Lemongrass harvest today 🌾🥰🧑🏻‍🌾 #transfarmer

Born to watch the cave entrance at night, stuck living as a dysfunctional modern human 😔

There are 4 opportunities to join @7directionsof.bsky.social virtually at Climate Week & COP 30: one today, three on Tuesday. Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck & Jason Campos Crazy Bear Keck are doing amazing work on Crystal's ancestral Occaneechi-Saponi lands, the rural Piedmont region of North Carolina.

Introduced Morticia to The Last of Us for #NationalVideoGamesDay.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

The Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres of roadless national forests since 2001. But now, the Trump administration wants to strip protections from 45 million of those acres. The public comment period is only open until Sept. 19th. Please add your voice ➡️ https://bit.ly/3IeiP1D

3️⃣ ways you can weigh in on William Transco's 55-mile pipeline called the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project: ✅ Attend the 9/29 comment party on 9/29 ✅ ✍️ our petition telling NCDEQ #NOSSEP ✅ Submit a comment to NCDEQ More info ⬇️ https://appvoices.org/actions/ssep-401-petition/#NOSSEP

Sign the @appvoices.org petition to protect North Carolina’s waters from MVP Southgate’s proposed methane gas pipeline. #NoMVP #waterprotectors

⭐ Save the date for our 6th annual virtual Food Justice Film Festival⭐ From Oct. 23-26, watch four award-winning documentaries highlighting indigenous food sovereignty, BIPOC land reclamation and agricultural heritage, community foodways and access. View more: https://foodjusticefilmfestival.com/

a doctor I trust more than rfk jr

The “Pretty Lady” Rose. I do have a soft spot for heirloom and tea roses 🌹🥰

Google signed a 6-month, $45 million contract in June to promote propaganda for the settler colonizer Israel. This is in addition to the billions already spent on tech toward the genocide. Reminder that no one needs to use Google products at all. De-Google Your LIfe series at liberationtoolbox.io

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De Milpa Tomatillos coming soon! I’m so excited to taste them fresh, make salsa verde, and send some seeds to Chef Loretta Barrett Oden (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) at FAM. #gardenphotography

The muscadines are ripening. This variety, “Carlos,” is bronze when ready, and they were delicious! 😋

Special Saturday Session! Self-Care for Writers Saturday, September 13 from 10 AM-12 PM ET on Zoom with Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. Join an award-winning multi-genre writer for a deep dive into self-care. Details in image below. #writers #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #selfcare #mindfulness

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Seed Season Zine Presale is LIVE! All dollars from its sale will go to the Sameer Project in Gaza. My poem, “The Almond Tree,” will feature in the zine alongside other poets, artists & seedkeepers. Please email Mary Sarsam of Broudou School to claim a copy & get donation info: [email protected]

When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”

For fans of #food, #community, #memory, #resilience and #indigenous #history: open.substack.com/pub/cassiepr...

Hey #columbiasc just learned that Ally & Eloise Bakery on Devine St is owned by z!onists. When a customer reached out to them to give them the chance to explain or learn, they blocked them. Please share! Our money is a powerful tool of resistance. No money for genocide-supporters! #colasc #sodacity

“But they weren’t fascists, were they? Those children of Dresden. . . .” 𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 80𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎 Read Rilla Askew’s poem “As If We Know” and listen to an audio of her reading it on the WLT Weekly today. @rilla-askew.bsky.social‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/poetry-...

Xóchitl, a farm worker, DACA recipient, and organizer for immigrant and farm worker rights, was kidnapped by CBP agents while boarding a domestic flight less than 48 hours ago, despite her presenting valid documents. Sign the petition below for her freedom. Share widely! #FreeXochitl

On this #OwlAwarenessDay, I celebrate the beautiful night predators perched in barns, woods, and local bars. From the first woman to resist, these birds more often are called demons, but Lilith brought us femmes autonomy, an angel of an owl. #vss365 #angel

I rolled a 7 on charisma trying to charm the cis bi man, not a Nat 1 but easy to save against. Against other enbies, I roll Nat 20s, something about confident authenticity that succeeds rolls every time. #vss365 #charm

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's virtual event, “Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” - sign up now: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Earlier today, police arrested mass numbers of Jews and people of conscience at the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in New York City as they chanted, "Let Gaza Live," "End The Siege, and "Let Aid In Now."

The Israeli army has just destroyed the seed bank of the Palestinian farmers' organisation, UAWC, in the West Bank. We condemn this latest crime against the Palestinian people and their efforts to defend their food sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with UAWC. viacampesina.org/en/2025/07/i...

I wrote this. Andromache was Hector's wife in the Iliad. The Trojan woman were historically mistreated. I was reading stories from Gaza women trying to survive and this came from their words.

🚨Senate Ag Committee members will question USDA No. 2, Deputy Secretary Vaden, today on a reorganization plan that could close local offices & cut staff, without input from farmers or experts!?!👁️We’ll be following closely: www.agriculture.senate.gov/hearings/rev...

Loud music blares From juke joints in Deep Ellum’s Neighborhood Place made By segregation Where ex-slaves Sold work and goods #Elm Street Was the anchor Of this bustling Burg of commerce No trace remains This legacy Once powers be Saw worth #vss365

The pond behind my house is murky, debris and algae clouding the dark waters. It’s been so dry the cypress knees only rise from mud. Sometimes I wish the pine needles and jessamine petals floated in sapphire waves but I suppose the turtles don’t care either way. #vss365 #sapphire

@chaninicholas.bsky.social has a call to action for Thursday’s Mercury Cazimi: flood the internet with posts demanding an end to Isr*el’s forced starvation of Gaza. Demand aid be let in and an arms embargo. Thursday’s astrology is excellent for communication. Make our leaders hear us! 🆓🇵🇸☀️

Happy birthday to @skappler.bsky.social with @honkytonkwitch.bsky.social and me in front of the Sad Woman, a traditional family portrait after dinner at The Hoot. Also #ColumbiaSC peeps: The Hoot has awesome happy hour specials including $6 Veg Fil A. Kick the anti LGBTQ chicken addiction and go.

We should use the word genocide to prevent it from happening—not wait so that one day we may appropriately label the graves of the dead.

People are talking about genocide as if it is a rhetorical or moral debate. It is a legal term–a crime defined under international law. South Africa and nine other countries have charged Israel with the crime of genocide at the International Court of Justice. 🧵

A sparrow flying over Gaza has more compassion than the nations dropping aid boxes. The sparrow does not send bombs with its free claw. It cries real tears & tells the perpetrator of starvation every curse we on foreign soil wish we could say to every genocidal maniac doing this in our names.

Is anyone saying a meeting at a library that spawned some of my most nourishing relationships & a poetic trip to Oklahoma was happenstance, left to the random proximity of bodies? I believe in neither God nor luck but something out in the waters & stars conducts moments of orchestras of our lives.

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren pushes to modernize immigration registry provision www.ksbw.com/article/zoe-...

For #nature #NationalPark #history #environment #forest #trees #creative #writers #poets #artists #photographers #art #writing #poetry #CallforSubmissions Proceeds benefit Congaree National Park, the largest expanse of old growth forest remaining in the southeastern US. www.congareeanthology.com#/

I burned incense while playing the Final Fantasy X remake, hoping that Xochiquetzal together with the gods of Zanarkand can ease the reprieve I seek in my crimson drink from growing up in a house afraid both of our god & of any gods daring to exist separately. #vss365 #together #crimson

I think many voters gambled by thinking, “well the Dems won’t stand up to Israel” (many are zionists of course) “but at least they’ll stand up to Trump” and the Dems aren’t even doing that. Cory Booker for all his speeches has approved Trump nominees left & right. Jeffries & Schumer keep status quo.

Oh I have been waiting on this one.

My new piece reflecting on an interview Vivien Sansour did in 2024 about Palestinian seeds (linked in the post) after driving to Oklahoma and imagining what farming would look like there versus back home in SC:

Yes! One of my favorite quotes and my inspiration as an artist is from Nina Simone: “An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.”

My yard alights in springtime with the faces of wild violets. The ancestors to the pansy still bask in dappled sunlight their petals drip like lace. Like my own forebears violets survive mowing flooding, dog trampling plucking their bodies to drink from. I’m Queer as in Pansy born from violet tears

Heat kills. A bill just reintroduced in Congress can save lives. Urge your members of Congress to back federal heat bill introduced on July 16th. Go to: act.seiu.org/a/heat2025?m... #WeFeedYou #Calor

If a farmer’s purpose is caretaking their crops and by extension their community, then sometimes I don’t feel up to task. And sometimes, I walk outside, drink in the fresh air, get to work and summon rain, Mother Nature’s promise that she and I were born for this. #vss365 #purpose #promise

My first post on my trip to Oklahoma for #WoodyPoets is live on my Substack! It features the full video of my performance with the sweet, powerful introduction by @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social.