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kayaoakes.bsky.social
Writer of nonfiction, Oakland kid, faculty in writing at UC Berkeley. Book #6, Not So Sorry, is available now. I have breast cancer so no one is allowed to tell me I’m wrong.
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Who gets to be sick in America? One thing I've learned during cancer treatment is that most of us can't afford it. kayaoakes.substack.com/p/who-gets-t...

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For all of my fellow educators staring down the end of the school year: remember your Paolo Friere. kayaoakes.substack.com/p/a-teaching...

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Hello all. I was close many years ago with Joshua Clover and heard that he passed away, but cannot find any confirmation of this outside of social media. If anyone has any kind of obituary etc, can you let me know?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

really good piece about Lazarus from Kaya Oakes open.substack.com/pub/kayaoake...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent piece on Pope Francis from the great Kaya Oakes sojo.net/articles/opi...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

I'm back -- maybe just temporarily? -- because @sojo.net asked me to write about Pope Francis, and I wanted to share it with you. sojo.net/articles/opi...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Not really finding this app appealing or helpful. Oh well.

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One reason I got off all other social media platforms was the popularity of people with A. No qualifications B. No experience C. No expertise all of whom glory in steering everyone into a state of despair and yep the same thing’s happening here. Apps aren’t going to save us, kids.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

When I got cancer I put it in writing that my spouse will destroy any unpublished writing I’ve done and this is exactly why: it’s creepy and ghoulish to publish a writer’s diaries without their permission. I love Didion but this is just a cash grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Someone on substack referred to Bluesky as “insufferable” which feels very “I know you are but what am I?”

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Every adjunct faculty member in America to the colleges and universities where they work:

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

My friend Jason got furloughed from his job working with refugees. If you can help out, it’s much appreciated.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

If you’ve never been poor, never visited a food bank, never gotten a Pell Grant, never worn hand me downs, never parked your junky car in a lot full of new cars, never worried every single day about losing your job… maybe you shouldn’t be in charge of poor people’s lives.

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Andy Cohen is a Deadhead?!?

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Goddamnit my neighbor bought a cybertruck. I can’t even look at it without laughing.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Join me on Feb 12 for 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞́: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜, a humorous, highly immersive, and historically accurate talk that uncovers the African-American roots of Country, Folk, and Americana music. Learn more: www.facebook.com/events/40597...

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Google spent billions of dollars on this shit.

submitted 93 days ago • 130 comments

Me whenever someone talks about reading On the Road

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

It was so great to be with the wonderful crew at @queertheology.bsky.social! Thank you so much.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

The halt at the NIH also means a halt to cancer research. When do we start the ACT UP style protest group of cancer patients? Imagine thousands of us showing up wheeling our chemo bags.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

This is shockingly bad. How did it get this bad? The UC system isnt in great shape either but I haven’t heard of anything like this at a UC. www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Substack: you should publish at C hour of X day to grow your audience! Me: fuck it, pushes publish on a Friday night when no one reads anything. open.substack.com/pub/kayaoake...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

My students mentioned this executive order in class today and I hadn’t actually read it. This is chat gpt word salad. It’s garbled nonsense.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Ugh I did my last book launch here and they were so nice. With East Bay Booksellers recovering from a fire and Moe’s no longer doing events that’s bad for the east bay. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/21/b...

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