#SmallPoemSunday from @preetivangani.bsky.social’s FIFTY MOTHERS
I can’t count the number of incidents I’ve been told of to which I‘ve responded, “But don’t they want to sell books?!”
ok bad look, but fifty people!
Oh of course, but I meant I‘ve been hearing this from friends on Big 4 presses. One traveled to famous bookstore for a reading only to find they hadn’t ordered any of her books beyond the two copies in stock.
Hearing that it’s less so these last few years, as bookstores do fewer events and even decline to order event copies
I hate that they have to use it in self-defense. I want teen girl—teen everybody—creation.
Yes, this–they aren't waiting. I want them to know they can ask me (or another trusted adult) for help, but at the same time, they seem to be showing us they don't need it.
The girls are teaching me something about rage. Not sure quite what, yet.
So easy, yes–what a few keystrokes, now, can become.
All of this. I am astounded by their self-assurance and devastated that they've been subjected to such violation.
For the second time this school year, I’ve had teenage boy create AI-generated nudes of a teenage girl. The girls are livid; they aren’t afraid. They are confronting the boys directly—and they’re calling the boys’ mothers.
What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.
This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
Speaking as a Jew living in Diaspora, who needs to exist as a minority at a time of rising antisemitism, I would really appreciate it if the Prime Minister of a country where I do not live would not say that attacks on a sovereign country are analogous to attacks on a synagogue.
I’m making borscht
Really loved reading about her in Julia Ioffe’s MOTHERLAND (which I am almost finished with and can’t wait to discuss w @maggiemertens.bsky.social et al at book club)
Oh wow wow wow
”When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver
Selected by Seattle City CM Dionne Foster, designed by Civic Poet @dujietahat.bsky.social
I was 21; my friend and I tore off our clothes and ran outside around the co-op house where we lived, then got dressed (it was Massachusetts in November) and sang and cried. There was no containing us.
Just gave to this fundraiser for a Palestinian refugee family trying to survive brain cancer in Cairo. Please join me if you can: chuffed.org/project/1681...
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
It matters how we treat each other. It matters more than winning. It matters that we move with love.
It matters how we treat each other. It matters more than winning. It matters that we move with love.
Today I have to tell my admin that several students and parents saw me shimmy in a bikini top for religious reasons. Purim sameakh, alemen!
Thank you—I’ve chosen not to transliterate thus far. I think there might be a more interesting formal approach that could echo the sounds somehow while preserving the lettering
After I posted, I thought, “I should just ask Mordecai directly“ 😂
The sound or image split—the having to decide—this is the heart of the question
Yes!
if you write for English-language readers using words/phrases from languages with non-Latin alphabets, do you transliterate? why or why not?
The photo of Irwin’s is *chef’s kiss*
if you write for English-language readers using words/phrases from languages with non-Latin alphabets, do you transliterate? why or why not?
