Anita Gill

Saw someone wearing this great shirt the other day.

how it feels to be asked about your research

This reminds me I need to check out my Passport for PBS and watch the Andy Samberg Know Your Roots episode.

This week two people bought the books I recommended. I am now drunk with power.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote about ICE detention and the women who helped her survive. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

How many tote bags do I have to own before they give me a free Prius I’m sure it’s any day now.

Congratulations!!!

Landed in Chicago 45 minutes ago and the man next to me on the Blue Line just ended his phone call with “ya, I gotta get home to give Butkus a steak” which is in the top 5 percent of Chicago sentences you can hear

Wasn’t ready for it

Im getting my encouragement from cough drop wrappers now.

Before Mantel died, I wrote to her publicist to see if I could connect with her while I was working on my own historical novel (acting delulu I know). They said no because she was working on several projects at the time. I’m glad I took a chance.

We are a little over a third of the way through the summer and I have heard Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” disturbingly too many times.

Lisbon has decent copy.

My instructor Adam Levin talking about sinkholes in Chicago.

hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house.

It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.

Second week of work at Disquiet. Which is mostly me driving a trolley.

We may have the same last name but we are not related and I agree.

I was walking into the theatre early and so was Billy Connolly. While I was able to open the door, he tried to open his and it was locked. He then yelled “Don’t you know who I am?!”

His name was on the marquis.

Randomly picked this up and it’s all these authors my writing friends keep recommending I check out.

When I turned 40, I had 320 short story rejections and no books published. A few years later, I've published a short story collection and two novels with another on the way. Believe in yourself like someone who loves you.

Me after one dance class: Everything hurts and I’m not a surprise talent in this like I had thought.

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3.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure.

It’s the first day of spring so Chicago does what it does best and we have snow.

I’m case you’re like me and not headed to AWP this year.

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION! RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALL HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES MON. MAR 10 • 4PM JACOB K. JAVITS FEDERAL BUILDING 26 FEDERAL PLAZA, NYC

for those in nyc

“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. 3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”

Toni Morrison:

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook. I will not be posting on Meta platforms for the next 24 hours in support of the economic blackout…

Can you say the same?! 🤚

Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨