Nicole Chung

A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung — Brew & Forge Ecco/HarperCollins, 2024. “Nicole Chung weaves a groundbreaking narrative steeped in love, humor, the infinitude of memory, and the essentiality of community.... A Living Remedy is elegiac and ...

Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...

This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org

I love this book so much.

On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.

OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."

Proof of end times = autism speaks being on the right side of the statement 🙃

if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...

she’s a nesting dog, she loves her nest!!

(I put the blanket on her for a minute because I had just put some ointment on her and needed her to NOT lick it while it absorbed, but she definitely could have gotten out from under this blanket and simply chose not to)

sleepy golden retriever wrapped up in a fuzzy gray blanket with only her head visible

she is also ready for “let’s circle back after the holidays” season

We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up… A Year Since the 2024 Election

"Not everyone is rising to the occasion because the times you live in do not immediately shape who you are and what you do... you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self." @prisonculture.bsky.social

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if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...

I have just realized that it is still 2025, seems fake but ok. please support the book fair anyway

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A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung — Brew & Forge Ecco/HarperCollins, 2024. “Nicole Chung weaves a groundbreaking narrative steeped in love, humor, the infinitude of memory, and the essentiality of community.... A Living Remedy is elegiac and ...

Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a...

This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org

The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...

To apply, please send a writing sample of 10-20 pages + 1-2 paragraphs describing your writing goals/intentions to emily.holland@writer.org by 1/24/26. I'm hype and admission is rolling, so feel free to get your app in early! You can ask me questions here or come to the virtual info session on 12/8.

Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...

This Memoir Year workshop is my favorite class to teach. We'll write together for 10 months—workshopping your pages, engaging in craft discussions and generative exercises, seeing your projects grow. You'll have help in establishing the sustainable practice you want within a supportive community.

Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...

Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
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actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K

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We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊

Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11 National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.

NEW: Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11.

National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds

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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’ Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.

Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.

To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
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Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it.

It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.

closeup of a beautiful golden retriever curled up on a white couch against a light blue pillow with her head half hidden in her front paws

when you have a perfect life and you’re still going through it

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him