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Just got out of jail after Columbia called NYPD to mass arrest 100+ students. I have been suspended and evicted from housing by Barnard. This has only strengthened my commitment to the movement for Palestinian liberation and I promise to continue fighting for divestment.

The New York Times ignores reality in pursuit of objectivity: defector.com/the-new-york-t…

As the NYPD’s sweep of the Columbia encampment begins, the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, who personally authorized this use of state force to suppress student protest, hits send on her five-paragraph essay reminding “us all” to “remember the values of empathy and respect.”

comparing writers feeling '''pressured''' to withdraw from the awards to trans book bans is a fucking embarrassment

I find this statement by PEN president Jennifer Finney Boylan gross. a distracting, writerly attempt at animal metaphors that dodges the actual criticisms against PEN, an anti-war protest Boylan misrepresents as 'authors silencing themselves'
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Also I don't understand why the prize money for writers outside of prison can be as high as $75,000 but the prize money for writers inside of prison is $250. prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…

Adia Benton ☀️dr thrasher is recovering from the totality🌘 Camille Dungy hasn’t withdrawn because my Writers Against the War on Gaza colleagues haven’t managed to reach her. If someone knows her…

New at Prism by Alex Tretbar and Natalye: PEN America is a multimillion dollar literary organization, so why isn't it paying its incarcerated literary prize winners? prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…

SHOP THE BOYCOTT: All books by the authors withdrawing from @PENAmerica awards available here!! Profits issued by Bookshop will be divided equally between UNRWA, which delivers life-saving aid to Gaza, and the Palestine-allied bookstore Word Is Change. bookshop.org/lists/2024-pen…

I wrote about the new Toshiko Takaezu exhibit in nyc, and dark ceramics 😈
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this morning on instagram I saw a photo of a baby's face stitched back together. these unending horrors that seem unimaginable, that should be unimaginable.

stupefied by every magnolia tree

On my latest for Science News, I am reporting about an unusual case of animal illusionary 😵 from China

A male and female crab spider were spotted probably participating in a combined illusionary mimicking a vine flower parts.

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a toast to Lauren, a truly wonderful writer writing what will be a wonderful book!! 🎄

I loved speaking with Kate Schapira and Diane Exavier about Kate's new book Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, the ends of various worlds, and why protecting the environment looks like protecting people, too
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