Ra Avis

Split This Rock's red logo is at the top of a light grey box with a black border. Bold black text reads "Shaping the Pulse of Your Work. A Split This Rock Virtual Writing Workshop. Featuring Ra Avis." Over aqua and orange shapes, there is a photo of Ra Avis wearing a black blazer, a dark teal collared shirt, and gold sun earrings. Ra has short, dark hair and looks forward.

Join Split This Rock for Shaping the Pulse of Your Work, a virtual writing workshop where we will explore revision as a path toward uncovering the hidden heartbeat of our poems.

Led by Ra Avis on 2/25/26, 6:30-8 pm EST. Open to all levels. Register: bit.ly/4pw3z0z

#Poetry @rarasaur.substack.com

Split This Rock’s red logo at the top. Over a black background, a bold white heading: "Upcoming Virtual Poetry Workshops." Below, five ticket-shaped boxes with virtual workshop dates, titles, and facilitator names. Workshop schedule: Jan. 14 with Jorrell Watkins, Jan. 22 with Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Feb. 11 with Khadijah Queen, Feb. 19 with Hanif Abdurraqib, Feb. 25 with Ra Avis. At the bottom is a website icon with a URL: splitthisrock.org.

Choose your writing adventure from our newest slate of virtual writing workshops Jan-Feb 2026! Join us to explore modern fairy tales, what makes a poem a poem, how poets can conduct language as symphony, blues poetry & revising to uncover your poem's hidden heartbeat. Learn more: bit.ly/4i3UBEK

textured black and white abstract collage

before the fire // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard [mail art], october 2025

#collage #queerart #abstraction #mailart

More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername The 1984 murder of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.

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F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.

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USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

"The national food insecurity survey is a critical, reliable data source that shows how many families in America struggle to put food on the table.”

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s sculptures are so full of wonder and whimsy, I just want to befriend this little guy!
#art #beautifulbizarre #yoshimasatsuchiya #sculptor #sculpture #surrealism #surrealart #fantasycreature #artlovers #sculpting

Zine submissions open for Biggest Little Zine Fair -- it works distro style, so there are no fees, and you don't have to be there, and you make 100% minus the 3% credit card fees. BiggestLittleZineFair.com/#apply

You just saved $26.00 by using your library. You have saved $2,160.24 this past year and $6, 122.52 since you began using the library! Thank You!

Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!

there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think

Me at @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social in Chicago even though I have a whole zine fest worth of zines out here in Long Beach. Was willing to chuck a shirt to make room in my travel bag. 😂

I don't know what to do with all this life. A journal about not dying after all.

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"I don't know what to do with all this life - a journal entry about not dying after all" (audio reading available)

Tomorrow 7-9 PM at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach, CA. Megumi's amazing art pieces from her "faces of mass incarceration" project will be on display.

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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️

I am now, more than ever, reminded how important art is, for so many things.

Biggest Little Zine Fair BLZF is a pop-up all-ages zine market where artists submit their work to be showcased and sold— no need to be there in person! Our small team of organizers runs the event, handling everything from set...

BiggestLittleZineFair.com is open to zine submissions from all around the world. Til 3/29 for a fair on 5/31 in Long Beach, CA. Makers get 100% of what they sell, no attendance required, after fees. Check the site for FAQs and the Instagram for vibes. 🙂

websites are so cool
anyone can just make one
about anything

Organizing something small and chill and not political on the surface is how to build community and talk to people, which are the two things we need most to do any type of other action. Make a children's book club, truly anything counts.

Nine Years by Ra Avis YouTube video by No Pulp Poetry Club

9 Years by Ra Avis, filmed by Theron James
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Light orange and white water color background. Cover light has large letters in orange and teal that read "Protect California" and below in dark blue "Community Investment Keeps People Safe." Bottom right corner has a hand drawn pink heart. There is a white frame around the whole graphic. Bottom footer is the same color as frame and contains the teal CURB logo on the bottom left and black text reading "Overview of the 2025-26 Corrections Budget."

Same background and footer as previously. Top left reads "Protect California" in small orange and teal block letters. Text on slide in black and red text is a data point from CURB's budget overview.

Same background and footer as previously. Top left reads "Protect California" in small orange and teal block letters. Text on slide in black and read text is a data point from CURB's budget overview.

Same background and footer as previously. Contents of slide include examples of what $1.5 billion dollars saved from closing 5 more prisons could fund including permanent supportive housing, mental health care, and Universal Basic Income. The right of the graphic contains pink graphics of a house, people supporting each other, and hands holding a heart. Scaling numbers are in teal. Descriptions in black text on right side of graphic.

Read CURB's Overview of the 2025-26 Corrections Budget to learn how billions in wasted prison spending could be redirected towards areas proven to keep us safe 📲 tinyurl.com/25-26proposed

In this era of systemic oppression & unchecked tech power, CA must divest from incarceration + invest in care

On orange background, flyer reads: WEBINAR: Detention 101 Learn about the nuts and bolts of the immigration detention system and its role in facilitating and driving deportations. Develop a stronger analysis to understand various pressure points to dismantle immigration detention in the US. Date: Wednesday, January 29 Time: 1pm-2:30pm PT Register: bit.ly/det101 Hosted by Detention Watch Network

Taller Básico- Detención 101 Conozca la función práctica del sistema de detención de inmigrantes y su meta de facilitar e impulsar las deportaciones. Presentaremos un análisis más completo para identificar los varios puntos críticos para poder desmantelar el sistema de detención de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Fecha: Miercoles, 29 de enero Hora: 1pm-2:30pm PT Registrese aquí: bit.ly/det101 Detention Watch Network

⚠️ DETENTION 101 TRAINING ⚠️
As the Trump admin threatens to expand immigration detention drastically, understanding how the system works will be crucial to stop detention expansion.
🗓️ 1/29 @ 1pm PT
Session will be recorded & posted afterwards @detentionwatchnetwork.org
Register here: bit.ly/det101

“Doing and making are acts of hope.” -Corita Kent

I got really drunk and emotional about comics and art tonight. Make ‘em!! Do em!!! Nothing to it but to do it!! MAKE COMICS. MAKE ZINES!!!

I want you to make a zine. And I mean it.

"The short of this is, I want to read your zine. I want to own it. I want to hold it in my hands and know a little something about you and your world."

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Fancy Nights On wanting my loved ones to decide for themselves when to share with their friends that I went to prison.

New post, about wanting my loved ones to decide for themselves when to share with their friends that I did time: open.substack.com/pub/rarasaur...

Thanks! I’m more in charge of trying to get through to the government than the campaign but I’ll save this & pass it to the right person. 🙂