@emilywoster
Asst. Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at the College of St. Scholastica. Scholar of L.M. Montgomery, women's autobio., and other fun things. Crafter. Tall person. Curator of annemanuscript.ca and kindredspaces.ca/bookshelf (she/her)
I’m relieved that this violent paramilitary force will be removed from our streets, but I won’t believe it until they're actually gone.
Minnesotans deserve justice and accountability, and I won’t stop until we get it.
Living in Minnesota right now means getting your heart broken every day, multiple times a day. Some days it also means having your faith in humanity restored. Please keep watching Minnesota, if you live elsewhere. Things are still dire.
An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.
standwithminnesota.com/read
YOU TELL THEM ROSE NYLAND 😭😭😭💜💜💜
If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter.
Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.
Proud of my husband for speaking clearly and standing up.
If you're feeling emotionally numb from living in a state of constant crisis and unimaginable tragedy, same here. One day we will manage to cry about it.
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In the words of @johnsthebest.bsky.social "I'll never been an American again, but I'll be a Minnesotan until I die."
LOVE NOTES by Eli Clare We may not survive the decade, much less century. Yet when deluge descends this time and this time and this time, surface erupting in silver tury, we invite each other down to the murky bottom. Fill our ears, throats, bellies with the stories we most need. Swim among sunken trees and drowned rivers, join the loons, dive for our next meal, find love notes buried in the muck. Thank you for every single note of love, connection, ferocity, and rebellion. eli, burlington vermont
love note #1422 came from eli in burlington vermont
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
Secretary of State Steve Simon’s statement on the outrageous request from the US Attorney General www.sos.mn.gov/about-the-of...
And Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood is named for Wendell Phillips, a fervent abolitionist. He was once asked why he couldn't turn down the heat in his rhetoric: why are do you always have to be so firery? Phillips' reply: "Yes, I'm on fire--becuase I have mountains of ice to melt!"
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
I don't think I have ever been so proud to be a Minnesotan.
Just start scrolling. This is what solidarity looks like. This is what democracy looks like.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
Anyone else having trouble getting the the site to load today? Perhaps too much traffic? Ashley, thank you for doing this important work!
still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.
It's hard for me to put into words the fear and anger that we're all steeped in right now. But I'm deeply proud of Minnesotans standing and stepping up for one another. Help out if you can.
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You - Hayley DeRoche Your last words But before them What to murmur to a lover in bed What to say in the group chat when someone's Sister mother brother is dead and The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal Your wedding toast, too Your best friend's birthday roast You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast. You can cradle to grave away Every warm human word You could ever have said And when they chisel your gravestone For your final rest We can ask ChatGPT Because it knew you best
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🎂💐 November 30th marks the 151st birthday of L. M. Montgomery!
We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.”
📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...
If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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October was an incredible month for the Book of The North! Our team and community harvested nettles and flax, learned to make ink out of all sorts of things, wrote beautiful scripts in medieval styles, but most importantly, came together as a community.
Yes! “Selected pubs” (name it whatever you want) and feel free to link to any kind of online portfolio/page that lists/links them all.
"Might be time to break out Voyage of the Mimi" is the new "It's on the syllabus."
