Look at the different textures of snow on the lagoon! How the wind shapes it amazes me.

Just home from a wonderful quick trip to the Northwest Arctic to meet with people who care about early childhood, to dream and strategize and plan and build stronger coalitions. And — lucky me! — to walk on the frozen lagoon and pet sled dogs and meet some cute chickens. I feel so fortunate. 💙

The STOP-CALLING-MOMS-WINE-MOMS-UNLESS-THERE’S-AN-ACTUAL-LINK-TO-WINE CHALLENGE. Just…why? If they’re hosting a Merlot brunch & joking about their wine consumption, sure, but if what you mean is middle class or wealthy or white or suburban or normie or highlights in their hair, then say that?

So I realized having a conversation w a friend today & an acquaintance a few days ago etc that most people, even progressive people, don’t know what’s going on w/ ICE beyond the 1 or 2 major stories on msm. Most people don’t know about the 6-month-old or the photojournalist or the flash grenades.

I spent all day with women learning about hunting (& sketching & making women hunter friends 🙂) & then I emerge & find out a bunch of horrible news that happened while I was offline. It’s always so disorienting, the jolting between how we try to live well & the reality of the country we live in.

I’ve always admired & respected photojournalists but my admiration & respect have still managed to increase significantly.

BLOCK them.

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

I am feeling an almost unreasonable amount of Alaska pride right now ☺️.

Since I have many new followers, Ima re-introduce myself. I do macro social work, which ranges from policy advocacy to documentary film production to qualitative research to system change & training w/in health systems. I make art, ~ full time single parent my 2 kids, garden, hunt, advocate for kids

As a rest for your nervous system while digesting scary news, please enjoy one of my chickens eating snow. Idk why but I think they are sooooo cute the way they drink water and eat snow.

Best friend just sent me a video his nephew made of the protest organized by his middle school in the Twin Cities area. A multi-racial, multi-cultural group of 11 - 14 year olds chanting “No more ICE!” 😭🥰 I’m moved to tears. The babies understand. The community understands. Will politicians?

Today a group gathered outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage in support of the Alaskan Samoans who are being unjustly prosecuted by the State of Alaska for an administrative error **made by the State**. I’m so glad they have solid representation but this shouldn’t be happening. Article below 👇🏼.

Yesterday I booked an appt for my youngest to get his 2nd dose of the HPV vaccine at 6 months after the first dose, rather than waiting a year for his 10-year-old well-child check, like I did with my 1st child. This is bc RFK Jr. has put the 2nd dose -- & esp. insurance coverage for it -- at risk.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

I'm so glad I could play a small part in this national article by Anne Vilen, published here on Georgia Public Broadcasting, about tangible reforms that are making childcare in rural America more accessible! www.gpb.org/news/2026/01...

Who decides and how do they decide which moms get called “wine moms?” Is it a certain look? Would I get called that? This is a serious question. I’ve been baffled by that signifier when it’s used outside of a context where moms are talking about or showing their wine consumption.

The left doesn’t frame it the same way, but is offering solutions: 1.) affordable, accessible, quality childcare; 2.) universal healthcare so u don’t go broke giving birth & getting pediatric healthcare; 3.) men should treat women like humans; 4.) curb climate change www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

Seriously, #akleg, & *esp.* the 1 or 2 Democrats who are siding with Hillcorp on the issue of taxing S corps...

Jeff Hildebrand, Texas billionaire raring to extract in Venezuela, is made richer by not having to pay oil & gas taxes to the State of AK bc we only tax C corps, not S corps There's a bill to change that (SB92) but among others, my Sen (Claman) opposes it 😒 #akleg alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/12/h...

1.) dissolving an agency that has only existed for 23 years is not that radical at all. 2.) ICE is beyond reform — Jonathan Ross *is a trainer* for ICE, so this is not a training issue. 3.) dems & moderate R’s need to know they won’t get reelected if they fund the murderous secret police.

Over the weekend I went to the library & Title Wave looking for a few books to share during a presentation, & came back with quite a haul — including 2 Alaskan authors, Pulitzer Prize winner Tessa Hulls’ graphic memoir & a book of Vivian Faith Prescott @alaskapoet.bsky.social’s poetry.

There appear to be multiple instances like this. Can only conclude that the “didn’t you learn anything” lines are a coordinated effort.

1/2: I finished this📕’Solito’ by Javier Zamora yesterday. I’m so grateful to him for writing it & grateful that I could read it, particularly at this moment in anti-immigrant political violence. I highly recommend it bc it lets you see from a child’s POV, an undocumented immigrant child’s POV.

My kids & I stood for an hour w/ a few hundred others in 12 degree weather in Anchorage tonight to say #ICEoutforgood , to honor the memory of Renee Nicole Good & the other victims of ICE shootings & deaths in custody, & to ready ourselves to protect our neighbors & loved ones against ICE in Alaska.

Music brings me such comfort, creativity & joy in hard times. I hope you'll join me in thinking about the past year in music. These are, in no particular order, my favorite songs that were released in 2025. Rather than make a long thread, I just screenshotted + alt text. Thoughts? What are yours?

¡Este programa no es solo para Alasqueños! Hay espectadores de todo el mundo. Es vivo hoy pero para los que están ocupados o dormidos en otras zonas de tiempo, el 🔗 para la discusión de los ACEs (experiencias adversas de la infancia), la trauma y resiliencia estará disponible en su página de FB.

Miren hoy a "Charlas Sin Filtro" de 907AK Espacio Latino por FB Live a las 6 para discusión conmigo de: • Cómo el trauma afecta el cerebro y el cuerpo • El poder de la resiliencia en niños, jóvenes y adultos • Herramientas reales para sanar desde la comunidad www.facebook.com/share/r/1CPT...

bc I've been writing only heavy things lately, here's some comedic relief. 9 found this photo on my 📱 & said, his face scrunched up judgmentally, "It looks like u got that surgery ppl get to look younger." "I WAS younger then. I was 35." "Oh, well you look all Slick Rick there" 😆 @ his term &

Please read this thread. I watched the video made by the killer & my reaction, esp to that muttered “fuckin’ bitch” after he fired 3 bullets into her head, was “Oh, that is so familiar.” And dread. I’ve met that man, dated that man, been yelled at by that man in auto body shops & in my bedroom.

Anchorage: gather with candles on Sunday, Jan 11th at 5:00 pm at the Loussac Library flagpole. Organized by @standupalaska.bsky.social

I love @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s words here. I think politics first broke my heart when Clarence Thomas was confirmed despite Anita Thomas’ heartbreaking testimony. And again and again throughout my youth in ways that made me critical, but not cynical. Inspired to work for something better.

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I had not heard about Keith Porter’s murder until after the killing this week. May we elevate and rally around all of the ICE murders & catalyze this into sustained action.

I struggle to write w/o an edit button on here, so I formed a more coherent version of this same thread on another platform: www.facebook.com/share/p/1JcQ...

Already right-wing media is trying to defame Renee Good, discounting the value of her life so their viewers can waive off the murder we all saw ICE commit. This time the victim was a white woman, but they can still make her one of "them" by talking about her divorces & queerness. Before Renee, they

For folks in or near Anchorage, here’s an opportunity to stand against this injustice. I know it’s cold, but it’s only 30 minutes. I’ll be there in my bunny boots.

And I heard from a friend that ICE showed up at his nephew’s school just outside Minneapolis since they couldn’t terrorize kids within the city today.

🧵 1/ This is why we must push back against the myth that liberals don’t like children (bc of liberal women choosing not to have them) & conservatives DO bc they want to force women to reproduce. No. What ICE is doing is anti-child policy & practice. Defunding childcare & schools is anti-child.

Quite the encapsulation of how racism, anti-immigrant hatred, sexism & patriarchy & trying to return women to the home, & the neglect of early childhood/ willingness to harm children, are all bound up in one another. That's why I don't "stick to one topic." These intersect. Fascism relies on all

The incredible courage of everyday people standing up to ICE at significant personal risk--at least 2 of whom have been murdered by ICE already--contrasted w/ the spinelessness of the majority of elected officials, universities, organizations, & mainstream media outlets, is the most startling part.

I used to draw or paint or etch or sculpt or collage daily, then weekly. I’m out of the regular habit now but when I do it, it revives my brain and hands. The fish and cards are recent, the others a bit older.

It’s Jan 2026 & a lot of Americans are w/o health coverage or can barely afford it. Alaska has the highest rates in the country. We have to start filming these stories ASAP so we started today but we need a few more to start w/ ➡️ pitch to funders ➡️ tell this story comprehensively. Have a story?

Alaska has high rates of hepatitis B & RSV & children are regularly hospitalized for it here. This is tragic. We need to ensure our AK Dept of Health keeps pushing back as they have —rightly —done so far w/ Hep B 💉 recommendations. We need systems that follow evidence. #akleg #AlaskaSky

The Monroe Doctrine is back again! Justifying violent US imperialism since 1823, only they used to dress it up a little more than this.

This we can do! (In addition to the hand-wringing, protesting, posting, having flashbacks to 2002/2003, whatever else we are doing.)

Over the past two days, this news has dramatically shifted my planning with my ex husband for future travel with our kids 😬... (He is a dual citizen of the USA & Colombia & our kids’ abuelos live there.) That’s just a microcosm of the kind of instability this admin is creating worldwide.

It’s wild that what we were branded as radicals for saying in 2003 in our protests, Trump is just saying quite plainly and shamelessly. That the war is to take their oil.

@anchistorian.bsky.social I thought you’d appreciate this vintage Anchorage shirt I got from a woman in my Buy Nothing group & wore for the first time last night. (Does a place that closed in the early 2000’s count as vintage? It’s certainly nostalgic.)

This seems obvious enough to me, but it’s not treated this way in the world of politics. We are still expected to be courteous & charitable when speaking about the men who order these murders. And if we aren’t, we’re treated as though *we* are the barbarians.