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This coming Friday, March 7th - join us for our third online poetry reading feat. Sarah Ghazal Ali (@sarahali.bsky.social), George Abraham (@intifadabatata.bsky.social , Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. Followed by a short discussion and Q&A! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

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Gonna go read love poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, George Abraham, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Sarah Aziza, and and and

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i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

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I really want a particular tattoo, but right now I can’t fathom not swimming for long enough for it to heal

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My dear fellow leftists: What we need is a Popular Front. You don’t build successful coalitions by shitting on every action that isn’t sufficiently radical for your analysis. Meet people where they are at or we’re sunk.

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Bless the elder lifeguards who learn your name.

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DEAR MEMPHIS (read by me!) is on Libro, and when the library waits for my own reading pleasures run long, I buy there

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Hearing barred owls on your ride in to work, and other arguments for cycling

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I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship—and wrote about the global network of maritime archaeologists excavating the Middle Passage www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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We need more stories about how people win together and not because a savior with magical entitlement to Save the World swoops in to save the day

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Thinking back to Tuesday, when I felt rocked back and forth in the spiral of this landscape. If you are, or will be, in New York City between now and May 11, you owe it to yourself to go to the Caspar David Friedrich show at the Met.

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Presently watching 6 NYPD officers, 2 Empire Joint Task Force officers, and 2 Allied security guards manage a person’s fall that would probably be best cared for by EMTs

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Darlings, I’m reading at the KGB Bar in the East Village this Monday night. Come have a drink of poems.

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Darlings, I’m reading at the KGB Bar in the East Village this Monday night. Come have a drink of poems.

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Today’s call script: Hello, [Congressperson] and staff. I’m calling to ask that [Congressperson] cease all floor votes, committee meetings, and other legislative operations until Elon Musk and his unelected, unqualified cronies are evicted from our federal government agencies. 🤷🏻

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Drafting multiple letters at once—what am I, a Victorian dandy?

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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1) diversity of tactics, my friends 2) Each person gets to determine their own appetite for risk. Unless you’re their actual mom, it’s not your business.

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Just called mine. Could you call yours?

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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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God bless trans Yiddish teachers

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God bless trans Yiddish teachers

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the anglican church is apparently more honest and dedicated to genuinely fighting antisemitism than the anti-defamation league

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God bless all the women bike mechanics, especially the trans ones

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No, language auto-detector, I am not writing in Hebrew.

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מיר וועלן זיי איבערלייבן we will outlive them

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happy birthday to Rachel’s excellent book. If you want a couple hundreds on why you should read DEAR MEMPHIS, here’s what I blogged about it: open.substack.com/pub/shipwrec...

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Today marks one year of DEAR MEMPHIS belonging to the world outside me. Find it at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, for yourself or your library or your local community makers: riverriverbooks.org/store/Preord...

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Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

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On Mike’s podcast, he tentatively asked me if “Stone Way North” was a love poem, and I said something along the lines of “OF COURSE! What is more loving than making a home together?!?!”

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