Kaya Oakes

New Berkeley parking spot — for bikes — honors Nobel Peace Prize work - Berkeley News Covet those Nobel Laureate parking spaces? You can park in Berkeley's newest one, a tribute to faculty whose research contributed to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. And it's open to all cyclists.

UC Berkeley has its 71st Nobel Laureate, this year in Physics. But did you know we have Nobel Laureate bicycle parking, and that David Card, 2021 Nobel in Economics, apparently actually uses it? news.berkeley.edu/2016/06/16/n...

Thanks for writing the book!

New book calls for a politics that mirrors Jesus' Beatitudes In Why Christians Should Be Leftists, Phil Christman argues that Jesus' teachings "[lay] out an ethic that would make it next to impossible for any human being to successfully hang onto power forever....

For @ncronline.bsky.social, I reviewed @philipchristman.bsky.social's new book, which gave me the opportunity to dunk.

"When you choose a politics, you can choose one that covets power or one that sees power as something to be shared. It really is that simple."

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I'll keep that in mind for next season. The A's made Oakland miserable for a long time.

Now that the @oaklandballers.bsky.social season is over I need to adopt an MLB team to root for. HELL NO DODGERS OR YANKEES. My MLB team must be scrappy and from an underrated city. So who do I pick?

Maybe you don't need to write a book Or, at least, you don't need to feel like you failed if yours doesn't sell

Maybe you don't need to write a book? I have, six times over, and it was mostly not worth the effort. kayaoakes.substack.com/p/maybe-you-...

UC Berkeley's homoerotic football statue has entered the chat.

💚 💛 Ballers fam, @MayorBarbaraLee just announced that we're going to keep the party going! 🎉 See you there! 🍾

This game was electric! My voice is hoarse from hollering. Thanks for an amazing season.

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

LoL I made this same joke and felt so guilty about it! 🫠

I'm even more unbearable: I use a Chemex.

French press coffee is groooosssssss.

Extremely specific petty grievances You know you have them

I reactivated just to share this post I wrote about something very important: Extremely Specific Petty Grievances. kayaoakes.substack.com/p/extremely-...

It's okay not to have a take.

Good question. She usually does!

gonna get some money
gonna get some money
probably more than I ever made in royalties
take that ai
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Thank you. And yes, it does feel like leveraging someone's cancer to self promote. Which is pretty crass.

Just a note of appreciation for whoever decided to play Journey's "Lights" at the @oaklandballers.bsky.social game last night when the lights went out. Well played. Well played indeed.

Not your inspiration porn Elizabeth Gilbert and the problem of cancer

If you've been thinking of reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, please read this first, by @kayaoakes.bsky.social.
And even if you don't care one bit about Gilbert, this is an excellent, helpful read about cancer, love, ego, and so much else.
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Thank you for the kind words.

Not your inspiration porn Elizabeth Gilbert and the problem of cancer

What does a writer “who lives every day with cancer looming in the background like one of those giant Halloween skeletons” think about what’s she’s seen of the latest Elizabeth Gilbert memoir and the discourse around it?

You should really read @kayaoakes.bsky.social, and not just to find that out.

Thanks Ron. Appreciate the kind words.

Definitely see Gilbert as polarizing -- people either intensely like or dislike her. But, also, thanks again.

Not your inspiration porn Elizabeth Gilbert and the problem of cancer

This piece by @kayaoakes.bsky.social is really good. I recommend reading it.

kayaoakes.substack.com/p/not-your-i...?

Thanks much.

LET'S GO OAKLAND!

To be fair I also got a free pen once.

UC Berkeley asks us to provide headshots for the department website and I hate the way I look in photos, so this year I uploaded this instead.

Thanks!