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Immigrant Strong: July 2025 Issue On belonging in Cuba, a homecoming, and colonial legacies

July issue of my newsletter on immigrant literature is out. As always, it's free, and drops in your inbox just once a month.
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Opinion | The Law Is Not Enough to Stop War Crimes

"Srebrenica should have been a model for post-genocide accountability. Instead, it stands as a case study in how legal truth, without official and societal acknowledgment, can entrench exclusionary nationalism."
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Immigrant Strong: June 2025 Issue On writing in two languages, fever dreams, and Iran

June issue of my free monthly newsletter, Immigrant Strong, is out: immigrantstrong.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

❤️NYC❤️👏

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy.

Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.

proud to be a part of this beautiful—and now award-winning!—anthology, entirely written by immigrants and children of immigrants

Eurovision Reminds Me of a Country That No Longer Exists - Electric Literature Europe’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it

in light of the news about Will Ferrell's Eurovision movie coming to Broadway... my @electricliterature.com piece from a couple of weeks ago: electricliterature.com/eurovision-r...

i’m so sorry. hope you are better soon

Immigrant Strong: May 2025 My Electric Lit essay, the newsletter turns six, and my favorite memoir of the year

may issue of Immigrant Strong, my free monthly newsletter, is out! includes an essay i published this month, my favorite memoir of the year so far, and more writing and interviews with immigrant writers open.substack.com/pub/immigran...

Immigrant Strong by Vesna Jaksic Lowe | Substack Writing by—and children of—immigrants and refugees. The struggles, the triumphs, and the quirks. Click to read Immigrant Strong by Vesna Jaksic Lowe, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribe...

May issue of Immigrant Strong - my free monthly newsletter - drops tomorrow and marks our 6th year anniversary! Enter your e-mail to subscribe: immigrantstrong.substack.com

thank you so much. I love the work of Alexander Hemon and Slavenka Drakulic

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Read Vesna Jaksic Lowe’s (@vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social‬) essay on the politics surrounding Eurovision, and how the world’s most watched non-sports event strives for a failed national premise of unity.

Eurovision Reminds Me of a Country That No Longer Exists - Electric Literature Europe’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it

i wrote about Eurovision, coming from a country that no longer exists, nostalgia, and more for one of my favorite literary magazines, @electricliterature.com. this essay has been in my head for years—thank you for giving it a home. electricliterature.com/eurovision-r...

Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

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E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

beyond cruel and devastating

Immigrant Strong: April 2025 Issue On cousins, otherness, and how fear changes society

April issue of my newsletter is out! Three poetry collections, and beautiful essays and interviews.

As always, it's free and lands in your inbox just once a month. A great way to support immigrant writers and immigrant literature!
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“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.

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Lakers' Statement Win Over OKC? Plus, Awards Talk With Howard Beck and a Warriors Check-In With Anthony Slater. The Zach Lowe Show · Episode

New Zach Lowe Show! The Wild West playoff race, Lakers-OKC, MVP, All-NBA, All-Defense w/
@howardbeck.bsky.social -- then @anthonyvslater.bsky.social
for a Warriors deep dive:

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this tuesday!

he’s back 👏🏀

The Zach Lowe Show Podcast · The Ringer · Same Zach. New home. The Zach Lowe Show keeps you in the know around the Association with a variety of NBA conversations and game breakdowns. Plus guests, including his friends ...

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Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight Back when I was in high school in Sarajevo, my best friend was Zoka. We listened to the same bands, went to the same rock shows, found the same stupid things hilarious, played soccer together, skie…

I used to follow Sasha Hemon over in the bad place and I don't know if he's on here, but this piece he wrote for Lithub in 2018 is still absolutely dead-on. lithub.com/fascism-is-n...

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

thanks, howard!

Thank you Croatian Women's Network/Mreza Hrvatskih Zena for this honor 🇭🇷 ❤️

thanks so much, and yeah, i think it's like 90% books by women ;)

interesting! thanks so much!