Gina Caneva, PhD
@ginacaneva.bsky.social
Mom, wife, High School Librarian @e-leydenlibrary.bsky.social, writer of op-eds & wanna-be YA novel, former D1 vb & bb player, M.Ed, NBCT, occasional guest speaker, former CPS teacher-librarian, posts are my own & reflect my own opinions, not my workplaces
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Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
Uncle Tom's Cabin speaks volumes about the terrors of the Trump administration
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Check out my latest piece merging discussing our first major banned book and how it relates to the terror of the Trump Administration. #BannedBooksWeek #booksky
Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
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Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
I am not fearful — I am fearless.
We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
Another way I’m spending #BannedBooksWeek ….hosting a movie night about censorship. @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Another way I’m spending #BannedBooksWeek ….hosting a movie night about censorship. @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
How I’m spending #BannedBooksWeek… teaching lessons about censorship & book banning. @ibramxk.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
How I’m spending #BannedBooksWeek… teaching lessons about censorship & book banning. @ibramxk.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Check out my latest piece merging discussing our first major banned book and how it relates to the terror of the Trump Administration. #BannedBooksWeek #booksky
Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
open.substack.com/pub/ginacane...
Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
open.substack.com/pub/ginacane...
Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
Uncle Tom's Cabin speaks volumes about the terrors of the Trump administration
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Check out my latest piece merging discussing our first major banned book and how it relates to the terror of the Trump Administration. #BannedBooksWeek #booksky
Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
open.substack.com/pub/ginacane...
Our Nation’s First Major Banned Book Provides Insight on America Under Trump 2.0
open.substack.com/pub/ginacane...
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the WNBA gone stop doing exit interviews... i think this gone be the last exit interview
September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
the WNBA gone stop doing exit interviews... i think this gone be the last exit interview
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Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
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September 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
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Check out our October Newsletter via @smorenewsletter.bsky.social It features books to celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth #BannedBooksWeek & #mystery & #horror books. We have 2 Writing & Art Contest as well as a movie night! See you soon! secure.smore.com/n/h695g
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Face Your Fears this Fall with a Frightening Read! Whoa, this is a busy October, East Leyden Eagles! We have so much going on; let's act...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Check out our October Newsletter via @smorenewsletter.bsky.social It features books to celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth #BannedBooksWeek & #mystery & #horror books. We have 2 Writing & Art Contest as well as a movie night! See you soon! secure.smore.com/n/h695g
Everyone should read @shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social ‘s Remarkably Bright Creatures. It is so hopeful, and the way the characters are all intertwined, why it’s very much like an octopus’s tentacles being attached to the same octopus body (as most of them are, anyways). Read it and smile. #BookSky 📚💙
September 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Everyone should read @shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social ‘s Remarkably Bright Creatures. It is so hopeful, and the way the characters are all intertwined, why it’s very much like an octopus’s tentacles being attached to the same octopus body (as most of them are, anyways). Read it and smile. #BookSky 📚💙
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Check out our August Library Newsletter via @smorenewsletter.bsky.social featuring books that made it to the screens this summer--big & small-- #Superman #JurassicPark #WeWereLiars --our @beanstack.bsky.social schoolwide reading contest & our summer reading ice cream social. secure.smore.com/n/6tk5h
East Leyden Nardini Library
Welcome Back! Welcome back, East Leyden Eagles!! We're very excited to see all of you and welcome you back to the library! We have some...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Check out our August Library Newsletter via @smorenewsletter.bsky.social featuring books that made it to the screens this summer--big & small-- #Superman #JurassicPark #WeWereLiars --our @beanstack.bsky.social schoolwide reading contest & our summer reading ice cream social. secure.smore.com/n/6tk5h
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Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nation’s full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.
June 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nation’s full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.
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Basket Case: What the NBA pays men is 80 times what it pays women--way out of proportion with the relative revenue generated by women's teams. Nobel Prize winning economist Claudia Goldin's detailed take-down could be a game changer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
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Opinion | How Underpaid Are W.N.B.A. Players? It’s Embarrassing.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Basket Case: What the NBA pays men is 80 times what it pays women--way out of proportion with the relative revenue generated by women's teams. Nobel Prize winning economist Claudia Goldin's detailed take-down could be a game changer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
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The U.S. government is breaking up families without an ounce of compassion.
ICE is detaining migrants at court—asking judges to dismiss cases so they can arrest people as they leave & shove them into fast-track deportation.
Word’s out: Show up, risk deportation. Stay home, lose your case.
ICE is detaining migrants at court—asking judges to dismiss cases so they can arrest people as they leave & shove them into fast-track deportation.
Word’s out: Show up, risk deportation. Stay home, lose your case.
June 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The U.S. government is breaking up families without an ounce of compassion.
ICE is detaining migrants at court—asking judges to dismiss cases so they can arrest people as they leave & shove them into fast-track deportation.
Word’s out: Show up, risk deportation. Stay home, lose your case.
ICE is detaining migrants at court—asking judges to dismiss cases so they can arrest people as they leave & shove them into fast-track deportation.
Word’s out: Show up, risk deportation. Stay home, lose your case.
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Check out my latest piece on #Substack about #bookbans & #erasure: How to Fight the Power: Read on, America, and Read Widely open.substack.com/pub/ginacane...
How to Fight the Power: Read on, America, and Read Widely
“In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead.” –Howard Zinn writing about Christropher Columbus’s time in present-day Haiti in The People’s His...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Check out my latest piece on #Substack about #bookbans & #erasure: How to Fight the Power: Read on, America, and Read Widely open.substack.com/pub/ginacane...
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They’re not banning books because they’re dangerous—They’re banning them because they expose the truth.
📚 Erased tells the history they tried to bury—& now they’re coming for it. If it’s “too dangerous to teach,” you need to read it.
⚠️Read it before they ban it for good: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
📚 Erased tells the history they tried to bury—& now they’re coming for it. If it’s “too dangerous to teach,” you need to read it.
⚠️Read it before they ban it for good: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
They’re not banning books because they’re dangerous—They’re banning them because they expose the truth.
📚 Erased tells the history they tried to bury—& now they’re coming for it. If it’s “too dangerous to teach,” you need to read it.
⚠️Read it before they ban it for good: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
📚 Erased tells the history they tried to bury—& now they’re coming for it. If it’s “too dangerous to teach,” you need to read it.
⚠️Read it before they ban it for good: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Today, we remember Uvalde.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
May 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today, we remember Uvalde.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
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Check out our Summer Edition of our Library Newsletter created via @smorenewsletter.bsky.social It features information about summer reading with an interactive list created by your actual human school librarians & a summer reading challenge via @zoobean.bsky.social secure.smore.com/n/s21w5-east...
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Summer Edition!! I'm so excited to bring you the Summer Edition of our Newsletter. This is a shorter newsletter intended to remind you to...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Check out our Summer Edition of our Library Newsletter created via @smorenewsletter.bsky.social It features information about summer reading with an interactive list created by your actual human school librarians & a summer reading challenge via @zoobean.bsky.social secure.smore.com/n/s21w5-east...
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?