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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 29

(For my fiction grad class I mean) The turns! The plot all given at the opening. It’s an incredible one-page-at-a-time study

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 29

We did a close reading of Alexandra Kleeman’s You, Disappearing and damn what a short story

www.guernicamag.com/you-disappea...

You, Disappearing

<p>The apocalypse was quiet. It had a way about it, a certain charm. It could be called graceful. It was taking a long time.</p>

www.guernicamag.com

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 29

❤️❤️🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

I will be wearing opera gloves and probably t-shirt and jeans 💅🏽

🎟️🎟️🎟️:
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ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Earrings of Madame de … (35mm)

Doors open at noon with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 12:30 p.m., followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! Welcome to the year’s first…

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Co-presented with the legendary @litquake.org 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

I will be wearing opera gloves and probably t-shirt and jeans 💅🏽

🎟️🎟️🎟️:
roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Earrings of Madame de … (35mm)

Doors open at noon with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 12:30 p.m., followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! Welcome to the year’s first…

roxie.com

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!

This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 4

Here's what a police detective wrote about this sweatshirt in 2019.

observed he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations. Officers know such clothing to be indicative of the Hispanic gang culture. The meaning of the clothing is to represent "ver, oir y callar"

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 4

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

Children and young men, reaching for food, extend arms holding pots and pans. A headline reads: "As Israel's Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry And Patients Die" Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · May 4

We’re going to have to step up to protect and support our literary journals, independent presses, and institutions. This just happened to everyone. I’m thinking through this ❤️

ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · May 4

We, too, received an email from the NEA on Friday. Like so many others, our award for 2025 was terminated. So to all of you who donate or subscribe, or have recently bought an issue or a tote or a T-shirt, thank you. In the times ahead, we will no doubt be needing each other more than ever.

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Mar 31

Have you bought your tix yet? The first ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social kicks off Monday, April 14, at the Roxie Theater. Featuring @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation w/ Jenny Odell, right after the screening of "Rivers and Tides" (in 35mm).
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ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: Rivers & Tides (35mm)

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 6, followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid…

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 19

Wrote you a letter 💌

Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · Mar 19

Day 59 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @ingridrojasc.bsky.social on finding what matters most

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@writingco-lab.bsky.social

100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Ingrid Rojas Contreras which reads “What makes life beautiful and worthwhile? And once you find, truly find, what matters to you, what makes every second of your life worth living, maybe you can pour yourself into that thing. Possibly this will be a well that can outlast it all.”

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 16

😂😭😂😂

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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · Mar 16

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A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom | Columbia Journalism School

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 16

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings

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On Ghosts and Hauntings

That there could be a singular victim, or many victims—this is terrifying to the State.

open.substack.com

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 12

Incredibly rude!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Other countries that have previously been featured on the watchlist in recent years include Zimbabwe, Argentina, El Salvador and the United Arab Emirates."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

www.theguardian.com

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 8

❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 8

Time for my incredible tax expenses system where I’ve left the expense as an unread email in my inbox along with all my other unread emails 💀

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Mar 8

I’m on Substack btw

Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Feb 7

Beautiful prose from @ingridrojasc.bsky.social

Many things are hard to see through. ...

Something has happened to language. Things are becoming interchangeable.

President. Autocrat.

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Feb 7

Beautiful prose from @ingridrojasc.bsky.social

Many things are hard to see through. ...

Something has happened to language. Things are becoming interchangeable.

President. Autocrat.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jan 28

If you are freaking out, engage with trusted groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org. Allow them offer some guidance about what you can do and how you can help.

Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · Jan 28

Join the fight to abolish immigrant detention by joining our email list to receive updates, analysis, resources, trainings and more. 📨Sign up at: bit.ly/joinDWN.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · Jan 28

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · Jan 28

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign

An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday.

www.nbcnews.com

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