judithhannan.bsky.social
Writer/Teacher. Author of MOTHERHOOD EXAGGERATED and THE WRITE PRESCRIPTION. Writer-in-Residence at The Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. On board of the Children's Museum of Manhattan and CavanKerry. Dog and ocean lover. Www.judithhannanwrites.com
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I guess there wasn't any need for the @icrc.org to work in/delineate such "occupied" territories when Jordan and Egypt were the occupiers. (Screenshot, surprisingly enough, from a recent NYT article.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...
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You did nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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Don't forget about making your voice heard by your local politicians. Advocacy can happen at the state and city level too.
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Did it yesterday.
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Everyone should be contacting her. I just did.
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Done
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Who was the manufacturer who agreed to print the shirts?
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Let's hope that the Free Gaza people back off from "the river to the sea" which is no different than what Trump wants to do, just for the other side.
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The different ways we have to die.
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Looking forward to seeing this.
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Will be sharing this with a few friends who lost sons with similar stories.
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I'm not disagreeing about the trash fire but grace is also holding back on expressing our kneejerk reactions before we know facts. And grace is going back and correcting ourselves if we have spoken in haste.
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I get the reaction but a person died and people were injured. And we don't know why and whether it was a purposeful act or an accident. This is nothing to celebrate.
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Loved this book.
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I don't think we need more male novelists so men will read, I think we need to encourage men to write because writing is a way to understand one's self and how we behave in the world It's a way to develop humanity and compassion, to live beneath the surface.
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And to you Erika.
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If you have a specific area of expertise, volunteer to teach a class. I facilitate writing workshops. Libraries are thirsty for programming opportunities and I love the interaction with people in my community.
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So glad you are doing this. I had written to AWP when they put out their original panel list, which had multiple anti-Israel panels and nothing to balance them. I can't be there but so happy you will be.
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This quote from Poddar's essay is deeply offensive. "The Holocaust was the culmination of a white history of colonial and genocidal violence perpetrated against people of color across the planet." Here I was thinking it was about exterminating 6 million Jews. Do better @pw.bsky.social
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As always, you do everything you can to uplift writers. I have one quibble, though, re: Jesus as a Middle Eastern refugee. There was no term as Middle Eastern then and he was a Jew. Since there is a movement to erase this part of him I think it's even more important to be accurate.
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The chills this gave me will not go away for a while I think. Thank you.
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Brilliant. Seamless the way you move between the past and present.
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Lots of great information. Thank you.
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Also Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love.
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I seem to recall Dani Shapiro says that in one of her books. Maybe Devotion. Or else I heard her talk about it at an event.
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Reminds me of the old Charles Atlas cartoons where a weak guy is bullied by a muscular guy and then gets revenge through body building. We talk a lot about women's struggles with their bodies and forget about men.
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Oh dear. I hope you know I meant interiority.
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I remember reading this before and was swept away by the language and the inferiority. Only now do I see it's all one sentence. Until the end. Gorgeous.
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Thanks for being brave. A beautiful piece.
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Penny, the Yorkie, welcoming my newest dog, Izzy (breed unknown) to her pillow.