Claire Dederer

Beyond grateful 💙💙

Announcing the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to authors with a body of work behind them, but also with significant potential. Previous recipients include Christos Ikonomou, Victoria Chang, and Hari Kunzru.

We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.

Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.

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257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

This is so so good, the way she’s pushing back on the very concept of transgender “issues” and refusing the framing that ppl’s existence can or should be debated

Worthy of his title: Mr. Pamela Paul.

Thank you so much for reading! I’m honored.

physical copy of 30 SLEIGHTS FOR THE MODERN TRANSSEXUAL

​30 Sleights for the Modern Transsexual, Leo Leventhal's debut collection of linked short stories, is a house of cards collapsing in slow motion. Learn the secrets of coin tricks, riverboat gambling, and killing your past self; everything you need to survive the cutthroat world of trans stage magic.

Evergreen: if you are inviting a writer (or any artist) to participate in an event, for gods sake state upfront

a) whether or not it’s a paid gig and

b) how much it pays.

Also let’s primary all these Vichy fucks

No one in any of my text threads knows how to process something good happening

We’ve devolved into “I love you”s

A thing people might not know is that my kid works for Seven Stories Press. Very proud of said kid for making this happen:

In the wake of the execrable Skrmetti ruling, Seven Stories is making Kate Bornstein's wonderful ebook for teens FREE.

Please share & please read & please stay alive!

AI is terrible for the environment, study finds Problem is getting worse as AI systems become more complex, researchers warn

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Memoirists take note! Any chance to learn from/with Ashley is golden

Thank you for reading!

was literally JUST thinking this

Thank you so much for reading! Appreciate the way you connected the final line of that paragraph to this moment

Because this is social media, I am sure somebody will “well actually” this post. But my friend says this is definitely not the usual m.o. for the retirement of someone in her role who has resigned after decades of service.

My dear friend here in Seattle resigned from her high-level job at the Office for Civil Rights because she was disgusted by what she was being forced to do. Yesterday security was FLOWN TO SEATTLE to take her badge.

Once again: none of this is about efficiency. It's about contempt.

CAKE!!! Thank you for reading.

Words to live by.

Also why should I bother writing my PNW satirical novel now that the NYT has written it for me?

Not only are they self-reliant back-to-the-landers they are Rebels, you can tell by their ad agency

You cannot make this shit up: "The couple, who had a 30-year advertising career with their Los Angeles agency Tiny Rebellion"

What a lovely note--thank you for reading!

Anytime you hear someone use the word “natal” you know you’re dealing with a real sicko

Truly a pleasure

Sonora! This is perfect. Gorgeous cover for a gorgeous book. And it feels like it has a connection to the LAUGHTER cover as well. Congrats!

even now, at this hour, discreet old dowagers were shooting out in their motor cars on errands of mystery

Thank you so much!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...