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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 1d

NYC friends!!!! Check out this incredible three day event where you can purchase a copy of my newest book from @commonnotions and a rare sighting of one of my art pieces.
Funds raised from purchasing the book will go to support QT folks most impacted by geno cide

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

A timely excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, written by my friend Aaron Goggans, who has supported many frontline activists struggling with their mental health during moments of mass protest and upheaval. Thank you, @pempem.bsky.social for uplifting.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

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Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

The transgender rights activist had previously been hospitalized for more than 10 days.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 3d

30 SWANA books to look out for as 2025 starts to wrap up. We're thrilled to see @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA in good company with titles by authors such as Leila Chatti, Anbara Salam, Aymann Ismail, and our very own Ata Nahai.

Thank you, Samia! @rawi-news.bsky.social

30 More SWANA Books in 2025: July-December Releases

Samia Saliba, 2025-07-16

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 4d

"I don’t just organise as a trans person; my organising is trans....this is such a powerful thing that we can utilise to really transform the world and build a collectively liberated world."

Anna Hu & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social for ARCHER MAGAZINE

Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser - Archer Magazine

"The work to build a collectively liberated world is always going to be easier than living in this current – really oppressive – fascistic world." Mx Yaffa chats to Anna Hu.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 4d

Happy pub day to LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA!!

@yaffasutopia.bsky.social

www.commonnotions.org/letters-from-a-living-utopia

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 8d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 28

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein

Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 10d

On the horizon: @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's new book!

LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA builds off of WHISPERS BENEATH THE ORANGE GROVE and DESECRATED POPPIES to offer an expanded vision and roadmap toward collective liberation.

Order before 10/7 to save $$!

Discount code: PREORDER

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 13d

📻👄 Guess who’s on the radio? I’m in the latest episode of Radiolab on voice

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Radiolab: Podcasts | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

Investigating a strange world.

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 17d

Is the whole “anti-ICE” evidence situation still part of the rapture?

I thought the rapture was about folks supporting housing justice. I’m confused… and concerned…

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18d

Happy rapture day! Please aim yourself at the sky in an orderly fashion so the rest of us can inherit your house

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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 21d

& buy books at these intersections! My recs:

📚The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by @sonorareyes.bsky.social
📚Godly Heathens by HE Edgmon
📚Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
📚Blood Orange by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social
📚Under All The Lights by @mayaameyaw.bsky.social

Now go to @bookshop.org pls&ty❤️

D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · 21d

Just a reminder that right now is a fantastic time to take that monthly Disney plus cash and spend it on trans/bipoc/disabled creators and small businesses. Boycotting the bad things is fantastic, but using those funds to then support and uplift those who’ve been marginalized is even better.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 23d

While I'm coalescing, enjoy this incredibly cool library pull I got from the @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social a few days ago 👀

@yaffasutopia.bsky.social @venuskiithomas.bsky.social

Blood Orange by Yaffa As
Nameless Woman by Berrout Selenite and Peña

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 23d

Sending you immense love and gratitude!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Dec 31

I do have a list of books I’m gonna add today:

The dragon and her princess
That one Erin Elkin novella
Essence of the Eye - Jenna topaz
The ecology of art, strike!
Robin's World Rainie oet
Monster seek rainie oet
Letters from a Living Utopia: Reclaiming
Liberation from Palestine to the World That Night I got dragged home by a werewolf Autumn Wolff
Greysmoke rising korps
Against fearful lies
Along torturous paths
Lilith Wine Lo Borgias
Gorman's House TT Madden
Flirting with Death Fern V Bedek

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 27d

We're so excited for our Fall/Winter titles—a few of which are already out in the world!

Check out these graphics for a preview of all the titles, and sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things Common Notions. ⚡️

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front cover of strike while the needle is hot, the weather report, and abolition and reconstruction. all available now

front cover for letters from a living utopia, notes toward a digital workers' inquiry, and birds in a gale, all coming soon

front cover of me and mine, my city need something, jerry and rodrigo go to war, and remaking democracy. all coming soon

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 25d

LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA was written by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social, and is coming to an indie bookstore near you October 7th!

Order on our site by 10/6 to save some $$ and get a free poster. Use coupon code PREORDER at checkout <3

www.commonnotions.org/letters-from-a-living-utopia

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