Tonight at Busboys & Poets on 14th St. in DC, a celebration of writing in translation, with readings from Hindi, Tamil, Polish, Faroese, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and more. Join us! cheusecenter.gmu.edu/events/17170

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

📢 Translators, you too can join the @alcs.co.uk and get paid for having your books checked out of the library. A lifetime membership costs just £36. They take it out of your first payment, so you don’t pay a penny up front. Since I joined in 2020, I have received £515.45! What are you waiting for?

Same here. Thanks, @uilleamblacker.bsky.social, for stating the problem--and some possible solutions--so succinctly.

Grateful to National Translation Month for featuring my translation of Akram Aylisli's "People and Trees" in today's Substack post. Aylisli is Azerbaijan's most important contemporary writer; his books were burned in Azerbaijan in 2013. nationaltranslationmonth.substack.com/p/the-tale-o...

What the bloody hell? www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Excited to be taking part in both these September events with the marvelous @enaselimo.bsky.social, @leeyamehta.bsky.social, @kktranslation.bsky.social, and so many other wonderful writers and translators. Join us!

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

Don't miss this fantastic event on Sudanese literature if you're in Sheffield this Wednesday! Featuring incredible readings and discussions, including by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, author of the PTC poetry collection 'A Friend's Kitchen' (tr. Bryar Bajalan + Shook)!

🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Winsome Earle-Sears to Target Arlington Public Schools at Tonight’s School Board Meeting; Rally Planned to Show “that Arlington will not be bullied into doing what is wrong for our students"; "Likely Earle-Sears will bring press and outside agitators to the event." bluevirginia.us/2025/08/wins...

Looking to speak to someone in the DC National Guard on background. Message me on signal at marisakabas.04

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators. If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]

On Sunday the 24th of August there will be a rally dedicated to Ukrainian Independence day, held at Downing Street in London. the rally is scheduled to start at 3pm and it will last about two hours. I will be there and it would be great to meet any supporters of Ukraine who can make it. pls repost

Horrified for the city I have loved for decades. (And, yes, crime levels are at a 30-year LOW--but that's beside the point, isn't it?)

Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.

Celebrate women in translation month with a new translation by @katherineeyoung.bsky.social

Grateful to @ocmedia.bsky.social for publishing @xkuenning.bsky.social's thoughtful, perceptive review of #AkramAylisli's "People and Trees." Translating this marvelous book was a labor of love--so glad to see it getting some well-deserved attention! oc-media.org/review-peopl...

Delighted to see Tatsiana Zamirouskaya back in San Francisco for an event at Globus books next Friday August 22, presenting her new book! www.facebook.com/events/17067...

President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC and takeover of the local police department is baseless and an abuse of power. The people of DC shouldn't be forced to live in occupied, militarized communities.

As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.

Absolutely outrageous--crime is at a 30-year low in DC (which is beside the point, of course).

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year." Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish. (gift link) wapo.st/3IRLZn6

Permanent member of the UN Security Council bombing a European capital with a population of several million people this morning.

Closing on August 1: funding for translation projects! I can't say enough good things about the Granum Foundation, whose support was integral in the publication of my translation of Akram Aylisli's "People and Trees" (2024)! US residents only. www.granumfoundation.org/granum-prize #translation

If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

Twelve years after the EuroMaidan Revolution, a new cause mobilized thousands across Ukraine. Today's protests echo similar demands: fighting corruption and heeding the voice of Ukrainian society.

"And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain." —Alaa Alqaisi on @arablit.bsky.social arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention calls on world leaders to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. “GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.”

SEE YOU TOMORROW PORTLAND!!!

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

DC folks There is an urgent need to care for babies and young children in our community whose parents have been detained, deported, or otherwise snatched by our government. St Paul’s episcopal church is serving as a collection point for money, formula, and diapers. onrealm.org/StPaulsRockC...

"In these fraught times, the New York Times has made a seemingly deliberate and very self-aware choice to paint a picture of this war without the understanding of who is in the right and who is in the wrong," writes Francis Farrell, reporter at the Kyiv Independent, in this op-ed.

Horrifying ICE story in the Santa Barbara Independent (led by Publisher Brandi Rivera, my friend, colleague and new president of @aanpublishers.bsky.social). The Independent is a vital, long-time, truly local and connected news source in Santa Barbara. www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...

We’re almost halfway to the 10k needed for her bond. Keep boosting this.

Gripping, harrowing, heartbreaking. So incredibly sorry for all the families who are suffering. I cannot imagine what it took to write this--and I hope that in some small way the writing of it helped.

"It is too easy, more than three years into this terrible war, to call to mind dinner parties, academic conferences, weddings, where memory folds and unfolds to admit a shadow, because someone who was there, and who should still be with us, has been killed." snyder.substack.com/p/guest-host...

We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.

Hope to see some people out tonight but there’s always zoom if you want to attend virtually! Adam Chiles, Eileen Sirota, and myself will all be reading from our books and signing them at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland at 7:30 pm.

One thing you can do Right Now is be extremely vocal when you have librarians stocking inclusive collections. Call and tell them how happy you are, show up to board meetings. Bc the other side is *always* complaining and doing it in an organized way. also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:

Get this app now! www.iceblock.app

oc-media.org/azerbaijani-... Outrageous news from Baku as young scholar and peace activist Bahruz Samadov is given a 15-year jail sentence for "treason." I'm afraid I hear that the news is even worse: Bahruz tried to take his own life by hanging in his cell over the weekend. He must be freed.

A poem for the day wp.me/p4xqzG-2VM

Thank you to @sophianguyen.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com for her excellent interview with #pioneersummer coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova! “Then the book went out into the big world,” Malisova said, “and we discovered things were really way worse than we thought.”