Books about the ways that the political and personal are inextricably intertwined buff.ly/3RS5sWq

These are unbelievable times. Truly unbelievable.

Octavia Butler’s 1993 dystopian novel “Parable of the Sower” begins in July of 2024. Climate change is turning the globe into a hellscape with droughts, fires and calamitous weather events. Racial and class inequities have soared, women’s rights are under threat, and white

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Omg maybe the aliens will spare us if Missy is our emissary

Some areas of Illinois’ Lake Michigan shoreline are losing up to one hundred feet of shoreline per year. But how does erosion work? And how can we stop — or at least slow — it? Reset digs deeper. trib.al/dbXHSm9

Everyone should read this devastating article by two American surgeons who travelled to Gaza: politico.com/news/magazine/… They'd never been in Gaza before and write that "in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries

LeVar Burton I’m a Butler scholar and spent time in her archives. Finding this verse in handwritten form was amazing. I thought I would share with folks.

more of kafka diary entries

“The body, bald, cancerous, but still / beautiful enough” — Katie Farris

Oh heyyyyyyy, would you look at that! Time to launch season 2 of the StoryStudio Chicago/Newberry Library Library collaboration... First up is SUSAN CHOI (interviewed by me!) on 9/19, then HERNAN DIAZ talking to Ananda Lima on 1/23, then CARMEN MACHADO with Megan Stielstra on 5/22.🧵

My favorite quote from today's amazing workshop with Megan Stielstra and micheleweldon at the The OpEd Project today was this poem by Sean Thomas Dougherty. Thank you Megan! Why Bother? Because right now there is someone Out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.

I was quoting Kiese Laymon here from this piece, which is taped to the wall over my desk. kieselaymon.com/blog/2015/1/11…

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Ursula K. Le Guin

You're hearing a lot about Tim Walz and free school lunches. You're not hearing enough about the behind-the-scenes role of Philando Castile's mom in getting that bill passed. sahanjournal.com/education/free…

How many of these brave surgeons must come forward? Here is another.

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