This Monday Nov 17th: it’s our FREE monthly meet-up! Come join Erinn Batykefer & the Ass in Chair Collective crew to steal time for your creative self alone/together! (on zoom 12-1 EST) ❤️🪑

Ryan Rose Weaver shares a rich window into her mindfulness and creative practices in this beginner’s mind interview. If you don’t know her and her awesome community on substack, In Tending, let this be your introduction! 🙏🏼🌱 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/conscious-...

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Had a great conversation with @abbyhiggs.bsky.social about my new book, GRAPHIC RAGE!

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Margot Kahn truly lives out the ethos of beginner’s mind in her writing and her life (she opened a bakery! she hosts a podcast about ferries with her son!) Read on & channel some of that potent beginner’s mind energy for yourself.🌲 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/i-have-time

Kid 1, side 2 #NoKings

🪐a new beginner’s mind interview is up with Jeanna Kadlec (@jeannakadlec.bsky.social), who writes the New York Times featured newsletter, astrology for writers 🪐 IF YOU DON'T KNOW JEANNA AND HER WISDOM, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/inspiratio...

New interview up with author and environmental writer Christina Rivera (@crivera.bsky.social) on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊 SO MANY GEMS IN HERE! 💎💎 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/befriendin...

We’re so excited to introduce the FALL SLATE of 🪑THE ASS IN CHAIR COLLECTIVE! 🪑 Sign up at the link in the post to join us for some accountability, community & ass jokes 🎉🔗 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/fall-slate...

Such a rich interview w/ Cassie Pruyn ✨ If you haven’t read her book, LENA, and you need some queer/lesbian love poems or immersive poems that transmute grief, you know what to do. emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/trust-the-...

In the rush of September, in a time of violence and division, telling our stories and making art matters. Believing you are good enough matters because we just can’t give up. So, here’s a pep talk for you from me. 🩵

This is less about what you do or don’t say both Charlie Kirk than it is about being alive, together, in a time and place that cares about far too few of our lives. thewhitepages.net/p/how-do-you...

The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀 #poetrypodcast #poetry open.spotify.com/episode/6phF...

✨ a very special interview for you w/ artist, writer & social change facilitator Hanna du Plessis on welcoming suffering in the midst of ALS, and her continuing practice to soften into What Is✨ emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/i-am-here-...

✨🙏🏼 New interview up with poet, essayist & memoirist Heather Lanier on her writing and Centering Prayer practices and how they help her access Something Bigger ✨🙏🏼 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/we-are-mad...

This Mon, Aug 18th at noon EST, Ass in Chair is FREE!! Come test drive this warm, supportive crew that will help you get going and see what you think!! We'd love to see you there xo emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/freeass-in...

Be Where You Are is two years old!!!! To celebrate, I made you a recs & links post with many many things I’ve loved this summer 🎉❤️ emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/waves-upon...

Orwell: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Except we won't let them fully control it. I believe those reports exist in versions he can't corrupt and erase. bsky.app/profile/afre...

💥Monday’s Ass in Chair Collective is a treat for paid subscribers: Maritza Mosquera will be joining us as a guest host!💥 Maritza is a visual artist, poet & cook whose creations often accompany dialogues with communities. 🔗Details & link to register: emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/special-ed...

Thanks to @mohnslate.bsky.social for including me in this interview series. My article covers my two biggest passions- #poetry and #aquaygoga ✍️🌊🧘‍♀️

I loved this interview with Poet Laureate of Gulfport, FL and aqua yoga coach and trainer @christafairbrother.bsky.social on overcoming inertia and taking cues from the water 🌊 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/once-you-g...

I loved this interview with poet, eurythmist & visual artist Gail Langstroth on play, compost & duende 🌀 If you love Jean Valentine, duende, the idea of composting writing, or are fascinated by the connection between word and movement, check it out! 🌀 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/carry-a-qu...

I loved this interview with poet, eurythmist & visual artist Gail Langstroth on play, compost & duende 🌀 If you love Jean Valentine, duende, the idea of composting writing, or are fascinated by the connection between word and movement, check it out! 🌀 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/carry-a-qu...

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

(for context, it's the place @msifry.bsky.social & I wrote about here, back in 2022) www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/o...

It's understandably not the SWPA election result getting headlines this week, but: the continued Democratic rise (and stark GOP decline) in Pittsburgh's once rock-ribbed Republican northern suburbs is remarkable

In the memory of John Lewis, Good Trouble Lives On! There are events nationwide on Thursday, July 17th. Pittsburgh has a week of action! 6/15: Protest Trump at CMU 6/17: John Lewis Day of Action 6/19: Help retain the PA Supreme Court! For more info & updates: www.goodtroublepgh.com 1/5

The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.

Recently published essay about fathers and fatherhood as we approach Father's Day: cutleafjournal.com/content/the-...

🌿I loved this interview with poet, writer, editor & teacher Denton Loving 🌿 Denton’s new poetry collection, Feller, is out August 5th(!!!) 📚 Pre-order the book for 25% (link in interview!) emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/abundance

ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic. They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6. Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.

I have been commanded, as far as I can tell by Anne's post, to plaster the social medium with images of my book cover. #patternbook is out in the US on July 31. want a glimpse of its colors and its making? here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP26...

Reminder: We keep us safe! 🛑 If you see ICE in LA, don’t stay silent. Report it to the LA Rapid Response Network. 📲 #ImmigrantsBelong #NoDeportations #SomosCHIRLA

Can we start talking about the war on children?

💥New interview with singer, actor, educator, writer and founder of Reclaiming Savage, Maya Savage.💥 She’s passionate about using her gifts to empower others to move toward transformation, not merely as individuals, but also collectively—which is exactly what we need now. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This Big Ugly Bill will have devastating, compounding consequences on Pennsylvania and folks across the country. It would take just FOUR Republicans to block it. Every Member should vote no.

Written this morning. I once noted, "Dante had Beatrice. Orwell had Stalin." Negative muses are a thing. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

I'm on the Ezra Klein Show talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is very bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...

Welcome, Tar River Poetry, to the Bull City Press incubator!

Do you need an accountability group to help you show up to your creative project this summer in the midst of all the things? 🪑😎 Get on the list for the Summer Ass in Chair Collective meetups every Monday at 12 pm EST! 😎🪑 We’d love to see you there. emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/summer-sla...

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis. “I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

A win! Federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to bar international students from enrolling at Harvard. The preliminary injunction, issued by a Boston court, allows roughly 7,000 Harvard students and recent graduates to continue studying and working legally in the U.S.

💥New interview with artist, writer, and spiritual care provider Katarina Wong on welcoming herself back to the moment, reframing creative blocks, and rekindling a sense of wonder💥 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/welcome-ba...

HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are protesting against ICE’s illegal arrest of NYC comptroller Brad Lander.

last call! let's see those manuscripts! buff.ly/Y3ca92T

This Monday, June 16th is our next Ass in Chair Collective Meetup that’s FREE and open to anyone to join! It’s also our first Summer Solstice party 🎉 complete with prizes & a celebration of what we’re proud of from this spring in our creative work! 🎉 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/this-month...

Here's a short essay about rage and parenting & how meditation and self compassion help me in a tangible way. It's what we need on a larger scale—esp as ICE increases raids and more troops and marines are sent here to LA. Love over hate. emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/how-i-keep...