Fashion question. My kid is wearing a charcoal gray suit with a light pink shirt to his fifth grade graduation next month. Brown shoes / belt. He doesn’t want to wear a tie.

What color should his pocket square and socks be?

Another black queer woman is tenured 🌟

🎧 New Ep: Emily Raboteau reads with clear purpose & a conversational tone that works well for her personal essays on “Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’” in this satisfying audiobook. Host Jo Reed, Alan Minskoff discuss. Macmillan Audio bit.ly/AFMpodcast

In one of the most vulnerable US states, 'climate change isn't real' has become official law. #derangement

BREAKING: Israel has now killed 15,971 Palestinian children in Gaza, in just 220 days.

That’s 73 children killed per day, every single day, for 7 months straight.

Read that again.

Galley brag!
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

I wrote about making the decision not to become a parent, and finding a way to honor the children in my life that works for me. Happy Auntie Week, Romper 💜 romper.com/life/i-get-to-…

Honored and floored by this recognition for Brotherless Night. I loved spending this past weekend in conversation with the other shortlisted writers, as well as the staff, board, and supporters of this prize, and hearing amazing stories about Carol Shields.

BREAKING: Union Seminary, an affiliate school of Columbia University is the *first* US institute of Higher Learning to fully divest.
Union’s Board of Trustees voted TODAY to divest from all companies profiting off the genocide in Palestine. 🧵
#cu4palestine

LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL is NPR’s Book of the Day:)
npr.org/2024/05/16/119…

This is tonight!

Welcoming Emily Raboteau back to the Pen Parentis stage. She's reading her book 'Lessons for Survival' published by Henry Holt & Company

TONIGHT, 8PM: We’re super excited for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night, featuring Emily Raboteau, Lilly Dancyger, Annie Liontas, nina sharma, Shze-Hui Tjoa, and Uzodinma Okehi! Drink specials, book raffle, #freeadmission ! fb.me/e/6pQvazha5 #crownheights

Thanks 🙏🏽 for sharing, Ruha!

Our Spring 2024 season closer will explode your mind. See Emily Raboteau Sarah Langan AND Matthew Lawrence Garcia on ONE livecast with M M De Voe and Christina Chiu THIS TUESDAY MAY 14 - check your time zone and join the conversation! #Environment #multiculturalism #futurism #authors #parents

MONDAY, 8PM: Join us at Franklin Park Reading Series for a fun and thought-provoking Nonfiction Night, featuring readings by Emily Raboteau Lilly Dancyger Annie Liontas nina sharma Shze-Hui Tjoa Uzodinma Okehi, drink specials, book raffle!fb.me/e/6pQvazha5 #crownheights #free

Grassroots organizer and U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hamm protested against South African apartheid as a Princeton student in the 1970s.

Unlike today's repression of Gaza solidarity protesters, 'outside police were never called in,' Hamm says.

I'd make this the lead story in every paper and newscast on the planet.
If we don't understand the depth of the climate crisis, we will not act in time.
theguardian.com/environment/ar…