Denzel Xavier Scott

Thank you @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. Thank you for remembering this story of mine.

Finally submitted this google form with all my notes to @neonhemlock.bsky.social for this 2024 Were Here anthology.

Now onto submitting to @apexmag.bsky.social I believe and caregiving, maybe calisthenics (probably not), then blissful sleep.

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I'll just say for anyone who is starting off, and I am a small potato but still, I have never paid to appear at a book club or on a panel or at a festival where I was an invited guest.
I've had two book launches at local bookstores, I haven't paid to throw those.
beware of ppl asking you for cash.

Doubleback Review publishes previously published work from defunct journals—and they’re reading now for their October issue! doublebackreview.com

US citizen, Army veteran detained at California immigration raid | CNN George Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and father of two, had been planning his three-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party at the park for weeks.

I remember when newspapers used to run massive, multi-page spreads of American service members lost to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, accompanied by their military headshots.

They're going to have to resurrect it for those hunted and thrown away by their own government. This story is a mini-genre.

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

This is a fascinating read. Worth noting that @ufw.bsky.social fights for shade, water, and rest breaks for farm workers regardless of where they came from -- everyone deserves a human work environment.

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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

I'm in my first anthology y'all.

Zariel, baby, the places we will go!!!!

PodCastle Submissions will open July 1-31

It's almost July, friends, which means: PodCastle will soon be OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!

General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending!

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How Many Immigrants Will Die in U.S. Custody? More detentions will lead to more deaths, but the Trump Administration has options to conceal the losses.

In 2022 (the most recent year for which we have comprehensive data), 52 people—an average of one per week—perished in Customs and Border Protection custody. How many immigrants will die under the second Trump Administration?

The more I live the more I’m astounded by how difficult it is to keep living and to remain a person. This is WORK.

The Frozen Politics of Social Security - Boston Review The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

The Social Security system, more than any other single institution, keeps the United States from becoming a truly Dickensian world of poverty and despair.

James Chappel on why it is time to fight fire with fire:

Those formative, animated movies of my youth also just happened to be about scrappy alliances of everyday folks standing up to authoritarnianism, so, make of that what you will.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

I'm in the midst of a breakthrough with my poetry and prose and I'm feeling hopeful. Wild child.

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Hey! SH is doing an Afrosurrealism special issue. I know a lot of my mutuals are interested in this!

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A poster featuring Roxane and myself with all the event info that’s included in the link.

At 4pm EST today, @roxanegay.bsky.social and I will read some new work and discuss creative nonfiction! I’m so excited about this event series. I’m collaborating with friends and mentors like Roxane all semester. Join us via zoom: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.

Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.

I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million.

Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.

Exclusive: Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX, sources say President Donald Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract.

Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt

Worst week for science EVER.

Sunday: ASM scrubs DEI mentions from website.

Tue: NASA scrubs DEI from website; ICE arrests a student on campus; NSF plans to cut staff; USAID halted.

Wed: HHMI kills diversity program; NIH trashes applications for diversity F grants.

Fri: NIH cuts indirects.

Can Reading Make You Happier? After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

Gloria Steinem’s Life on the Feminist Frontier With her writing, her community organizing, and her partnerships, she has remained at the forefront of the movement for more than fifty years.

“People are always asking me, ‘Who will you pass the torch to?’ ” Gloria Steinem said. “The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I’m using my torch to light other torches.” Revisit a Profile of the feminist trailblazer, from 2015.

John Glenn didn't want to enter his space craft without first ensuring that the brilliant "human computer" Katherine Johnson had checked all the equations. John Glenn understood the difference between recognising expertise, and being blinded by prejudice.

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report

JFC. gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...