A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

We are running a campaign for our members to receive more books from our supporter, Pratham. Go and donate to our members so that we can share more stories with them, and they can take home more stories to share with their siblings. Your support makes this campaign successful.

I scheduled this the night of the 7th when “keep hope alive” sounded like a dream. But it’s our duty—and it helps keep six families alive. Yes, still. News or not. They’re still here. What boldness can you conjure to keep them here? 10 hours left. 367/640 chuffed.org/project/hope...

i got republished in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social Daily! substack.com/@unmana/p-17...

18 hours left—birthday drive yall, and we’re helping students in Gaza take their exams!!! Spark Space is providing electricity and internet for these kids, and we can and MUST help them do that with fuel for their generator. 714/1000 chuffed.org/project/spar...

"Rothko attended Yale university, but found it elitist and racist, and dropped out after two years, to educate himself."

#OtD 25 Sep 1903 abstract expressionist artist and anarchist Mark Rothko was born in a working-class, Jewish town in what is now Latvia. Moving to the US, he got involved in radical politics, including attending @IWW meetings stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9785...

TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Native children were taken from their families and tribes and sent to government and church-run boarding schools. The goal of the schools was to assimilate Native kids to white culture so that eventually Native Americans would no longer exist as a distinct people.

Today is the National Day of Remembrance for boarding schools in the United States. Not sure what boarding schools are? You are not alone. Only 4 states include the history boarding schools in their curriculum.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is becoming increasingly dire, with many families losing their homes and livelihoods. Your financial support helps us provide urgent food, medicine, and shelter. Thank you to everyone who contributes. [Donation link] chuffed.org/project/1466...

Ahmad has a fairly serious finger injury from evacuating help if you can

I deeply thank everyone who remembered me on my birthday with kind words or gifts 💙. Sadly, all I received must go to our 6th displacement under bombing 💔, and it’s not even enough for transport. We need your support once again 🙏. GFM |↪| gofund.me/5689fe54 Verified || @mommunism.bsky.social

just went on a palestine fundraiser and saw Lilly Wachowski just donated <3 <3

I’ve shared Haetam before but his fundraiser was closed by GoFundMe (he doesn’t know why) and most of the money returned. He has a new chuffed and needs to flee with his four young children

Just to note that Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel is on ay 99p/c! Don't know how long for, so get in.

When the antebellum Slave Power whined of abolitionist "agitation," censoring the mail and demanding speech be suppressed, they didn't so much fear abstract moral arguments. They were infuriated, and threatened, by the simple factual accounts of what they were doing. And they weren't exaggerations.

Lubna & Mohammed were violently displaced, & lost their firstborn to miscarriage amid the stress & terror of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please share & give to help them survive Israel's starvation & siege of Gaza:

All I want to do is make sure Hani’s kids are fed

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is just 18 years old- I asked him what he did before the war and he told me he was a good student but he didn’t think he’d be able to ever go to school again. He’s raising for his family including his five siblings.

I have a poem up here www.theunjournals.com/unbroken46

"The beacon! The beacon of New York City is lit!"

Huh wow turns out being a socialist is good and being a rapist is bad, who knew

I'm Dhiyanah, South-Southeast Asian queer disabled artist & writer. I've worked mostly on poetry & memoir, now shifting back to fiction after a long pause. My #HotWetQueerSummer project is a sapphic, possibly cozy fantasy novella. 🌈 #WaterMeWIP #HotWetQA #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIP

Whenever I have a share of the day not do as well as usual I hate it- when I was asking Anas questions so I could share him, he politely answered and then asked me questions about my own life back. He’s a sweet kid and I wish I had conveyed that better.

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Please share & give to help Hamdan's family of 8 survive Israel's genocide in Gaza. They're being starved, & donations are slow (2 in 5 days):

@indrapramitdas.bsky.social Friend please help me share I am in a terrible moment🥺

🚨The US House of Representatives are voting tonight to change the proposed Medicaid & ACA Gender Affirming Care BAN from under 18 to ADULTS AND MINORS. This could be the first NATIONWIDE Gender Affirming Care BAN for ADULTS!! Call your representatives NOW!!!

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery “It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards! "If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."

We can do post office runs this month between my medical appointments (have to make sure I can afford the next one). My stand-in catalogue for trad art for sale: www.instagram.com/dhiyanah.has... Tips/small shop: www.ko-fi.com/bydhiyanah #art #artists #bsnm #TradArt #SupportBipoc #SupportArtists

#booksky #delhi

Delhi friends, come to the Bookshop in Lodhi Colony next week Friday (25 April) at 6 pm! I'll be talking about Chikkamma Tours with Jai Arjun Singh. Tickets are 299/: rzp.io/rzp/chikkamma

Please share & give to help Saeed's family survive & escape Israel's genocidal famine & escalating assault on Gaza. Donations & shares have slowed a lot. His mother needs urgent treatment to save her eyesight. Bsky continually closes his accounts while his family's starving:

Lovely review yesterday with a couple of quotes from me in the Free Press Journal.

also, there is a gay hairstylist murder mystery series. www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

a favourite by @gabbat.bsky.social: The days I don’t want to kill myself are extraordinary. Deep bass. All the people in the streets waiting for their high fives and leaping, I mean leaping, when they see me. I am the sun-filled god of love. getlitanthology.org/poemdetail/5...

Feeling this poem by Yesenia Montilla: ... I have no stakes. I barely got health, I barely got muscle. I want a garden near an ocean that won’t eventually swallow me. I want my only job to be this: clawing at a white page until Black appears. poets.org/poem/high-st...?

A queer Latina public defender turned overturner of wrongful convictions? Give us a neverending show about this woman’s life! www.propublica.org/article/nash...

Happy Friday.

1. It tempers my urgency-of-now with the need for analysis. What time is it RIGHT NOW, Ursula? Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Now. It helps me to not spiral, to focus on something I can do in *this* moment.

Bandra tomorrow (1 March), 2 to 4! Find the full schedule at readakitaab.com/literature-f...

If you are stuck in the middle of your debut magnum opus, @unmana.bsky.social will help you figure it out based on their own experience. A ₹3000 donation gets you into the zoom room. bsky.app/profile/free...

"Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable." www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...