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Wendy Shang
@wendyshang.bsky.social
Perambulating word nerd. Duolingo and word game fanatic. Writer of mostly MG. THE BEST WORST SUMMER OF ESME SUN coming out in 2025!
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Pride honors protest.
We remember Marsha. Sylvia. Miss Major.
We remember that their fight was against police violence, pretrial incarceration, and systemic erasure.
Their legacy calls us to act—still.
Read how Pride and pretrial justice are deeply connected: bit.ly/pride-and-pretrial-2025
#Pride
June 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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🚨 Hot Off the Press! 🚨
Our very own Dr. Kevin Beckford co-authored a powerful Amsterdam News piece exposing Rikers Island’s violent, anti-Black legacy.
📖 bit.ly/rikers-island
✊🏾 Share & amplify!
#EndMassIncarceration #RikersIsland #CriminalJusticeReform
OP-ED: Rikers Island: a modern-day auction block in the heart of New York
In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the family who owned Rikers Island, participated in a kidnapping ring for decades.
bit.ly
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Celebrating Torkwase Dyson, a visionary artist using abstraction to challenge systemic and physical boundaries. Her geometric forms reimagine space as fluid and free, countering a world built on containment. Dyson’s work reshapes power into justice, offering blueprints for liberation and movement 🖤🎨
March 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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@wendyshang.bsky.social @scholastic.bsky.social THE BEST WORST SUMMER OF ESME SUN (6/3/25) is the perfect #MGLit summer read. Summer hanging out at the pool, with some realistic angst. 💙💙💙💙💙
February 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Holy ****
January 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Day 18
January 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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This is such an informative and important post from @dashkaslater.bsky.social, the author of ACCOUNTABLE.

How do you prepare your school community for reading a "controversial" book? This MS principal gives a master class in transparency and communication.

www.dashkaslater.com/post/how-to-...
How To Talk To Your School Community About Reading A "Controversial" Book
When I was at NCTE last month, I heard from a shocking number of teachers that their use of one or both of my nonfiction narratives, The 57 Bus and Accountable, was either being challenged by parents ...
www.dashkaslater.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Day 17
January 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Day 16
December 25, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Day 15
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Day 14
December 17, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Day 13
December 12, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Day 12
December 10, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Day 11 (these days are not consecutive, lol)
December 10, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Day 10
December 6, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Day 9 (including a day or two over the holidays)
December 2, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Day 8
November 30, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Day 7
November 29, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Day 6
November 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Day 5 of the 20 Day Book Challenge
November 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Day 4 - 20 books that influenced or stayed with me
November 24, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Day 3
November 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM