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Kate Schapira

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I wrote a book, LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING BOOTH: HOW TO LIVE WITH CARE AND PURPOSE IN AN ENDANGERED WORLD. Let me know if you think you could use it for something.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · Jan 25

If you want some support & company in responding well to frightening realities, I wrote you a book for that. Stories of models & mentors, questions for reflection, practices for connection & action. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-...

Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth

Climate anxiety is real—and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of ...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22h

Celebrate with me!

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22h

If you like, on this Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday, you can also observe an internet holiday that my friend CJ invented, Don't Argue On The Internet Day--if there's a principled stand to take, take it, but "don't spelunk deep into the comments to argue with clowns."

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22h

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you like, you can practice moving your mind away gently from the arguments that start up inside your head w/people who aren't present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with. Do this as many times as you need.

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Librariannie @your-librariannie.bsky.social · 22h

Pet, Ace of Spaces, and Concrete Rose (along with its predecessor, The Hate You Give) were likely targeted for censorship for the same reasons that I loved them and think they're extremely important. #bannedbooksweek

WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 1d

Books by Black authors are being banned and challenged across America and the fight starts at home.
Show up at your local elections.
Vote for school boards and state reps who defend the right to read. Every ballot is a stand for freedom.
#BannedBooksWeek

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

We are! I posted it the way I thought it but I'm tired and I didn't want to leave something up if it was creating a false impression. Thanks!

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

Moderna

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

Probably. Is there something misleading about the way that I posted it?

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

Got my COVID booster today at a CVS in Rhode Island where I've gotten one before. No problems, no questions. I have insurance but they didn't ask to see my card--just name and date of birth. Anyway, no news after nine

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

It's real & it's here. I'm real & I'm here. There were times during the writing where I didn't think that those sentences could simultaneously be true. So yes I am grinning like a dork.

Pre-order BAD LANGUAGE from Peninsula Press. It's not secondhand yet... 👇🏻

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

So Mayer, a short, grey-haired white person, holds up copies of Bad Language. There's a sign that says Second-hand Books behind them.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 1d

"I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

(I will not actually be in the tub, I have to go to work)

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

Had a couple of very packed & reasonably effective days (City Civics workshop! Council hearing on the ordinance to ban police-ICE collaboration! Tough family stuff that is ongoing but being handled, at least in my house, with care! Baby Time!) & am now depleted. If you need me I'll be in the tub

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

A Facebook post by Jaime Andrade promotes a tamales and champurrado sale for Ms. Maria on Thursday, October 9th, at Kedzie & Byron to support her family. The flyer features tamales, a mug, and contact/payment info.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

#PVDlocal / #RIlocal big coordinated food drive going on ahead of a very meager winter thewomxnproject.org/pr-food-drive/

PR: Local Groups Team Up for a Collective Food Drive & Call on the Greater Community This Fall and Winter

Providence, RI – RI Food Bank, RI Food Policy Council, RI State Council of Churches, The Womxn Project, and Youth Pride urge partners to help keep our

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight, with @climatena.bsky.social & the Climate Mobilization Project, learn how training in mental health care can support mutual aid, survival organizing, & local resilience! You might like it! www.eventbrite.com/e/community-...

Community climate resilience: Integrating mental health skills & mutual aid

The Climate Mobilization Project will describe their work at the intersection of mutual aid and climate action + more.

www.eventbrite.com

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 2d

The ceasefire has now been implemented.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

Compact shmompact www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements

Statements — Brown AAUP

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 3d

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 3d

- put down the damn AI.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 2d

They sound perfect. Do they get along?

Also: just got a vivid sense-memory of my sister's late workmate, Boots, a tabby who made a wheezing noise with occasional snorts that can best be conveyed as, "Hnrr. Hnrr. Hnrr, HENK. Hnrr."

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

It's thanks to the work of independent journalists and activists that we do know just how much ICE is terrorizing this country

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 2d

😭😭😭😭😭

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 2d

Pics or istg

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