Nicole Panteleakos
@nicwritesbooks.bsky.social
Middle Grade author (Planet Earth is Blue), playwright & thespian, neurodivergent & disabled, queer, wife, stepmother, godmom, co-keeper of pets, background: Hollins U Children’s Lit MFA, #Novel19s, #Pitchwars, fanfiction fan.
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I haven’t used BlueSky in a really long time but redownloaded the app today & will be using it to find and maintain connections with other authors, especially #KidLit & #MG writers, #Novel19s, Hollins Children’s Lit MFA ppl, #PitchWars ppl, teachers, librarians, booksellers, LGBTQIA+ community, etc.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
May 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
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May is #AANHPIHeritageMonth! Celebrate this month all year long by sharing these stories by Asian, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian voices! Explore the booklist to discover books for all ages and reading levels. #EduSky #TLSky
📚 penguinschoollibrary.com/pyrAANHPIboo...
📚 penguinschoollibrary.com/pyrAANHPIboo...
May 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
May is #AANHPIHeritageMonth! Celebrate this month all year long by sharing these stories by Asian, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian voices! Explore the booklist to discover books for all ages and reading levels. #EduSky #TLSky
📚 penguinschoollibrary.com/pyrAANHPIboo...
📚 penguinschoollibrary.com/pyrAANHPIboo...
Popped up to my favorite “beautiful city” last weekend to catch my amazing, talented godchild in Godspell. While visiting, I also met up with Katy, my CP, plus had dinner at 5 Napkin Burger, where Mike Jung kept me company in a way… though I regret getting hot sauce fingerprints on several pages!
May 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Popped up to my favorite “beautiful city” last weekend to catch my amazing, talented godchild in Godspell. While visiting, I also met up with Katy, my CP, plus had dinner at 5 Napkin Burger, where Mike Jung kept me company in a way… though I regret getting hot sauce fingerprints on several pages!
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I'm honoured to have had the opportunity to sit down with @naomimilliner.bsky.social to discuss her newest middle grade novel, The Trouble With Secrets, an emotionally rich story about honesty, unexpected loss and the grieving process.
popgoesthereader.com/interview-na... #KidLit #MGLit
popgoesthereader.com/interview-na... #KidLit #MGLit
April 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm honoured to have had the opportunity to sit down with @naomimilliner.bsky.social to discuss her newest middle grade novel, The Trouble With Secrets, an emotionally rich story about honesty, unexpected loss and the grieving process.
popgoesthereader.com/interview-na... #KidLit #MGLit
popgoesthereader.com/interview-na... #KidLit #MGLit
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It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now—
—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
April 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now—
—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
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20,000+ people at the Capitol to fight authoritarianism. This—more and more of this—is what it's going to take to defend our democracy. Proud of Minnesota today.
April 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
20,000+ people at the Capitol to fight authoritarianism. This—more and more of this—is what it's going to take to defend our democracy. Proud of Minnesota today.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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Now more than ever #weneeddiversebooks 👏📚 Go check out @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social & join in on We Need Diverse Books Day today 💜 #booksky (full list of titles from the image is on my IG due to character limits)
April 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Now more than ever #weneeddiversebooks 👏📚 Go check out @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social & join in on We Need Diverse Books Day today 💜 #booksky (full list of titles from the image is on my IG due to character limits)
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On this first We Need Diverse Books Day, celebrate by reading some of these books written by authors friends from my two picture book release groups - The Picture Book Scribblers and 21 for the Books.
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #DiverseBooks #kidlit #booksky
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #DiverseBooks #kidlit #booksky
April 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
On this first We Need Diverse Books Day, celebrate by reading some of these books written by authors friends from my two picture book release groups - The Picture Book Scribblers and 21 for the Books.
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #DiverseBooks #kidlit #booksky
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #DiverseBooks #kidlit #booksky
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After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.
April 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.
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NEW MG releases on today's @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social, including @naomimilliner.bsky.social's THE TROUBLE WITH SECRETS. (Watch for my interview with Naomi on 4/7!) #kidlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/its-raining-...
April 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
NEW MG releases on today's @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social, including @naomimilliner.bsky.social's THE TROUBLE WITH SECRETS. (Watch for my interview with Naomi on 4/7!) #kidlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/its-raining-...
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No, Strom Thurmond did NOT renounce his segregationist views.
He also never acknowledged his own daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, whose mother was a 15-year-old black maid in the Thurmond household who he knocked up when he was 22.
Strom Thurmond was NEVER "one of the good guys".
He also never acknowledged his own daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, whose mother was a 15-year-old black maid in the Thurmond household who he knocked up when he was 22.
Strom Thurmond was NEVER "one of the good guys".
A segregationist is not and never will be "one of the good guys"
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
No, Strom Thurmond did NOT renounce his segregationist views.
He also never acknowledged his own daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, whose mother was a 15-year-old black maid in the Thurmond household who he knocked up when he was 22.
Strom Thurmond was NEVER "one of the good guys".
He also never acknowledged his own daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, whose mother was a 15-year-old black maid in the Thurmond household who he knocked up when he was 22.
Strom Thurmond was NEVER "one of the good guys".
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It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
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Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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A dark, dark day for libraries, museums, information, education, the truth, and the future.
This is what the real-time collapse of a nation looks like. Silence in this moment is complicit.
www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...
This is what the real-time collapse of a nation looks like. Silence in this moment is complicit.
www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
www.npr.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A dark, dark day for libraries, museums, information, education, the truth, and the future.
This is what the real-time collapse of a nation looks like. Silence in this moment is complicit.
www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...
This is what the real-time collapse of a nation looks like. Silence in this moment is complicit.
www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!
Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a…
Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a…
Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!
Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim - she realises that you don't need a costume to express who you really are...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!
Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a…
Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a…
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PEN America reports: "Of the 27 books challenged at the state level in South Carolina thus far, the majority were written by LGBTQ+ and women authors ... 52% address sexual violence, 52% address mental health, and 48% address death and grief." pen.org/south-caroli...
South Carolina Could Lead The Nation In Number of State-Mandated School Book Bans - PEN America
If the State Board of Education bans the additional 10 titles, South Carolina will surpass Utah’s 17 state-mandated school book bans, and have the most state-mandated bans in the country. Only two oth...
pen.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
PEN America reports: "Of the 27 books challenged at the state level in South Carolina thus far, the majority were written by LGBTQ+ and women authors ... 52% address sexual violence, 52% address mental health, and 48% address death and grief." pen.org/south-caroli...
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The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to strip the US government for parts while enriching their own businesses, alienating us from our allies, and putting us at grave national security risk while stealing food from the elderly and children is both a compelling narrative and true.
March 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to strip the US government for parts while enriching their own businesses, alienating us from our allies, and putting us at grave national security risk while stealing food from the elderly and children is both a compelling narrative and true.