Terese Svoboda
@tsvoboda.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
oh boy LITHUB is taking my essay "What Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is Really About!!! I'll have a link soon.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
oh boy LITHUB is taking my essay "What Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is Really About!!! I'll have a link soon.
It's a book about truth! Digging into Hitler and My Mother-in-Law with Allison Tyra @ Infinite Women. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Terese Svoboda on Patricia Hartwell and mothers-in-law by Infinite Women
Terese Svoboda, author of the new book Hitler and My Mother-in-Law, shares the story of groundbreaking reporter, arts advocate and Svoboda's own mother-in-law, Patricia Hartwell.Get the book: https://...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's a book about truth! Digging into Hitler and My Mother-in-Law with Allison Tyra @ Infinite Women. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Read about how truth gets made in families, politics and journalism.
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Read about how truth gets made in families, politics and journalism.
Sudan's is not a forgotten war; it's aided and abetted. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sudan's is not a forgotten war; it's aided and abetted. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RSF burning the bodies so no one will know how many killed in the siege. apnews.com/article/suda...
Satellite images appear to show attempts to dispose of bodies after RSF seized Sudan's el-Fasher
Satellite images analyzed on Friday appear to indicate renewed attempts by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to dispose of bodies following their seizure and rampage through the city of el-Fasher ...
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
RSF burning the bodies so no one will know how many killed in the siege. apnews.com/article/suda...
Thumbs up from Epiphany's Christa Lei @orbooks.bsky.social epiphanyzine.com/features/ter...
Memoir, Reinvented: The Pursuit of Truth with Terese Svoboda - Interviewed by Christa Lei — Epiphany Magazine
A conversation with Terese Svoboda about her latest book, writing through uncertainty, and using humor to face the unbearable truths that history leaves behind.
epiphanyzine.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thumbs up from Epiphany's Christa Lei @orbooks.bsky.social epiphanyzine.com/features/ter...
Sing along with Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/06/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Sing along with Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/06/t...
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law tomorrow at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, 3pm. Pat Lochridge was the first woman at CBS news in 1939. Today CBS fired 8 on-air women. Too woke.
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law tomorrow at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, 3pm. Pat Lochridge was the first woman at CBS news in 1939. Today CBS fired 8 on-air women. Too woke.
New Yorkers, vote NO on ballot questions 2-4 otherwise the developers are totally in charge. www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/the...
The 2025 Charter Revision Proposal - Village Preservation
This year’s election includes several proposals to revise the New York City Charter. Village Preservation is recommending you VOTE NO on Ballot Questions 2-4. In addition to the opportunity to vote fo...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New Yorkers, vote NO on ballot questions 2-4 otherwise the developers are totally in charge. www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/the...
Imagine a siege a year long, and having it end badly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher
RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Imagine a siege a year long, and having it end badly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Ireland's providing basic income for artists. It's good for the economy.
bhttps://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/ireland-makes-basic-income-for-artists-permanent-signaling-support-for-creative-economy/?
bhttps://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/ireland-makes-basic-income-for-artists-permanent-signaling-support-for-creative-economy/?
Ireland makes basic income for artists permanent, signaling support for creative economy | The Optimist Daily
After a successful pilot, Ireland will permanently offer basic income to artists starting in 2026, boosting cultural output and economic stability.
www.optimistdaily.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Ireland's providing basic income for artists. It's good for the economy.
bhttps://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/ireland-makes-basic-income-for-artists-permanent-signaling-support-for-creative-economy/?
bhttps://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/ireland-makes-basic-income-for-artists-permanent-signaling-support-for-creative-economy/?
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law at P&T Knitwear 6:30 on Wednesday!!! Please register at www.ptknitwear.com/events
I'm doing a powerpoint, a wee reading, and a conversation. My singing and dancing are limited.
I'm doing a powerpoint, a wee reading, and a conversation. My singing and dancing are limited.
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law at P&T Knitwear 6:30 on Wednesday!!! Please register at www.ptknitwear.com/events
I'm doing a powerpoint, a wee reading, and a conversation. My singing and dancing are limited.
I'm doing a powerpoint, a wee reading, and a conversation. My singing and dancing are limited.
Now So Closed and Dark (I do life on a houseboat, chasing whales.) bigother.com/2025/10/13/n...
Now So Closed and Dark, by Terese Svoboda
We wharfies spend ourselves on sandwiches slick with mayo and chips as tough as baleen, a scrap of which hangs over the bow? stern? of the craft. Craft is what you call a whale boat like thi…
bigother.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now So Closed and Dark (I do life on a houseboat, chasing whales.) bigother.com/2025/10/13/n...
overheard on my NYC street corner, a cop said that they were issuing summons for social media.
October 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
overheard on my NYC street corner, a cop said that they were issuing summons for social media.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic
October 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic
Visual corroboration that I have unboxed Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! It still lacks an index, however. The collector's edition.
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Visual corroboration that I have unboxed Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! It still lacks an index, however. The collector's edition.
“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”
— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”
— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”
— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”
— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”
Tens of thousands, think of that-- tens of thousands of Sudanese with cholera and dengue fever. No cure for dengue fever. Consider a fever for the rest of your life. Caused by war. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Diseases ravage war-torn Sudan as conflict rages on
Tens of thousands of people have fallen ill with dengue, cholera, and other diseases after recent rains, compounding a series of crises in the country.
www.semafor.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tens of thousands, think of that-- tens of thousands of Sudanese with cholera and dengue fever. No cure for dengue fever. Consider a fever for the rest of your life. Caused by war. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
reading from Theatrix: Poetry Plays with the incredible John Barton at Russell Books in Victoria tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
September 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
reading from Theatrix: Poetry Plays with the incredible John Barton at Russell Books in Victoria tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
Reposted by Terese Svoboda
These are all the forests which @wadnr.bsky.social is planning to clearcut between now and next June, many of which are previously paused legacy forest sales. 🤬
This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social
#waleg #Washington
This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social
#waleg #Washington
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
These are all the forests which @wadnr.bsky.social is planning to clearcut between now and next June, many of which are previously paused legacy forest sales. 🤬
This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social
#waleg #Washington
This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social
#waleg #Washington
An acknowledged genocide in Sudan, 400,000 murdered, yet no one does anything. We can air drop food, we can embargo. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Opinion | Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response, Either
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
An acknowledged genocide in Sudan, 400,000 murdered, yet no one does anything. We can air drop food, we can embargo. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
my very own niece has published a chapbook!
September 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
my very own niece has published a chapbook!
@literarymama.bsky.social published my aubade in their new issue -- see
literarymama.com/articles/dep...
literarymama.com/articles/dep...
Aubade for the (Already!) Man
Oh, the weeping motherwho does not dare. The plane could fall.The beer in his bag explode and set off a chain reaction with his phonehooking up to radioactivity in the cloud. A girl could prick at th...
literarymama.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@literarymama.bsky.social published my aubade in their new issue -- see
literarymama.com/articles/dep...
literarymama.com/articles/dep...
At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.
September 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.
seems to me, like T's attempted assassination, this one's fake too -- that is to say, it was put together by the Republicans. They doth protest too much. They're jonesing for a Reichstag. Odd they can't find the assailant.
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
seems to me, like T's attempted assassination, this one's fake too -- that is to say, it was put together by the Republicans. They doth protest too much. They're jonesing for a Reichstag. Odd they can't find the assailant.