🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

For people who actively want to be support and be an ally right now, I have written a thread.

What grade were you when you had your first black teacher?

Supplies needed at The Garden rn:

To my white educators: Today, you’re posting about social justice, buying antiracist books, following brown folks, and temp changing your profile pictures. (thread) Here’s what I need you to do tomorrow:

thinking about how knowledge—of one’s history, of one’s full potential self—is kept from queer youth. i’m continuing to see how i could’ve embraced being queer and chinese, all along. i embrace myself more, every day

UChicagoPress is making my book on police violence free for the next week!!! Check it out!!!!

One way to help fight racism: Call out dog whistles when you see them and hear them from people in your life. If you think this hilarious joke isn't rooted in racism, you're being ignorant. This man was my governor for eight years. Demand more from our leaders.

Thanks to our friends at Pittsburgh’s White Whale Bookstore for hosting this Juneteenth conversation between Deesha Philyaw, author of WVU’s forthcoming The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, and Damon Young, author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker. eventbrite.com/e/reading-conv…

So much of the work of Black abolitionists, organizers, writers, dreamers, is to shift the language we use to understand the structures that dominate our lives. Re-frame the argument. Provide a critical vocabulary for our most radical aspirations.

Remove the Stonewall Jackson statue at the WV Capitol. Replace it with Katherine Johnson.

There should be schools in West Virginia named after Katherine Johnson, Bill Withers, Henry Louis Gates, Denise Giardina, Daniel Johnston, and, of course the GOAT, Randy Moss. Perhaps one called Union High.

Incredibly proud to be publishing Deesha Philyaw’s new book. “Triumphant,” says Publishers Weekly. publishersweekly.com/978-1-949199-7…

Advice for those working on first poetry books, via Ross Gay via Tiana Clark via this old Poets & Writers feature on debut poets: "Make magnificent attempts" pw.org/content/wilder…

I'm going to say it again, hopefully without typos, but Rosenary Ketchum (elected-Wheeling) and Stephanie Heck (moving on to general-Huntington) made WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY last night and we need to be just as happy for them as we are sad for Smith (and trust me, ya girl is sad)

a thing I did today that folks can do (esp if the phone makes them nervous) is email Louisville's mayor & Kentucky's AG to demand the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor face consequences: Daniel Cameron [email protected] Greg Fischer [email protected]

So this is rad.

Right on: Vox surveys the National Book Award finalists and notes “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies comes from West Virginia University Press, meaning we get the unusual sight of a small university press book in the fiction finals.” vox.com/culture/214992…

New catalog! We're looking ahead to fall with new books by Keegan Lester, @WilliamHTurner1, @profblockett, and more, plus a history of SEIU 1199 WV/KY/OH and another victory lap for Deesha Philyaw. (And yes, that's bookseller anna claire weber (is on bsky.social) on p 20.) wvupressonline.com/sites/default/…