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This isn't a, "I read Surviving Autocracy so you don't have to" post. You should absolutely read this book. But things are shaky right now, and even if you...
Sunshine at the Funeral
When I was in college, my aunt was dying of cancer, and I used to go home every weekend I could to see here. I'd get on a bus in Boston Chinatown at...
4 Mantras for 2025
Hi all. Things are strange. The fires continue. I have significantly fewer enforceable rights than I did the last time I wrote one of these, as expected, as...
Command + R
Lately I've been doing some apocalypse reading. It's out of character for me, honestly. I'm not a speculative fic buff, and most of the time, if I'm not...
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Disability rights are your (yes, you!) rights
Pandemics, eugenics, and why you (yes, you!) should care, ForRealThisTimev.2finalfinal
Red Alert: Kill Bill S. 5384
A bill to abolish the Department of Education was introduced in the House on Thursday. Time to ride.
National Advocacy Efforts for DoE/IDEA
Templates for writing your reps, updates, etc.
Book Recs for all Coping Mechs
Feeling some feelings? There's a book for that.
Lessons from the Serbian Resistance
The beginner's guide to 21st-century revolution
The One Where I Talk About Voting
Content Warning: Thoughts about why eligible US citizens should vote
Mini-view: The Hearing Test
That novel your MFA workshop would've fawned over
I know you are, but what am I?
Ableism and eugenics in the generative AI debate
Ministack: The Not-Quite-A-Review Review
Does it still count as a review if I don't tell you the name of the novel?
The book review literally nobody asked for
A pitch (plea?) for culturally competent criticism
Make Your Own Hats
Just do it.
Inclusion for me, but not for thee
Once upon a time, hearing people believed that they had checked off their diversity box and ascended beyond discrimination…
Song for the tenderhearted
On making your (literal) weakness your strength
Craft Has Entered the Chat
Questions about books and writing as solicited on Instagram
ASL Mythbusters
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