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in my opinion you should not take a single paycheck from the new york times

This article made me ill. It's clear that the Israeli army is massacring Palestinians daily, but to read it in the soldiers' own words...they're just "following orders."

"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Our form of communication is gunfire."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

:/ embarrassing…

maybe they’re planning on burning them lol

i'll also be attending as a scholar!! we can hang out in july :)

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white board drawing of a misshapen body labeled “FEELINGS” within a larger body shape labeled “THOUGHTS” within a square labeled “ENVIRONMENT” within a cube labeled “HISTORY?”

love thinking alongside my students about the narrator’s “proximity” to a character… proximal to what? their articulated thoughts? their unarticulated feelings? their heart? their skin? how close is the “close third person” really?!

to be read by & in conversation with David Naimon is a dream. what a generous mind, and what a gift for literature this show is! i’ve long loved Between the Covers; grateful to join this archive of moving conversations 🌀

such a delight to run into you!! see you next year :^)

The foreign aid cuts left partially-excavated, exposed pits of dioxin, a poison, left by the American military.

Now, rainy season is coming & hundreds of thousands of people live right around the base. Worse, less than 1,500 ft away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, pop. 9 million.

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning. Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...

That left exposed enormous pits of soil contaminated with deadly chemicals.

Now, after losing several weeks of work, the contractors are scrambling — at their own expense — to secure the Bien Hoa air base before the rainy season starts.

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

you cannot ever be free unless you are willing to act free.

feeling a hankering for an essay collection that will change my life. any recent releases i should look into? some things i love: hybrid or surprising forms, heartbreak essays, grief essays, medical memoir, essays about whales, birds, trees, etc.

Donate to Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member, organized by Sarah Clark Since December, one of our comrades at ANMLY has been unhoused. They were able to fin… Sarah Clark needs your support for Urgent Aid for Unhoused ANMLY Member

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Tightwires with host Hiba Tahir, poet Patrycja Humienik talks about navigating grad school and writing, identity, and her debut collection, We Contain Landscapes (@tinhouse.bsky.social). at.pw.org/Humienik

It’s strange to be so angry and sad about the loss of horizons I never thought it was possible to sail toward, but while the Trump administration might own the institutions, they can’t ultimately do away with trans art in any meaningful sense. At my core, I’m not afraid of them; Trump and his cohort don’t matter to me in a way that really matters, despite how very bad and dangerous and even unlivable they are eager to make my life. My confidence comes from a lot of places–my politics, my faith–but also from trans art, from the work we’ve made with and for each other for decades upon decades, which didn’t depend on them for its existence and doesn’t now. I’m sad about the losses we’ll see in the next four years and maybe beyond; I mourn the art we won’t get because of this. But that art found its way before, and will still, and will again. We never needed them, and we still don’t need them, and they’ve never been able to stop us.

Wrote about the NEA and The Kennedy Center and how these moves might be bad for trans art, but they certainly won't be the end
aftermath.site/kennedy-cent...

i get that the cruelty is the point but damn i wish something else was the point

'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

one of the benefits of masking everywhere is that my skin has been soooo bad this week & no one has been able to tell 🥰

CDC Data Removal Threatens Native Health, Violates Treaties, UIHI Says The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention has stripped crucial health data from its website that tribal nations rely on to protect their citizens’ health, prompting immediate pushback from Nati...

The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), which tracks health data for tribes and urban Indian communities, demanded the CDC immediately restore crucial health data to its website, saying the deletions endanger Native health & violate treaty rights. nativenewsonline.net/health/cdc-d...

never once do you miss!!!!!!!!! "the rainfall incompatible with the Earth's wanting" pls pls pls 😭

the angels are falling - Seventh Wave "My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb."

I have a poem-zine in the seventh wave community anthology "on endings" 🌞 theseventhwave.org/publication/...

Of course you don't know how to write it. That's why you have to write it

"trans rights are human rights" yeah they don't care about human rights either

i really am :,) best feeling in the world is witnessing a room of people encountering my favorite poems&poets for the first time!!

picture of a classroom whiteboard with text that reads “Intro to Creative Writing: Image” and various quotations from poems, such as “cool then in the broken earth,” “sip new breath from a mason jar,” “rip bitter greens,” “my lover pushes all their weight on me,” “a hawk lets me stroke her midflight,” “this cold is an orchid,” and “the clouds are all orchids. They are raining orchids.”

today my students and i read poems by @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social, patricia smith & kaveh akbar, talking abt imagery + how our favorite images engage multiple of our senses!

"People love to say, What even is a sun sign?
And I say, well you know the sun?
And they say yes
But I don’t think they actually know"

—juj e lepe

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies