While it’s frustrating and baffling to see evil people live long, evil lives, eternity is unimaginably long and the spirit world is a mystery. There’s so much we don’t know about the forms of accountability, learning and growth that spirits undergo in the invisible and visible realms.
a childlike drawing of stick figures behind bars
A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP
I deleted IG for the week! What’s happening there? It it voidin’ ? Is it minus joy, all the ads too?
A Puerto Rican activist in Minneapolis had to prepare her kids for if they got stopped by ICE. She told her daughter, “‘Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone.’” But she said, “‘Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.’”
This morning our newsletter readers received Mays Kuhail’s mstory “Between the Seas,” which was awarded second place in our annual Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction competition by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (@nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social). nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/between-th...
Please buy books that are coming out this year.
Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
A resignation letter:
"We all saw it.
We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed.
But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper.
In shame, we put down our pens.
May 20, 1980
All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"
People really don't believe me when I say THIS BOOK IS MONUMENTALLY IMPORTANT but especially right now
THIS BOOK IS MONUMENTALLY IMPORTANT
Gather a group of friends and read it together. Organizers, especially lefties, should be doing a reading group about it.
We live in a society that feeds the worst of our impulses and behaviors and strangles the best. imagine a gas station credit card interaction as a metaphor for how we live. It’s as if our structures are designed by very special psychopaths
It’s like a toddler but zero charm and zero beauty 🤷🏻♀️
If you weren’t able to join us for the 2025 Literary Prize presentation, you can view it here. An inspiring double reading! Our thanks to our winners and judges, including @talianeffson.bsky.social, @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social, and @randallmann.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=r53p...
Go to protests
Sign up to be on mailing lists
Practice good operational security
Don’t volunteer information you don’t need to, like where you plan to be
Know your phone gives away information even when locked
Don’t use face unlock or print to unlock your phone
Ah a slow death, that great equalizer 🥴
Wishing your mom the best and love how sometimes strangers can offer us a script ❤️
@lataco.bsky.social is featuring my newest on how la migra has ruined summer in LA. I spoke to an elected official, activists, and educators about how they are meeting the moment and protecting youth!
The daily fear of simply living in LA, under a constant threat from ICE, has upended life for undocumented immigrants.
For many, it means sheltering in place—avoiding work, social life, or even a walk outside.
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Yes
they even stole the Dutch version of my book 🙄🌷
The president is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries.
EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Oh my! Please come. We are here to HELP 💞💞💞 Meet my agent!
Working on my third (and possibly final?!) Koreatown novel now and getting emotional and hungry. Hope to see some of you in my great, suffering and proud hometown (LA!) next week
this vulture review made me cry (complimentary)
happy pub day to my clown book!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CongrAaaats! Happy pub day, Kristen 🎈
Dazzled to be part of this all-star panel! Come find us at AWP!
It’s late. Read it in the morning. But my new one is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
If you're going to be at AWP, don't miss this amazing panel on finding and working with the agent that's right for you, moderated by our very own senior editor, Emma Komlos-Hrobsky! #AWP25
TY! 😘
