The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights. I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique. Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨ www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

WELCOME VIRGO SEASON! ECLIPSES ARE NIGH! GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER! ORGANIZE! GLOBAL STRIKE EVERY THURSDAY! BOYCOTT! NON COMPLIANCE AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! IT’S NOT COMPLICATED! NO TO APARTHEID! FREE PALESTINE! LET AID IN! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! END THE OCCUPATION! DO SOMETHING W YOUR LIFE AND BE OF SERVICE!

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

✨Please share and bookmark!✨ In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... + A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

The WE THE PEOPLE summer fundraiser is live! Funds will benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant & trans rights. I’ve donated 2 signed copies of YTA & a YA query + first 3 chapters critique. Be sure to check out all the amazing donations before 8/27!✨ www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

lol and 2020 may have helped prominent Black authors finally get their due, but overall, not much shifted. Pre-orders are a way to signal demand for a book. When you pre-order a book, you're telling the publisher "print more copies". #blacksky

lol let me tell you something about the publishing industry: It's very white. Like VEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRY white.

lol pre-ordering Black authored books ensures that more Black authors get published and get better deals. In this essay, I will-

My July Wrap-Up is ✨up✨ on Substack! lailasabreen.substack.com/p/july-wrap-up

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

Readers, writers today is the last day to bid on some really cool items from the Lit for Queer Liberation auction! All proceeds go to the Queer Liberation Network, a charity my friend Garrett founded and I serve on the board of www.32auctions.com/LitforQueerL...

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

Let’s try this again with a working link: There are moments where you don’t know what to say. You just want to scream. If you need somewhere positive to put some energy on, I’m trying to make this the biggest fundraiser! 75/1000 item goal met! Donate an item or three here: bit.ly/WeThePeopleF...

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

Happy Juneteenth to Black Texans and their descendants! I’m glad I was able to shoutout some of our history in my YA novel, YOU TRULY ASSUMED!✨ Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta

Happy Juneteenth to Black Texans and their descendants! I’m glad I was able to shoutout some of our history in my YA novel, YOU TRULY ASSUMED!✨ Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta

Today is a great day to watch this drama if you haven’t already. “A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.”

HAPPY JUNETEENTH MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ❤️🖤💚

Before we begin, some housekeeping: Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...

Not in LA? Can't safely protest? 👇

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

NFT's were only a couple years ago some of you have really worrying short-term memory

Coco Jones at the Met Gala. 📷

Colman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton photographed at the 2025 Met Gala. 📷

Teyana Taylor photographed at the 2025 #MetGala in New York City. 📷

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

Hey guys- White nationalists have helped a white woman in Minnesota raise $300k after she was filmed calling a five-year-old Black child the n-word. The local NAACP chapter is fundraising for the boy and his family to get legal help. The least we could do is out-fundraise the nazis. Donate here:

My April Wrap-Up is now up!✨ lailasabreen.substack.com/p/april-wrap...

My April Wrap-Up is now up!✨ lailasabreen.substack.com/p/april-wrap...

If you're cutting back on streaming services Kanopy is free with your library card. Get into it. It's a way to support your local library and not just big business.

"Sabrena’s father has always claimed their family is descended from the legendary sailor Sinbad. But when the sea calls Sabrena to a whole new world, she’ll have to fight to claim her own story..." Pre-order today at your favorite indie 🩵 #indiebookstoreday www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The Israeli government is literally starving Gaza to death www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reflection on (almost) finishing the second year of my PhD, navigating writing seasons, and spending less time on social media✨ lailasabreen.substack.com/p/fresh-out-...

“The choices followed: “I am Jewish”; “I am Israeli”; “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry”; “I practice Judaism”; and “Other.” “ The school later told staff it had provided the Trump administration with personal contact information for faculty members. Barnard College, BTW, is part of Columbia.

“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government **posted their home address** to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

Babe, wake up, the CA state bar exam used AI to generate its test questions www.latimes.com/california/s...