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Author of Slaves for Peanuts. Editor @adi_magazine .
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Adi Magazine
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"Telling someone from Brazil that I grew up in the MST almost always involves baggage on their side and mine." Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!
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The Sweetness of the Imperfect Struggle
In early 2023, I decided to move back to southern Brazil from Germany, where I had lived for five years. I then came back to my parentsâ small farm in ParanĂĄ, in our townâs Landless Workersâ Movement ...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-sweetness-of-the-imperfect-struggle/
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Adi Magazine
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"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring. / we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the springâwe knew weâd return. we safeguard your stories when you are silenced." "saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website. Read here:
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۔ۚ۱ saber
If another person asks me about what do I think is the solution to the âconflictâIâll tell them about the cacti who knows the hands picking its prickly fruitthe cacti ...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/saber/
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Adi Magazine
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology
@sundresspub.bsky.social
! We're so proud of our contributors and love a chance to shout out their incredible work. Best of luck to each of these wonderful writers and artists! â„
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My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on
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Adi Magazine
about 1 month ago
"write my nameâ Malak. not: âfemale, age unknown.â not: âGazan civilian in a blue plastic bag." write it today, tomorrow, againâ until metaphor is no longer a metaphor." Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza." READ:
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A Lullaby for Gaza
report: 70% of Gaza land designated as security zone an engine haunts my bodyâ one hand iron, one leg machine. it drags itself through the alleys of my ribs. do you smell flesh? taste bloo...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/a-lullaby-for-gaza/
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Adi Magazine
3 months ago
"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky." Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi! Read the full piece here:
adimagazine.com/articles/cit...
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Citlalli
A star reflects light. It is a distant light. It is a center, surrounded. It is what surrounds the center. A celestial body. It hides. Twinkles. Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandesce...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/citlalli/
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âBuried Sunshineâ my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out!
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Buried Sunshine | Jori Lewis
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we lived in a house in the countryâon a rural road on the outskirts of Springfield, Illinois, where the water was
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/26/buried-sunshine-illinois-coal/
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Adi Magazine
4 months ago
"i betrays you you comedy fool you greying ghostâ" There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi! Read here:
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222 or asyndetic
ibetrays youyou comedyfool yougreyingghostâihides fromiâs facein mirrorsmadeshuttershutâidisassemblesiâsself insubzerooverthinkeach nighteach bitâiâs ichopped upfor partsâilibe-rates y-ousi-debysi-de ...
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Adi Magazine
4 months ago
Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait. Read here:
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Tiny T
https://adimagazine.com/articles/tiny-t/
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Adi Magazine
4 months ago
"Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?" Read Alaa Alqaisi's devastating essay, "The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator," out today from Adi.
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The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....
https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-double-life-of-a-palestinian-translator-a-bridge-between-wounds-and-words/
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Loose Leaf Queer
5 months ago
This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago. But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:
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London Review of Books
5 months ago
âThe US and Israeli governments have presented the offensive as a pre-emptive effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but that justification is laughable. Israel, on the other hand, has hundreds of undeclared nuclear weapons.â
@tomstevenson.bsky.social
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www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Tom Stevenson | Operation Rising Lion
Israelâs codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference to...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/operation-rising-lion
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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestineđđ
5 months ago
Tiberiusâ "There has never been a better time to watch this video"
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Assigned Media
5 months ago
The decision in Skrmetti lets politicians create their own evidence to justify banning necessary healthcare. It's bad, writes
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
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Courtâs Ruling in Skrmetti Threatens All Care Thatâs Politically Contested â Assigned
An anti-trans, anti-science decision relies on a history of discrimination against women, and opens the door to challenges on care like vaccines.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/court-ruling-skrmetti-threatens-care-politically-contested
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Evan Urquhart
5 months ago
When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for
@teenvogue.com
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Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care
Itâs as simple as love.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/skrmetti-gender-affirming-care-trans-youth-families
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Adi Magazine
6 months ago
CALLING ALL POETS! Adi is open for poetry submissions with a focus on alternative political visions from 5/9 - 5/31! Send 3-5 poems to us via Submittable. We're thrilled to offer free submissions and $150 for accepted pieces. Can't wait to read your poems! âïž
adimagazine.submittable.com/submit
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Adi Magazine
7 months ago
Friendly reminder that our submissions are still open for fiction! You've got until 5/4 to send us your alternative political visions. We offer free submissions and $500 for accepted short fiction or $200 for accepted flash fiction! Submit here:
adimagazine.submittable.com/submissions
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Adi Magazine
7 months ago
"what does Earth look like / from inside time" Happy Earth Day! We're celebrating by sharing "Solastalgia" by Adriana Lisboa, translated by Alison Entrekin! Read here:
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Solastalgia
translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot weâd say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely t...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/solastalgia/
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Adi Magazine
7 months ago
"Despite being separated by a steel boundary, and despite being unable to close the space between us, we hugged as if our lives depended on it, as if family wasnât made to be broken." Hannah Keziah Agustin's new essay, "World Without End," is out today! Read:
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World Without End
On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border. Mom, Dad, Ate Han, Mamita, and IÂ were on the American side, and Tito Ben, Tita E...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/world-without-end/
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Adi Magazine
7 months ago
Submissions are OPEN through 5/4/25! Send us your fiction here:
adimagazine.submittable.com/submit
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Adi Magazine
7 months ago
Adi is pleased to share Esther Lin's poem, "Done Right" as a continuation of our Into the Blank issue. This poem is from Esther's new collection, COLD THIEF PLACE, out now from
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
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Done Right
One bed, squared-off sheets.One toothbrush, pearl blue,one toothbrush, pink.The petitioner shuts the doorand hangs his hat.The beneficiary says,Itâs time to lie down.The petitioner says,All right. Yes...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/done-right/
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One of my old pieces (on vultures) got a new life with
@nautil.us
narrations.!
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Antonia Juhasz
8 months ago
DOGE is eviscerating the federal workforce to pay for a tax bill which will benefit the wealthiest Americans, including Elon Musk. Which agencies are laying off federal workers? Here's your master list, including the gutting of the Environmental Protection Agency.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Mother Jones
9 months ago
"Nobody voted for Elon Musk. And nobody wants airplanes to fall out of the sky. But after Musk pushed out the head of the FAA and Donald Trump gutted the agencyâs safety board, and Musk attempted to push air traffic controllers to quit, the worst domestic airline disaster since 2001 occurred."
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Nobody voted for Elon Musk
A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/unelected-billionaire-elon-musk-takeover-usaid-omb-scif-treasury-department-database-democratic-leaders/
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Assigned Media
9 months ago
Slate [Feb 2] -- Purpose of Trump multiple Executive Orders is to "create Jim Crow for trans people" by "fully disenfranchising them from society on a scale not seen since Jim Crow" (e.g., the legal racial caste system mostly in South from Civil War to 1960s). [by
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Donald Trumpâs Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People
The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack against trans people.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/donald-trump-anti-trans-executive-orders-jim-crow.html?via=rss
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
9 months ago
as we approach tax season it would be nice to know if we still have a federal government
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The Continent
9 months ago
A lightning advance on Goma by March 23 Movement (M23) fighters ended with the rebels declaring the âliberationâ of the Congolese city on Monday â allegedly with help from Rwandan armed forces.
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M23 is calling the shots
After seizing Goma, can anyone stop the rebel militia from consolidating its control?
https://continent.substack.com/p/m23-is-calling-the-shots
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Antonia Juhasz
9 months ago
The US is the largest global source of foreign aid. Presidents cannot eliminate congressionally appropriated federal agencies by executive order. "Thatâs what a despotâwho wants to steal the taxpayersâmoney to enrich his billionaire cabalâdoes,â@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/p...
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USAID website goes offline amid Trump administrationâs freeze on foreign aid | CNN Politics
The website of the US Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday as thousands of furloughs, layoffs and program shutdowns continued amid President Donald Trumpâs fr...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/usaid-website-offline-freeze/index.html
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Jessica Valenti
9 months ago
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDCâs website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at
CDCGuidelines.com
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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDCâs website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
https://CDCGuidelines.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
10 months ago
It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.
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Silky Shah
10 months ago
Great read. Iâve been blown away by the incredible organizing in Chicago over the years to fight deportations and detention expansion. Lots to learn from their efforts and how they are preparing now.
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Leah Stokes
10 months ago
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
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Assigned Media
10 months ago
New original reporting on bias at the New York Times: Evan Urquhart has the story of
@billiejsweeney.bsky.social
, once an editor on the NYT international desk, and how she tried, and ultimately failed, to improve the paper's coverage of trans issues from the inside.
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Bias at NYT: Trans Former Employee Speaks Out â Assigned
Billie Sweeney is a trans journalist who was an editor for the New York Times until last year. Here, she recalls her losing battle for the soul of the paper of record.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/former-editor-nyt-biased-on-trans-hiring
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Just in time for the holidays: a paperback edition of Slaves for Peanuts, complete with its pretty golden seals! Actually, it came out a few months agoâŠbut time slipped away from me.
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