Kate Schapira

EMERGENCY ACTION BY MARCH 5! Send a Public Comment to ICE: No Detention Camps in Maryland! In January 2026, DHS spent $102.4 million to purchase an empty warehouse outside Hagerstown in Washington County, Maryland to convert into a processing center to hold 1,500 people as part of a nationw...

NIMBY for good in Maryland: urgent call to action to oppose a shoddily built ice detention facility w/ comments due by March 5th

actionnetwork.org/letters/emer...

I grew up in the town that Hotchkiss is in & what I will say about those kids is that they did not hear "no"

Feels like a companion piece to this thread, which focuses on outcomes but also the mental recoil of the outcomes into the writing process bsky.app/profile/elis...

DM me your address and I can send you a copy of the zine at least!

Listen I am on the record as a lover of snow on earth and even I am like "okay yes I love you but can you CUT IT OUT"

Made a little zine for the panel called "Writing With Humans as Collaborative and Collective Practice" and you can have one if you attend

I made a little zine for it and I'll probably have extras!

Hell yeah, you have my number I think?

Thursday and Saturday are more open for me, so if you feel like hanging out at or near #AWP2026, DM and we can start a plan

Flyer for a workshop with Kate Schapira, "From Climate Emotion to Community Action: Friday, March 6, 3pm, Perry Hall Branch, 9685 Honeygo Blvd". Includes a headshot of Kate and a picture of her with an interlocutor at the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth

Sorry but I am going to #AWP26

With Arisa White, Shana Youngdahl & Éireann Lorsung, I'm talking about "The non-coercive rearranging of desire: Teaching Writing Despite 'AI'" on Friday 3/6 at 10:35. You will like it

I'm also doing this workshop in Perry Hall later that day

Just did it

I am glad you got your meds and also do you want to hang out?

I got to hang out with that baby again. Mostly I was doing dishes and laundry and cooking dinner but at the very end of the chore hang her lola handed her to me and I told her that when she was ready to sit up and look around, there would be all kinds of springtime & summertime things for her to see

Allegheny County Council advances bill restricting ICE cooperation New Allegheny County legislation to restrict cooperation with federal immigration authorities passed a divided committee. A final council vote is still pending.

In a 4-3 vote, Allegheny County Council committee members advance a bill to restrict county employees from cooperating with ICE. A final vote may come as soon as March 10. buff.ly/dXL1DL8

Thank you Lori <3

Thank you, Erica <3

Party smells still looking for a home to support tcpipeline.org or related orgs! This will be the last one to go out for a few days, after which we will spring forth renewed.

Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...

Something lovely in a rough day.

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3rd batch of samples to support trans Kansans = some party perfumes, for a donation of $20+ to an org in the thread

Hendley Amora: candied fruit and musk

Universal Flowering Seduction Theory: blackcurrant, lychee, tobacco

BORNTOSTANDOUT Mary Jane: Um. Weed. In a perfume way!Also kinda minty

Vanilla perfume batch has been CLAIMED, thank you @zooeykim.bsky.social!

They shall be yours <3

You‘ve put together $5K in a few hours. $22K more!

Thanks for reminding me about this--I've got friends working on a ballot measure to get the city to divest. I know they need a certain number of signatures from Providence voters so I just reached out to ask how to help

3rd batch of samples to support trans Kansans = some party perfumes, for a donation of $20+ to an org in the thread

Hendley Amora: candied fruit and musk

Universal Flowering Seduction Theory: blackcurrant, lychee, tobacco

BORNTOSTANDOUT Mary Jane: Um. Weed. In a perfume way!Also kinda minty

Rose perfume samples have been CLAIMED, thank you @fairybex.bsky.social <3333

Get 'em while they're vanilla-y

Learned helpfulness babey!

Btw I am doing this bc there's a lot of other stuff I can't do anything about but I wanted to do something about something

Sharing this again for people who want to leave the US armed forces or know someone who might want to leave. It's likely to be *most* useful if you share them with an actual person you actually know in a, "Hey, if you find yourself questioning and want to get out..." kind of way. girightshotline.org

Be the ramp builder, the snow shoveler, the late fee waive-er, the laundry switcher, the instructions interpreter

Almost no one can be all of these but most people can be one of them or one of something like them