Ingrid Rojas Contreras

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Your regular reminder that since August of last year, Mr. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, but the Trump admin refuses to do so because they want to instead punish him by sending him to an African country that will most likely detain and then deport him to El Salvador for the admin.

A photo of a farm worker in the field with her hands making a heart with a Valentine's Day frame with little hearts around it and the words over the photo love the hands that feed us. Protect farm workers.

The Trump administration’s attacks on H-2A wage protections make it harder than ever for farm workers to earn fair pay. This #ValentinesDay, remember: Love means justice. Love means protection. Stand with farmworkers. Show love to the hands that feed us. ❤️#WeFeedYou

Rebecca Solnit as brilliant as always ✨✨✨✨

English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.

Singing it in my head rn lol lol

The number of times I’ve listened to DTMF this week

Happy bad bunny day to all who celebrate 🪩

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

A survey of the Epstein files and how #metoo , eugenics, and fascism interconnect this was so well done

Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca.

Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland

When you’re writing a novel and have multiple chaos lines going this is called a chaosii

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

(For my fiction grad class I mean) The turns! The plot all given at the opening. It’s an incredible one-page-at-a-time study

You, Disappearing <p>The apocalypse was quiet. It had a way about it, a certain charm. It could be called graceful. It was taking a long time.</p>

We did a close reading of Alexandra Kleeman’s You, Disappearing and damn what a short story

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❤️❤️🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Co-presented with the legendary @litquake.org 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Earrings of Madame de … (35mm) Doors open at noon with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 12:30 p.m., followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! Welcome to the year’s first…

I will be wearing opera gloves and probably t-shirt and jeans 💅🏽

🎟️🎟️🎟️:
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Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!

This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

Here's what a police detective wrote about this sweatshirt in 2019.

Children and young men, reaching for food, extend arms holding pots and pans. A headline reads: "As Israel's Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry And Patients Die" Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

We’re going to have to step up to protect and support our literary journals, independent presses, and institutions. This just happened to everyone. I’m thinking through this ❤️

ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: Rivers & Tides (35mm) Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 6, followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid…

Have you bought your tix yet? The first ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social kicks off Monday, April 14, at the Roxie Theater. Featuring @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation w/ Jenny Odell, right after the screening of "Rivers and Tides" (in 35mm).
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Wrote you a letter 💌

😂😭😂😂

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On Ghosts and Hauntings That there could be a singular victim, or many victims—this is terrifying to the State.

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings

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Incredibly rude!! ❤️❤️❤️