Amy Woolard

In the art/lit + justice seminar I teach at UVA Law, I always put one full novel on the syllabus, esp bc law students are trained to be professional skimmers as a practice—taught to quickly trim & portion information into usable/discardable. Making them practice absorbing every word is so important.

maybe the worst "this could've been an email" of all time

"Jimmy Kimmel organizing response" but this time do democracy

the one thing I do like abt cooler/colder weather coming on is that I get to just dress like an actual catburglar every day of my life until at least March

Voting Rights in Virginia Elections - ACLU of Virginia Voting is our right and our civic responsibility. Our democracy is stronger when everyone participates. Know your voting rights and make a plan to vote as early as possible. On November 5, 2024, Virgi...

VIRGINIA: Today is the first day of early voting. I cannot overstate how important this year's state election is—for Governor, Lieutenant Gov, & maybe even especially Attorney General, as well as all 100 seats of the House of Delegates. Find your polling site info at acluva.org/voters-rights

The written dismissal is perhaps the most brutal "it's in the syllabus" meme I've ever seen.

Voting Rights in Virginia Elections - ACLU of Virginia Voting is our right and our civic responsibility. Our democracy is stronger when everyone participates. Know your voting rights and make a plan to vote as early as possible. On November 5, 2024, Virgi...

VIRGINIA: Today is the first day of early voting. I cannot overstate how important this year's state election is—for Governor, Lieutenant Gov, & maybe even especially Attorney General, as well as all 100 seats of the House of Delegates. Find your polling site info at acluva.org/voters-rights

DC statehood now.

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and The Sting have been my two favorite movies since I was 9 years old.

Is anyone else always living a couple of parallel lives in their head that they check in on from time to time or is that just me being a writer

tfw yr emotional & spiritual growth as a person can be measured out at any given point in your life by the amount & way you appreciate & understand Mary Oliver poems

Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days "The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

CHANTILLY, VA: ICE is overcrowding arrested/abducted ppl into a glorified office building w/little-to-no basic food, hygiene, medical or access to attorneys, up to 80ppl in a single glass box for days, a govt-enacted humanitarian crisis literally in our own backyards. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

screenshot of a pop-up on the walgreens pharmacy site that says "Prescription required before appointment: The following vaccines require a prescription in the patient's state. Please contact the patient's healthcare provider to obtain the prescription(s) prior to their vaccine appointment. * COVID-19

My local pharmacy (Virginia) isn't offering them at all, CVS says they don't have them/unavailable & here's what Walgreens says:

Selma, the white & grey whippet, is facing the camera & has her front paws way forward in front of her having a big stretch. The Wolf, a brindle husky, lounges behind her

when a dog has a big stretch you always have to say “Big Stretch!” or it didn’t happen

Selma, the white & grey whippet, is facing the camera & has her front paws way forward in front of her having a big stretch. The Wolf, a brindle husky, lounges behind her

when a dog has a big stretch you always have to say “Big Stretch!” or it didn’t happen

Lady Selma the Whippet, lying on the grey blanket that's covering my legs & feet on a dark grey couch. She's brindle & white & made of magic.

If a dog is lying on top of you, you can’t get up until they do / I don’t make the rules

Selma, the most elegant whippet you've ever known, white & grey-brindle, lying luxuriously on a grey rectangular dog bed with a black border. She's looking into your soul & she sees you.

Please meet Selma the Whippet, latest addition to our fam—w/all gratitude to The Sato Project—fresh off the plane from Puerto Rico & now a Virginian, bless her heart.

She's named after my Great Aunt Selma, a similarly elegant presence in her day. TSP called her Lady, so formal name: Lady Selma.

Every time we learn something abt what this technology is *actually* being used for (rather than what it's marketed as), it's exactly what we warned would happen all along—inevitably a Minority Report reboot of tracking ppl for who they are/assumptions we program a computer to make about them.

season of cicada casings scattered everywhere

This was always the classic pushback I got: "but our SRO is so great!" "He is a mentor & a coach to the kids!" "The kids love him!" (did not specifiy *which* kids of course)

They had no response when I suggested then what they really needed was to hire more great coaches & mentors instead of cops.

We have way too many ways of criminalizing & even felonizing people—including & maybe especially kids—for just being either annoying or an inconvenience in a particular moment.

Infamously, Virginia SROs charged an 11-year-old Black and autistic boy (w/touch sensitivity) with Felony Assault on a law enforcement officer for attempting to pull away when the officer grabbed him from behind. He was put face down on the floor and cuffed. The boy dealt w/that charge for *years*.

Can we dare to hope one takeaway from "sandwich assault" is for ppl to truly get all the out-of-pocket way cops charge Assault on LEO every day? Virginia SROs charge young mostly Black students w/it (a felony) all the time for just pulling away when they're grabbed. These cases are not the exception

tfw yr emotional & spiritual growth as a person can be measured out at any given point in your life by the amount & way you appreciate & understand Mary Oliver poems

mother-of-pearl jam

that means so much to hear -- thank you!

Love to see my book in the wild, & especially in conjunction w/law texts, my multiverse of worlds. Thank you for reading & sharing, Judge Dillard!

omg, amazing! Thank you for reading & sharing, Judge!!

"Manuary" has got me convinced this thing actually does have free will & is just in the initial trolling phase of our species annihilation plan.

tfw you join the war on cancer...on the side of cancer.