Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is easily the best book I read this year. So now it’s time for her collected nonfiction, My Seditious Heart, from @haymarketbooks.org

The Governor Newsom Press Account is beyond good.

My monstera albo is still pushing out half moons and I couldn’t be happier 🤩

The nexus is violent white men but everyone is supposed to pretend this is not the case.

Self care is living in alignment with purpose Today self care looked like a 20-minute phone call to support a former colleague It also looked like a four-hour visit in Critical Care with a childhood friend as she received news her mother is experiencing congestive heart failure Holding space 💖

@moniselseward.bsky.social 😂 a propos your last skeet

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

My heart is heavy It has been for weeks My friends are going through it (not the self-absorbed self-induced drama crap) One had a double mastectomy Another is going in for life-altering surgery this week Another’s mother is in Critical Care with no sense of what’s wrong I pray and pray 🙏🏾

Words are magic

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

Maybe because it’s not actually “post-covid”, given covid continues to circulate and many places are experience surges at the moment. No matter how much we *want* it to be over, wishing something doesn’t make it so. But actual layers of protections could make it so… www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

My parents just called me to tell me that they finished reading my novel and said that they loved it and are proud of the work I've done, and as an Asian immigrant child, the fact that I got them to say this after having fought for years over my writing career feels like a massive achievement.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.

Some purple for your Saturday #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography

Summer flower #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography

Red rose trio from the garden #bloomscrolling #roses #photography #flowers

A lavender colored #dahlia for those #bloomscrolling. #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

yup, we rise up to the level of our training, not to the level of our imagined selves.

Minnesota’s flags are flying at half-staff in honor of the lives lost to gun violence at Annunciation Catholic School today.

Is any person (or organization) downloading or transferring the amazing teaching materials from the Smithsonian before they are altered/disappear? (Feel free to boost/send around - I really want to know… our students start next week & I’m fully underwater, so hoping someone somewhere is on it?!)

So much gratitude for Queer Lit!

Help me clear my list TIA www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

lol yesterday a man asked me why men should care about what women go through and I said: The individual costs women bear today will be a societal costs for everyone else tomorrow. No one wins when women lose. 🤷🏿‍♀️

QUEER AND MUSLIM ON FAITH, FAMILY, AND HEALING Edited by Rahim Thawer & Maryam Khan Foreword by Muhsin Hendricks Release: April 2026 Pre-order: uofrpress.ca/Books/Q/Quee... (Shares welcome!)

I’m the first person you call to trauma dump but the last person you call when shit works out.

Post from @caitgauthor.bsky.social on the ableism behind “write every day!” I am definitely writing my book on crip time. Bc I must, there is no other way for me. caitgordon.com/2022/09/16/t...

Hey Edufriends! Definitely check out this FREE event with friends @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social and @juliaerin80.bsky.social with kwamealexander and oneword.org !

Hey friends! When you rub lotion into your hands, slow down and focus on the sensation. Notice the texture, the temperature, and the smell. Press your palms together gently and take a slow, deep breath. This is how you can use moisturizing as a grounding tool for anxiety. 🌱🧘🏽🙏🏽

This is also about school.

Hey, @prisonculture.bsky.social, look what I had framed! (had a lovely chat with the frame shop workers about what the word praxis means...per usual, you are always out here educating folks, MK.)

Thousands of NY Jews demand an end to genocide, an end to mass starvation, and end to occupation. Never Again. #JewsSayNoMore @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org

Famine in India caused by British policies during colonialism that still effects people's health today. "Starvation adaption" increases rate of diabetes and is prevalent in people subject to famine and extreme, chronic under-nourishment (slavery, colonialism, war, etc.).

My heart is full. There is a simplicity in love that is offered through the expression of time Folks who will simply make time for you Sit with you Pass time with you No formality No scheduling An authentic check in with intentional follow through Grateful.

This past year has taught me that life persists. I am grateful that friendships do as well. Despite distance and absence, hearts show up with intention and care. This is such a beautiful blessing.

Too bad the Oura ring could never point out something actually useful like “you’re sleeping poorly because your husband won’t share the mental load of running the household with you”

There was a time when I confused understanding someone’s behavior as empathy for the inevitable pain or fear that caused them to treat me poorly. Today I told someone that was enough and blocked his contact. I understand why he is being mean to me but so what? I also understand atomic bombs.

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Selfishness People are cloaking it in things like “I’m not a people pleaser” and “boundaries”.

“We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.” - Nicola Yoon

hey if you feel like supporting my brand new business, Crane Studios (cranestudiosmd.com), you can do so by purchasing some merch! maybe an embroidered hat or a few magnets or stickers with my illustrated quotes designs? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Only A Toddler Pulls my chin hair, “why do you have a hair here?” Followed immediately by a gentle caress, “you have the softest most beautiful face.”

It’s the 3rd Monday of Summer Break There are 3 Mondays of Summer Break remaining This explains the back-to-school dreams featuring the worst fears anxiety breeds

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

And so are all my friends 😆

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

2 x tickets for sale for the Coldplay concert. Me and my work colleague can no longer make it.

Thank you to all those who have been getting in the way all along. I don't know how to end this genocide, but I do know we have to keep trying.

My soror shared this note from a university hiring manager. The market isn’t just wrecked. I don’t think this is just a recessionary pullback. 2,000 applications for one higherEd job is 100% a sign of a structural failure. It’s so horrible. I’m sorry.