Ask yourself why reporters would need to be arrested for reporting on what's happening at UCLA? What dont they want the public to know? Asking as a UCLA alum class of 1996

lol it's not lost on me that more arrests are being made at these college campuses than on January 6th. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Huge congratulations, Jalen G. Jones🪞! I meant every word. You all will be seeing more soon.

It’s a great honor to receive the David Madden MFA Award for Fiction 🌟 Thank you John Vercher for these incredibly kind words! Excited to start sending this story out to journals real soon. It’s a special one, and very near and dear to my heart.

STATEMENT FROM BESIEGED UCLA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT

The only means of protection we had was each other. WE KEEP US SAFE.

The university’s hypocrisy
all too apparent. The university would rather see us dead than divest.

Call on UCLA to disclose, divest, end the silence

One of the most profoundly beautiful acts of solidarity I've seen: the indigenous guardians of the land that the McGill University occupies have given the students the right to setup their encampments on the land in fighting for a Palestine free from occupation and genocide❤️‍🔥

Friends, readers & lovers! Would u consider funding my time at Lambda Literary Retreat? There, I'll work with Raquel Gutiérrez on a memoir about growing up w/ pop culture in 2000s Southeast Asia. I'm in between jobs, so any amount would be so helpful! 🥹 secure.givelively.org/donate/lambda-…

Celebrate AAPI /APIDA/ AANHPI month with some poetry? Info on the event links: linktr.ee/jencvoice

Interviewed HENRY GOLDING about his newest movie, and it’s out now in JoySauce! A special someone lovingly crashed our interview — you’ll want to read on to see who! 👀
joysauce.com/its-all-fun-fo…

'The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.'

— James Baldwin.

'She rather be arrested for fighting for Palestine, I’d be the happiest daddy”

Lazaro, a father of student USC, expresses his support for his daughter activism in protesting against Israel’s genocide in Los Angeles.🇵🇸

Holocaust Survivor Message to US Campus Protesters:

This survivor of the Holocaust is against Genocide in Gaza & conflating Jewishness with Zionism, which does nothing but increase antisemitism.

Your protests are so persistent, large and global that eventually the Western…

LSU and Baton Rouge 📣 see you there soon!

Palestinian solidarity protest hits LSU TODAY! die-in on the union steps 11-3pm 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Protesting a genocide is not antisemitism.

It was such a joy to interview Shraya Singh on her story 'The Chicken Shop.' It's a MUST read from the 2024 Winter The Southern Review issue, so read our interview all about it below!
thesouthernreview.org/blog/a-writers…

I can’t believe it! I’ve been accepted into the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat!!!! AH! A great way to end a(n extended) weekend catching up with a friend who really pushed me to pursue this whole writing thing :,)

Samuel Samba is raising funds for his journey to his MFA at The University of Virginia (where he'll be studying under amazing professors like Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove 🫢) Can anyone match/exceed my $25? Any amount helps! He deserves this 🫶🏾💕

gofund.me/356e26ca