Shauna Singh Baldwin

“Not only is reality horrible, you also don’t know what the real story is.”

Etfar Karet
Israeli novelist quoted in Letter from Israel: Zones of Denial by David Remnick. The NewYorker July 31, 2025

Urge Congress: Save Public Media Save your local stations. Email your Members of Congress now!

Save public radio & PBS.
If public media funding is clawed back, it would rip out vital services – early education, local journalism, emergency alerts.
Call/email your reps b4 it’s too late. @MyPublicMedia: bit.ly/3YMxiXB #ProtectMyPublicMedia

On May 1, 2025 at 11:30am, we are hosting a reading event at Women and Children First bookstore in Chicago to celebrate the 2025 list. Free and all are welcome.

The event announcement will take place later that day at a ceremony at the Chicago History Museum.

Congratulations to the five women/BIPOC writers from Canada and the United States whose books are shortlisted for the Carol Sheilds prize.

Winning book to be announced on May 1 2025. Stay tuned!

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Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult

I remember reading this article in Aeon in 2018. It’s about escaping an echo-chamber.
Found it.

Consider it.

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Volunteer for the National Archives to Translate Cursive Handwriting for Modern Newbies To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of pension files

A language-oriented volunteer opportunity…
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Armory Square Prize for Literary Translation — Armory Square Ventures

Calling literary translators from South Asian languages to apply!
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Per snopes: It wasn't James Baldwin who said this, but essayist and novelist Robert Jones Jr., who used to write online under the moniker @sonofbaldwin. He wrote and posted these words on X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 18, 2015.

Hey, If You Can Kill 20 Million Native Americans, Enslave 12 Million Africans, and Let Biden Fund the Slaughter of 40,000 Women, Children and Elderly... — Of Course You Can Install a Rapist/Felon/Fascist as your President! In the Meantime, Breathe, Take Care of Yourself, Read a Good Book.

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