Nancy Hightower

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.

All Black. All doing their jobs.

For me, I've found donating to organizations and mutual aid groups or to people who just need some extra money to get by is a real sanity-saver in these times of feeling helpless but full of rage.

I hope everyone finds some kind of comfort today. It’s a hard time. I pray today isn’t.

Mine is the Empire Strikes Back. Sigh

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.

“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...

Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress I was born into a country where people with uteruses had the right to choose if, when, and how they would carry a fetus to full term. I don’t live in that country anymore. I grew up in a world wher…

Eve Dunbar on Alice Childress and the creative, professional, and manual labor performed by Black women in America.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

No one is coming to save us but us.

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Family Ecology Emerging Writer Series

MP Vare has written a beautiful essay about their complicated family ecology--one shaped by anger and fear--and how they have tried to find a different way to exist within that ecology: audacity.substack.com/p/family-eco...

Re-upping this one more time: this is the audio version of one of my new stories for the year, "Data Ghost" originally published in the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Storyteller.

Bluestockings Workers Clash with Legal Owners Over Store's Closing Bluestockings Bookstore Cooperative worker-stewards are going public, complaining that they were given no advance warning that the 26-year-old cooperative bookstore would abruptly shut its doors for b...

Fuck this is so upsetting. I wrote about Bluestocking Books in my newsletter last year, bc it's an indispensable community resource and one of the last feminist bookstores standing. I hate that it ended this way.

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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to roxane@therumpus.net by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

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My pledge to our city.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Fig: N.K. Jemisin’s “Red Dirt Witch” - Reactor Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover...

For a dream to be prophecy, it must come three times.

This week, Reading the Weird dips into @nkjemisin.bsky.social short fiction collection "How Long 'Til Black Future Month?" for a story about hope, herbs, and horror grounded in the real world

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