Rochelle 🇨🇦
@mazar.bsky.social
Librarian. Aspiring writer of middle grade fiction. Dangerously optimistic. She/her. Vancouver, BC.
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“You aren’t from a dark planet, are you?” “No.” Calvin shook his head firmly, though the beast couldn’t see him. “We’re—we’re shadowed. But we’re fighting the shadow.”
~ A Wrinkle in Time
~ A Wrinkle in Time
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“You aren’t from a dark planet, are you?” “No.” Calvin shook his head firmly, though the beast couldn’t see him. “We’re—we’re shadowed. But we’re fighting the shadow.”
~ A Wrinkle in Time
~ A Wrinkle in Time
Well, I guess now's the time to take the whole text of A STUDY IN SCARLET, replace Sherlock Holmes with a gritty version of Winnie the Pooh, and slap it up on AO3. I'll call it A STUDY IN POOH. Behold the power of my authorship! Let the awards flow in!
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Well, I guess now's the time to take the whole text of A STUDY IN SCARLET, replace Sherlock Holmes with a gritty version of Winnie the Pooh, and slap it up on AO3. I'll call it A STUDY IN POOH. Behold the power of my authorship! Let the awards flow in!
When there's something strange in your neighbourhood...
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
When there's something strange in your neighbourhood...
The rationales of people using genAI to generate novels and claiming they're authors are like explaining that they've spent money to send an AI to France, and therefore they are now French.
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The rationales of people using genAI to generate novels and claiming they're authors are like explaining that they've spent money to send an AI to France, and therefore they are now French.
“When a wise, magical tree, the hero of the story, declares it can be any pronoun it wants, many children will think, ‘Maybe I can too.’ That’s a seed most families in this room never agreed to plant.”
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
Disheartening news from Wisconsin, where #wishtree was removed from a voluntary reading program after parent complaints.
If you don’t want your child to read my book, that’s absolutely your right. But you cannot tell other parents what their children get to read. www.cbs58.com/news/book-ta...
If you don’t want your child to read my book, that’s absolutely your right. But you cannot tell other parents what their children get to read. www.cbs58.com/news/book-ta...
Book removed from community reading list in Kettle Moraine School District with some parents concerned over content
DOUSMAN, Wis. (CBS 58) – A New York Times-bestselling middle-grade novel has proven to be controversial in the Kettle Moraine School District. School leaders have since decided to remove it from a com...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“When a wise, magical tree, the hero of the story, declares it can be any pronoun it wants, many children will think, ‘Maybe I can too.’ That’s a seed most families in this room never agreed to plant.”
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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Take over threats.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Take over threats.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbR_... Jesse Wente's take on anything is always worth listening to. His thoughts on the impact of pretendians, and what this behaviour says about settler society, needs to ring through the streets.
Jesse Wente on Thomas King and finding hope in a hard moment
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbR_... Jesse Wente's take on anything is always worth listening to. His thoughts on the impact of pretendians, and what this behaviour says about settler society, needs to ring through the streets.
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We've discussed pretendians ad nauseam on the podcast, with each new exposé much like the last. That said, as we heard from @kimtallbear.bsky.social
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1
Podcast Episode · MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs · 2024-03-24 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We've discussed pretendians ad nauseam on the podcast, with each new exposé much like the last. That said, as we heard from @kimtallbear.bsky.social
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
I wish there were more ways for pretendians to be unmasked that didn't cause so much harm to Indigenous people. The fraud is harm, the unmasking is harm, it's harm all the way down and in every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I wish there were more ways for pretendians to be unmasked that didn't cause so much harm to Indigenous people. The fraud is harm, the unmasking is harm, it's harm all the way down and in every direction.
I honestly don't understand the anti-diversity perspective. You have to ignore reality and the work itself so fiercely to take that stance. The mental load of avoiding learning anything must be exhausting.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I honestly don't understand the anti-diversity perspective. You have to ignore reality and the work itself so fiercely to take that stance. The mental load of avoiding learning anything must be exhausting.
Is there a reason why people make videos sitting in cars?
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Is there a reason why people make videos sitting in cars?
I just realized this morning that kids don't play cards so much anymore. So they aren't playing bad card games over lunch like we used to. Is that a loss? I don't even know. I guess I should teach my niblings how to play President.
October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I just realized this morning that kids don't play cards so much anymore. So they aren't playing bad card games over lunch like we used to. Is that a loss? I don't even know. I guess I should teach my niblings how to play President.
Well, it sure is a Monday. Oh wait.
October 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Well, it sure is a Monday. Oh wait.
I thought Clara Zetkin died in 1933 at the age of 75, but today I learned she's been living in Portland with her girlfriend. Does she has a gofundme to support her efforts to evade American authorities, or
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I thought Clara Zetkin died in 1933 at the age of 75, but today I learned she's been living in Portland with her girlfriend. Does she has a gofundme to support her efforts to evade American authorities, or
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20 books by Indigenous authors in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: www.cbc.ca/books/20-boo...
20 books to read in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation | CBC Books
Sept. 30 is observed as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. CBC Books has curated this list of books that can encourage deeper reflection, learning and public dialogue on the rela...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
20 books by Indigenous authors in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: www.cbc.ca/books/20-boo...
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On the eve of Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, we recommend five books to read and reflect on from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social, @talonbooks.bsky.social, and @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social. Browse our full list here: alllitup.ca/book-list/re...
September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
On the eve of Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, we recommend five books to read and reflect on from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social, @talonbooks.bsky.social, and @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social. Browse our full list here: alllitup.ca/book-list/re...
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
He is out here living his best life, even in this economy.
see everyone is as happy as me
oh no
September 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
He is out here living his best life, even in this economy.
I'm disappointed in the quality of the discourse around AI at the moment. Because there's so much fear, suspicion, and discomfort, the criticism is often kneejerk and lacks necessary nuance. I don't mean "give ChatGPT a chance," I mean "that's a bad and potential dangerous argument".
September 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm disappointed in the quality of the discourse around AI at the moment. Because there's so much fear, suspicion, and discomfort, the criticism is often kneejerk and lacks necessary nuance. I don't mean "give ChatGPT a chance," I mean "that's a bad and potential dangerous argument".
If you ban books for young people that address queerness and sexuality, who is served? Who is best served by keeping these topics taboo, and by keeping children ignorant about them?
September 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you ban books for young people that address queerness and sexuality, who is served? Who is best served by keeping these topics taboo, and by keeping children ignorant about them?
I wish these book-banning folks were asked about how they landed on this issue, what problem they think they're solving, and how banning mostly queer books would solve it.
September 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I wish these book-banning folks were asked about how they landed on this issue, what problem they think they're solving, and how banning mostly queer books would solve it.
"Librarians aren't psychologists, they aren't qualified to decide what children can read!"
"40% Albertan have a BA. No one can say parents don't have the education to determine what children can read!"
Wait til this right-wing talking head finds out how many degrees librarians have.
"40% Albertan have a BA. No one can say parents don't have the education to determine what children can read!"
Wait til this right-wing talking head finds out how many degrees librarians have.
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Librarians aren't psychologists, they aren't qualified to decide what children can read!"
"40% Albertan have a BA. No one can say parents don't have the education to determine what children can read!"
Wait til this right-wing talking head finds out how many degrees librarians have.
"40% Albertan have a BA. No one can say parents don't have the education to determine what children can read!"
Wait til this right-wing talking head finds out how many degrees librarians have.
I enjoy the idea that universities somehow aren't in the real world. It's what I always suspected: universities exist in a fantasy realm with enchanted forests and lithe elves bounding around with flowers in their hair. You have a question? Let's stop time and just ponder it for a while, shall we?
August 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I enjoy the idea that universities somehow aren't in the real world. It's what I always suspected: universities exist in a fantasy realm with enchanted forests and lithe elves bounding around with flowers in their hair. You have a question? Let's stop time and just ponder it for a while, shall we?