It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).
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It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).
Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...
this is why I got into Black feminist theory. the research on sexual violence was VERY white when I first started researching like 15-20 years ago. in the West, gender is VERY racialized
“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
So, about 2 months ago, I got mugged. Rolled down a flight of stairs, lost my phone and laptop, fractured some stuff, had a nervous breakdown, and now I'm leaving the hospital after 7 weeks and some change, with a new perspective on crime, addiction, CPTSD, and empathy.
"preemptive strikes" WAR OF AGGRESSION
So, we still going to work and paying bills? K
Just checking.
I haven't read it yet
Remembering Katrina, 20 years later, after college and a myriad of books, enables me to see nothing has changed and Trump isn't new. He's just the new and improved Bush, the Nixon 4.0., Reagan with less political savvy. The only thing that's changed is our docile and exhausted reactions.
I'm at a place in my spirit which accepts the United States is all but gone.
Working on the memoir!
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
I cried on the train, all the way from Fields Corner to Harvard. I prayed and cried. I thought about warmth I've gotten from Palestinians I've met or known. Then images of bones protruding through skin skipped on repeat. I remember how many meals they fed me. Giving. So giving.
Yes, this is the world I live in. Yes, it's really this bad. Yes, I'm powerless over a lot of it. Yes, I'm going to keep doing what I can. Yes, it will improve. Yes, it's going to take time. Yes, this is depressing. Yes, I smile. Yes, I'm going to keep going. Yes, I'm going to do it anyway.
I'm attending US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action's event, “Stop Starving Gaza Power Hour” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/uscpraction/...
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
The first time I heard Andrea Gibson, I was 6 months on the poetry scene in NYC (2007). I didn't know a poem could turn someone from 5 feet tall to God size. And every time after that, looked up to them.
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Thanks homie. I'm scared af
Moving to Boston. Be there in a few days! Muslims, activists, poets, where y'all at? I need community!
THIS
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
