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Quinlan Mooney-Stewart
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I am the Traveling Witch Library! I go to renaissance faires and hand out free books! I love sewing, cosplay, books, art, crafts, all that junk! (She/her) Love is welcome here: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙
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I finished speed-reading the current series I was on, so I could sink my teeth into 107 Days, by Kamala Harris!
A hand with black-painted nails holds the book 107 Days by Kamala Harris in front of an American flag. The American Flag's red stripes are replaced with rainbow stripes, from red at the top, to purple at the bottom.
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Midterms are in November 2026! I encourage to research your candidates for FL Governor! I wrote a zine compiling all of the 31 candidates and their views, when available. Check it out! #creaseandresist #crease&resist #nokings2.0 #nokings #protest
Page 1 and 2 of Crease & Resist Zine. Lists the election dates and starts listing the candidates for FL Governor. Page 3 and 4 of Crease & Resist Zine. Lists the candidates for FL Governor. Page 5 of Crease & Resist Zine. Lists the candidates for FL Governor. Page 6 of Crease & Resist Zine. Lists the candidates for FL Governor, and other positions up for election.
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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A nice day for a Labor Day Ralley! Or maybe a Music Festival? I made a zine for the occasion. I can't wait for Midterms! #laborday #protest #zine
The front cover of a zine titled "Crease and Resist," a play on the phrase "Cease and Desist". The front page lists upcoming elections, specifically the U.S. Midterm Elections of 2026, which includes one-third U.S. Senate seats, all House of Representative seats, half of Florida State Senate seats, and all of Florida State House of Representative seats. The page also encourages the reader to vote in local elections, such as County, Town, City, Municipality, and School District Elections, and to visit their Board Meetings which are often posted to their website. The inner spread of the zine, titled "In Case You Missed It", has several important news stories that are ongoing. A short summary of the stories are as follows: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and FDOT removing the Pulse memorial rainbow crosswalk. The Federal Judge injunction to remove Alligator Alcatraz after a lawsuit was filed by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe. Governors in 19 states, including Florida, have agreed to the deployment of National Guard to their state. In related news, the National Guard in D.C. have been given authorization to carry pistols and rifles. Obergefell Vs. Hodges, the Supreme Court case allowing same sex marriage, will be discussed by judges at the judges' conference on 2/29. The judges will discuss whether to reconsider the case in court. Trump wants to charge teens in D.C. as young as 14 years old as adults. Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve employee, is suing Trump for his illegal attempt to fire her. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is facing a second ICE detention, under threat of deportation to Uganda. The government is trying to coerce a guilty plea with deportation to Costa Rica instead, but he is refusing. The last page of the zine is titled "Playlist of the Summer." The zine has a section about the ongoing weeks- and months-long protests in Denver, Chicago, NYC, Phoenix, Dallas, Portland, Los Angeles, and D.C. This section of the zine explains that some people are concerned that coverage about the protests are being censored or engagement suppressed on social media. To get around that, people on social media have been refering to the protests as music festivals. Additionally, there is a small section deicated to celebrating the protest where this zine was distributed being referenced in the local newspaper. At the bottom, there is a list of sources that were used in the contruction of this zine, including U.S. Senate and House websites, the Florida Divisions of Elections website, the Supreme Court Website, Ballotpedia, NPR, WSVN, WPEC, Friend of the Everglades, Democracy Now, Pensacola News Journal, NBC, Forbes, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and BBC.
September 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Just an inspirational reminder: midterms are Nov. 3, 2026! All 435 Representatives are up for election, and so is 1/3 of Senate! Let's see who's on the ballot this coming midterm 😎 #midterm #midtermelections #election
June 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This is the Zine I handed out at my local-ish No Kings Protest! I also handed out "I Dissent" buttons that I made! #nokings #idissent #protest
The front cover of the "Crease & Resist" Zine. This edition was written and printed for the No Kings protest on June 14th, 2025. A subtitle reads "I'm not afraid of the big bad bill." Following is a short description of the "Big Beautiful Bill" budget reconciliation Bill H.R. 1. There is a list of Trump's goals for the bill, including: cuts to clean energy programs; cuts to food stamp programs; gives money to Elon Musk's Space X program for the "Golden Dome" project; cuts to gender-affirming care; cuts to Planned Parenthood; limits to judges' ability to enforce contempt of court charges; prevents AI regulation for 10 years; cuts to Medicaid/Medicare; increases budget for ICE/mass deportation; allows sale of public lands for mining and timber. Underneath is a call to action: call your Senators and Representatives. Recommendation to download 5Calls app. The middle spread of the June 14th Crease & Resist Zine. Required reading (all books available at the library, and on audiobook): A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn. A User's Guide to Democracy, by Nick Capodice and Hannah McCarthy. Let This Radicalize you, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. A subtitle reads Local Legislation, and provides some details on local government elections and upcoming town council/commissioners regular meetings that constituants can attend. The right side lists multiple cities/towns ajoining the town that I attended for No Kings, but the blurb recommends finding your municipality by searching on your county's property appraiser's website. Then, search for your municipality's website for their next scheduled regular meeting and election. The blurb also recommends watching a livestream of the meeting online, if available, or speaking at a meeting if you go in person. Agendas are posted online before the meetings. The back page of the June 14th Crease & Resist Zine. Know Your Rights for Protesting, cited from the ACLU. 1. You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news, or to march along streets or sidewalks as long as you don't block traffic or access to federal buildings. 2. In public spaces, you are allowed to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and police. 3. If you believe your rights have been violated: write everything down, get contacts for any witnesses, take photos of injuries. 4. If you are stopped by police, ask if you are free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. 5. If you are arrested, you have the right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Do not sign, say, or agree to anything without a lawyer present. 6. If you get stopped by military or law enforcement, you have a right to remain silent or tell them you will only answer questions in the presence of a lawyer/attorney, no matter your citizenship/immigration status. To learn more, you can RSVP to an ACLU Know Your Rights training on the ACLU's website. A pin button on a dark grey t-shirt. The pin has a waving american flag, upside-down (as a symbol of distress) as the background. In bold black letters reads "I DISSENT" in all caps.
June 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I got a book stamp yesterday and proceeded to stamp all of the books I've read so far and kept on my bookshelf. #booksky
Brown cardboard with two of the same stamp marked onto it, to test the ink. The stamp is of the lined-up spines of books. In a circle around the books' spines, the stamp reads "Traveling Witch Library" on the top and "Seal of Approval" on the bottom.
May 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Happy Harvey Milk Day! Celebrating today with both Gilbert Baker's original pride flag design alongside today's inclusive pride flag. #harveymilk #pride #prideflag #history #pridehistory #harveymilkday
Gilbert Baker's original pride flag, made at request of Harvey Milk. The flag has eight equal height horozontal stripes. From top to bottom: hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple. Today's inclusive pride flag. The flag retains six horizontal stripes on the right side of the flag. From top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. On the left is a triangle, the point in the middle of the flag pointing to the right. The triangle, from center to point, has the yellow flag with a purple circle, indicating the Intersex flag. Next is white, light pink, and light blue of the transgender flag. Next is brown and black for LGBTQ+ persons of color.
May 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Zines and sign made for Mayday protest! Vote out the bad Senators and Representatives that voted for awful bills in FL! #mayday #protest
Mayday protest sign. Donald Trump's face is drawn three times. The left face is drawn in red and features Trump with a clown wig, clown nose, and button up shirt collars reading "Tweedle Dee". The right face is drawn in blue and features Trump wearing a king's cloak, a ripped Burger King crown, and button up shirt collar reading "Tweedle Dumb". The middle face is drawn in black and has a large circle and slash over Trump's face. Words below the drawings reads "Free informational zines". Page 1 of a zine called "Crease and Resist" as a play on "Cease and Desist". The first page has the status of harmful Florida bills that were presented and voted on this 2025 legislation, including SB1710 (limits DEI, no movement), SB752/HB667 (makes suing for defamation without proof easier, no movement), SB100/HB75 (no LGBTQ or political flags in government buildings, withrdrawn), SB440/HB1495 (takes away rights for transgender people in the workplace, no movement), SB420 (bans DEI in local goverment, no movement), HB1381 (voter suppression, no movement), SB1284/HB1517 (criminalizes reproductive healthcare, no movement), and SB1288/HB1505 (prevents minors from accessing healthcare, passed the Senate and moving through House of Representatives). All information is from FL Senate and/or House website as of April 30th, 2025. Pages 2 and 3 of the zine. Page 2 gives instructions for finding your Senator and Representative through the Florida Senate and House websites and urges readers to call them about things they are passionate about. Page 3 has a list of Representatives that voted for terrible, harmful bills such as Michael Caruso, Anne Gerwig, Meg Weinberger, and John Snyder. Page 4 of the zine. This page has a list of Senators and Representatives that voted against harmful bills and protected the rights of Florida citizens. Including Representative Debra Tendrich and Representatives Lori Berman, Mack Bernard, and Tina Scott Polsky. Stay informed about upcoming elections at your state's Supervisor of Elections website.
May 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Thread pt 2: Florida Legislative zine.
The cover of the FL legislative zine. In red and blue leters, the title reads "Crease and Resist," a play on Cease and Desist. The subtitle reads Speak Your Peace, FL Legislation, 2025. The first spread of the FL Legislation Zine. The spread discusses the FL Legislative session, which runs March 4 to May 2, 2025. It explains how bills become laws: a Senator or representative proposes a bill, which is reviewed by committees, and then by the other branch. Once all differences are smoothed out, the bill goes for final approval. The spread recommends tracking bills as FLSENATE.gov and FLHOUSE.gov to read the bills, to see the session schedule, to see which committees will review the bill, and to see how each representative voted on the bill. The second spread of the FL Legislative Zine, which covers spotlight bills we want to oppose. SB means Senate Bill, HB means House Bill. SB1710 puts limitations on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. SB752/HB667 makes it easier to censor online articles claiming defamation. SB100/HB75 bans 'political flags', such as LGBT flags in government buildings including schools and universities. SB440/HB1495 removes protections for trans and LGBT persons at work. HB1205/SB7016 makes it harder for citizens to petition to put bills on the ballot. SB420 limits diversity, equity, and inclusion. SB1816 protects confederate statues by criminalizing damage to them. SB1381 is a voter suppression bill that makes it harder for people to vote who have changed their name, including for married women. SB390 requires police in polling stations at all times. SB1284/HB1517 criminalizes reproductive healthcare. SB1288/HB1505 stops young people from accessing healthcare. The third and final spread of the FL Legislative Zine. It hightlights how to find your senators: go to FLSENATE.gov, hover over the Senators tab, click on Find Your Legislators. It highlights how to Find your Represenatives: Go to FLHOUSE.GOV, click on Find Your Represenative. It suggests what you can do to oppose a bill: Search a bill, see what committees the bill needs to go through under the "Senate Committee Reference" or "House Referrals" section, click on a committee or subcommittee, click on a senator or represenative, and click Email this Representative or Contact Member. The spread lists some suggestions: Call/email Senators/Representatives of the committees that the bill needs to go through. Call/email the person that sponsored the bill. Keep emails/calls to one bill. Call/email multiple times if they sponsored or are voting on more than one bill. Aides will be the ones answering the phones: talk to them, ask them questions, take up their time. Repeat: Numbers are what matters to Senators/Representatives. Get friends to call/email. Call/email each committee. Call/email each person on a committee.
April 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Thread part 1: DEI Zine
The cover of a handmade zine called Crease and Resist, a play on Cease and Desist. The subtitle reads "Assigned Reading, DEI Version 1." The first spread of the DEI zine, which includes titles and quotes from books. The left page of the spread reads "Stamped from the begining by Ibram X. Kendi." The right side of the spread reads "How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi." The second spread of the DEI zine, which includes titles and quotes from books. The left page of the spread reads "White Fragility by Robin Diangelo." The right side of the spread reads "Let This Radicalize You bt Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba." The third and final spread of the DEI zine, which includes titles and quotes from books. The left page of the spread reads "White Tears / Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad." The right side of the spread reads "Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall."
April 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I made Zines for the Hands Off! Protest. I printed 20 of each, but I wish I had printed more. I gave out all of them! See thread to read the pages. #handsoff2025 #handsoff #handsoffprotest
The cover of 2 small hand-made, scanned, and printed zines (short for magazines as made by common people and handed out). The title is the same for both: in a mix of red and blue letters, the title is Crease and Resist, a play on 'Cease and Desist'. The subtitle of the zine on the left reads "Assigned Reading DEI Version 1", and the subtitle of the zine on the right reads "Speak your Peace, FL Legislation 2025".
April 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I crocheted a doily and thought I would share! I still need to block it. And also figure out what to do with it. #crochet #crafty
An intricate doily with a flower pattern is laid out on a wood table. The doily is a cream off-white.
March 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Some light reading. #bannedbooks #booksky #reading #1984
A hand holds up the book 1984 by George Orwell. The cover is a minimalist design. The top half is white with 1984 in bold lettering, while faint text reads "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength", which is a refrain from the book. The bottom half is red with an orange box, in which there is a navy box with the author, George Orwell, written therein. Sticky tabs to mark certain passages stick out of the pages on the right. A bookmark of a tiny silcone pink mushroom peeks out of the top of the book.
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 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. 20/20 (I did it!)

#booksky #booksky📚💙 #books
The cover of the book The Library of the Unwritten, by A. J. Hackwith. The background looks like a white book page covered in fading text. A hole breaks through the center of the page as if something burst through the paper toward the viewer. A dark void is behind the page. An arm grips the left side of the hole, as if someone is planning to come through the hole into the real world. The subtitle reads, "Join the library. Raise Hell."
January 22, 2025 at 1:33 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. 19/20

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The cover of The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. A minimalist cover, a women in a red dress with a white hood covering her face stands in profile against a black background.
January 21, 2025 at 4:34 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. 18/20

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The cover of Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke. The cover is red with gold details. A smaller frame is set in the middle of the cover, like a window looking out onto a briar forest, a lake, a kingdom on fire and a distant mountain. A hand grips the edge of the frame as if to pull someone through the cover. A green lizard, a blue fairy, and a collection of gold coins, gemstones, bugs, and seashells are scattered around the frame.
January 20, 2025 at 6:29 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. 17/20

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The cover of the manga Road Queen: Eternal Roadtrip to Love, by Mira Ong Chua. The cover is pink, black, white, and grey. On a plain pink background is a lighter pink crosswalk lines design. Two women are on the seat of a motorcycle. One has blonde and pink hair and wears a motorcycle catsuit. The other is wearing pants, a very loose tie, and has a white button-down shirt unbuttons to show a bra. This second woman has short black hair. Her arm is around the blonde woman and she is blushing. The blonde woman is smirking. The cover conveys that is book is qn LGBTQ+ romance manga.
January 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It takes a long time, but "simple" machine embroidery can level up a cosplay from good to spectacular! This is also especially helpful for when you can't find a fabric that perfectly matches your source. #cosplay #sewing #cosplaywip #sewingwip
A sewing mannequin has two pattern pieces pinned to it to show the difference of embroidery. Both pieces are a light grey. The left piece has lines of straight silver thread diagonally running from the top right to the bottom left, spaced about one inch apart. The right side pattern pieace has a mirrored diagonal design, from top left to bottom right. The silver thread makes an intense pattern of two lines of star-stitch machine embroidery, followed by four to five lines of straight stitches to create a repeating pattern. Each star stitch and five straight stitches fit in the same one-inch space that creates the diagonal lines of the left pattern piece. A sewing mannequin has two pattern pieces pinned to it to show the difference of embroidery. Both pieces are a light grey. The left piece has lines of straight silver thread diagonally running from the top right to the bottom left, spaced about one inch apart. The right side pattern pieace has a mirrored diagonal design, from top left to bottom right. The silver thread makes an intense pattern of two lines of star-stitch machine embroidery, followed by four to five lines of straight stitches to create a repeating pattern. Each star stitch and five straight stitches fit in the same one-inch space that creates the diagonal lines of the left pattern piece. A close up of embroidery on a piece of light grey fabric with diagonal silver embroidery from top left to bottom right. The silver thread makes an intense pattern of two lines of star-stitch machine embroidery, followed by four to five lines of straight stitches to create a repeating pattern.
January 19, 2025 at 4:37 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. 16/20

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The cover of the graphic novel Nimona, by N.D. Stevenson. Three figures are on the cover: a knight with long gold hair and gold armor; a villain in dark armor with black hair, and a sword, and a prostetic arm; and a young woman/non-binary person with red-ish hair and dragon wings.
January 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Casually hand-dying linen for a sewing project. Just Cosplay Things ✨️✨️ #cosplay #sewing #projectwip #sewingwip
A photo of three folded piles of linen, staggered to see the colors. The middle is a light, cold grey. The bottom is a slightly darker grey. The top is a frosty grey-blue.
January 17, 2025 at 9:13 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. 15/20

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The cover of the book Shiver, by horror manga artist Junji Ito. The cover has several references to the various horror short stories featured in this manga, including a centipede of human forheads, a face of a young man filled with holes, people hanging from hot air balloons shaped like human faces, and more.
January 17, 2025 at 4:56 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. 14/20

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Book cover of What Moves The Dead, by T. Kingfisher. The background is solid black. A rabbit, a grey and brown hare with long ears, is on the cover. Curled around the rabbit is a series of pinking-red mushrooms with tendrils. The mushrooms are shaped like the rabbit, appearing like bones and blood vessels.
January 16, 2025 at 5:01 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. 13/20

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The cover of the book Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. The book features a young woman, lifting into the sky as if by a magic wind. She's posed as if dancing, her body in profile facing to the right. Her feet are barefoot. Her golden dress and long, black, wavy hair blows to the right, in front of her. She holds a red rose to her chest, and tosses or releases another red rose behind her. She doesn't look back, but faces forward with her eyes closed. She floats against a blue sky, over a field and a distant mountain range. The books is a Pura Belpré Award book.
January 15, 2025 at 4:57 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. 12/20

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A book cover for Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. The background of the book is a collage of printed clippings, patched together and dyed blue. There is a side profile of a black woman on the cover, facing to the right, from her head to her shoulders. The top of a dress and a crown on her head is made of collaged patterns.
January 14, 2025 at 5:10 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. 11/20

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The cover for the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carrol. The cover has a white background and features Alice, a blonde seven-year-old wearing a blue and white dress, sheilding herself from a wave of playing cards as animals run around her feet. The illustration is a colored version of an illustration from the original Aluce in Wonderland book.
January 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM