@lacymjohnson
Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!
At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!
My friend and colleague Timothy Morton is raising funds to help their in-laws recover from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Please donate if you are able.
Donate to send a Hurricane Recovery Kit to Jamaica:
gofund.me/5e9d46592
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.
Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.
NEW ANALYSIS: For the first time in history, the US has not sent any official delegates to the annual UN climate talks #COP30
Full details from my colleagues, below, inc that with 56,118 delegates registered, COP30 is provisionally 2nd-largest
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Not just now but down the road maybe!
We made a new MFA.
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us that for more than a decade
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
![Screenshot of the following text: “That European birds migrate across the seas or to Asia was understood in the
Middle Ages, but subsequently forgotten.
Dr. Johnson held that swallows slept all winter in the beds of rivers, while the naturalist Morton (1703) stated that they migrated to the moon. As late as 1837 the
"Kendal Mercury" "detailed the
circumstance of a person having observed several Swallows emerging from Grasmere Lake, in the spring of that year, in the form of 'bell-shaped bubbles,' from each of which a Swallow burst forth ...." [The Rev.
F.O. Morris, "A History of British Birds,"
London, 1870]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5rhyxdp52ewtznncq7rawoap/bafkreigel6taacfroyjfet7vuhguxirtgea4wq7m6i3zqqq466w4qwrkkq)
Screenshot of the following text: “That European birds migrate across the seas or to Asia was understood in the Middle Ages, but subsequently forgotten. Dr. Johnson held that swallows slept all winter in the beds of rivers, while the naturalist Morton (1703) stated that they migrated to the moon. As late as 1837 the "Kendal Mercury" "detailed the circumstance of a person having observed several Swallows emerging from Grasmere Lake, in the spring of that year, in the form of 'bell-shaped bubbles,' from each of which a Swallow burst forth ...." [The Rev. F.O. Morris, "A History of British Birds," London, 1870]”
A surprise find in the Etymonline entry for “migration”
EPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:
Sending love to her and you.
I am SO EXCITED about this!
Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.
Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.
jointheshift.earth
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
As a reminder: this is the full page ad he bought in Newsday in 1989 calling for the execution of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting a jogger in Central Park (they were later exonerated and are now known as the Exonerated Five):
archive.org/details/6131...
It’s important that the only cities Trump has sent (or is threatening to send) national guard troops to have Black mayors — LA, DC, now Baltimore, Chicago, and New Orleans.
It’s NEVER been about crime.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature.
All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!!
share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...
Rice is hiring!
"The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms…”
apply.interfolio.com/171781
Come work with us!
"Rice University … seeks applicants for a tenure- track assistant or associate professor position in Medical Humanities, specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine and health in the 20th-21st centuries."
apply.interfolio.com/172836
Come work with us!
"Rice University … seeks applicants for a tenure- track assistant or associate professor position in Medical Humanities, specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine and health in the 20th-21st centuries."
apply.interfolio.com/172836
Rice is hiring!
"The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms…”
apply.interfolio.com/171781
re-order & get 25% off my new graphic novel A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis. Today through Friday (9/3 to 9/5) only, with @barnesandnoble.com preorder sale!
*Link in bio*
More exciting news: it was just chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection!
Greta Thunberg: “You do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide.
“Israel is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I don’t know what is”.
