what is the deal with Bank of America?

Word on the weaponization of wwtears:
See this Instagram video by @yabablay instagram.com/reel/CbNhErgDg…

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Please lend your support to this beautiful, capacious human being, this extraordinary poet, one of the youngest members of the 1960's Umbra Writers' Workshop. Share this widely. We have to hold each other up. That's how we get through.

posting this again because the BBC seems to be the only news outlet who worded #Jacksonville massacre correctly. #HBCU #BLM

“Jacksonville shooting: Racist gunman kills three black people in Florida store”
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Journalists: the Jacksonville mass murder was not racially motivated violence, it was RACIST violence. We must be specific and direct with our language.

Poets and writers of fiction and non-fiction: Apply for a Spring/Summer 2024 residency at MacDowell!

The application deadline is September 10 at 11:59PM ET. Learn more: macdowell.org/apply/apply-fo…

Pictured is poet and writer Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD (10) in our Star Studio in July 2013.

This year is quite something so far. I wish that I were going to make it to NYC to celebrate this beautiful news: I'm this year's recipient of the C.D. Wright Award for Poetry. I am honored to join a remarkable list of women artists so honored. foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/cd-wrig…

Love this.

in a sea of rejections, this unexpected raft >>> foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/

Save the date! The Creative Writing Dept at @sfsu is pleased to host CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick for a Reading and Q&A next Tues. Feb 21, 2023 at 4 pm PT. Co hosted by Transfer Magazine and Fourteen Hills #ChangingTheView . Free and open to the public.

Today, Rep. AOC uncovered that Twitter changed its own content moderation policy after Trump violated it, in order to accommodate his hateful tweets and try to keep him on the platform.

'So much for bias against right-wing on Twitter.'

Watch the full hearing ⬇️

So. As of today, I am unable to follow any other twitter accounts. I am not following the company’s limit of 5,000. I haven’t recently followed a bunch of accounts. So what’s going on?

Trayvon Martin would have been 28 years old today. I’m still crushed. The fight continues.

This assault against educating working people is about maintaining a murderous status quo.

“The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism.” nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/…

“Why must you always concentrate on color?”

As always, this answer from James Baldwin is what you were looking for. Must watch.

#BlackHistoryMonth

FYI: AAPI Student Services hosting a Community Circle to help process the emotions and trauma after the recent mass shootings at Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. Tuesday Jan. 31. See flyer for details.

Remember when we were told they weren't opposing the teaching of Black history, just 'CRT'? And how many dismissed those of us who said these laws were anti-history laws, and anti-Black? Perhaps one day folks will listen to those who know. thedailybeast.com/desantis-block…

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