Elaine Ávila
@elaineavila.bsky.social
Playwright/Professor/Portuguesa (Açoriana), Books: HUMMINGBIRD; FADO; JANE AUSTEN, ACTION FIGURE AND OTHER PLAYS; THE BALLAD OF GINGER GOODWIN AND KITIMAT Publications: Howlround, Portuguese American Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, Gávea-Brown etc;
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Talonbooks frontlist, class of 2025. 🎓Poetry, plays, historical fiction, dialogues, humour, nonfiction, hybrid forms ... something for every reader. 💙📚
Read more about all of these titles on our site! talonbooks.com
Read more about all of these titles on our site! talonbooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Talonbooks frontlist, class of 2025. 🎓Poetry, plays, historical fiction, dialogues, humour, nonfiction, hybrid forms ... something for every reader. 💙📚
Read more about all of these titles on our site! talonbooks.com
Read more about all of these titles on our site! talonbooks.com
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Hot off the press! Hummingbird, the new work of ecotheatre by Elaine Ávila, is flitting to a bookstore near you! Alex's choice of topic for a school project leads them to uncover family lore, form new connections & find direction with a community nest-finding network.
talonbooks.com/books/hummin...
talonbooks.com/books/hummin...
May 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hot off the press! Hummingbird, the new work of ecotheatre by Elaine Ávila, is flitting to a bookstore near you! Alex's choice of topic for a school project leads them to uncover family lore, form new connections & find direction with a community nest-finding network.
talonbooks.com/books/hummin...
talonbooks.com/books/hummin...
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We’re losing so many great stories to inequality
February 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We’re losing so many great stories to inequality
Thank you Talonbooks!!!
It's #InternationalWomensDay! We're so grateful for the women whose shoulders we stand on. Here are some titles by brilliant women working in poetry, in fiction, in memoir, and in drama that we’d love to recommend. to mark the occasion.
More details here: talonbooks.com/news/women-s...
More details here: talonbooks.com/news/women-s...
March 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Thank you Talonbooks!!!
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
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There is only one certainty in our future: Unless we take action to reverse climate crisis, we will all be its victims.
Dispatch From LA: We Are Living in the Dystopia That Octavia Butler Envisioned
There is only one certainty in our future: Unless we take action to reverse climate crisis, we will all be its victims.
truthout.org
January 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There is only one certainty in our future: Unless we take action to reverse climate crisis, we will all be its victims.
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Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
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Pro tip: if you’re angry that your favorite retailer is abandoning DEI policies, shop #union. Your local unionized grocery store workers have a contract that protects their rights, promotes diversity in hiring, equal pay, and fairness. It’s not a magic racism-eraser but a unionized retailer 1/2
January 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Pro tip: if you’re angry that your favorite retailer is abandoning DEI policies, shop #union. Your local unionized grocery store workers have a contract that protects their rights, promotes diversity in hiring, equal pay, and fairness. It’s not a magic racism-eraser but a unionized retailer 1/2
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Must read
LA's fires are whirling around the telescopes where we discovered the expanding universe.
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
billmckibben.substack.com/publish/post...
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
billmckibben.substack.com/publish/post...
The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
billmckibben.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Must read
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
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Anne Helen Petersen recently wrote about divesting from socials too & I just kept thinking that I have a much smaller audience & idk how I would be able to promote my work & grow my readership without it. Any other independent journos asking similar questions?
The Social Media Sea Change
What happens when the thing that structured so much of our lives loses its utility?
open.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Anne Helen Petersen recently wrote about divesting from socials too & I just kept thinking that I have a much smaller audience & idk how I would be able to promote my work & grow my readership without it. Any other independent journos asking similar questions?
Return of the light, sunset (no filter), unceded and ancestral lands of the Tseil-waututh
January 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Return of the light, sunset (no filter), unceded and ancestral lands of the Tseil-waututh
Jane Austen, Action Figure by Elaine Ávila
at Douglas College
Director: Thrasso Petras
Set: Omanie Elias
Costumes: Tamara Unroe
Lighting: Bryan Kennedy
Sound: Jack Goodison
Photographer: Chris Randle
at Douglas College
Director: Thrasso Petras
Set: Omanie Elias
Costumes: Tamara Unroe
Lighting: Bryan Kennedy
Sound: Jack Goodison
Photographer: Chris Randle
November 22, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Jane Austen, Action Figure by Elaine Ávila
at Douglas College
Director: Thrasso Petras
Set: Omanie Elias
Costumes: Tamara Unroe
Lighting: Bryan Kennedy
Sound: Jack Goodison
Photographer: Chris Randle
at Douglas College
Director: Thrasso Petras
Set: Omanie Elias
Costumes: Tamara Unroe
Lighting: Bryan Kennedy
Sound: Jack Goodison
Photographer: Chris Randle
Appreciating the props from the production of my play Jane Austen, Action Figure…the director called this one “Regency Tinder.”
November 18, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Appreciating the props from the production of my play Jane Austen, Action Figure…the director called this one “Regency Tinder.”