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Susan Kiyo Ito

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Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · Aug 10

I have a very limited number of discount codes available so if you need one, DM me. Priority for adoptees and/or BIPOC writers but all will be considered. 🥚

Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · Aug 9

Heyyy I’m teaching a memoir structure class in the fall— love to see you there. writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

Woman with glasses and graying hair, under banner “13 ways of looking at a Memoir” October 26-November 10 Monday evenings

MONDAYS, Oct. 27th - Nov. 10th | "How will I structure my memoir?" This can be one of the most daunting challenges for memoirists. Come learn about the many possibilities that might inspire your own structure! We will look at 13 (maybe more) distinct and unique memoirs and examine how authors have broken out of (or stayed within) traditional boundaries. Students will read and analyze a variety of memoir excerpts, and practice generative writing with their own material. At the end of the course, students will have many tools at their fingertips and be better able to make creative decisions to find a structure that is "just right" for them.

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 10h

Heartbreaking and enraging.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 1d

A massive storm that brought a record storm surge to Alaska was poorly forecast, and “this is one of the clearest possible examples to date where missing upper air soundings due to NWS constraints may have led to a degraded forecast.”

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday a massive storm surge event from the remnants of Typhoon Halong caused catastrophic damage in remote western Alaska. Thanks to @alaskawx.bsky.social for his help with this deep dive, including the forecast challenges in an area dealing with reduced NWS upper air soundings
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Historic coastal flooding strikes western Alaska

Remnants of Typhoon Halong produce hurricane force winds and push massive storm surge inland in Kuskokwim River Delta, destroying and carrying away homes, leaving devastated communities.

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JaneDzienDobry.bsky.social @janedziendobry.bsky.social · 1d

LITERAL KIDNAPPING.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 1d

Most people don’t know!!! But I’m writing a book about it.

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 1d

Racist

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 1d

LaGuardia?!? No way.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 2d

Subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

Karen Attiah | Substack

Writer, editor, internationalist. Amateur fighter. Weightlifter. Rogue Radical Professor at Resistance Studies Series : resistancesummerschool.com

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 2d

I agree

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 3d

my Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop: amzn.to/4hanPRW 🔆 my Black Girl Songbook podcast open.spotify.com/show/20Ifo2k... 🔆 my SHINE BRIGHT HQ newsletter shinebrighthq.substack.com/about and now back to your regularly scheduled programming

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · Aug 10

I have a very limited number of discount codes available so if you need one, DM me. Priority for adoptees and/or BIPOC writers but all will be considered. 🥚

Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · Aug 9

Heyyy I’m teaching a memoir structure class in the fall— love to see you there. writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Jan 4

The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) planned to put out a statement supporting Israel while it commits genocide. Danielle Monique spoke up and was fired for insubordination. We have to do better in the kid lit community.

A call to action: Our organizing sister Danielle Monique has posted this brave and insightful essay on her experience working at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). We salute her courage and honesty.

KEY POINTS INCLUDE:

—SCBWI leadership planned to put out a post supporting Israel as it was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

—After Daniel Monqiue spoke about this and other forms of zionism and racism at the org, SCBWI fired her for “insubordination.”

— The CA Civil Rights Board has opened a case on SCBWI related to this

While this is not a call for a full boycott of SCBWI, we urge members of the kid lit community to consider how we use our platforms, who we uplift, what messages we're sending with our words and actions. SPEAK OUT!

Over a year ago the children of Gaza held a press conference to beg the world to stop the genocide against them. The world, including SCBWI and PEN America, ignored them. But we don't have to.
SPEAK OUT!

We believe the kid lit community needs to have an open, honest dialogue about organizations that represent us openly supporting genocide, including the murder of tens of thousands of children, and internally punishing pro-Palestinian voices.

We cannot claim to be on the side of humanity, or children, or freedom, on the one hand and support all the opposite things with our actions.

When we continue to invest our energy, time, money, creativity, and names to organizations that support genocide, we deepen our own complicity and help whitewash the ongoing atrocities

We believe we can do better, as authors, illustrators, readers, publishers, a community, we can do better.
We can choose where we give our resources, how we speak out, how we respond to silence and silencing.

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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 4d

I’m so very sorry for your loss. Losing a mother is so huge. 💕

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Here’s the hellscape @heatherwinters.bsky.social

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Joni Mitchell

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 5d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

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