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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 22h

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Thrilled to have a kind of performance essay in this anthology—thank you Chloe!

Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t been active on this site but I am excited to share this project, coming in March 2026 from @uchicagopress.bsky.social #coverreveal press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Chaos, Creativity, Completion

Fifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD. A rising number of ADHD diagnoses, particularly among adults, is not only confirmed by medical stu...

press.uchicago.edu

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 1d

“The future is full of possibility. Some of life’s surprises are heartbreaking, yes—but some are heart-repairing," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode.

Read "At Last the New Arriving" by @gabbat.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4mShV9s

📖: Persea Books

graphic featuring a portion of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's poem

a photograph of poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to my coeditor Lisa Van Orman Hadley and to all the amazing writers who you can find in this book: @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social @dougvangundy.bsky.social @kikutowne.bsky.social @emilystoddard.bsky.social @jaminlin.bsky.social @khadijahqueen.com & more ❤️❤️❤️

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t been active on this site but I am excited to share this project, coming in March 2026 from @uchicagopress.bsky.social #coverreveal press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Chaos, Creativity, Completion

Fifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD. A rising number of ADHD diagnoses, particularly among adults, is not only confirmed by medical stu...

press.uchicago.edu

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Elizabeth: Ghost in the City @kikutowne.bsky.social · 2d

Good news… Can’t believe it but I am a part of this anthology about ADHD and the creative process, coming out in March 2026, I was invited by professor and poet friend- @chloemartinez.bsky.social #coverreveal press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Chaos, Creativity, Completion

Fifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD. A rising number of ADHD diagnoses, particularly among adults, is not only confirmed by medical stu...

press.uchicago.edu

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I am rarely here but hi, and yay, and thanks for your excellent essay. So excited we get to share all these pieces with the world! ❤️❤️❤️

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 4d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · Sep 8

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

A half-sheet size flyer with green printing, ridiculing ICE agents. The design is modeled after the flyers commonly used by contractors in Chicago, who are frequently immigrants. These flyers often appear on the garages of homes.

A half-sheet size flyer with blue printing, ridiculing ICE agents. The design is modeled after the flyers commonly used by contractors in Chicago, who are frequently immigrants. These flyers often appear on the garages of homes.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · Jul 31

PATTERN-BOOK IS OUT TODAY IN THE US! from @carcanet.bsky.social

you can get a copy from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social or your local bookshop—or ask your library to get a copy. that is, if you like bicycles, rain, seasons, blackbirds, canals, migration, deathbeds, friendship, etc.

#patternbook

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · Aug 4

#Davis #CA
#VisibilityBrigade

People on an overpass with letters spelling: Speak Up While U Can

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Unbound Edition Press @unboundedition.bsky.social · Jul 23

Revel No. 3 is here and it's worth the wait!
Its many incredible contributors include: Corey Van Landingham, Ammi Keller, and @chloemartinez.bsky.social.

revel.short.gy/issues
#literary #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #writers #poets #revelliterary

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 31

The Piprahwa Gems, Buddhist relics taken by an English explorer from a sacred burial ground in British-occupied India in 1898, have been repatriated and will go on display to the public, the Indian government said on Wednesday.

Ancient Gems Linked to Buddha Are Returned to India

Sotheby’s had canceled an auction of the Piprahwa Gems after pressure from the Indian government. India said the relics were back in their “rightful home.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 31

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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nazi germany & physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congrats to SWWIMmer @chloemartinez.bsky.social on today’s encore feature on @slowdownshow.org!

"In Love" was first published in SWWIM Every Day:
www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you 🌻

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · Jul 7

Got my contributor copy of REVEL in the mail. Nicely designed new mag from @unboundedition.bsky.social, many thanks to the editors for including two poems of mine. Snippets below, get the whole thing at revel-literary.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jul 4

"Those are laminated floors in there, and I’m pretty certain Dachau’s were wooden. If they even had floors, mind you. But either way, there’s your answer: different floors entirely."

Don’t Be Ridiculous, “Alligator Alcatraz” Is Not Another Example of History Repeating Itself

Oh, come on. ICE’s new detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, is nothing like a concentration camp. For one thing, historians unanimously agree that...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Jul 3

yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.

baekjesmile.bsky.social @baekjesmile.bsky.social · Jul 3

One of the most frustrating things about this era, they will mock the dumb administration talking points all day but they will not fail to report on them and use the language the administration prefers. It's happening again with the concentration camp in Florida. They refuse to not use the name.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Jul 3

Yup. “No ICE agents” in everyone’s profile. Make it toxic af.

KC Momkin @kc-momkin.bsky.social · Jul 3

All people with dating profiles should openly state that they will not date ICE agents. Spouses should be taken to counseling over their life choices, since a lot of people don't want to pay for dinner with money their spouse earned rounding people up.

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · Jul 3

I refuse to pay you with my despair
I refuse to pay you with my thoughts and hands

I will turn toward my fellow people
I will turn toward the things we can do without you — art and philosophy and feeding one another and care for the living and the dead

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 3

every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed added to the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going over

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · Jun 30

"No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood,
Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down,
Yet, congregated on its blankness, stood
An unintelligible multitude,
A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign."

poets.org/poem/shield-...

The Shield of Achilles

She looked over his shoulder

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · Jun 28

Last Saturday to send us your poetry manuscripts! Tip jar or not, we read each one 💙

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · Jun 26

Newsletter with reminders re: closing summer reading period, July workshops with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, and a donation link for supporting a poetry press that does not take grant money from Amazon. All shade intended.

Summer Open Reading Period Closing on Monday, 6/30, July Workshops with Editor Han VanderHart, and a Donation Link

riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 28

Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning.

Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail
When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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