Natasha G❄️dwin

Which is to say: this book is fucking riveting; and I feel restored every time I read it 🐬❣️

And it’s sparked my legal imagination in ways that haven’t been sparked since college.

It’s been helpful for defusing — in my mind, at least — the narrative that our time is categorically different, in terms of technological speed, scale, and impact and institutional change, than the times before. In that sense, it’s deeply grounding to read, despite the difficult subject matter.

A paperback edition of Gary J Bass’s book “Judgment At Tokyo: World War II On Trial and the Making of Modern Asia” being held by a tiny female hand. The cover is a photo of the Tokyo Trial with a red overlay.

Got this last week and haven’t been able to put it down.

It’s been helpful for defusing — in my mind, at least — the narrative that our time is categorically different, in terms of technological speed, scale, and impact and social change, than the times before. In that sense, it’s deeply grounding to read, despite the difficult topic.

My favorite writing method 🧚🏼‍♀️

This is what I spent most of last week working on with other people who cannot leave this stuff alone. Gotta put the facts in order in a stable place and then see what meaning emerges.

A slide from Matt Madden’s workshop “How to Build a Labyrinth”, which defines what a Tritina comic is: three words, illustrated across nine panels, with the sequence ABC, CAB, BCA.

A sketchy, nine-panel Tritina comic drawn by Natasha Godwin on 11/21/2025 in pencil and black marker: 1. A woman walking away during sundown, with only her sneakers in view. 2. Long shadows of trees. 3. The sun shining. 4. The sun receding. 5. A woman walking along a bridge during sundown. 6. The sun shining through trees. 7. The sun going down behind a tree. 8. A pitch-black sky over a field. 9. Two feet standing on leaves, against a pitch-black sky.

A nine-panel Tritina comic drawn by Natasha Godwin on 11/23/2025 in blue ink and blue, yellow, and orange pencil: 1. Someone walking away, with only the soles of their sneakers in view. 2. The sun going down behind trees, forming long, diagonal shadows. 3. A hand holding a compass. 4. The sun going down behind railing. 5. A woman walking along a bridge during sundown. 6. A closeup of someone checking their watch. 7. A clock-compass resting against a sign. 8. A crosswalk at night. 9. A person standing in the middle of a crosswalk, with city lights shining in the distance.

Had fun at Matt Madden’s workshop on “Tritina comics” @comicsworkshop.bsky.social last Friday. It brought together all of my interests: writing, mathematics, art. Love it when that happens 💫

Got a first draft done in-session and then redrew it yesterday.

Have wanted to buy a typewriter all year. Buying myself one for Christmas 🤗

be rough like a tree in November about to lose its leaves

Harris Schiff

Two books side-by-side on a cozy, gray, weighted blanket: Benjamin Wood’s “Seascraper” and Giulio Boccaletti’s “Water: A Biography”

Time to relax 😌 #PairedTexts

Ended a nine-hour shift and drove to watch a Board of Commissioner’s meeting on regulating data centers, as one does. Riveting discussion and information 🧚‍♀️

The State of the Open Social Web A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

Just published a deep look at where open social networks stand in 2025: Mastodon’s leadership change, Bluesky’s trajectory, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, cross-network tools, and more. For newsrooms and public service orgs, this moment really matters. werd.io/the-state-of...

The first page of Elsa Sjunneson’s personal essay “How To Make A Paper Crane from Rage”: Imagine a piece of flat, perfect origami paper. White on one side, vibrantly purple on the other. This is the representation of my emotions before Life happened. I remember the first time that I was ever truly, rightfully, angry.My father was dying. He was dying from a disease riddled with social stigma. When the doctors told us we had less than a year left with him, I perfectly articulated my feelings at seven years of age: "Fuck AIDS." Fold the paper in half by taking the top corner and folding it to the bottom corner, as you learn what it feels like to be angry, as you learn that the world isn't just, because there is no cure for the thing that will kill your father.

The first page of Ellen Samuels’ personal essay “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time”: When disabled folks talk about crip time, sometimes we just mean that were late all the time-maybe because we need more sleep than nondisabled people, maybe because the accessible gate in the train station was locked. But other times, when we talk about crip time, we mean something more beautiful and forgiving. We mean, as my friend Margaret Price explains in her book Mad at School, we live our lives with a "Hexible approach to normative time frames" like work schedules, deadlines, or even just waking and sleeping. Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip, says that "rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds." I have embraced this beautiful notion for many years, living within the embrace of a crip time that lets me define my own "normal." And yet recently I have found myself thinking about the less appealing aspects of crip time, aspects that are harder to see as libera-tory, more challenging to find a way to celebrate. Now in my forties, as

It was satisfying to, once again, find the right book at the right time, in physical space, and flip it open to what I needed in the moment. Read both of these twice. Ah, they’re so good 🪷

Was hit with a wave of rage/PTSD this afternoon. Read the local paper. Went on a long walk. Attended a community forum on data centers at a library in another part of town. Ran into Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility and did a drive-by reading before it started. Feel much better 😌.

Tired: Spotify playlists

Wired: local college radio freeform music hour

This is a fantastic article about James Watson but mostly it’s master class in dispatching of ghouls in science. Often the problem isn’t just that they’re amoral but that their being a(im)moral makes them dangerously wrong in ways that have cascading externalities on our understanding.

For me, the punchline is that the people with the least amount of power get to take “personal responsibility” for the system’s problems while those with the most get to say “It’s a complex problem” and do nothing. At least that’s been my experience 😅

a cartoon character with a skull and horns is laying on a bed looking at a cell phone Alt: a cartoon character with a skull and horns is laying on a bed looking at a cell phone

This is adorable 💜

Pre-ordered 🌸 The end of the year's gonna be so cozy 🤗

Would love to buy a physical copy of these 😊

Five sketches for the combined prompt “light” and “park”. Moving clockwise: 1) A light switch to “turn on” day or night 2) A park floating above a city 3) A woman reading a book surrounded by tall floor lights that resemble trees 4) A lamp with a tree pattern on it, drawn in a geometric style 5) A stained glass panel showing a flower with a tree-like pattern on each petal. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on November 12, 2025. No, you may not use this to train AI systems of any kind.

Light + Park #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

Didn’t want to draw a finished piece and decided to “just doodle” instead. Ended up drawing five finished pieces 🙃

Devon Zuegel is the bridesmaid holding flowers in that photo; and the couple getting married has close personal, professional, and ideological ties to Thiel and Srinivasan. Given those relationships and the timing of Esmeralda’s launch, I’d say it’s highly probable it’s a network state thing.

A copy of “The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures”, edited by Joey Eschrich and Clark A Miller and directed by Ruth Wylie and Ed Finn, laying on a gray blanket, with rays of sunlight hitting the cover. Photographed by Natasha Godwin.

A photo of two, tiny feet, sporting pink blush Hoka sneakers, standing on clumps of orange, brown, and red leaves. Photographed by Natasha Godwin.

A maple in full autumn mode, with gorgeous golden leaves, backlit by a bright, blue sky. Photographed by Natasha Godwin.

A photo of the inner part of a tree, with branches twisting and interleaving, shooting up toward the sky. Photographed by Natasha Godwin.

Good things 🧡

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Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words 😊

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A sketch of a walk at night. We see someone walking from behind, with their left foot stepping forward and their right lifting off the ground. The moon shines over the hills and trees. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on November 10, 2025. Blue ink and colored pencil on an index card.

Night + Walk #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

‘But I’m on employer health insurance not a marketplace plan or Medicaid’ my friend when providers/facilities/etc aren’t getting these reimbursements they will radically reduce services or close.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

A hand-drawn sketch of five people sitting at a table, with coffee mugs in hand and paper spread around the table. Soaring trees loom behind them; and mossy grass sits below. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on 11/7/2025.

Tree x Café #WinterSolsticeSketchdown

Found myself getting a little too precious about this one and limited the time to 15 minutes. Have decided to focus on expression and ideation for now; keeping a list of techniques to work on for later.