Fall reading from @haymarketbooks.org: Azadi, Arundhati Roy Revolution Today, Susan Buck-Morss A Map of My Want, @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social

At some point, I became one of those people who gets excited when a new data report drops. I literally just got a glass of water, some snacks, and snuggled in place to read a new report related to my research. What is this?!

Congrats to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

I did a thing! My second poetry collection, A MAP OF MY WANT (@haymarketbooks) won the Midwest Book Award for Poetry!

I know it’s been a minute. Slowly but surely making my way back over here!

Delighted to see two Acre authors celebrated for their contributions to literary Chicago! Congrats @thejs3.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS) and @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉 lit.newcity.com/2025/06/04/l...

So excited to tell you about Ragdale’s annual fundraiser, More Than a Novel Affair, which I co-curated… It’s two days: Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17. If you’re in Chicago, FRIDAY’S event is more convenient: It’ll be at the Newberry Library (in partnership with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social) 🧵

It features five seriously amazing authors (@kazimali.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, Xochitl Gonzalez, Chigozie Obioma, and Claire Lombardo). They’ll be in conversation—moderated by the wonderful @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social—about making space for art and finding your voice.

You hussle your whole life looking for a way into the light only to find yourself already glowing. I hope you keep reaching—your time is coming. I promise.

I’m not at AWP this year but I’m internet lurking during my trip to NYC. 👀

Congratulations to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉

Leaning all the way into spirit’s gift of transformation, today! Grace and gratitude to the teams at The Mellon Foundation and @haymarketbooks.org. Grace and gratitude to my readers. Grace and gratitude to my people and my people’s people. May the light find us always.

Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here: www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c... #writingcommunity

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

My millennial lover archetype according to the nostalgic trip I just went on via YouTube: 1/3 Travie McCoy 1/3 Lauryn Hill 1/3 Vin Diesel Explains the last 20 years. 🤣🫠

As an astro-spiritualist, I’m oddly hopeful. I’ve documented signs of the nation’s fall for years, so this moment doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is this sudden knowing that after we bring a stop to the oligarchy—we could be the ones to construct a new and more empathetic constitution.

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Just secured my first solo art exhibition. Coming to Chicago Summer 2026. 🙌🏾🔥🙌🏾🔥🙌🏾

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

I feel like way too many people forget the role art and music has played in helping us fight against the most egregious of acts throughout history. We need the artists to keep making. The musicians to keep making. Writers to keep writing. The creatives keep our stories and bring us forward.

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

I feel like we must remind people that laws are really just community agreements. The minute a large enough collective stops agreeing, we’ve got a problem. Trump’s administration is trying to reinterpret the Constitution—but the reason it even exists is because of someone like him. Look familiar?

The funding pause orders "are actually the most lawless, brazen, unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government." From @ddayen.bsky.social:

Early-career literary translators, here is a grant for you! You could apply for it and get some help bringing a precious translation baby into this world!

These little privileges my generation’s enjoyed—the comfort in our imaginings of a real full-throated freedom just around the corner—is now under attack. Has been under attack. I am not shocked. I am incited.

"A recent study by the Prison Policy Initiative found that the median income of Black men before incarceration was $17,500 per year, compared to $39,000 for white men, further emphasizing economic disparities."

I remain convinced that the Supreme Court will block Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship, and will to do by a lopsided vote. Yes, even THIS Supreme Court. Here's why: slate.com/news-and-pol...

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

I’m supposed to be promoting a workshop I’m teaching next month, but it’s difficult for me to focus on adverts when all of this is going on.

I’m a formerly undocumented immigrant in a mixed-status family. I’m also an investigative reporter. These remarks are terrifying. There will be many projects to work on and stories in tell in the coming years but today it feels nothing less than devastating to me that I’m currently unemployed.

This is illegal, and the WaPo should be saying that in the FIRST SENTENCE, not further down in the paragraph.

I’ve always said my job as a writer and activist is to witness. What I am witnessing is Hitler 2.0 outline his agenda.

There are so many people of the global minority in that room…doesn’t look Iike North America in the slightest.

This is a corporation who’s-who gala, not an inauguration.

This man said on national TV—the night before his inauguration—that he rigged the election with the help of Musk. I’m sick.

Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

Well this is quite an opener

Chicago: ICE raids potentially starting on 1/21/25. Please RP. Share with your friends and neighbors!

Two violations for two videos—both uploaded today talking about how I’m worried about tomorrow’s inauguration. Both of these are my first ever violations on the platform after 5 years. Definitely something in the water…🫠

I migrated all my Tik Tok vids to Fanbase, a black owned platform. I also uploaded 2 vids on TT today, one about how we need to share what’s happening during one of the most consequential presidential inauguration in this country’s history. I was immediately hit with a violation.

The last Tik Tok I saw sums up what I’ve been feeling—the app will never be the same, even if it reopens.

Biden commuting the sentences of 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses is a start. But just a start. The War on Drugs has devastated several generations of families. We will be trying to undo its impact for the rest of our lives. It’s still #endmassincareration .

Don’t worry about me. Just having my regular post-Zoom poetry reading jitters. Anyone experience these?

Going thigh my files and found a poem I liked so much, I had to double check if I’d wrote it. 😅🫠

In 2021, under the guise of preserving life, Texas politicians enacted the country’s most radical abortion ban. Since then, mothers and infants have died at alarming rates, and infertility, STDs, and complications have increased. @thebarbedwire.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2025/01/10/t...

My grandmother lives in Compton but she’s in Utah right now preparing for my step-dad’s funeral. I’m watching my birth place, my parent’s birth place, go up in flames. I was already writing about fire, about Los Angeles—but now…

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this