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I’m so excited for this workshop. There are a handful of spots left!

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got up to frost a cake and she helped herself to my seat (all the seats)

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I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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I’m so excited for this workshop. There are a handful of spots left!

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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All 13 presidential libraries now require administration clearance for book events; three cancelled at Carter library

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On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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This thread is one year old today, and, unfortunately, it is even more important to be reading and preserving trans stories than when it started. I truly thank everyone who has contributed to it, everyone who has kept sharing it, and everyone who has made a point to buy books from these authors. 🧵

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The bipartisan efforts to demonize and criminalize pro-Palestinian protestors have also contributed to the lack of mobilization of civil society against Trump, and this was EXACTLY what the right wanted when they cynically exploited Democrats' racism/desires to suppress any dissent.

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If you, like me, have been looking for a mutual aid project to donate to, this one is open this week for the next quarter! Any weekly amount is welcome

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“parents in Kenya whose children are believed to have tuberculosis cannot get them tested. There is no clean drinking water in camps in Nigeria or Bangladesh for people who fled civil conflict. A therapeutic food program cannot treat acutely malnourished children in South Sudan.”

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The Consistent Money-Moving Project is a mutual aid project supporting community members who face financial hardship in the DC area. You can pledge a weekly amount of $ or give a lump sum at the start of a new 13-week cycle. Join for the spring season:

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A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

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The Consistent Money-Moving Project is a mutual aid project supporting community members who face financial hardship in the DC area. You can pledge a weekly amount of $ or give a lump sum at the start of a new 13-week cycle. Join for the spring season:

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Listen: I talked with Jewel Rodgers about how she became Nebraska’s first Black state poet, growing up there, and she gives a taste of her poetry at the end!

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With alt text

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"How is it possible that so many people in power seem to have such stunted imaginations, so little curiosity for how to build this world to include more of us? I find this particularly repugnant when imagination and curiosity are some of the most defining traits of the very groups at risk."

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from one Dept. of Education employee: “Many of these students are in crisis. They are counting on some kind of intervention to get that student back in school and graduate or get accommodations ... And now the federal government is literally doing nothing.” @propublica.org

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"About 12,000 complaints were under investigation when Trump took office. The largest share of pending complaints — about 6,000 — are related to students with disabilities who feel they’ve been mistreated or unfairly denied help at school, according to a @propublica.org analysis of department data."

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Peggy has never done anything wrong

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Gonna post cringe for just a second here. Not on a self-pity kick, just out of ideas and pride: I have some irons in the fire and some contract stuff, but I need a full time job in LA. Whatever I've been doing isn't working and I need help. If you have any ideas, please DM or email me (in bio).

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If you can, donate to a good cause

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I'm inside the NEA grant workshop. They state we / artists cannot submit apps that mention or advance DEI work or initiatives. No clarity on projects that focus on or come from global majority communities. I also wonder who will be on the review committee to see if that list of words will flag apps

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‘An exhilarated hatred now parades as freedom, while the freedoms for which many of us have struggled for decades are distorted and trammeled as morally repressive “wokeism”.’ —Judith Butler in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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There are a handful of spots left in this workshop. You've still got almost a full month to apply!

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This spring, I'm teaching a two-part class on "Fulfilling and Subverting Genre" as part of American Short Fiction's MFA for All, alongside classes by Kristen Arnett and ZZ Packer! Registration is available for individual classes or all three. Come join us! americanshortfiction.org/mfa-for-all/

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Unexpected niche beat for @melissagiragrant.com: Covering the myriad protests happening right now despite claims on social media that 'no one is protesting.'

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❤️

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I can't express how much I needed this workshop. So grateful to all the writers in my cohort for their clarity, generosity, care, and hope, and to @tinhouse.bsky.social for bringing us together.

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(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

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Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of thousands of women like her, died this week at 96.

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"But if they can make it harder to remember that earlier generations of trans people shaped history, it furthers their goal of delegitimizing trans people and identities today." @hughryan.bsky.social is necessary reading on the "T" that made Stonewall happen: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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New letter from Trump Dept of Ed suggests racial equity programs/DEI disadvantage #AsianAmericans and whites. Asian Americans, we should challenge this false, dangerous narrative EVERY SINGLE TIME. @oiyanpoon.bsky.social and I show why below www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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spent a week-plus teaching on Zoom (the workshop was wonderful!) and am just wondering what it would even be like to be able to control my facial expressions

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Margaret Sullivan on four things the press needs to do rn: 1) Be clear about what's happening. 2) Stand up for press rights. 3) Emphasize how the admin is hurting their local communities. 4) Compellingly tell stories of people trying to do what's right. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

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For those wondering, how #disability is affected in all these federal actions on DEIA. (hint: the #DisCO and their families are very much a target)

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