Katie Holten
@katieholten.bsky.social
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
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!
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The division of trees into evergreen and deciduous is accounted for by a myth in which the loss of their
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The division of trees into evergreen and deciduous is accounted for by a myth in which the loss of their
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The division of trees into evergreen and deciduous is accounted for by a myth in which the loss of their
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The division of trees into evergreen and deciduous is accounted for by a myth in which the loss of their
LETTERS FOR THE FUTURE celebrates the #library as one of the few remaining intellectual, creative, and civic commons still freely available.
You can use your library card to borrow works from the show, including my zine, LEARNING TO BE BETTER LOVERS.
www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/...
You can use your library card to borrow works from the show, including my zine, LEARNING TO BE BETTER LOVERS.
www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/...
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
LETTERS FOR THE FUTURE celebrates the #library as one of the few remaining intellectual, creative, and civic commons still freely available.
You can use your library card to borrow works from the show, including my zine, LEARNING TO BE BETTER LOVERS.
www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/...
You can use your library card to borrow works from the show, including my zine, LEARNING TO BE BETTER LOVERS.
www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/...
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Now we're talking. Looking forward to it, @robertmoor.com.
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Now we're talking. Looking forward to it, @robertmoor.com.
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
@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
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
@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
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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...
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
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...
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
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!
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
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!
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!
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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
Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...
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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
"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.
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I touch computers and plants to create beauty for a living. This is 🤌
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
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I touch computers and plants to create beauty for a living. This is 🤌
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Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
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 🎵
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
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 🎵
Thanks to @maddow.bsky.social for sharing @resistrevchorus.bsky.social & all the beautiful people protesting the regime.
#Boycott #HandsOffNYC #Resist 🎵
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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.
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
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 9:32 PM
This is excellent news…but it’s still a drop in the bucket unless the rest of the world gets on board.
Reposted by Katie Holten
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
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
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
Story by Shanna Hanbury @mongabay.com 🍃
news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #Amazon #Forest #RightsofNature
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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
Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.
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
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
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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...
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
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...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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
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
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
www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social
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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-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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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...
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
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...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
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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
"So, what comes after failure?" Particularly timely reading as this year's COP heads toward a particularly miserable close: theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
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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:
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
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:
Raymond Antrobus responded by redacting it with thick black marks—then won the Ted Hughes Award.
Ellen Peirson-Hagger on poetic justice:
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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...
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🌿 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...