Canada’s most unique poetry prize: 4 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings in the fall. Please repost!
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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
年年有 eSIMs! 🐟
恭喜发 eSIMs! 🧧
万事如 eSims! 🏮
eSims 拿來! 🐍
新年快 free Palestine!
希望 Palestine will be free!
#ConnectingGaza
#YearoftheSnake
A coalition of close to 600 publishers across 50 countries is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event.
Picture of Hind Rajab
RIP Hind Rajab.
Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.
I will never forget this story.
Fundraising poster with red+green watermelon background. The text reads "Emergency e-Sims for Gaza Fundraising Auction: Online spent auction - prints, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, & more!" https://www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsforGaza https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza
5" x 7" ink drawing of a Wood Dragon whose body is made of driftwood, black and white with accents of green leaves and grey lichen. In Chinese mythology, the Dragon is often considered a Yang symbol, embodying light, activation, and the masculine. The Dragon has historically been the emblem of emperors, and is placed in contrast to Yin symbols of the dark, passive, and feminine. But it is a gross misinterpretation to consider yin-yang to be a binary, and the semantics of the term are far older–and queerer–than the patriarchal structures that have shaped more recent Chinese history. In this Yang Wood Dragon, dead wood is not passive, but a source of activation. The wood of the dragon’s body bursts with life as the wood breaks down to create new Earth. The dragon’s core element is Earth, so even as the Wood Dragon’s outer body breaks, it nourishes itself. I am thinking about the grief that intergenerational, diasporic peoples carry in our bones, of what we have lost in our efforts to live. I am thinking about present day genocides that we bear witness to in Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo, and how, despite the violence, those faced daily with death are teaching all of us about the stubbornness of life. Staying alive–insisting that one exists–is the essence of resistance. Dragons are an amalgamation of many animals, and this Wood Dragon carries the head of an elk, the claws of an eagle, and the body of a rattlesnake. Common, immortal, and fearsome. This Wood Dragon is for everyone this year who needs a reminder that a people cannot die as long as community exists for and of them. Resistance is long, enduring, and as patient as trees rooting in and becoming earth, ready for a time when they can blossom and fruit again.
5" x 7" ink drawing of a Wood Dragon whose body is made of driftwood, black and white with accents of green leaves and grey lichen. Photo is of the artwork in a white mat and white frame. In Chinese mythology, the Dragon is often considered a Yang symbol, embodying light, activation, and the masculine. The Dragon has historically been the emblem of emperors, and is placed in contrast to Yin symbols of the dark, passive, and feminine. But it is a gross misinterpretation to consider yin-yang to be a binary, and the semantics of the term are far older–and queerer–than the patriarchal structures that have shaped more recent Chinese history. In this Yang Wood Dragon, dead wood is not passive, but a source of activation. The wood of the dragon’s body bursts with life as the wood breaks down to create new Earth. The dragon’s core element is Earth, so even as the Wood Dragon’s outer body breaks, it nourishes itself. I am thinking about the grief that intergenerational, diasporic peoples carry in our bones, of what we have lost in our efforts to live. I am thinking about present day genocides that we bear witness to in Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo, and how, despite the violence, those faced daily with death are teaching all of us about the stubbornness of life. Staying alive–insisting that one exists–is the essence of resistance. Dragons are an amalgamation of many animals, and this Wood Dragon carries the head of an elk, the claws of an eagle, and the body of a rattlesnake. Common, immortal, and fearsome. This Wood Dragon is for everyone this year who needs a reminder that a people cannot die as long as community exists for and of them. Resistance is long, enduring, and as patient as trees rooting in and becoming earth, ready for a time when they can blossom and fruit again.
I've donated a hand-watercoloured print of Year of the Wooden Dragon to this art fundraiser for e-Sims for Gaza: www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsf...
Lots of amazing art in this auction. Buy some art and support keeping Gaza connected! #permanentceasefire #freepalestine #inkdrawing #asiandiasporicart
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Read "The Durian Demon" by @lydiakwa.bsky.social in the Wits End issue of Room Magazine! :) Lead-edited by me hehe.
Thousand stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with lights lit on their phones. 14 people at the front hood lit letters spelling out Hope & Resistance
An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.
An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.
#Resist
(📸 Ricarda Lang)
“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said.
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"Killing is never OK", says ruling class of nation arming and abetting genocidal mass murder for the past 430 days.
Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
A lot of the rich and powerful are obeying in advance. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to. Or rather that means that it's on us not to, and may we wither some of that wealth and power as we go.
Thoughtful and deeply engaged review by Eunice Lim of A Dream
Wants Waking in SUSPECT journal: singaporeunbound.org/suspect
Wow every day there is a new reason to tell you we are going to have to do this ourselves so here’s a new podcast called Public Health is Dead full of people who know things giving us more guidance about how to stay alive than the government has or will! Coming Nov 29 www.publichealthisdead.com
Multiple sick people on flights landing in Boston prompts officials to alert CDC ‘out of an abundance of caution’
Multiple people have become sick and hospitalized on flights landing in Boston. We need to await more information to fully understand what's happening here, but your regular reminder that one of the most important times to wear a mask is when you are traveling.
From the other app, the statement from this year’s giller winner claiming morality, solidarity, witness etc etc with empty words that really mean nothing when you can’t even say Palestine
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
Call your senators and demand they block his nomination.
@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
That’s great! Please add me? Thanks!
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Chart: Number of lives saved by vaccination from 1974 to 2004 Data source: Shattock et al. (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved child survival: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. Credit: Gavi Alliance
Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
Muji has decent suitcases.
