So thrilled to share this gorgeous, queer, coming-of-age story by Patrick Gutierrez for How I Learned.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

"And I like very much that the ladybugs are f****** in the lupines."

Increasingly I’ve been canceling subscriptions and loading up on prescriptions. If that’s helpful to anyone.

6-week flash nonfiction workshop starts in October. Come through. www.blaiseallysenkearsley.com

“What’s the government gonna do? Attack us?? Citizens???” Black folks: Latinx folks: Trans folks:

I wrote something. "These white, lanky B-boys stood still in their Adidas Superstars and tried not to laugh. The backdrop for the breakdancing battle was a mauve and beige living room with portraits of naked ladies painted by my grandmother."

Art, illness, Nina Ricci, “miracle” cleaners, and a grandmother’s love. New story by @ebonyalia.bsky.social at How I Learned magazine.

MAGA: "COVID vaccines killed millions!" MAGA(also): "Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the COVID vaccines!"

Mo’Bradie only exists at family reunions. Not on Google. Not on paper. Never captured on film, pressed on the glue-covered page of a broken-spine photo album. Mo’Bradie is a word-of-mouth kind of woman. A “did you hear” or “I heard that she” kind of woman. — @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

New essay by Hannah Van Sickle on How I Learned mag. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...

Everything is brutal and unrelenting (plus: Monday mood) but just now a Gen X guy on a bike passed by, snaking down the middle of the street, blasting “She Sells Sanctuary” by The Cult. So that was nice.

Over on How I Learned, a new featured essay by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social.

You can get in on a “Fight The Trump Takeover Rally” near you. www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...

New featured essay at How I Learned mag: "The Deep End" by Char Breshgold on finding family and trying to float. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...

How I Learned magazine is LIVE and Jennifer Stewart has a few things to say to you. Come in, come in, and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...

Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social. ♥️ memoirland.substack.com/p/why-mr-bau...

Wrestling with Revisions: 1-day intensive, July 1st, 6:30-8:30pm ET. Come through. **This is open to ALL writers even though the image says CNF.** www.blaiseallysenkearsley.com

In New York where I receive state-funded healthcare, this will result in over 51,000 totally preventable deaths. 5calls.org/issue/medica...

3 DAYS LEFT to submit your best story to the How I Learned Series Magazine, launching this summer on Pedro Pascal’s internet. Tell a friend. www.blaiseallysenkearsley.com/how-i-learne...

“Why do they allow minorities to keep walking to and from grocery stores?” asked local resident George Zimmerman, 41.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: www.blaiseallysenkearsley.com/how-i-learned-magazine-submissions

Today I couldn’t remember the word “conflated” and yesterday I couldn’t remember what the DeBarge family’s band is called. It’s DeBarge.

This morning WNYC reported that homicide in the city is at an all-time low, and credited Mayor Adams. They failed to mention that the rate of predominantly black and brown people killed by NYC police officers is higher than it was when George Floyd was murdered.

when does social media run out?

The live NYC series is now a magazine — launching in June. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Whew. I feel like this is exactly right. substack.com/@danieljoseo...

Used to be a time when you could get answers to most of your questions from a guy named Jeeves. Which is just to say, Google search engine need not be the default. Which is all to say, let us consider more of our defaults.

FOR BIPOC WRITERS Short + Slant: Writing Unconventional Forms of Personal Essay A generative workshop, June 4th - 25th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET. blaiseallysenkearsley.com

The live NYC series is now a magazine — launching in June. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.

One. Thousand. Percent.

I've never seen it so well put before.

For BIPOC writers, a 4-week generative workshop where we’ll play with braided, hermit crab, fragmented, lyric, hybrid, and intuitive essay forms to see what our first-person narratives can do. Details: www.blaiseallysenkearsley.com

Here's a complete list of *everything* in the GOP megabill, thanks to heroic efforts from @aliciaparlap.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social and Josh Katz. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tonight at the last minute I decided to see “Sinners” again not only because I wanted to see it a second time but because I needed to go somewhere and scream.

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

AI all up in my Gmail like I accidentally said Beetlejuice 3 times which I most certainly did not. GTFOH, demon.

The FDA is stopping the Covid vax for everyone under 65 or predisposed (whatever predisposed will mean). Here’s the correct link to stop them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Gen Z will never know the joy and sheer utility of memorizing multiple phone numbers

The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

FREE POST ALERT! This month's tasty treat is @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's review of Ryan Coogler's Sinners, a film that delves into Black southern intimacies via a tale of vampires & momentary freedom: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/sinners-ce...

Submissions now open for How I Learned mag. Submit your best true stories.🥃 Deadline: June 16th Guidelines: www.blaiseallysenkearsley.com/how-i-learne...

I got a new kind of dyslexia now that makes texting really difficult. Can't figure out what order to put the emojis in.

“50. Started writing a novel. Wrote a tweet instead. It did okay.” substack.com/@originalwho...

I want to live long enough to find out what everybody has on everybody

If AIs become authors, we need to interview them about their creative process as we would other writers. 🙂 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...