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Transgender · Puerto RicoPuerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill that prohibits hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from activists in the largely conservative U.S. territory.See the Story
Puerto Rico bans hormone therapy and gender surgery for transgender youth
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Social MediaI am always on the hunt for new crafts to test out on social media, and this beaded fish keychain kept popping up on Instagram for me. Looking at it, I was like “yea I could totally make that,” and it turned out to be super easy. Now, I have been roped into making a beaded fish keychain for nearly all of my friends, so start this craft at your own risk. If making beaded fish keychains for everyone you know doesn’t scare you off, here is what I d…Read Article
DIY Teen Makerspace: Beaded Fish Keychain
United States · United StatesWhen I first began working in libraries, way back in the early 1990s, Young Adult services was just really beginning to grow. YALSA was introduced as a division of ALA in 1957, but libraries were slower to start hiring YA specialists. In fact, when I was in graduate school to get my MLS as a YA Librarian in the late 1990s/early 2000s, there was exactly 1 YA class to take. In the early 2000s YA librarianship like YA literature began to explode. L…Read Article
