Acree Graham Macam

"In Defense of Bar Soap," an article on Slate

I knew in my heart this was a Dan Kois article before I even clicked @slate.com 💓 I will defend bar soap till I die

I knew parenting would be tough but I didn’t know I’d be crouched on the lower bunk wiping my kid’s vomit off the wallpaper while my other kid said, “you almost done, mama?” over and over and over

USA Today just reprinting “merit based” like those words are used in good faith

Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

And the lair is in Manhattan.

Also on my wishlist is an expose of the Scholastic Book Fair. If these articles exist please someone point me to them 🙏🏻

I’d love an essay on the ups and downs of the NEA throughout history.

This is from a 1997 essay by Adrienne Rich about her refusal of the National Medal for the Arts

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

I actually thought this was a satirical photoshop mockup, initially

Love that. Let me know if I can be of any help. Fellow southerner here 🙃

Wow that headline is Atlantic self-parody

#amwriting #flash

This contest with The Forge was I think the second place I submitted it. I really love how they ran the contest. 2 weeks for submissions. 2 weeks for reading and judging. Everything was announced within about a month, I believe. $5 entry fee (!) — barely more than the average regular submission fee

As a copywriter, keeping things short and concise comes somewhat naturally now. I always knew the piece hinged on its last line, and I just needed to work out what came before it.

I wrote it as a poem at first. In sharing it with a couple of poets, I realized how ill equipped I was to write a poem after 15+ years away from the genre. Decided to try flash instead. I’d never written flash, but had read it and had a sense for how it worked.

I initially jotted it down on my phone about a year ago, just trying to get out the disconnect I was feeling, what Naomi Klein calls “lives built on not seeing and not knowing”

I wasn’t sure anyone would want to publish this when I wrote it, and now it is in this brilliant magazine today. Thank you @theforge.bsky.social editors and readers for selecting my piece 🖤

“...the book is kind to a woman who—mistreated by her partners and the media alike—received less than her fair share of kindness in life.”

The Object of Our Attention: @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social reviews Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl (@atriabooks.bsky.social).

➡️ buff.ly/aZp2Dbs

I deeply enjoyed this juicy read and reflecting on it for @therumpus.net

Thank you @jbrookewrites.bsky.social !

@atriabooks.bsky.social

"There is … no such thing as an 'activist,' a term that suggests political action is a special role rather than universal democratic responsibility. Instead, there are those who act in line with their cultivated political ideas, and there are those who don’t."

A Reflection on “Objective” Journalism From the Global Sumud Flotilla A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true.

This piece from @recolston.bsky.social in @thenation.com (recommended by the always astute @studyhall.bsky.social) is such a smart meditation on the myth of objectivity and the structural problems of news media ❤️

Sooooo delightfully surprised by this news. I got the golden ticket! Thanks to the readers & editors at @theforge.bsky.social for selecting my piece, and congrats to fellow winner Kaitlyn and all the finalists 🔥

Has Ezra Klein always been like this

My Uncle Doesn’t Need to Die in Prison to Learn His Lesson - Electric Literature Despite his crimes, every last one of them, I still believe he deserves a good, happy, vibrant life

Feeling exhuasted yet nourished by a pilgrimage with the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine this morning, and by this excellent essay by Michelle Gurule in @electricliterature.com

electricliterature.com/my-uncle-doe...

Looks like this is in collaboration with LitHub. Pitch them your reviews of books by trans/queer authors that were overlooked by the NYT under Pamela Paul

Been really enjoying this essay by Jessica Winter, and also reminded of this piece I wrote about my great-grandfather who became addicted to morphine as a medic in WW1 and his grandsons (one of them my dad) who never met him but both died of opioid overdoses: www.harvardreview.org/content/the-...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.

This is censorship and cowardice.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I can only hope this helps reasonable people lose their faith in the Times once and for all

Nearly 300 pages of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ records released after first-of-its-kind ruling Atlanta Police Foundation forced to disclose a year after a lawsuit, and could have implications for other cities

Atlanta Police Fd'n released doc's in what was likely 1st open records lawsuit ag't a police fd'n. They show how the fd'n leaned on mayor and city council to stop voters fm deciding if they wanted Cop City.

@stopcopcity.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🫶🫶🫶 thank you so much for reading! And Shapland’s book is so enjoyable—can’t wait to hear how it goes :)