Julie/a Stivers

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Librarian. Let’s build inclusive school spaces that center joy and resistance. ‘23 SLJ SLOTY. Author of The Restorative School Library, Include, co-author of Manga Goes to School. #LibFive #TrueBookFAIRs she/her 🌈

Read alike list: Inspired to Read Some Queer Sports Romance? Titles include Fence, Check Please!, She Drive Me Crazy, Cheer Up!, Home Field Advantage, and Icebreaker!
Purple and blue swirly watercolor cover of The Restorative School Library.
A book cover that says The Restorative School Library: Building Spaces and Programs where Students are both seen and celebrated.
Listing of manga related presentations at AASL on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Orange floofy cat on back.
Slide that says Welcome to Queer Comics! We’re so glad you’re here.
gorgeous cover of We Are Villains by Kacen Callender.
Covers of Goodbye Eri, Galaxy: The Prettiest Star, Victor LaValle's Destroyer, Persepolis, The Best We Could Do, and Tiger Girls.
Book finder display for 'Books Centering K-pop and K-dramas' with 8 beautiful, colorful titles by Kat Cho, Lyla Lee, Axie Oh, Maurene Goo, and Hybe.
Display: Books on Reproductive Health and Freedom
Nine covers of the manga Sasaki and Miyano with two adorable male characters, a taller one with orange hair and earrings and a younger man with dark hair and big eyes.
Cover of Manga Goes to School and the AASL/ALA Editions page. The subtitle is Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K-12 Settings.
Covers of four manga: romance shojo Ima Koi, romance The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All, shonen Versus, and sports manga Blue Lock: Episode Nagi.
Cover of Ima Koi manga by Ayuko Hatta, volume 1. Shojo cover shows a girl with soft gray hair and big eyes looking at a handsome manga boy with golden hair and an earring.
A BEAUTIFUL student painted black and white mural of two characters from GIVEN by Natsuki Kizu.
Bookmark holder with the sign "Pride is Every Day: Bookmarks and Reading Lists"
Cover of The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All manga. The cover is black and white on a green background with a cool perspective--from the feet up--of two teens sitting on an amp.
Pic of an orange tabby cat’s sturdy little legs with floofy paws.
The Cult of Pedagogy podcast, episode 237 with pics of Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers.
Sign with It's Friday. Have a sticker! Table filled with trans and NB affirming and celebratory and fun and cute stickers.
Cover of Blue Lock-Episode Nagi manga, volume 1. Blue vibes, two male characters, soccer ball.