🚨Another job alert🚨 Hiring for a PM editor for NPR Digital ▪️ You'll decide what stories to cover - and how (ie you'll write, edit, assign and program) ▪️ It's M-F; 2p-10p - ish ▪️ You can be remote ▪️ Minimum is $102,500 ▪️ Qs? DM RT and/or apply: bit.ly/3GXHzWL

take a break from everything going on and listen to this fun interview between Leila Fadel and @whereisMUNA about their new album. It features great music and many laughs. npr.org/2022/06/24/110…

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My Missing Wedding Ring Finger – A bittersweet comic about queer identity as exorcism ⛅️🌈✍️ cw: implied violence, comphet. (1/4)

"Part of the reason why I didn't leave Hong Kong is because I'm waiting for my friends in jail. I still feel so connected to them. I'm not willing to give up just yet. I want to be here when they come out. I want to play mahjong with them again." -T. My first for NPR:

Putting this out in the world again today for a little joy that I think we all need! Loved working with Lilly Quiroz and @nellclark on this conversation with @whereisMUNA. And this band?! All three members are so fun and thoughtful. npr.org/2022/06/24/110…

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When Jill Lepore lost her best friend to leukemia, she was left with an old laptop and not much else. Then she found a folder named “personal.” nyer.cm/pf9W0y5

As Uvalde waits for Arredondo’s firing, I can’t get this parent’s words, written in the revived La Voz newspaper, out of my head: “There is laundry in the dryer that is Amerie’s. Clothes I never need to fold again. Clothes that are right now warmer than her body.”April Maria Ortiz, Ph.D. 🏳️‍⚧️

I have two poems in the latest SAND Journal / Submissions open! they book-end the issue, and I’m so thrilled to see them in print, and in such wonderful company ✨

America's kids are going back to school. Not all of their teachers will join them npr.org/2022/08/31/112…

Kids in the U.S. are going back to school. But not all of their teachers will join them as many have quit over unprecedented challenges over the past few years. (via Leila Fadel, Nell Clark, and Ziad Buchh for NPR) apple.news/AtgZTBAjzSZm6u…

"We are in the country of mafias. If you are not a wolf, the wolves will eat you.” 28-y/o Sali Hafiz speaks to Reuters in Lebanon's rugged Bekaa Valley, where she is in hiding after holding up a bank for her own family savings last week. READ: reuters.com/world/middle-e… 1/7

After four years at NPR, I’ve decided to experience new things! I’m spending the next year freelancing and improving my Spanish. I’m based in Granada province, Spain. ❤️

Newt year newt me (salamander hyperfixation era)

Trans people have long feared that gender-affirming care bans for minors were just the beginning. They were right. Yesterday in Florida, DeSantis signed into law a bill that adds major barriers to care for trans adults, and it's already wreaking havoc. tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…

To understand why the Starbucks organizing drive is so important to the shrinking labor movement, it helps to understand the story of Lexi Rizzo. A short thread: washingtonpost.com/business/inter…

One of the most gorgeous, moving and human Modern Love essays I've ever had the pleasure of coming across in our inbox. It reminds me of the gravedigger scene in Hamlet, "those were pearls that were his eyes" in The Tempest and Hirshfield: "My Skeleton." nytimes.com/2023/06/23/sty…