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Katie Holten
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Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Rights of Nature 🌿Climate Justice | Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Tree Alphabet | Irish | Born @331ppm RESIST 🍃

Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hello! It's lovely to see everyone here. For those who don't know me; I’m Katie Holten, an artist and dreamer. I like sharing the beauty I find in the world. I made a book called The Language of Trees. I'm learning to live with long COVID. I'm Irish, so I've a grá for blue skies. More trees please!
A human is walking along a country lane under a big blue sky. The landscape on either side of the little road is green with rolling stony mountains in the background. There is not a single tree. The human is a white lady is dressed in black. There are a few piggy white clouds in the sky coming in low over the mountains.
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Now we're talking. Looking forward to it, @robertmoor.com.
A galley copy of In Trees by Robert Moor
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The only real solution is the people rising up in nonviolent resistance!
@jayapal.house.gov’s Resistance Lab turns our anger, fear & frustration into action & progress. The next session is Sunday, here: www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistan...

We’re in an emergency. Join the Resistance!

#Resist
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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New piece I wrote for @thesicktimes.org on the need to ask people with Long COVID what they are going through.

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
thesicktimes.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Greetings from the beautiful Brooklyn Public Library. I❤️libraries, so it’s a delight to have my work included in the exhibition, Letters for the Future.

I’m wearing a face mask and wave to the camera, which pans across a huge atrium filled with artworks and a banner, ENGLISH IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE!
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
www.themarginalian.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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"We’re still living in overlapping pandemics: COVID, Long COVID, HIV. These are not disconnected crises—all are shaped by interlocking systems of racism, poverty, criminalization, and medical neglect." Gabriel San Emeterio on World Aids Day.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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I touch computers and plants to create beauty for a living. This is 🤌
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Oct 28
Irish artist, based in New York, Katie Holten created a New York City Tree Alphabet, each letter of the Latin alphabet is assigned a drawing of a tree from the NYC Parks #womensart
Twenty six images of differdnt trees in black on a white background
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Feliz navidad! The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want #ICE kidnappings & deportations in your parking lots!

Thanks to @maddow.bsky.social for sharing @resistrevchorus.bsky.social & all the beautiful people protesting the regime.

#Boycott #HandsOffNYC #Resist 🎵
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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This is excellent news…but it’s still a drop in the bucket unless the rest of the world gets on board.
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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More info at
www.handsoffnyc.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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GOOD NEWS! Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.

Story by Shanna Hanbury @mongabay.com 🍃

news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #Amazon #Forest #RightsofNature
Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry. Ac...
news.mongabay.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Are humans inherently bad for the planet? Watch the full interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer, here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChdC... @museumofscience.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.

www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"So, what comes after failure?" Particularly timely reading as this year's COP heads toward a particularly miserable close: theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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prospectmagazine.co.uk
Ted Hughes wrote a poem calling deaf children “simple”.

Raymond Antrobus responded by redacting it with thick black marks—then won the Ted Hughes Award.

Ellen Peirson-Hagger on poetic justice:
The poetry of deafness
With his first work of prose, Raymond Antrobus wants to expand our collective hearing range
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🌿 I love this book! WHEN TREES TESTIFY: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by @berondam.bsky.social. I was honored to receive a galley, read it slowly, savoring it under the trees. Coming January 20th, it's available for pre-order here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Photo of me holding a galley of the forthcoming book, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom and America's Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery. It's summer and a tall oak tree towers above with bright green leaves against blue sky.
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Irish Mirror: 'Scientists think they have finally found the answer to long Covid mystery'

'Researchers have discovered strange structures in the blood that may help explain persistent symptoms'

www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
New discovery explains the crippling fatigue and brain fog of long Covid
Researchers have discovered strange structures in the blood that may help explain persistent symptoms
www.irishmirror.ie
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Emergence Magazine is inviting applications for SEEDS OF RADICAL RENEWAL FELLOWSHIP: An Incubator for Emerging Leadership 2026. For those interested in working at the intersection of ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Deadline January 14, 2026. More info emergencemagazine.org/event/seeds-...
Screenshot of Emergence Magazine's website. Photograph of a summer garden with green grass, a tree, and plants climbing a red brick wall in the background. A woman wearing bright green dungarees lies on the grass with both feet resting on the trunk of the tree. Her hands rest on her belly and she looks up at the tree. The word ENGAGE is printed in white letters across the tree trunk and woman's legs. It is an invitation to engage with Emergence Magazine at one of the upcoming events, including this Fellowship: SEEDS OF RADICAL RENEWAL FELLOWSHIP An Incubator for Emerging Leadership ONLINE: APRIL 29 – SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 IN-PERSON (UK): JUNE 16–20, 2026 With the guidance of guest teachers—acclaimed writer, artist, and thinker James Bridle; adaptive leadership teacher Dana Karout; and filmmaker, author, Sufi teacher, and Emergence Magazine executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee—participants will take part in six online sessions, leading up to a five-day in-person retreat at Sharpham Trust in Devon, England. Fellows will receive a full scholarship for the program, which will cover all travel costs to attend the in-person retreat in the UK.
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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🚨Have you taken action yet? Join hundreds of people and send an email to Basketball Ireland, calling on them to cancel their game against Israel on Tuesday.
We do not want our National Women's Basketball team to play apartheid Israel #BDS #BanIsrael
Email ➡️ www.ipsc.ie/action-item/...
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM