My next newsletter "Have you ever applied for a literary grant?" is coming tomorrow. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop. I'll include a list of upcoming Canadian literary grant deadlines too. yolandehouse.kit.com

My MPP wrote me back and said she shares my concern, and will be pushing Ford to cancel this contract She also suggested I email him directly. I decided to do one better, making a new template you can use to email him too, with contact info attached docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have now created a template letter you can send to your MPP if you're in Ontario or to your MP anywhere in Canada; while this is primarily a provincial issue, it could also have major repercussions nationally & that must be considered Template below:

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

The nurses are pissed

There was a largeish Apple YouTuber (Luke Miani) who made a video about this stuff earlier this week. He had never once talked about politics on his channel until this week. But he did not mince words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzHa...

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

NaNoWriMo has been reborn with the involvement of the original founder, Chris Baty! As a long-time former NaNo ML, I am thrilled to hear it. It will now be a static site with resources for you to lead your own private 30-day artistic or writing challenge! nano2.org

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus. We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu. We would all be healthier. I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

Applying for a Canada Council for the Arts literary grant? The old ones have been retired and new ones have launched in their place. Artistic Creation is the new $25k grant (max is now $75k) and Micro-Grants is the new PD grant (still $10k but we can send 3 applications per year!). #CanadaCouncil

You heard them! Get on those applications, stat! If you need help applying, @healthruwriting.bsky.social provides fantastic services to help with drafting and revising your grant writing!

This is what it's like living with a hearing sensitivity. I especially hate when I crank up a movie to hear and then my ears get painfully blasted!

They need to watch the videos by former trad wives who are living out of their cars, taking minimum wage jobs, etc. bc those husbands decided to trade in their wives for younger models, AFTER the trad wives did everything at home so he could be successful in the workplace.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

I would love if OW/ODSP actually told their clients about programs available for them instead of me finding out through things like this!! GET A FREE AC OR PORTABLE FAN if you are on OW/ODSP this summer if you need it ! See how in the image below

Greg could go anywhen, but he only ever visited 1989. His time travel agent had teased him. "Choosing #nostalgia over dinosaurs and castles again, huh? You must really like hair bands!" It was an expensive vacation, but it was worth it. He smiled as the front door opened. "Hi, Mom." #vss365

This whole thread. 👍

THIS omg THIS!

So we've reached the "arresting Jewish electeds who oppose sending people to gulags" part of fighting antisemitism, I see

AI is part of the fascist project to make us all stupider and more impoverished and dependent on the tech overlords, pass it on

The whole AI conversation is actually a great way to separate people who write from people who “create content”

idk man, I actually enjoy writing. It makes me feel alive and engaged and I feel lucky that I get to spend so much time doing it. Having written is great, but brainstorming and researching and thinking through things is the real point. You couldn't pay me any amount to give that up to a machine.

I've long regarded Brevity as one of the highest-tier online lit mags out there, especially for flash memoir/CNF. It's a journal I've always aspired to be published in. I'm glad Bossiere said this, though I wonder now about how Brevity will be percieved after the Brevity Blog pro-AI post.

in short, ai steals, doesn't fact check, and the environmental impact is terrible. a recently released study says it's making us stupider. as a tool it can be useful but the cons are so alarming it should be highly rationed. and if you don't want to write, don't. brief enough for brevity?

For any disabled artists interested in applying to grants, I'm presenting a very introductory workshop for the New Brunswick Disability Arts Collective next Wednesday at 7pm AT/6pm ET. There will be a recording on YouTube afterward if you can't make it live. FREE! www.facebook.com/events/61575...

People are being fired for wearing a mask to work. This is horrible and against public health. We need to pass laws that explicitly protect the right to mask.

Check out my book review of EVERY CRIPPLE A SUPERHERO on @fiddlehd.bsky.social's blog! This accompanies my essay, "Disability Tax," published in their fall issue. Has anyone else read this fantastic memoir?

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I'm also super proud of @healthruwriting.bsky.social who's been writing some amazing creative non-fiction essays about disability, queerness, healing and trauma, and is working on an amazing memoir-in-essays about disability. Can't wait to see an agent or press get her signed!

My latest essay, from Plenitude Magazine, adopts the form of a diet guide to talk about food restrictions and chronic illness. If you have GERD or IBS, you may find some tips that help you! "The Anxious GERD Diet" plenitudemagazine.ca/the-anxious-...

Damn. From @lesliemac.bsky.social: “Black women have always been at the forefront of America’s most transformative movements… It’s not for glory or recognition, but because we know the cost of inaction.” medium.com/@LeslieMac/i...

Fun fact: there was a trans woman in the bathroom I was using today. You’ll never believe what I did next: I pissed. I washed my hands. I nodded to them on the way out, and I went on about my day because I’m not a fucking psychopath who cares what bathroom people use.

Yup.

Many people think that as you get older, you care less about politics. But it’s not true. You start thinking a lot more about the kind of world you want to leave behind. You want it to be better than the one you were born into. We all have a personal legacy in mind. Mine is to outlive Trumpism.

Hello Bluesky! I'm here from Twitter. I'm @herstorian on there. On IG and Threads I'm also @healthruwriting. Happy to be here!