I really appreciate that so many of you are faithful to this blog! I’ve had one or two people, not many, tell me they use this blog for teaching, or that they refer it to friends or colleagues. It surprises and excites me to hear that, even though the content has changed. Most of my new content is over on my other blog, Pearl’s and Ruby’s. I hope you’re aware of it and are following me there as well.

If you’re not aware of it, here are links to a few of posts to give you an idea of the content.

One thing I’ve added to that blog, hosted by School Library Journal. is voice recordings. That provides the opportunity for you to read or listen to the post. If you listen, you’ll hear things that you won’t read. I’m starting a new thing: blogcasting.

Interview: Dr Emily Knox
“Most people love libraries but it’s important to know that when people say that they often mean they love their own public library. As in, the library down the street or the library that they grew up visiting. Unfortunately, this sometimes makes it difficult to build coalitions around libraries as a whole and why it’s so easy to remove school librarians.”

Interview: David Bowles
“However, another thing the books share is a refusal to flatten experience. And that, setting aside anticipatory obedience to authoritarianism, is where publishing still struggles. Too often, “representation” is treated as singular and monolithic: one migration story, one grief narrative, one queer coming-out, one disabled perspective standing in for an entire constellation of lived realities. But underrepresented communities do not have a single story, nor even a dominant one.”

Change and Transition: Here we Go, 2026
“The way I articulate representation in youth literature is progressing from me considering equity and inclusion expressed through representation to being work that nurtures literacies that embrace communal storytelling. This means empathetically finding ways to build and sustain alliances that support those who have been disenfranchised; working in safe spaces; building in a community of care, and really trying to bring love into what I say and do. Sustaining alliances is really challenging work, but it begins by taking the time to know and care for individuals and building from there.”

What They Can’t Ban
“We have to keep doing the anti-oppressive work that creates space for the stories to continue to be written, published, and shared. Books are being banned from libraries to eliminate the stories and the lives that they tell, but to win the long fight, librarians have to work to be anti-oppressive. This hard, meaningful work is how libraries and librarians prepare the future.”

That’s just a random selection of some of my posts. I hope you’ll stop over and check it out if you haven’t already. I think you’ll find information there that’s worth sharing, too!