Hope Levy

In 2023–2024, Oregon libraries and schools saw a record number of requests to ban books. The top three most-challenged book had LGBTQ+ themes. Book bans are rising! Here's what you can do:
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Planning a choose-your-own-adventure birthday for my spouse and making lots of die tables with different options for how the day will go depending on how they roll. They’re gonna love it. 🥰

My dad lived in a cheap apartment across the street from the Portland Nursery when I was a kid and visiting on weekends was always so goddamn magical. Grateful for this place and their good produce/good vibes.

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

It’s a beautiful day to be unionized.

Rewatching Bob’s Burgers and catching a background melody in the first episode where he’s looking at his family that’s refrained in a poignant moment in the movie when we see his mom for the first time is a really lovely little musical Easter egg. 💙

Getting to tell loved ones about the ‘94 album “Kermit Unpigged” this week has been a gift. I didn’t realize my siblings and I had listened to it so much that I still know almost every word. Honestly the perfect intro to Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Buffett, and other musicians as a kid.

Fully weeping at Game Changer this week. 😭

I have friends who, if you Venmo them for things like gas, will send you back more money than you sent. Really delighted to escalate by having their local bookstore mail them a gift certificate 😇

Never related to Billy Joel as much as I do today, as someone with a different condition that creates too much brain juice.

Entering my birder era with nearly unbearable levels of sincerity and enthusiasm.

Nutria, baby ducks, and a frog near Tualatin Hills Nature Park. A good day. 💖

Issue Thirteen - Hope Levy — Empty House Press

With poetry month and @tacobellquarterly.org opening for subs soon, it feels like the right time to share my TBQ rejection that found its way into the world. Enjoy this piece on love, illness, and discovering wonder in the world around you:

First time going to the tulip festival and it was a joy. 🥰

And Suddenly It’s Evening by Salvatore Quasimodo, tr. Jack Bevan Everyone is alone on the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of sun: and suddenly it’s evening.

what a poem. in just three lines

Not annoying at all! It’s a delight to see as a local (and a fan). 💚

Brennan Lee Mulligan on Puppet History is the intersection I never dared to dream of, and I’m so happy.