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Hannah Matthews

@hannahmatthews.bsky.social

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Wrote YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE (Atria Books, 2023). Writing other stuff. Public library worker. Abortion clinic angel, abortion fund board. Queer. t1d. Pure of heart, dumb of ass.

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Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · Nov 17

You should buy my book YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE (Atria, 2023) if you’re into: abortion, community care, memoir, sex, repro justice, doulas, cursing. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award, an NPR Science Friday Best Book of Summer 2023, won a Kirkus Star, etc. bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 3h

I cannot find the words for how fucked up and obvious this propaganda is

Gaza: Hamas mobilises fighters as fears of internal violence mount

Clashes have already taken place between the group and an armed clan in Gaza City.

www.bbc.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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becky hammon’s crucifix @real-point-god.bsky.social · 20h

LET THEIR OWN EYES SEE THEIR DESTRUCTION
AND LET THEM DRINK THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY POINT GAWDDDD!
-The people who hated on Chelsea Gray as discussed in Job 21:20
#WNBA

Mark -NotGivingUp- Walston @freeferrix69.bsky.social · 20h

I'm old enough to remember when the Aces were 14-14, and folks were saying Chelsea Gray needs to come to terms with the fact that she lost a step or two.

She heard the chatter.

#WNBA

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Annalise Maxine Shaw Keating, Openly Black Attorney at Law @moniquely-uniq.bsky.social · 19h

Holly saying this is Chelsea's first championship since she became a mom did something to me. CONGRATS ACES

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Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 21h

sushi, cold white wine, a’ja fcking wilson

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 22h

Sorry?????

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 22h

a kid will hit 4 years old and acquire a little bit of compound-sentence language and a few abstract concepts and instantly become every pedantic english-major boyfriend you ever had. why are you explaining the word “bored” and how boring our kitchen is to me while I make your dino nuggets.

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 23h

someone was pulling out of the gas station as I was pulling in and the dog in their car was making extremely intense eye contact with me so I smiled big at him and the person rolled down their window and called, “his tail just started wagging SO hard and fast!”
anyway never kill yourself

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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 1d

This is great!!!

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

some news

(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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Jade Wong-Baxter @jwongbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

hannah's writing is a gift and a joy and if you've ever thought 'wow, what an incredibly weird time for health and america right now' then you should read this

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

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shelly jay spooky 👻 (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 1d

YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE is one of my absolute favorite books, and hannah is SO brilliant. i can’t wait for this!!!

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

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(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit this sounds so good I can’t wait

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

some news

(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)

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some news

(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)

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Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

it was a long red light, ok

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

It is so incredibly funny to experience your kids learning about the world. 10 year old just asked me if I had ever heard of her best friend’s older brother’s favorite rapper. That rapper’s name? Eminem

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 2d

I mean that literally is a word of French

Billboard ad for Lidl: “Not a word of French
but fluent in croissants.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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