against attacks on reproductive healthcare supports voting right and Constitutionally fair voting maps. Brad Schimel pledged to defend Act 10—limiting the rights of public workers to collectively bargain for better wages and benefits; endorsed by radical anti-abortion group: Pro-Life Wisconsin; defended egregiously gerrymandered maps.
March 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I finished draft 2 of my WIP. Now I’ll take a break before the read aloud. That’s where I’ll hear all the shit I thought I’d fixed before. Am/Not looking forward to it. #writersky In the meantime, watch a cat sleep.
photo of a tabby cat curled up asleep on a red blanket
February 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Gotta love the Wayback Machine.

Images are DOJ webpage for January 26, the last time a report on policing was saved by archive.org vs today.
Image of DOJ webpage from 1/26/25: Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, May 2015 Image of DOJ webpage from 2/9/25 of DOJ page: "The requested page could not be found."
February 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Can't promise all 20 or each day. 😀 ) #booksky 📚🪐
Book cover of Solitaire, by Kelley Eskridge
February 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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A lot of good advice here. Such a loss. What are you reading for inspiration?
Book cover: Alexis Navalny: Patriot, a Memoir
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Confederate flags now on U.S. federal websites. Wow
February 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Alexei Navalny, Patriot, a Memoir
February 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Tariffs announced beside Dow Jones response.
Screenshot of Karoline Leavitt announcing tariffs on Canada and Mexico at 1:19 p.m. Chart of Dow Jones on 1/31/25 showing the drop coinciding with the announcement of tariffs.
January 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Ironic or truth?
Screenshot from Microsoft Office says it has identified a potential security concern. Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data. It is important that this file is from a trustworthy source. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/ Clicking will enable all hyperlinks to this domain, for this session. Do you want to continue?
January 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I'll take it!
Uplifting
January 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Janeway visits Janeway
Image of USS Voyager over Janeway Statue in Bloomington, IN.
December 23, 2024 at 5:43 PM