Anna Christensen

They were such a pleasure to work with!

This is integrity.

Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People - Edge Effects In this review of IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell draws parallels between the exploitation of rivers and marginalized communities.

Today on Edge Effects, in reviewing Robert Macfarlane's forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects colonial dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant "Others" to the pollution & objectification of rivers around the world. 🌊 edgeeffects.net/who-gets-to-...

Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People - Edge Effects In this review of IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell draws parallels between the exploitation of rivers and marginalized communities.

edgeeffects.net/who-gets-to-...

@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is a hero of mine, so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to think about his important new book for @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social . What felt apparent to me is that rivers, and the fight for their personhood, can fight fascism.

Running Away With Emily Brontë Searching for Home With the Wild Sister

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Come visit Emily and me on Substack, we’re eating grass and dissolving into the earth.

I got to review this incredible book for @readbookpage.bsky.social and can say with full confidence this will be one of my best books of the year. Long live The Hare.

Hannah Cao on Substack i know it is a privilege to feel things deeply, but what the fuck

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Department of Education rescinds Title IX guidance that NIL payments must be proportionate How Title IX would factor into schools' revenue-sharing decisions has been a lingering question.

From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i

It’s been a minute since I posted something I wrote, but getting to review the amazing Neko Case’s memoir for BookPage felt so special. From one critter to another.

Wall Street Journal headline: DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud. Elon Musk's allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.

A very real thing that can definitely be done at a glance by skimming a spreadsheet in a computer system you're unfamiliar with

Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

Hundreds of blue and tan turkey tail mushrooms grow along the top of a moss speckled log. The forest floor beneath is divided between snow and bare ground with the decorated log bisecting it All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

I just hope our national emergency podcast system is up to this moment

A fluffy gray cat with green eyes and one tipped ear sits atop a flower-shaped cushion on a cat tree, looking proud

In case you need it, here is Freya looking triumphant after she ate a spider that crawled out of my Bikini Kill tote bag