Another Sound Studies reading happening TOMORROW, Thursday 5/1 at Buvez. Don’t miss it!

THIS 👏 THIS 👏 THIS 👏 WORDS MEAN THINGS say it again with your chest for the folks in the back

Another BEAUTIFUL Tattered Writers gathering in the books! Thank you to everyone who joined us — we had a full house 🥰 I’m so continually grateful for how this community keeps growing and changing. Such an inspiration each and every month ✨💜🙌

Calling all Athens wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, poets, and more! 🪶🩵☁️Tattered Writers is TOMORROW Saturday, April 12th 11am-1pm at Athens Clarke County Library. Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘

does anyone else have ideas for community events and public space activation endlessly scrolling through their mind? and I mean ALL DAY EVERY. DAY. i can’t pass a vacant building or empty lot or read an interview or article without dreaming and scheming its communal good. where the dreamers at?

"More than 300 constituents represented by U.S. Rep. Mike Collins met at the Athens Clarke County Library for a town hall — without the lawmaker in attendance." www.gpb.org/news/2025/03...

Great turnout last night for our Georgia District 10 Town Hall with(out) Rep. Mike Collins, who is proudly MAGA. So many came (almost 400) that we had 2 overflow rooms. Others caught the livestream at home. We have 163 written pages of questions to pass along to Mike the Missing.

Dear Congress, Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️‍🩹 Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛

go outside today. go soak up the sun by the window. go find out. go find out.

Once again calling all Athens wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, and more. 💚☀️ Tattered Writers is TOMORROW Saturday, March 15th 11am-1pm at Athens Clarke County Library. Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘

The local gov is seeking community input on its plan to designate part of inner east Athens as a "Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area." Give your comments about east Athens here: forms.gle/3vu4FAxm8WkL... Or you can go to an upcoming forum: -March 20, 12:30-2:30 pm -March 27, 5:30-8:30 pm

We've invited Rep. Mike Collins, GA-10, to attend a Town Hall. We'll show up and record your questions and stories, even if he doesn't. Tuesday, 3/18, 5:30PM, Piedmont Oconee Health Campus community space, off Jennings Mill Rd., Watkinsville.

tell me again it’s impossible. this is about choices, not impossibility. the amount of times I’ve heard local govs talk themselves into apathy by hiding behind complexity is maddening. it’s imperative to keep our humanity, our tenderness and clarity, at the forefront of policy and program design.

do not forget this. also, please read the list of Dems (in comments) who voted to censure Green for legitimately the only act of courage a politician showed in that hall.

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

“America First” has always been a cover to keep white supremacism in official policy

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

how this is is me almost every day of my life 😂 Toad is the blueprint

remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!

I think about this every day at work right now. We have to hold the line, we have to. We cannot depend on any federal systems to have our back and every internal and external language shift matters. Language builds reality.

please please help my dear friend Blake as they fight like hell to take care of their health in a system that denies all of us such basic care and dignity. as always, every single dollar counts 🙏 gofund.me/fb9826bb

“Filtering urban design through algorithms and interfaces tends to bracket out those messy and disorderly concerns that simply ‘do not compute.’ We're left with the sense that everything knowable and worth knowing about a city can fit on a screen—which simply isn't true.” @shannonmattern.bsky.social

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

it’s difficult to keep an eye on the international stage with everything happening domestically. it’s intentional. the cruelty, the overwhelm, and the misdirection is all the point. grateful for this post that keeps the plot of Trump’s relentless and strengthening alignment with Russia. (3 of 3)

it’s difficult to keep an eye on the international stage with everything happening domestically. it’s intentional. the cruelty, the overwhelm, and the misdirection is all the point. grateful for this post that keeps the plot of Trump’s relentless and strengthening alignment with Russia. (2 of 3)

it’s difficult to keep an eye on the international stage with everything happening domestically. it’s intentional. the cruelty, the overwhelm, and the misdirection is all the point. grateful for this post that keeps the plot of Trump’s relentless and strengthening alignment with Russia. (1 of 3)

uhh…isn’t all of medical history a study on men’s health? can we study how stress, economy, and healthcare impact literally anyone else?

This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 - Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic by catherine yronwode 🌿

President Trump and his appointees are now solely in charge of the Kennedy Center. Performers protested by dancing.

#AthensGA #Protest #MuskNotElected Nearly 400 people attended a protest in Athens Ga today to demand removal of Elon Musk from our government. #Indivisible This was part of the #50501Protests around the country

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 - The Aviary by Jamie Tanner 🐦

how this admin is wielding language to divorce us from our experience is deliberate and precise. poets and writers know the power of language to build worlds. radical imagination + visioning and speaking the world as we know it — love, dirt, unshakeable, visceral truths — is a survival ritual.

Not only is he proposing rounding people up and putting them in camps but he’s also proposing to pay for it by introducing a national tax on cannabis, which apparently is a totally fine drug unlike Lexapro

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

keep thinking about a post from @gregandree71.bsky.social — “don’t obey in advance, and don’t obey later.” every word is a chance to refuse the oppression, violence, and erasure this brutal admin and its loyalists keep raining down. what we say, don’t say, call out, write around, or edit matters.

On my desk:

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

writing through a deck and sippin on this matcha bear to start the week. small joys move mountains.

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 - If not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson 📜

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 - Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima 🔥

two drafts

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 - Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel Delaney 🌊

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 - Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day 🫀

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 - Begin the World Over by Kung Lin Sun 🔥

Calling all Athens, GA wordsmiths, bards, storytellers, and more. 🖤🙌 Next Tattered Writers gathering is Saturday, Feb 8th 11am-1pm at Oconee County Library. Tattered Writers is an inclusive writers group open to folks of all writing genres and experience levels. Come create with us 🤘

📚20 Days, 20 Books📚 #BookChallenge #BookSky Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 - Slab by Selah Saterstrom 🐯

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊