Time to order Beyond Blue, an anthology edited by @christinamyers.bsky.social and Olga Nwobosi! I have the story of my postpartum depression in it! Published by @caitlinpress.bsky.social #canadianpress #postpartumdepression

Just got my contributor copy of Beyond Blue - Stories of Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope in Postpartum Depression. This is a fantastic anthology put together by @christinamyers.bsky.social and Oga Nwobosi Order from @caitlinpress.bsky.social

What's a really minor thing that makes you irrationally grouchy? Mine is cooking videos where the person is wearing long sleeves and/or has long hair that's not tied back. Your sleeve is touching the onions while you chop them! Your hair in the soup! No one cooks like this! Chaos.

Hey there Vancouver and area friends ... please join us on October 18 when we celebrate the launch of this labour of love, Beyond Blue. FB event page/rsvp here: www.facebook.com/share/1DPMLM...

I can not wait to see this book in person. The story I wrote for this anthology was both painful and cathartic to write. Thank you so much @christinamyers.bsky.social and Oga Nwobosi for selecting my story for Beyond Blue! And thank you @caitlinpress.bsky.social caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Beyo...

There are a few very exciting milestones in bringing an anthology to life: when the submissions start rolling in, when you get to to tell the contributors their work has been accepted, etc. But the one that makes it feel really really real? Cover reveal day 💙 @caitlinpress.bsky.social

Edited by Oga Nwobosi and @christinamyers.bsky.social, Beyond Blue is a collection of deeply personal essays, in which mothers from all walks of life share their experiences with postpartum depression. Now available from Caitlin Press and everywhere books are sold: caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Beyo...

Thinking once again that 2025 was a bad year to read Parable of the Sower for the first time.

AMAZING ... so excited to see this and could not imagine better people to make it happen.

This, exactly this.

BC universities .... get on it.

On the remembering and forgetting required of being a mother and the bittersweet joy of kids growing up: this weekend, The Walrus has published my essay, excerpted from my most recent book Halfway Home from @houseofanansi.bsky.social thewalrus.ca/how-do-you-k...

For author @christinamyers.bsky.social, being a mother is a constant cycle of remembering and forgetting—the best days, the loudest giggles, the tightest hugs, as well as the regretful days she wishes she could redo with more patience and love. thewalrus.ca/how-do-you-know-...

Online book launch - "Believe Me: Stories about #mentalhealth and #addiction - imagined, lived, analyzed" combines stories, poems, interviews and research about topics such as depression, trauma, substance use, etc. April 17, 6pm PDT simpli.events/e/believeme #booksky #writingcommunity

My friend and co-editor Oga Nwobosi and I have been quietly working away on this over the last year: 26 essays from writers across Canada on their experiences in perinatal mental health/PPD-A. Arriving this autumn and pre-orders now open. caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Beyo...

I have been, like most people, following everything the last few weeks at the level of fine minutiae: not just news reports but individual accounts from friends in the US, or from posters on bluesky, reddit etc. I have always been a news person, but in times of uncertainty it ramps up to a ... 1/4

The thing that continues to baffle me is the earnest "well, he can't do that, it's unconstitutional" as though there isn't a long line of dictators in history who came into power in a place with laws and rules, and then ignored them entirely. There's no magic wand in a law.

Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

Added a few recommendations to this list of Indigenous businesses fo support in BC, from cafes and coffee to apparel and travel

A reminder that books by Canadian authors published by independently owned Canadian presses are almost always printed in Canada. The GST holiday ends on Valentine's Day so show #CanLit some love and head out to your local independent bookstore this week or next.❤️📚

Felt the need to find a creative way to express my thoughts/worries. My apologies for mangling a classic.

I guess if I'm hanging out here, I have to share the important stuff, like the bestest ever cats. Ginger is George, white is Charlie, black is Tally, and grey is Chunk. All rescues. Tally and Charlie, we went looking for them at local shelters. George and Chunk just kind of arrived on our doorstep ❤️

Calling all poets ... ⤵️⤵️

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

If you haven't yet checked out North of North, run to cbc on demand or gem, and start now. It's only four episodes in and it's fabulous ... it really hits its stride in episode 3. I've laughed and cried in every episode. It's beautiful and funny, sometimes sad and Siaja is a character to cheer for

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

So excited to see this migrate over to bluesky ... I'd been missing it since leaving the bad place lol. Alas, I'm teaching a workshop during this exact time slot but writers, go check it out tomorrow (Sunday) morning!

I vote for the age of the wandering bards and poets.

I truly, deeply believe that if everyone put their time to one or two things in their own home communities that need help/support/awareness/labour, we could have the better world we think is impossible when drowning in daily headlines. Today is a good day to look around and find your thing.

Okay, okay, I'm here for real now ... everyone says it's good so far. Just have to stack my algorithm with writers, books, editing, cats, garden, flowers, camping, trails, walking, witches, gen-x, Lord of the Rings, HEAs, romantasy, memoir, science/nature books (ok all books), homemade yogurt ...

Hello Bluesky world, this is just a test!

Canada's own @christinamyers.bsky.social on @saribotton.bsky.social Memoirland questionnaire! open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...