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Are you in Philadelphia? Come see this dream panel on the Novel and Reproductive Labor and hang with us TOMORROW 5-7. Would love to see familiar faces! I'll be talking about Edith Wharton, Can-Do feminism, eugenics, and fiction.

Very excited to read this!

Honestly, I feel like I've been in this meeting vibe.

Chris Smalls, the worker who took on Amazon and won, reminds us: power doesn't come from wealth, it comes from people who organise and act. Nothing changes if we do nothing. Solidarity is action.

Most states have collections of their historical newspapers digitized online and those free sites have been so much more helpful to my book project than the big expensive databases I fortunately can also access. Local news and public access for the win. Then, now, always.

A lot of accusations are confessions these days.

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

In 1914, this hero gave a talk on women's right to ignore fashion. Nina Wilcox Bull, caftan feminist ancestor. (She also wrote The Mummy, made hats, and purchased a ruined spanish castle.)

Make it your personal mission not to become ignorant and compliant. Become worse at your job. Read books. Do projects that take days. Take walks in the woods with friends. Love a houseplant. Choose not to use AI. Stop buying time-saving things and hoarding wealth and objects. Start hoarding time.

I feel like the only way anyone is going to have a good year is if @netflix.com lets me make a period drama set at Vrilia Heights, the real-life Metaphysical Summer Camp in Wisconsin created to bring sexual vigor back into the lives of young Americans.

Just read Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear-- a true feminist thriller about tradwife culture. WOW. It’s going to be in my head forever, and on my American Women Writers syllabus come Fall.

I've never seen something so right put so wrong.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Under Water https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483170

Better books! Better movies! Better art! Better childcare! Better schools! Better healthcare! So simple!

Why do dead men make so much? What if we donated all proceeds of dead authors' works, beyond a living stipend for their immediate families, to a collective fund to support new writers? Writers are becoming other things that actually make them money. We are losing literature altogether.

Imagine a humanoid educator named Arielle with twenty years of classroom experience and she reads and writes very quickly and she's very mad at you.

Should I stop dyeing my gray hair in front of Zendaya?

Ok, new one, not "The Trump Era" but the "Asexual Revolution."

Might change my name to Sophie to become a more polarizing critic for likes.

How many times must we beat this dead My Little Pony?

What are we saying, scholars of now: Trump-Pandemic Era? Open to suggestions.

The reason why the most vulnerable are drawn to toxic, ableist alternative wellness spaces is that the health care system, and especially the mental healthcare system, is itself a negative eugenic program in its utter ineffectiveness to help them.

Add "in front of Zendaya" to any headline and the article becomes somehow better AND more accurate. Try it if you don't believe me.

Well, if this doesn't look like an exhilarating panel I don't know what would exhilarate you!

SO excited for this.

Feminism is also about learning to love Rosamond Vincy. #middlemarch

Looking forward to this whole workshop, especially the public conversation on the novel and labor with Dora Zhang and Lilith Todd on May 1 in Philly! www.english.upenn.edu/.../2026/05/...

Prayers on Friday, War Summit on Saturday, do they take a break for the Sabbath or begin phase 2 Sunday? news.sky.com/video/pastor...

Welcome to 1905. "The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine concerns itself with two main areas: (1) control and operation of strategic assets in the Western Hemisphere by great power adversaries and (2) control of strategic geographies." www.csis.org/analysis/shi...

We're using the special envoys.

The Special Envoy: "of all the intruments available to the President in his conduct of foreign relations, none is more flexible"

PLEASE if you are making art tell us about it. It does not need to be art that comments on the geopolitical situation. ART IS ALSO WHAT WE NEED. Art is also what we need. Art is also what we need. Say it all the time.

This "it's a distraction from" stuff is like when I wrote one book to procrastinate on another book. They were both books, in the end.

Personally, I've always wanted to go back to slates.

Excuse me, sir, dialectics is a straight trans woman.

NYC! Tonight! How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm Tickets here:

Feed full of misogyny? Some good news: next month is Women's History Month and the first anniversary of 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN. I'm on the East Coast for the year and want to bring 12 Stories to your events in person or online! Let's talk.

The bad reviews of Wuthering Heights just make me more excited to see it.

On this Galentine's day, I celebrate the ten-year anniversary of this great event in the history of sexuality. komonews.com/news/local/a...

NYC: GO TO THIS TONIGHT! Two brilliant minds in fiction. Nina McConigley's book is big news in Energy Humanities / THE NOVEL / Anti-Colonial Fiction. Say you saw her when because you're going to be seeing her everywhere. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Folks going to @c19americanists.bsky.social conference: Give a hand up in the comments if you want me to bring you your very own copy of TWELVE STORIES in Cincinnati. Also a good time to think about a desk copy if you're considering Fall adoption. Remember the ladies! edu.prh.com/us/desk/

Don't fear. The ghost of the future is also unknown to itself.

ummmm what's going on with google books today?

A few years ago I decided to write a book about a group of people who had not been extensively studied, who constantly changed their names, had terrible handwriting and unprecedented ideas, and lied about everything. But it's all been worth it because WHAT A STORY.

Today my little brother would have been 35. To celebrate, here are some of his core beliefs: -all skittles taste the same -a rule of jenga is if you yell jenga before you lose you still lose, but if you don't you're disqualified -Donna Tartt is a persona invented by the publishing industry

The thinking part of writing I like to do to a soundtrack and that's been truer than ever with this book. Sneak peek of playlist! Currently writing the part where two female cult leaders work together to snuff out their enemies. Peep the track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8Q...