ICYMI My September Reads for the Rest of Us is live @msmagazine.com with 25 of my and Violet’s fave books releasing this month. Feat new books by @theferocity.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @nikitagill.bsky.social @tinamakereti.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social

It's a joy to see Seth Neblett's MOTHERSHIP CONNECTED: THE WOMEN OF PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC included among this month's "Reads for the Rest of Us" at @msmagazine.com! "Seth Neblett has compiled an unbelievable archive full of strength, humor, tea, shade and yes, funk." msmagazine.com/2025/09/03/b...

Curious about WisCon 2026? Visit wiscon.net to learn about programming, accessibility, volunteering, and our rich history as the world’s longest-running feminist science fiction convention.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur, rest in power.

Heeeeyyyyy so Doe 174 just spewed a whole lotta bullshit but don’t let it distract you. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. That other stuff is all wrong and lies because he’s an idiot. Kthx

Someone has to know who that small dicked short little white man is. Get to it, internet antifa!

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@repgwenmoore.bsky.social Thank you for voting NO on HRes 719!! Appreciative of your consistent leadership.

@pocan.house.gov why vote present on HRes 719?? Why not NO with your whole chest??

Watching The Manchurian Candidate at this time is wild.

Are you keeping score? I am. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Fellow white people need to look up Trey Reed and Cory Zukatis and then get back to me with your outrage about “political violence.”

“It’s shocking … did you consider not complying with this request?” Butler said. UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm excited to head to LA to attend and present at the @msmagazine.com Archive Launch and Workshop! It'll be livestreamed, so check it out: www.msintheclassroom.com/ms-archive-w...

@karlajstrand.com has September's Ms Magazine reads up! I can personally recommend Angeline Boulley's Sisters in the Wind & Mariana Enriquez's Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys msmagazine.com/2025/09/03/b...

September Reads @msmagazine.com from @karlajstrand.com and Violet Pandya #BookSky 💜📚 msmagazine.com/2025/09/03/b...

Ofc we all are hoping for inevitable health news today, but don’t get distracted! The Epstein survivors’ presser is tomorrow; the timing isn’t a coincidence. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,” Frey said. “These kids were literally praying.” apnews.com/article/minn...

According to numerous sources, the NEA’s appropriation is $207M, which may sound like a lot but is only about .003% of the federal budget. The Creative Writing Fellowships were a fraction of that. But hey, we can all still get started on that nationalist propaganda for Dear Leader, so there’s that.

Your attention, please. Your attention, please. This is NOT a drill. I repeat, this is NOT a drill. Happening TODAY on IG live! Spread the word!

Where to find the best August books by women, femme, feminist, queer, trans, Black, Brown, and Native writers?? My latest for @msmagazine.com, of course! August 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us msmagazine.com/2025/08/01/b...

August 2025 reads for the rest of us @msmagazine.com by @karlajstrand.com and Violet Pandya #BookSky msmagazine.com/2025/08/01/b...

Ms Magazine's @karlajstrand.com with August book recommendations! msmagazine.com/2025/08/01/b...

I always love it when @karlajstrand.com and co write their "reads for the rest of us" book recommendations. It's never anything but essential. So stoked they included Lessons in Magic and Disaster in their latest list: msmagazine.com/2025/08/01/b...

In honor of Andrea Gibson, I'm posting an interview I did with them for @MsMagazine in 2021, not long after their diagnosis. Rest easy; your might and insight will be sorely missed. msmagazine.com/2021/11/10/y...

What an honor to be included in this phenomenal roundup! Thank you @karlajstrand.com & Violet! @transitbooks.bsky.social www.transitbooks.org/books/altera...

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

My latest Reads for the Rest of Us is live at @msmagazine.com. This month, Violet and I chose 22 new books we're loving this month! Feat books by @veenago.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social @coriwinrock.bsky.social and more! msmagazine.com/2025/07/01/b...

@karlajstrand.com and Violet Pandya have the latest Ms Magazine reading list up! msmagazine.com/2025/07/01/b...

The @msmagazine.com July “Reads for the Rest of Us” from @karlajstrand.com and Violet Pandya includes books by Canadians Veena Gokhale and @tanyatalaga.bsky.social #BookSky 💜📚 msmagazine.com/2025/07/01/b...

My latest is up with @msmagazine.com! This month I’m joined by the inaugural GWSL+Ms. intern, Violet Pandya. We chose 25 books releasing this month that we’re loving. Enjoy and let us know what you’re reading this month! msmagazine.com/2025/06/03/b...

No new wars, he said. I want peace, he said. And people fell for it. He ripped up the Iran deal only to crawl back to get a new one and is now threatening Tehran? This motherfucker has the nuclear codes.

Preemptive my ass.

I’ll join Erika Lee, Kate Masur, and Tom Wolf for this conversation about BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. Thursday June 12. Join us!

super honored, and proud, to be included in May 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com !!! Thanks @karlajstrand.com ! @princetonupress.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/05/02/b...

Many thanks to @karlajstrand.com @msmagazine.com for including @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social, Hedgie Choi, Caroline Mar, and @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social's books in the Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025! Check out the full list of fabulous collections: tinyurl.com/2zu9nafd

Join us for this Archiving the Black Web virtual conversation: A Black History of the Web and Archiving Our Existence. Wednesday, April 30th, 11am-12:30pm EST. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/archiving-...

My giant #poetry column is now live @msmagazine.com! Featuring @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social @theoceanisgay.bsky.social @jxzzhndz.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social @aditimachado.bsky.social @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social @catherineweiss.bsky.social & more! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/r...

April reads from @karlajstrand.com @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2025/04/02/b...

So many great things to read! @karlajstrand.com's latest round-up of books for Ms: msmagazine.com/2025/04/02/b...

Very few things make me happier than Love on the Spectrum.

Great to see Urvashi Vaid's "The Dream of a Common Movement" in @msmagazine.com's "April Reads for the Rest of Us" by @karlajstrand.com! msmagazine.com/2025/04/02/b...

Thanks for including "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery" and "Fire Dreams" on this great list!

The latest in my Women's History Month series is a reading list on reproductive justice around the world. Read and share! newsletter.karlajstrand.com/history-of-r... #prochoice #tbr #whm #womenshistorymonth #mybodymychoice #readwomen

The latest in my #WomensHistoryMonth series is focused on books about women's organizing, resistance, and collective actions throughout history. They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds. newsletter.karlajstrand.com/they-tried-t...

The latest in my #WomensHistoryMonth series is focused on books about women's organizing, resistance, and collective actions throughout history. They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds. newsletter.karlajstrand.com/they-tried-t...

For my Women's History Month series, I present a list of 44 of my favorite #biographies by and about women. Join over 165 subscribers to see the full list -- it's free (or paid, you decide)! newsletter.karlajstrand.com/these-are-th... #womenshistorymonth #tbr