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Indy. Writer. Educator. PhD student. Planting what I can and seeing what blooms. Flint made me. All we have is each other. He/Him.
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More bad is on the way. Good, too, but an abundance of bad. It will get worse before it gets better. Can you see it?

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Storytellers will be the ones to see us through this. Stories help us remember where we come from and what we’ve been through. They inspire us to imagine new and better futures. A love of storytelling fosters empathy, compassion, and curiosity.

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“We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart,” says Hamilton Nolan. “How do regimes manage to impose minority rule on enormous populations? By getting the majority to give up. Don’t do that.” [hamiltonnolan.com]

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With the Dear Colleague letter, the big Qs will be: will institutions comply in advance? Will they take a stand? Will they fight for their students? Will they fight for themselves? Will they fight at all?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been organizing for many years now and I was so delighted to print this out and spend some time with it today. Highly recommend this as a resource to clarify your work and your own strategies for survival right now!

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Less of this *gestures at the state of the world,* more of you having your needs met without question or condition, less scarcity, more economies of care

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Art practices are incredible tools for resilience and healing. If you’ve wanted to start painting or writing, start now. Don’t wait for permission. Nobody coronates artists.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

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secretly hoping the GOP tries to say something about Kendrick and that’s all I’m gonna say 🤐

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When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos. Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g

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From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

been thinking about this poem by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social constantly lately

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Are we hoping for institutions like the courts to save us?

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Space-maximizing setup for @justseeds.bsky.social at Print Austin this weekend printaustin.org/

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One thing on my mind right now is how AI might be (now and in the future) interrupting how we make connections with each other.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Easiest thing Senate D’s could do to resist—even if they don’t have the votes—is exactly what R’s do: vote no on nominees and be a general thorn in their sides. But they seemingly can’t do that right either. Why vote yes on any of these cabinet nominees? Are you afraid?

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Even for folks outside of anthropology, "How We Struggle" by Sian Lazar is a solid reminder that each of us have agency, collective or otherwise, in our day-to-day struggle. Feels urgent to hold onto that. Here's my book review: saw.americananthro.org/pub/lc4dfsav...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

There will be something every day. Knowing how to navigate endless onslaught where you can is proving to be an experience none of us are ready for but will need increasingly so.

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