Sara Ryan

@ryansara.bsky.social

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Queer author of books & comics for teens & others. They/them. VCFA WCYA faculty. Represented by Michael Bourret. Not here much. IG (where I'm also not around much): @instaryansara

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Briefly breaking my indefinite socials hiatus! I'm very excited and proud!

Just called my reps and did as s. e. advises below.

If making calls stresses you out, I get it. Know that the 'tally' (pro/con calls on whatever) is most important so you can literally call & say 'Hi, I'm a constituent in CITY and I am calling on Representative Whoever to call for a ceasefire.' You don't have to make a speech! (You can if you want.)

At the Portland Book Festival & the author talks have been great! But so far my favorite thing is that in one session I ended up sitting behind a kid who had a pad of lined paper and a pencil and was assiduously working on their own story. 📝

I just did this. You could too.

Just finished @caseyplett.bsky.social's terrific essay ON COMMUNITY, which has made me think a lot about communities I'm in and what I value about them, as well as what's hard and fraught. I anticipate rereading it multiple times–and recommending it, of course, like I'm doing right now.

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just a reminder that (generally speaking) every traditionally published thing you read is a collaborative effort between the writer, editor, agent, and so many other people. Starts w/ the writer (sometimes), but lots of hands go into making a story for you to experience

Haven't watched this documentary yet, but, growing up Canada-adjacent, I did see some of the show, and I love what @sbearbergman.bsky.social has written about it here.

Documentary "Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe" celebrates the journey of host Ernie Coombs, puppeteer Judith Lawrence and their beloved show, which ran on Canadian TV for 30 years. @sbearbergman.bsky.social writes about the show's surprising queer heart 🌈⬇️ xtramagazine.com/culture/mr-d...

Watching an episode of Grand Designs set in Yorkshire, & now I want a stop-motion film in which Kevin McCloud interviews Wallace and Gromit about their self-build.

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Happy Sunday everyone! We at For The People Leftist Library Project have made it easy for your to share and take part in defending our public libraries. You can find everything you need here: www.librariesforthepeople.org/fight - Join us in taking concrete ACTIONS!

Fight Book Bans — For The Peoplewww.librariesforthepeople.org

Covid-boosted and somewhat poleaxed, but obviously obviously worth it. Unrelated, en route I saw this discarded picture frame, broken glass over wet leaves & grass.

Saw this dresser & had to talk myself out of hoisting it into the car to clean/refinish/repair/otherwise restore. Will always always be drawn to taking a thing someone else is discarding.

Great piece by @melissagiragrant.com: newrepublic.com/article/1755...

Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Arenewrepublic.com Anti-LGBTQ activists are increasingly targeting public reading spaces—and librarians are our best defenders.

Just finished THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE by Sim Kern, which I inhaled. Am immediately starting to reread, slower this time.

I knew almost nothing about The Wolf House before watching -- I commend it to your attention. If you want to know more, either before or after seeing it, this Animation Obsessive post talks about how it was made: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-they-a....

me after I share something vulnerable & am waiting for a reaction

tfw you try to make dinner using up the Thing that's been in the freezer a While and despite your best efforts it does Not work so you dump it and have ice cream (...I hasten to add that I almost never discard food but this was dire)

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A friendly reminder this Labor Day that unions didn’t win weekends and the minimum wage and laws against child labor and sick leave by being nice, polite, or respectful. They won by fighting. They won by striking and struggling and being radicals. And we have to do the same.

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The NY Times and other legacy media brands are hellbent on “just asking questions” about the existence of trans people. SELF magazine is the exception, making trans-inclusive journalism a core value. I spoke to the EIC about her mission: thehandbasket.substack.com/p/how-one-ma...

Start your Sunday with A. R. Capetta's terrific road-trip story "Resurrection Highway": www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/resurrecti...

Resurrection Highwaywww.sundaymorningtransport.com For September’s first, free story, A. R Capetta takes us on a spectacular road trip beyond anything we could have ever imagined. ~ Julian and Fran, Sept 3, 2023 Resurrection Highway by A. R. Capetta...

From the last day of The Nib, Maia Kobabe on creating the most banned book in the U.S.: thenib.com/i-made-the-m... Share with anyone who hasn't been following this fight, and everyone who has.

I Made the Most Banned Book in America | The Nibthenib.com Maia Kobabe on “Gender Queer,” libraries, and how we have to fight back even louder.

we went out the cat Resented It

first soup of the season

Whew, nothing like rereading decades-old journals & realizing you were experiencing things you didn't yet have the language to fully describe/categorize. Hindsight: if not actually 20/20, dang close.

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Ruth Krauss from her book How to Make an Earthquake, illustrated by her husband Crockett Johnson

I love private language/ shorthand; for instance, our household calls our favorite local produce market Most Sincere, short for Most Sincere Pumpkin Patch. What are some of your "this wouldn't make sense to anyone else" expressions?

today, among other things, I sewed blue buttons with tiny giraffes on them onto a grey linen shirt

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The Kids Online Safety Act would wreck the internet as we know it and cause mass censorship of LGBTQIA+ ppl. Here's a great rundown. This bill could pass in the *next few weeks* so call your senators! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/the-kids-online-safety-act-isnt-all-right-critics-say/

I've really been enjoying Dan Poblocki's new podcast Our First Fears, about gateway horror. My self-concept is as someone who doesn't like horror, but that's demonstrably untrue and I want to learn more about it & figure out my own gateway(s). Anyway here's a link: https://twitter.com/ourfirstfears

@ourfirstfears on Twittertwitter.com Our First Fears is a podcast hosted by @danpoblocki featuring discussions about Gateway Horror, past and present, with artists working in the genre today.

Explaining my preference for oat-based frozen desserts over coconut, I said oat was self-effacing in contrast to coconut's brash forwardness. Now imagining them in a Regency romance.

Seems especially apt to do visible mending on my Allied Media shirt from 2018; the slogan on the back is Create, Connect, Transform.