Kwaneta & Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause collaborated on a three-part series on menopause, incarceration, and the climate crisis for Scalawag. Part 1: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/cool... Part 2: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/the-... Part 3: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/burn...

Angela Davis calls Ending Isolation (out Sept 20) “a rekindling of our abolitionist impulses at a critical moment.” 📚 Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271 #AngelaDavis #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease

Bao Phi (he/him) is a spoken word artist, poet, writer, and children's book author. His work can be found in two books of poetry both published by Coffee House Press, four children's books, all published by Capstone, and in anthologies such as Octavia's Brood, A Good Time for the Truth,… 1/6

Please join us on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic artists: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi, followed by an open mic. Both reading and open mic will feature ASL interpretation. 1/4

Tyra Payer (they/them) is a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe tribe, from Belcourt North Dakota. Tyra is a writer and entrepreneur who has a background of storytelling and Indigenous food systems. Outside, you can find Tyra vending at the farmers market or in the garden. 🎤 Please join us… 1/5

Here in MN, @releasemn8.bsky.social does important work with Southeast Asian communities, deportation defense, and more. They also have some of the best-designed merchandise of any movement org I've seen, and "every purchase goes directly towards the fight against deportation!" Shop:

Jen Bowen (she/her) is a writer, arts instructor, and editor. Her essay collection, THE BOOK OF KIN: On Absence, Love, and Being There, took nearly twenty-years to finish, but it's out now. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize, The Arts and Letters Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award… 1/6

Fong Lee (he/him) is a Saint-Paul-based artist. He is a celebrated poet, with publications through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and Asian American Writers Workshop, a beloved painter, and a published photographer. 🎤 Please join us… 1/5

신선영 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is an award-winning poet, cultural worker, educator, and multi-genre author of 13 books for adults and children. She is a 2025 McKnight Fellow in prose. Her newest book for children is Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs… 1/7