A Muslim student was hit in a hit and run at Stanford. Yet I can't recall any breathless reports from admins wondering about the safety of Muslim students, nor about the safety of the multi-faith coalitions of students putting their bodies on the line

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Many agents and industry professionals are very performative. Have you ever been rejected because “we already have someone from your race/ethnic group”? All you have to do is check the % of BIPOC authors published vs white to know that whiteness is still status quo.

Donating the $75K prize money to PCRF wasn’t even PEN America’s decision btw

🔥 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS TAKE NOTE 🔥 no business as usual during a genocide

DIVESTMENT WORKS

The power of the individual's choice to join a determined collective should stop being underestimated

I mean my university platformed a bunch of white nationalists including one that said Mecca should be bombed and the response was they all did their little racists talks so that’s what happens Bari. 🤷🏻‍♀️I don’t have to imagine shit ……

HELLO YES 🥺🐈‍⬛🌎

PLS ADD SISTER MINNIE TO PEKOE

It is our community managers' only #earthday wish

everyone gets a free wish right?

We are witnessing a mass psychosis in the media and academia we haven’t seen since the early 2000s based now, like then, on the idea that Muslims lives are worthless. It’s a horror. We should all be horrified.

Others: I bet the creative process is magical.
The creative process:

i have a lot to say about authors online who make 'social justice' their entire brand (gross). it's not about good craft. these kinds of ppl never focus on craft or improving their work, they would rather clear a path to a perceived top (laughable) on the backs of other ppl

there is no mindfulness or meaningfulness when you're indigenous in a room for an event and a non native reads in a monotonous tone about the lands we're one--the very lands here in Maine where my ancestors scalps were were worth money, where my elders, alive today were abused,

there are people in this world like taylor barton/taylor brooke/freydis moon/jupiter wyse who are so wretched they will do literally anything to get a book deal and attention

including brown face, brutally using others, and hiding behind contracts and picrews.

Mariame Kaba said that that hope is a discipline— not a emotion or a moment of mere optimism. It's a practice; the work we do every day striving towards what we seek. Again and again. Bit by bit. Each instance spent towards imagining/ building that new world, tears this one down.

howl and sophie 🇸🇩🇸🇩🇸🇩🇸🇩

Poetry study of the day along with an action:
If you know poets who fit this description, declutter your mind & bookshelf of their poems. They ring hollow & hypocritical.
I told y’all months ago that I wouldn’t be reading poets of the empire any more. Don’t become one, either.

BIPOC Authors: Other writers in your community are NOT your competition. Did you know that Toni Morrison got her Pulitzer AFTER 48 fellow Black writers made a statement about how ridiculous it was that she wasn't considered for awards? There is ALWAYS room to lift each other up.

Sza is the strongest writer out of all the mainstream pop girls today in my opinion