Mary Zerkel
@marzerkel.bsky.social
Autodidact + Artist + Organizer + Popular Educator in Chicago.
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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
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Could be a Spartacus moment. Everyone get a Tren de Aragua tattoo
April 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Could be a Spartacus moment. Everyone get a Tren de Aragua tattoo
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NBCC member Zelda Zerkel Morris spoke with Sasha Vasilyuk about her debut novel, Your Presence is Mandatory, for The National Book Review:
Q&A: Talking with Sasha Vasilyuk about Ukraine, Nazi Prisoners, and Novel Writing — The National Book Review
And Her Stunning New Novel, ‘Your Presence is Mandatory’
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March 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NBCC member Zelda Zerkel Morris spoke with Sasha Vasilyuk about her debut novel, Your Presence is Mandatory, for The National Book Review:
I truly hope Kilmar Abrego Garcia is okay and returned to the US immediately
April 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I truly hope Kilmar Abrego Garcia is okay and returned to the US immediately
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Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth
April 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth
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Out here yelling that material conditions do not create mass support for political agendas, political organizing does that
March 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Out here yelling that material conditions do not create mass support for political agendas, political organizing does that
Mahmoud Khalil is a political prisoner. Students are being hunted and kidnapped by ICE for constitutionally protected behavior. Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Ranjani Srinivasan, Momodou Taal... the list goes on and on. Read about them, spread the word. artwork by me ❤️
March 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Mahmoud Khalil is a political prisoner. Students are being hunted and kidnapped by ICE for constitutionally protected behavior. Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Ranjani Srinivasan, Momodou Taal... the list goes on and on. Read about them, spread the word. artwork by me ❤️
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
March 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Dear Truthout Community, there are only 2 months until the deadline for submissions to the fifth annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize: May 20, 2025. Please share with writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated.
Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Dear Truthout Community, there are only 2 months until the deadline for submissions to the fifth annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize: May 20, 2025. Please share with writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated.
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On tomorrow's episode of Movement Memos, I will be in conversation with my friend @prisonculture.bsky.social. As my editor said of the episode, "It was a lot of real talk!"
I'm looking forward to sharing it with you all.
I'm looking forward to sharing it with you all.
March 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
On tomorrow's episode of Movement Memos, I will be in conversation with my friend @prisonculture.bsky.social. As my editor said of the episode, "It was a lot of real talk!"
I'm looking forward to sharing it with you all.
I'm looking forward to sharing it with you all.
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Come work with us! Haymarket Books is hiring a full-time publicist to join our team in Chicago. www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/jobs
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
www.haymarketbooks.org
March 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Come work with us! Haymarket Books is hiring a full-time publicist to join our team in Chicago. www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/jobs
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The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.
March 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.
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We don’t if they were gang members, only that Trump’s DOJ says they were. But they’ve had no trials. They are “accused.” They are “alleged” to be members of a gang that Trump has named. And now they are vanished.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
250 Venezuelans have been disappeared into one of the worst prisons in Central America based on Trump’s invocation of a law only used 3 times in our history - the last time resulted in the Japanese-American internment. These men have had no due process. It’s monstrous.
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First 250+ migrant gang members from US arrive in El Salvador — where they’ll be held in a notorious mega-prison
The US has flown more than 250 accused migrant gang members to El Salvador, where they were sent to a notorious mega-prison — in direct defiance of a federal judge’s ruling against the Trump admini…
nypost.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We don’t if they were gang members, only that Trump’s DOJ says they were. But they’ve had no trials. They are “accused.” They are “alleged” to be members of a gang that Trump has named. And now they are vanished.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.