Small actions snowball and eventually become avalanches. And, above all, please support the voices you want to be heard. Big names aren't necessarily facing financial ruin when they are targeted, but smaller ones are.

Padilla is speaking now:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJKS...

Fellow Californians:

I'm going to draft some scripts and will be back shortly.

If you don't live in California?

Please call your electeds. Don't stop. You don't want this happening in your state either.

(PEPPER'S RULES FOR SECRET SLEUTHING, also by Briana McDonald, includes a very sensitively-written trans character, too. I'm just out of agent copies on that one. But put it on your list if you know a kid who needs to see themselves in media. Or if you love Nancy Drew.)

For those of you in SF (especially teachers and school librarians, but also parents and allies!), if you would like copies of MG books with queer joy, I have lots of copies of Briana McDonald's GALAXY JONES AND THE SPACE PIRATES/SECRETS OF STONE CREEK. I'd be thrilled to see them go to good homes!

First, a baseline step: Know that autocratic leaders can be successfully challenged. @chenoweth.bsky.social has found that when at least 3.5 per cent of the population participated in nonviolent opposition, movements were largely successful.