Mimi Iimuro Van Ausdall
@mimimimimimi-ah.bsky.social
Educator*writer*queer*Asian-American*Speculative Nonfiction, Hippocampus, Catapult, MUTHA. Member SCBWI.Pushcart Nominee.
https://mimiiimurovanausdall.com/
https://mimiiimurovanausdall.com/
Ooh. . . Check out these events put together by the amazing @mnbipockidlit.bsky.social.
We’d love to see you at one of our upcoming events, in partnership with More Than a Single Story and @hclib.bsky.social !
October 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Ooh. . . Check out these events put together by the amazing @mnbipockidlit.bsky.social.
October is Blindness Awareness Month. Sharing my experience as a low-vision parent. #blind 💙📚 🌈📚
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Parenting in Low Light
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<p>I decided to launch
myself into the world three months before my projected ...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
October is Blindness Awareness Month. Sharing my experience as a low-vision parent. #blind 💙📚 🌈📚
www.muthamagazine.com/2020/08/pare...
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Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Challenging dimorphic binaries
Challenging dimorphic binaries
Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2)
By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org
By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org
‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Challenging dimorphic binaries
Challenging dimorphic binaries
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When Teachers, Librarians, Vaccines, Big Bird, and Rainbows are your enemies...
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
With all that’s going wrong in this country, this is the regime’s priority?
July 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
When Teachers, Librarians, Vaccines, Big Bird, and Rainbows are your enemies...
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
Love this book! Taught to my queer lit class this term. Was a huge hit! #haymarketbooks 🌈📚💙📚
Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.
Our Fall 2025 catalog is here!
Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!
Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!
June 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Love this book! Taught to my queer lit class this term. Was a huge hit! #haymarketbooks 🌈📚💙📚
I find this apology by Rep. Winter to be too little, too late. He knew “Jap” was/is offensive. #aapi #apida #japaneseamericaninternment #heartmountain
UPDATE: Rep. Winter apologized for his use of the term "Jap". The derogatory term perpetuates the anti-Japanese sentiment that led to the WWII mass incarceration. Places like Heart Mountain, JANM, and GFBNEC help teach about the racist history of language.
www.heartmountain.org/heart-mounta...
www.heartmountain.org/heart-mounta...
Heart Mountain Thanks Rep. John Winter for his Apology - Heart Mountain
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is grateful for and accepts the apology from Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, for his reference to the Heart Mountain incarceration site as the “J—camp” during a…
www.heartmountain.org
June 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I find this apology by Rep. Winter to be too little, too late. He knew “Jap” was/is offensive. #aapi #apida #japaneseamericaninternment #heartmountain
This Wyoming State Representative paused before using the racial slur “Jap” and then chuckled. He knew what he was doing.
In response to the recent use of an anti-Japanese slur by Wyoming State Rep. John Winter in reference to the Heart Mountain incarceration camp, please see our statement on the racist history of the term and the power that words hold.
Full statement: jacl.org/statements/j...
Full statement: jacl.org/statements/j...
June 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This Wyoming State Representative paused before using the racial slur “Jap” and then chuckled. He knew what he was doing.
Free and discounted books from a fabulous, left press.
Honoured to have Mizue Aizeki, Coline Schupfer and I’s edited collection represented in this profoundly important series 🙏🏽
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Free and discounted books from a fabulous, left press.
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Today in 1972, Angela Davis acquitted of trumped up charges following worldwide protests.
Originally a wood-cut, I made this image when she was in hiding in 1970
charged with assisting a prison break.
Get your poster here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/ange...
Originally a wood-cut, I made this image when she was in hiding in 1970
charged with assisting a prison break.
Get your poster here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/ange...
June 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Today in 1972, Angela Davis acquitted of trumped up charges following worldwide protests.
Originally a wood-cut, I made this image when she was in hiding in 1970
charged with assisting a prison break.
Get your poster here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/ange...
Originally a wood-cut, I made this image when she was in hiding in 1970
charged with assisting a prison break.
Get your poster here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/ange...
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🏳️⚧️ For US-based trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people:
Point of Pride’s HRT Access Fund is now open for application until June 30, 2025.
The recipients of this fund will be provided with 12 months of HRT-related care via the organization.
More info:
www.pointofpride.org/hrt-access-f...
Point of Pride’s HRT Access Fund is now open for application until June 30, 2025.
The recipients of this fund will be provided with 12 months of HRT-related care via the organization.
More info:
www.pointofpride.org/hrt-access-f...
Financial aid for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by Point of Pride
Point of Pride's HRT Access Fund provides 12 months of free medical care for trans folks seeking gender-affirming hormone therapy (HRT).
www.pointofpride.org
May 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
🏳️⚧️ For US-based trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people:
Point of Pride’s HRT Access Fund is now open for application until June 30, 2025.
The recipients of this fund will be provided with 12 months of HRT-related care via the organization.
More info:
www.pointofpride.org/hrt-access-f...
Point of Pride’s HRT Access Fund is now open for application until June 30, 2025.
The recipients of this fund will be provided with 12 months of HRT-related care via the organization.
More info:
www.pointofpride.org/hrt-access-f...
So worth the watch, friends. Comedian @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social breaks AI DOWN.
A.I. teachers are officially being tested in U.K. schools. Would you ever trust A.I. to teach you or your kid? (I have a 35 minute set on this coming out tonight at 9pm eastern, link is below)
Duolingo Just Asked A.I. To Take The Wheel... And Crashed
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So worth the watch, friends. Comedian @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social breaks AI DOWN.
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Greetings from a company whose job it is to book writers for events. This shit is DEFINITELY trickling down.
I was supposed to give a keynote speech at a Maine library conference in 2026 but because the administration has cut so much of their funding, they’ve now cut my appearance. It didn’t occur to me this stuff would trickle down, but clearly it does. This was a significant engagement for me to lose.
May 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Greetings from a company whose job it is to book writers for events. This shit is DEFINITELY trickling down.
These Space Trips Should Be Reserved For Certain People
May 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.
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 1:43 PM
Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.
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Grandpa and Grandma: Showing Us How It's Done
May 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Grandpa and Grandma: Showing Us How It's Done
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We're looking for a Development Manager to join our team!
In this key role, you'll help plan and implement fundraising strategies by supporting our grantseeking program, growing our individual donor base, and assisting with digital campaigns, sponsorships, and more.
In this key role, you'll help plan and implement fundraising strategies by supporting our grantseeking program, growing our individual donor base, and assisting with digital campaigns, sponsorships, and more.
Join Our Team - Gender Justice
Join our team of dedicated legal and policy experts working to advance gender equity through the law.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We're looking for a Development Manager to join our team!
In this key role, you'll help plan and implement fundraising strategies by supporting our grantseeking program, growing our individual donor base, and assisting with digital campaigns, sponsorships, and more.
In this key role, you'll help plan and implement fundraising strategies by supporting our grantseeking program, growing our individual donor base, and assisting with digital campaigns, sponsorships, and more.
I’m excited. Checkout this book of poetry and the free launch event. I can’t make the whole time but will be there with bells on.
May 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I’m excited. Checkout this book of poetry and the free launch event. I can’t make the whole time but will be there with bells on.
Great event! Does anyone know how to change the blue handles like @sahanjournal.bsky.social to be readable by people who can’t see without more contrast? #diabolitysky #diabledsky
TUNE IN: How does a person rebuild their life after incarceration? Tomorrow at 9 a.m. @mprnews.org will air a recording of our recent community conversation with those who have rebuilt their lives. Tune into 91.1 FM in the Twin Cities metro or stream it on mprnews.org.
May 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Great event! Does anyone know how to change the blue handles like @sahanjournal.bsky.social to be readable by people who can’t see without more contrast? #diabolitysky #diabledsky
This is sad as can be for the future of literacy in our country. How much does it cost the federal government to have retired VOLUNTEERS read to elementary school kids? 💙📚 #writers
May 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is sad as can be for the future of literacy in our country. How much does it cost the federal government to have retired VOLUNTEERS read to elementary school kids? 💙📚 #writers
True.
May 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
True.
“Two generations worth of critical thinking” lost.
May 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Two generations worth of critical thinking” lost.
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WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
If a president’s answer to “do you need to uphold the Constitution” isn’t yes, HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY.
TRUMP: I don't know
If a president’s answer to “do you need to uphold the Constitution” isn’t yes, HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY.
May 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
If a president’s answer to “do you need to uphold the Constitution” isn’t yes, HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY.
TRUMP: I don't know
If a president’s answer to “do you need to uphold the Constitution” isn’t yes, HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY.
If you need a lesbian laugh. Not a lesbian-sounding laugh. Uh, if you need some lesbian comedy.
Still mourning the loss of Joann Fabrics youtube.com/shorts/mIOPe...
Kristin Key: The Joanns Song
YouTube video by Kristin Key
youtube.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
If you need a lesbian laugh. Not a lesbian-sounding laugh. Uh, if you need some lesbian comedy.
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Celebrate Children's Day (Kodomo no Hi) with JACL! 🎏
Celebrate the next generation in your life with the gift of a 1, 2, or 3-year JACL membership! Each gift membership comes with special gifts and an instant rebate!
Gift, join, or renew until May 9th at jacl.org/kodomonohi
Celebrate the next generation in your life with the gift of a 1, 2, or 3-year JACL membership! Each gift membership comes with special gifts and an instant rebate!
Gift, join, or renew until May 9th at jacl.org/kodomonohi
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Celebrate Children's Day (Kodomo no Hi) with JACL! 🎏
Celebrate the next generation in your life with the gift of a 1, 2, or 3-year JACL membership! Each gift membership comes with special gifts and an instant rebate!
Gift, join, or renew until May 9th at jacl.org/kodomonohi
Celebrate the next generation in your life with the gift of a 1, 2, or 3-year JACL membership! Each gift membership comes with special gifts and an instant rebate!
Gift, join, or renew until May 9th at jacl.org/kodomonohi