Kristen Martin

I am ABSOLUTELY BEGGING people to stop talking about Tom Homan as if his evil brain hatched the nefarious idea of family separation—a form of violence that the United States has visited upon *all* marginalized people throughout its *entire history*. 🥚

For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History

“As Native people, we’re pretty accustomed to fighting the federal government going back 530 years since they landed with their ships. It just so happens that everyone else is waking up to it.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Signed Copy: The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow Auction item 'Signed Copy: The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow' hosted online at 32auctions.

I donated a signed copy of my book for the Publishing for Minnesota auction fundraiser! You can bid on it, or literally hundreds of other really cool books/art/services, today and tomorrow: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Signed Copy: The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow Auction item 'Signed Copy: The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow' hosted online at 32auctions.

I donated a signed copy of my book for the Publishing for Minnesota auction fundraiser! You can bid on it, or literally hundreds of other really cool books/art/services, today and tomorrow: www.32auctions.com/organization...

This is a week from today!

BOMB Magazine | Lily Meyer by Kristen Martin A romance novel that takes sex, patriarchy, and desire seriously.

Thrilled to interview my friend and
@fspnwu.bsky.social comrade Lily Meyer about her new novel THE END OF ROMANCE, out 2/3, for @bombmag.bsky.social . This is the smart and provocative book about love we've all been waiting for: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Culture break! Read THE END OF ROMANCE, a sexy delight.

BOMB Magazine | Lily Meyer by Kristen Martin A romance novel that takes sex, patriarchy, and desire seriously.

Thrilled to interview my friend and
@fspnwu.bsky.social comrade Lily Meyer about her new novel THE END OF ROMANCE, out 2/3, for @bombmag.bsky.social . This is the smart and provocative book about love we've all been waiting for: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

A great lament for this snow day!

Children belong with their families, in their schools, and in their communities.

Me wearing a red dress and posing with a giant cake with my book cover printed on it

My book THE SUN WON’T OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD turns ONE today!! Maybe you want to grab a copy? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Serious Reservations | Kristen Martin The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.

Donald Trump is erasing American history. And as @kwistent.bsky.social explains in our new issue, we’ve only just begun to reckon with what the U.S. government did to Native children.

Serious Reservations | Kristen Martin The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.

Under Biden Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the U.S. government began the long-overdue process of acknowledging and addressing the bone-chilling history of its Indian boarding schools. A second Trump administration is undoing that work.

One Year of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW Some highlights and ways to support the book

Some highlights from one year of my book:
americanorphan.substack.com/p/one-year-o...

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Terrifically researched & written book that you have to read right now so hit that bookstore baby!!

Thank you!!!

Highly recommend getting yourself a copy and reading it! It's got history, cultural analysis, and deep critique of family policing systems. Plus, you'll start noticing at just how many orphan narratives we use in pop culture.

He talked about it on the Pod Meets World podcast, wildly enough!!

Of course (though I wore that heart necklace on the daily until I recently broke the chain!)

Idk, I think it’s a perfect day to join Rider Strong of Boy Meets World fame in reading my book!

The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of Am… The real history of being an orphan in America is nothi…

Or review it on StoryGraph, Goodreads (www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...), or, ugh, Amazon (www.amazon.com/Sun-Wont-Com...)?

Me wearing a red dress and posing with a giant cake with my book cover printed on it

My book THE SUN WON’T OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD turns ONE today!! Maybe you want to grab a copy? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Ay check out my doc series on George Bush for free at means.tv

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A wet tricolor cavalier King Charles spaniel with a green bath towel draped over her head. She’s mid-yawn with tongue sticking out

Timeline cleanse: Penny Loafer gets a bath

One more share!

next to the historic Fort Snelling. ICE operates there because it is still federal land. In the winter of 1862-63 the fort was a concentration camp for Dakota people. As a punishment for the Dakota War, tribal members were rounded up, marched to Ft Snelling, detained and exiled from the state.

Four citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have been held by ICE since Thursday. The unhoused men were picked up during an ICE raid and despite advocacy from their tribe, three have not been released.
The place where the men are being held (the ICE facility in Minneapolis) is

Pen & Pencil Club Book Talk Kristen Martin with Jiordan Castle on The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow -Wednesday, February 4 at 7:00 PM -1522 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 -RSVP at penandpencil.org

Philly folks! Join me on February 4th (my half-birthday!) for a talk about my book at the Pen & Pencil! We will highlight some of the Philly connections in the book and talk about recent developments in foster care and family policing. Free and open to all; RSVP: www.penandpencil.org/content.aspx...