Tessa Torgeson

On MLK and Inauguration Day, a Reflection on Hope

A read for today by my friend Marisa Renee Lee.

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On this dark day it's crucial to follow #feminist journalists, activists, scholars, artists, and comics who help us understand our structural problems and offer solutions--roadmaps toward freedom, justice.

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Thank you for sharing im excited to read these 💜

Having just learnt that today is Poetry at Work Day, I wanted to share some gems from BIPOC poets that continue to give me perspective in these trying times. Especially if you find it hard to keep going amidst multiple genocides, climate catastrophe, etc., like me, I hope these poems resonate! 🫶🏽

My 2025 goal is to become the person who backs into parking spaces whenever humanly possible.

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Abe Simpson talking to the kiddos

It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist

There’s still room in my virtual class this Saturday 11/23. If you’re in the “messy middle” of writing your memoir and need inspiration on how to write through difficult material, this is for you!! 👇🏽👇🏽

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

hand proffering something to a goat with a red line through it

please do not teach the goats italian

“These are transitional years and the dues will be heavy. Change is quick but revolution will take a while.” Revolutionary letter 10 by Diane di Prima

“These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.”
Revolutionary letter 10 by Diane di Prima

Ooh can’t wait to read the anthology. I’ve been looking for a book like this since I got my emergent c section three years ago 💜

I really needed to read this today, thank you! I especially related to this about saving some words for yourself and your writing, “where I had more time and space to explore them, rather than the warp-speed pace of online life.”

100 percent agree on all fronts. It’s soo good! I also just finished and really loved “How to Die Alone” on Hulu.

I’d love to be added if there’s still room! Thank you!

Grumpy cat photo with text “your mother doesn’t work here and even if she did. She’d be tired of your mess. So please clean up after yourself!

I’m now the self-appointed office fridge monitor, relating to scolding signs in the break room- years-old.

Blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton poem

Lucille Clifton is the perfect poet for these times.