LisaMarie

This is what fighting for healthcare in America looks like.

Seniors in wheelchairs are demanding no cuts to Medicaid and they are getting arrested.

Nothing says ’Land of the free’ like cuffing grandma for defending healthcare!

day 1 of summer school / Intro to Playwriting. I don't usually teach in the summer, but I need more down payment moneee babeee! ha! Also - so excited about this crop of 11 students. They are already engaged and excited. yay new plays and new playwrights!

My friend just reminded me to go fill up my gas tank. so I'm here reminding you to do it too, ASAP.

Watching Andor. all I have to say is so far is.... empire gonna empire. SIGH

packing packing packing. cleaning. packing. dumping. purging. giving shit away. aaaa

also in the middle of moving from SC mountains quiet to a busier neighborhood and a new space. trying to take it easy on myself right now. I cant do everything.

have been managing high anxiety over these past few days, weeks months as the threats to 'just being' black and brown are heightened visibly. filled with imaginings about what we ARENT seeing. upping my walking and meditation. getting my head out of my phone. breathe. breathe.

thinking about all the black and brown #adoptees growing up in white Evangelical christian families today. May they all be safe. May they all be kept from harm. May they all be at peace.

Commentary: Cowardly Dodgers remain silent as ICE raids terrorize their fans The Dodgers have declined to release a statement in support of their fans protesting ICE raids that have ripped apart families in Southern California.

40 percent of the Dodgers fan base is Latino. The club has remained silent as brown-skinned people are targeted across Los Angeles. Dylan Hernández eviscerates the Dodgers clubhouse for its cowardice. www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Minnesota shooting suspect allegedly attended a bible college popular among Christian nationalists Including several who were instrumental in the 2020 "Stop the Steal" campaign.

1/Alleged Minnesota assassin attended a Bible college that is a stronghold of the Christian Nationalist movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, where some leaders of Stop the Steal and Theobros also went. @kieraevebutler.bsky.social has the details: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ooo cool! YES i'm into it so far!

started Andor! #summertime

CATS Presents the 2nd Annual AAPI Playwright Festival — CATS: Contemporary Asian Theater Scene Join us for the 2nd Annual AAPI Playwright Festival—celebrating bold new works by Asian American voices through staged readings and community events.

I'm honored to be seen and to write a new short for the 2nd Annual Contemporary Asian Theater Scene festival. #BLASIAN #AfroPinayRepresent I'm equally honored to be in the company of these wonderfully creative playwrights! yes! Come check us out Saturday, July 26, 2025, 7:30 PM at San Jose Stage!

omg I'm like 15 minutes in watching FOREVER and I'm already weepy. aaaaa

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

grant writing or finish this scene in my play? I need the grant money to keep writing, but I need to finish this scene in order to get to the final draft, to get to the workshop. aaaaaaaa this is my 'day off'

UCSC faculty survey describes ‘potential extinction-level event’ for programs, low morale due to budget cuts, poor admin communication As budget woes afflict the UC Santa Cruz campus, a high-level faculty report points a finger at poor administration communication and planning. A campus spokesman denies "administrative error" as caus...

Coverage of the survey shared in the academic senate meeting on Wed: lookout.co/uc-santa-cru...

whatthehellyoncye this is gonna go BAD

UC Faculty are also seeing changes to our "cybersecurity" privacy (ie access to our google drives and docs) and being asked to re-sign new agreements and "must comply with May 2025". To say we are concerned is an understatement

I Fiiiiiinally am getting a moment to go see SINNERS today. YES YES YES I know I'm the only black person in the world who hasnt seen it yet. I been dippin and dodging y'alls freakin SPOILERS for a month. #listenIbusy

lurking toward last 2 weeks of the quarter. just wrapped directing a reading for PlaywrightsFoundation in SF working w @realcatbrooks.bsky.social and an amazing team, also deep in tech for our student #NewPlayFestival, while still writing lectures for my theory class. my body is like - yeahhhh sooo

One pleasure of shaping the playwriting program at UCSC is I get to nurture #newplaywrights! This play won our endowed Dharma Grace Award. Chris Hernandez has written a wonderful play about 2 nonbinary cowboys going on an magical wild west adventure, THEM COWBOYS. 1 more show TODAY! #TheaterSky

If You’ve Lost NEA Grant Funding: Submit Your Appeal here.
Americans for the Arts www.americansforthearts.org/advocate/pro...

Never assume that you know a stranger or a friend's financial situation. You don't. So if you ask for donations & people don't give, you really need to keep it moving. There are 1000 reasons why folks don't give and those reasons aren't your business. Thank those who do give & move on.

absolutely time for a writing retreat. I have a revision of a 'completed' play and a goal to complete the play I am currently writing. its a western. you should read it. its really good. lol

so happy to have some time this morning to focus on my OWN writing work. its just been teaching, directing, consulting, advising, mentoring since January. WHEWWWwwwww even if just for these few hours.

good morning from late spring on the west coast. 80s today, raining on tuesday. Enjoying my last month living in the Santa Cruz mtns, before I move down a little toward the beach. Never lived near a beach before - I grew up near a Bay - Tacoma's Ruston Way, but not the ocean.

The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption

I personally know a couple of these "babies." Definitely a historical period🥚
#adopteesky

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

STEM, Space and the Sparkle Trap: How Patriarchy Still Shapes Women and Girls’ Potential Despite its promise of progress, Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight exposed the persistent double standards women face in STEM—where success is still too often judged by sparkle, not substance.

"This subtle expectation is what I call the ‘sparkle trap’: the belief that women and girls can be brilliant and bold, but only if it comes wrapped in glitter and glam. It’s empowerment with conditions, and it starts early."