Sarah Edwards

what is there even to say at this point

here’s something fun I learned today: if you lose your AWP lanyard you must pay $525 to re-register and get a new one

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.

Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

With @nytimes.com

“Toni Cade Bambara gave us the quote, “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

I define myself as a cultural organizer. And in this moment, I think culture work is what saves us. Culture is how we be. Art is the evidence of how we be.”

impossible to capture on a shitty phone, but I so love seeing rural north carolina & virginia landscapes by train — clay / pine / pine / steeple / awning / clay / pine / field / pine

on suggestion from Mab - “the old guard is making a comeback”

yess very excited to start them! hoping to find a home for a feature on the series.

Berger and Page Virtually Tied in State Senate Race In what could be the most expensive state legislative race in N.C. history, the incumbent was two votes behind with all precincts reporting.

UPDATE: Senate Republican leader Phil Berger, North Carolina’s most powerful politician, trailed Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page by two votes with all precincts reporting in the state’s most-watched primary on Tuesday.

www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...

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Pivot Point
Durant, IA

My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.

a v sick mail day - the first three reprints in @uncpress.bsky.social’s new Radical Souths series

Welcome to INDY’s 2026 Primary Live Blog INDY is bringing you election updates and results in Durham, Orange, and Wake counties for the 2026 N.C primaries.

We’re bringing you election updates and results in Durham, Orange, and Wake counties.

BOOM Club Is a Home For Electronic Music Nerds and Novices Alike BOOM Club will open at 600 Foster Street, inside the space formerly occupied by PS37, on March 6.

BOOM Club, a music space for “freaky, semi-disreputable but open-hearted” people, will open at 600 Foster Street on March 6.

“Arts and Culture Are Our Bridge”: Talking With Hayti Heritage Film Festival Curator Monèt Marshall This year's Hayti Heritage Film Festival runs March 4-7 and features a lively blend of classics, short films, documentaries, and more.

"I’m constantly thinking: Who is this speaking to? Who’s at the center? And sometimes it’s okay if something isn’t for everyone. But it’s also okay to say: You might not get every reference—but you’re welcome here."

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.

“This crisis-management system in the United States is itself in crisis." What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever, by @cgaribay.bsky.social

New Durham Bar Has 13 Seats, No Wifi, and a Lot of Charm Soif, which opens at 331 West Main Street in early March, will serve coffee during the day and flip to serving spritzers at night.

Gerstl says he modeled Soif after coffee bars where he grew up, in Italy, where the bar is the center of the community and “everyone starts their day standing at the counter talking about sports or politics or whatever’s going on around town.”

I have a short story in the spring/summer issue of the Yablousha Review - you can read it here: www.yalobushareview.com/yellow-bird

Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

I have a short story in the spring/summer issue of the Yablousha Review - you can read it here: www.yalobushareview.com/yellow-bird

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

Did congress authorize this fucking war where American lives will undoubtedly be lost? If not, why the fuck do we have a congress? Why are we paying very large salaries and benefits to all these assholes since they do absolutely NOTHING!

All Critters Great and Small In December, prolific Bynum folk artist Clyde Jones died. His legacy lives on in the playful sculptures he made and gave away freely.

“He had to have something to do,” said Jones’ niece Loretta Brady. “He started looking at the trees and seeing the critters in there.”

Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons.

5 miles away from his home.

He never made it.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I probably get 3-5 spam calls or texts a day and it’s annoying but god, I can’t imagine being elderly right now and having to discern fact from fiction when getting inundated with relentless phishing emails and “1000s in outstanding balance” voicemails and health insurance scam texts. cruel society.

As Anna Zarutska sat in the audience, Trump highlighted her daughter’s fatal stabbing, calling the man charged in her death a “deranged monster.” DeCarlos Brown, he said “came in through open borders,” implying that Brown was an undocumented immigrant.

That is false.

I’m proud of pieces like this bc their specificity is reflective of spending considered time with the material - it’s easy to project a narrative on Southern writing, esp when it involves a family legacy. This feature is beautifully true to Council’s wistful voice and elegant placemaking.

In New Cookbook, Spring Council Brings Back a Lost Chapel Hill 'Southern Roots' offers recipes from Spring Council's legendary mother alongside memories of the close-knit neighborhood she grew up in.

Lena’s story on Spring Council’s cookbook-meets-memoir is such a pleasure:

“Beyond lost places, Southern Roots has a way of capturing lost ways of eating. Council grew up with an intimacy to her food sources that has largely vanished.”

A hotter, wetter South is becoming a breeding ground for mold In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.

A hotter, wetter South is becoming a breeding ground for mold