maggie whitehead

Leila is an incisive editor and wildly good at articulating things writing and craft-related. Highly rec her workshop on endings:

in solidarity with everyone who just got the NEA email, the one with a basic punctuation error in it. Let's all give ourselves a bit of grace today.

I love Thao!!

Jackie, congratulations!!!

Congrats Yvonne!

Tonight!! This should be fantastic.

delighted to have this bite-sized meditation on thresholds in The Seventh Wave -- theseventhwave.org/on-thresholds/

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

when I called my reps in MA yesterday they (or the aides who answered) hadn't heard about Khalil yet. Let 'em know. Let 'em know we know.

Any idea how to get ahold of someone in Warren’s office though? I can’t remember the last time I felt sure my call was counted there. This week they went from full voice mailbox to just a busy signal

Congrats Yvonne and Jess!!

Georgia prosecutors drop all 15 counts of money laundering against 3 'Cop City' activists Georgia prosecutors have dropped all 15 counts of money laundering that were levied against three Atlanta organizers accused of misusing a bail fund to aid violent protests against the city’s proposed...

wait, but it seems like the racketeering charges are still on? am I reading this right? apnews.com/article/atla...

this is amazing.

also lots of caretaker-as-saint rhetoric, not my fave. pay him. pay him for the work he does. give both of them supports.

they buy the brother a new bed--not use all their tremendous advocacy power and clout to pressure social service systems to do right by the family and pay for what they need

anyone else find the Queer Eye ep "Kiss the Sky" about the man caretaking for his brother pretty troublesome?

lots of brother-as-burden vibes, and the QE people come in and fix it with self care and makeover. nothing about how an entire social/state system has let these men down.

yess, hungry for the punny bar names please & thank you

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying BY NOOR HINDI Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those poets who care about the moon. Palestinians don't see the moon from jail cells and prisons. It's so beautiful, the moon. They're so beautiful, the flowers. I pick flowers for my dead father when I'm sad. He watches Al Jazeera all day. I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan. I know I'm American because when I walk into a room something dies. Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound. When I die, I promise to haunt you forever. One day, I'll write about the flowers like we own them.

“I know I'm American because when I walk into a room something dies. Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.” — Noor Hindi

for crying out loud in the sink