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Journalist. Author. Intersectional Feminist. Radio host. Newsletter-er. BETTER FASTER FARTHER: HOW RUNNING CHANGED EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT WOMEN (June '24, @algonquinbooks.bsky.social) Subscribe to Scratch.
For the past four weeks I've been recording a brand new Seattle women's sports (ONLY) radio show, broacast on @kvru.bsky.social . It's called The Forecast and you can finally tune in to all four episodes via RSS feed here: www.kvru.org/shows/the-fo...
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There will be #runninghistory #womenshistory There will be explanations of that very famous Boston Marathon photo I'm sure you've seen. And many other not well known stories! And we'll talk about how weird gender and stereotypes are in sports and physical movement!
If you're in the #tacoma area come out to Lakewood Library this evening. I'll be giving my first Humanities Washington talk of the year: How Women Won The Marathon and Changed Our View of Gender calendar.piercecountylibrary.org/event/15159700
What a sweet baby lamb 😂
For any writers or avid readers who missed this yesterday 👇🏾
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Seems like a very missed opportunity to have never had Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird on SNL... Hell, invite the Stud Budz. Why aren't all the queer women athletes on SNL all the time?
My current conspiracy theory: USA Hockey has hatched this elaborate PR campaign with the Hughes bros and Hilary to try to convince everyone that men's hockey is cool, but someone on the inside knew that this would just backfire bc they are so boring and she is so brilliant.
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We are living through a moment where the labor of writers is being exploited to create rapacious technologies that make everything stupider, exponentially hasten the demise of the planet’s ecosystems, and prop up fascists and dictators worldwide. The concept of a free press isn’t even really a concept anymore. Cartoonishly evil billionaires control mainstream media outlets, which produce content accordingly, and at the local level there’s hardly anything left. And let’s not even mention the book reviews. Or rather, let’s: The increased stratification of race, class, and politics has extended to, and is fundamentally intertwined with, book publishing, in which there now seems to exist only two types of books: mega-bestsellers (mostly celebrity memoirs, political tell-alls that say nothing, too late, and books about dragon sex) and the rest
Scratch is back. It’s a newsletter now—written by me, Latria Graham, @rahawahaile.bsky.social , and @maggiemertens.bsky.social .
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Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.
The women are doing all this with less investment at every single level of sport. Imagine what they could do with proper investment!
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
I am begging politicians to stop selling memoirs and start doing ANYTHING ELSE.
What happened to a HUGE Title IX Resolution Agreement that Minneapolis Public Schools entered into last year with the Dept of Ed after all these Trump personnel cuts to the very agency that oversees Title IX cases? I got to dig into that question for @defector.com defector.com/minnesota-so...
this is great (i love bryce harper) AND can you imagine if a woman athlete did this??????????????? she'd be vilified forever.
Thanks to @markarms.bsky.social for the shout out about the fun event @brendanomeara.bsky.social and I did at Elliott Bay Books last week. I wholeheartedly agree that reading books and connecting in real life is an antidote to this awful awful time.
I interviewed the authors of FEMINISM IN THE WILD about animals, feminism, biology, and how some scientists are pushing back against the insistence on everything fitting a sex binary/hierarchy. Read it if you're hungry for complex, nuanced discussion...
maggiemertens.substack.com/p/what-femin...
If you're feeling bad about... everything ... might I suggest going to sign up for / check out your library's summer reading program? My kid just got a whole box of sasquatch themed fun and is sitting on the coach reading AND KCLS has an ADULT SUMMER READING BINGO SHEET. kcls.org/book-bingo/
Is Rusty's brain, actually, my brain, too? Is Rusty's brain... all of our brains?
Restricting public information... always a good sign.
oh yes, exactly. Does not seem like the current system will go well!
Please recall that the WORLD CUP is supposedly happening next year in this country... and the OLYMPICS are coming in 2028.
“Ugh it’s just theatre” yeah that’s like half to two thirds of what politics is, and the Democratic mainstream’s refusal to admit that and feeling that they’re above it has hamstrung them
Thank you so much for coming, @substockman.bsky.social. It was so buoying to be in conversation with these writers I so admire! @manjula.bsky.social, @rahawahaile.bsky.social, @latriagraham.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social
“You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant,” he added.
Lander is then led into an elevator with his hands behind his back as an aide can be heard asking, “Where are you taking the Comptroller of the city of New York?”
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