please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

Lord have mercy, Instagram got me thinking about tinned fish now.

it is so rare for Natives to have an Elder in Hollywood, especially an Elder as iconic, groundbreaking, and talented as Greene may he be guided back in his transition to skyworld peacefully and with ease 🍓😔🪶 deadline.com/2025/09/grah...

🎶AND I PRAY OH MY GOD DO I PRAY I PRAY EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A REVOLUTION🎶

Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.

you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do

Me and my book project

There are still a few spaces in the POV workshop I’m teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Aug.3-9–come join us!

You have two more days to submit to Chapter House Journal’s Indigenous Fiction Prize and have the brilliant Debra Magpie Earling read your work!! +General Submissions pool open for poetry, visual art, fiction and nonfiction!! Submissions close June 30th. chjournal.com?fbclid=PAQ0x... Plz share!

It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day. Very few are talking about it. If you can, please take a few moments to read this. Please call your reps to stop the sale of public land today. Please.

anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Tanis Parenteau www.tanisparenteau.com “She’s survived a lifetime of these miracles, which trace back to Daddy emptying the bank account and leaving her with three girls and half an art education degree to pay the bills." Crooked Hallelujah by @kellijoford.bsky.social

-How do you feel about frilly toothpicks? -I’m for ‘em! -Well this club is formed then.

We continue to raise alarms around Tribal Colleges and the threat we face w/federal funding cuts. This feature on PBS NewsHour debuted this week, telling our story more broadly. We stay fighting for our students and to see that treaty and trust obligations are honored. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

🌈📚 #queerbooks 📖 The Women Could Fly by @megiddings.bsky.social dystopian fantasy - the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #fantasy

Charlottesville is not taking this ICE abduction lying down. Some Quaker activists have called for a protest. TODAY (Wednesday) 11 a.m. - 12 noon in front of the Albemarle County Court House from 11am to 12 noon. Come with signs, to protest warrantless kidnapping of one of our neighbors yesterday.

I’d also love to read your fiction and help you make it stronger. Get in touch here: kellijoford.com/services

I’ve been laying low bc of health stuff, but I’m back, baby. Come see me in August for a course on POV at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. All levels are welcome! fawc.org/summer-progr...

I wrote a whole book about this. bookshop.org/p/books/mona...

@matjohnson.bsky.social Someone recently asked for advice abt MFA applications and I wanted to refer them to the thread you made a few years ago. But of course you left the bad place! Have you complied that advice anywhere else? Thanks!!

Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE

I’ve reached the reading poems and weeping over breakfast phase of this concussion. It’s beautiful. “You will find me, God, like a dumb pigeon's beak, I am pecking every which way at astonishment.” from “A Cigarette,” Ilya Kaminsky

Librarians: now more than ever. I am not joking.

I post this every Martin Luther King Jr Day

Baby’s first panic attack for the holidays

The latest on Ursa Short Fiction!Dawnie and I interview our agents about the publishing industry, what it means to be a white agent representing authors of color, what makes an agent say “hell yes” to a pitched book, common red flags with scammy “agents,” and more!

“If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail"

Wondering if I could thrive on a diet consisting solely of mango and sticky rice and a good multivitamin bc I very much would like to try it.

Another bookstore just added! Hoping to hit the 150-account limit for this starter pack before the holidays so you have as many options for book buying as possible. go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

Guys I don’t think that’s Hanya Yanagihara on BlueSky!

Sad I won’t get to go see Toni the next Tues. I’m in town. This was my era: “Toni Price and her trio of acoustic guitarists -- Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Casper Rawls and Champ Hood in 1999 -- took their chairs onstage at around 7.” Swear it was the best era. michaelcorcoran.substack.com/p/the-contin...

From now, until Monday, you can help By the Fire We Carry win a @goodreads choice award! Its up for best history/ biography of 2024! www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

HI I'M GOING TO DO SOME IMPORTANT SKEETS NOW and ask you for some help. As you know if you know or follow me at all anywhere, internet harassment is an important issue for me.

Your calls and emails are working. Don't stop! innmvmt.org/senate

Feels like a preview of things to come

If you are unsure what to write/say, the message is prewritten for you and takes less than 2 minutes to fill out. Feel free to reword it a bit so it doesn’t come across as spam.

If you’re a new follower, Allen is one of the best at organizing help for those in need.

Met some talented student writers who also happened to be stellar humans. (Forgot to take pics.) Read from the novel-in-progress. Saw some friends. Remembered the power of stories, felt grateful to share this creative life with so many good people. Thank you, U of Arkansas MFA program. 💜

Y’all! I’m hosting and producing an Indigenous variety show in NYC on November 24!!!!! Come experience film, music, comedy, and more 🦅 Get those tickets during early bird pricing until midday November 17: www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-...

The slow trickle of MAGA folks over here underscores how much their experience of online is entirely dependent on people getting mad at them. It also underscores how even they, given the option, would rather not hang out with themselves either.

He’s got a whole-ass love seat. And yet. (Today’s Version)

He’s got a whole-ass loveseat. And yet.