mela dd

(///) forgiving library fines, spitting on mussolini (///) my two cents (she/her) ♋♋♍

[mela dd @mellldd]

the reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. -lucy parsons

[shreya @shreyabasu003]

Sry to everyone who’s seen this 10 times but for class I wrote a story that referenced the triangle shirtwaist fire and EVERYONE thought I made it up????? Including the professor???????????

[mela dd @mellldd]

@leximcmenamin newsies lol. fern gully.

[mela dd @mellldd]

#BLMatSchool writing group poems word by word, on the topic of Justice, for workshop Lift Every Voice, the importance of diverse voices in the arts

[Ben Berke @BenBerke6]

For @ThePublicsRadio, I wrote about how undocumented immigrants don't have the same right to protest as citizens, preventing a growing share of America's low-wage workers from fighting for better treatment.
https://t.co/9S6vNrujrG

[mela dd @mellldd]

@Jarrett_Lerner @tanroselane

[Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner]

EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS: do your students like graphic novels?

I’m giving away 2 class sets (25 copies each) of my new one, The Hunger Heroes: Missed Meal Mayhem (here and on Instagram)!

To enter: RT this tweet and follow me. Bonus entry: tag a pal who might like to enter too!

[Samperson @SamNChiet]

steve ???

[mela dd @mellldd]

"the world (earth) is beyond us" she said

[mela dd @mellldd]

sometimes i have trouble figuring out what they're trying to say. kids cannot always fill in the missing words.

[mela dd @mellldd]

getting increasingly frustrated with easily avoidable errors, typos, spelling mistakes from public school officials. sure, language is made up and a farce, but y'all are working with kids and families that have to
go decipher that mess. y'all need to proofread.

[mela dd @mellldd]

night creatures and crawlies sounding the take care

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

I mean… Idk what else to say & it’s not like my words carry more weight than scientists who’ve been warning us.

But it makes ZERO sense that we shut down in-person school for alpha variant but are reopening during a surge of a more deadly delta variant as pediatric ICUs fill up

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

This photo is poetry.

Hummingbird and hummingbird moth; convergence evolution. 💕

[mela dd @mellldd]

i made this little librarian's guide to #environmental #PictureBooks for a class and @NayaBlackAttack told me to share it so here yall go https://t.co/WyuPVIXpNT

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

"If policing and incarceration really make us safer and healthier, we should be the safest society in history. We know that’s not the case." https://t.co/grWr2qeUOb

[italians mad at food @ItalianComments]

“I cannot continue to live here”

[Page @octo_page]

Teaching today was brutal. My first class of the day is a normally radiant & full-of-life 6th grade class. Today was heavy. We talked about Adam and being 13. Here's their collective poem

[mela dd @mellldd]

@TimEdwardsZero4 why don't you take your question to the library and find the answer there