Mel Williams
@melistrying.bsky.social
If you've been thinking of giving to this fundraiser, it's still going! Bret and Elizabeth need 14k to save their home––we got to (over) 25% in just a few days! We can do this.
Go to buff.ly/KhpNcdJ for info,
share widely,
give what you can.
Thank you to all who have supported so far!
Go to buff.ly/KhpNcdJ for info,
share widely,
give what you can.
Thank you to all who have supported so far!
June 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you've been thinking of giving to this fundraiser, it's still going! Bret and Elizabeth need 14k to save their home––we got to (over) 25% in just a few days! We can do this.
Go to buff.ly/KhpNcdJ for info,
share widely,
give what you can.
Thank you to all who have supported so far!
Go to buff.ly/KhpNcdJ for info,
share widely,
give what you can.
Thank you to all who have supported so far!
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The rights of Nature movement is gaining momentum, but, for many, this requires a shift in understanding of the human-Nature relationship. Learn more in this guest editorial.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/reimagining-nature-shadow-mountain/
https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/reimagining-nature-shadow-mountain/
Reimaging Nature in the Shadow of the Mountain: Taranaki maunga and the Rights of Nature Movement - Terrain.org
The rights of Nature movement is gaining momentum, but, for many, this requires a shift in understanding of the human-Nature relationship.
www.terrain.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The rights of Nature movement is gaining momentum, but, for many, this requires a shift in understanding of the human-Nature relationship. Learn more in this guest editorial.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/reimagining-nature-shadow-mountain/
https://www.terrain.org/2025/currents/reimagining-nature-shadow-mountain/
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June 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Mel Williams
Reposted by Mel Williams
Books that explore the multiplicity of Indigenous experiences and the common threads that connect them.
7 Indigenous Narratives That Reckon with the Past - Electric Literature
These storytellers pave the way for the future while carrying their lineages, ancestors, and the land with them
buff.ly
June 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Books that explore the multiplicity of Indigenous experiences and the common threads that connect them.
Our connection, clanging as you yanked
and, panicking,
flailed to break free,
still carries on under still waters.
Rusted,
but stronger for it.
We’d both break before that link comes apart.
buff.ly/cmduzTM
and, panicking,
flailed to break free,
still carries on under still waters.
Rusted,
but stronger for it.
We’d both break before that link comes apart.
buff.ly/cmduzTM
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April 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Our connection, clanging as you yanked
and, panicking,
flailed to break free,
still carries on under still waters.
Rusted,
but stronger for it.
We’d both break before that link comes apart.
buff.ly/cmduzTM
and, panicking,
flailed to break free,
still carries on under still waters.
Rusted,
but stronger for it.
We’d both break before that link comes apart.
buff.ly/cmduzTM
Transformations are long
And human beings fragile
Single lifetimes are not enough
To prepare for tomorrow morning
buff.ly/PXXWlXH
And human beings fragile
Single lifetimes are not enough
To prepare for tomorrow morning
buff.ly/PXXWlXH
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April 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Transformations are long
And human beings fragile
Single lifetimes are not enough
To prepare for tomorrow morning
buff.ly/PXXWlXH
And human beings fragile
Single lifetimes are not enough
To prepare for tomorrow morning
buff.ly/PXXWlXH
Converge and diverge is the norm,
but two selves walk along
paths never intersecting.
The one doing well
And the other happy.
but two selves walk along
paths never intersecting.
The one doing well
And the other happy.
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April 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Converge and diverge is the norm,
but two selves walk along
paths never intersecting.
The one doing well
And the other happy.
but two selves walk along
paths never intersecting.
The one doing well
And the other happy.
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Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix.
tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...
tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...
November 14, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix.
tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...
tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...
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new poem (posted last week on twitter & insta):
February 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
new poem (posted last week on twitter & insta):
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"My brothers and sisters, this is war. Republicans don’t want unions to exist. And they are coming for us. Right now. Rouse yourselves."
The worst thing the federal government has done to unions in my lifetime happened last night. The second worst thing was three weeks ago.
The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"My brothers and sisters, this is war. Republicans don’t want unions to exist. And they are coming for us. Right now. Rouse yourselves."
"...our bodies don't give a damn about sense." (p.98)
Menakem. (2017). My Grandmother's Hands
#booksky #resmaamenakem #racialtraumahealing #currentlyreading
Menakem. (2017). My Grandmother's Hands
#booksky #resmaamenakem #racialtraumahealing #currentlyreading
December 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM
"...our bodies don't give a damn about sense." (p.98)
Menakem. (2017). My Grandmother's Hands
#booksky #resmaamenakem #racialtraumahealing #currentlyreading
Menakem. (2017). My Grandmother's Hands
#booksky #resmaamenakem #racialtraumahealing #currentlyreading
December 7: Twilight Encounter
At 4:37 the sun dips down beyond Pikes Peak. For one earsplitting second before that the sun screams down, igniting the sky and blinding every creature.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
At 4:37 the sun dips down beyond Pikes Peak. For one earsplitting second before that the sun screams down, igniting the sky and blinding every creature.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
December 7, 2024 at 9:11 PM
December 7: Twilight Encounter
At 4:37 the sun dips down beyond Pikes Peak. For one earsplitting second before that the sun screams down, igniting the sky and blinding every creature.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
At 4:37 the sun dips down beyond Pikes Peak. For one earsplitting second before that the sun screams down, igniting the sky and blinding every creature.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
I sat and hummed. I don’t think I like it. Or I’m doing it wrong. Not sure. I am sure I will be asked to hum from my belly again. I held my hands up and felt down, finger tips to feet, and knew I needed to cry.
Body Practice response, My Grandmother's Hands, pp. 32-35
#readingresponse #resmaamenakem
Body Practice response, My Grandmother's Hands, pp. 32-35
#readingresponse #resmaamenakem
December 6, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I sat and hummed. I don’t think I like it. Or I’m doing it wrong. Not sure. I am sure I will be asked to hum from my belly again. I held my hands up and felt down, finger tips to feet, and knew I needed to cry.
Body Practice response, My Grandmother's Hands, pp. 32-35
#readingresponse #resmaamenakem
Body Practice response, My Grandmother's Hands, pp. 32-35
#readingresponse #resmaamenakem
December 6: A Forgotten Melody
Maybe it would
Call the birds down on a single pointed individual
Politely ask mushrooms to consume the great waste-creators
Ask all buried rivers and streams to rise up beyond their their filled in boundaries, exceed banks, right the wrong of malled-over cities.
Maybe it would
Call the birds down on a single pointed individual
Politely ask mushrooms to consume the great waste-creators
Ask all buried rivers and streams to rise up beyond their their filled in boundaries, exceed banks, right the wrong of malled-over cities.
December 6, 2024 at 5:15 PM
December 6: A Forgotten Melody
Maybe it would
Call the birds down on a single pointed individual
Politely ask mushrooms to consume the great waste-creators
Ask all buried rivers and streams to rise up beyond their their filled in boundaries, exceed banks, right the wrong of malled-over cities.
Maybe it would
Call the birds down on a single pointed individual
Politely ask mushrooms to consume the great waste-creators
Ask all buried rivers and streams to rise up beyond their their filled in boundaries, exceed banks, right the wrong of malled-over cities.
December 5: The Silent Witness
Screaming through the air of our very short lives
Howling toward our purpose
The irony of our speed written across three bodies
Delay! Deny! Depose!
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
Screaming through the air of our very short lives
Howling toward our purpose
The irony of our speed written across three bodies
Delay! Deny! Depose!
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
December 6, 2024 at 4:15 PM
December 5: The Silent Witness
Screaming through the air of our very short lives
Howling toward our purpose
The irony of our speed written across three bodies
Delay! Deny! Depose!
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
Screaming through the air of our very short lives
Howling toward our purpose
The irony of our speed written across three bodies
Delay! Deny! Depose!
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
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Martin Herbert's response to Kissick is good. artreview.com/can-you-age-...
Are You Too Old for the Artworld?
Complaining that most art sucks is like saying that all new music is bad because you don’t like Spotify’s Top 50 playlist
artreview.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Martin Herbert's response to Kissick is good. artreview.com/can-you-age-...
Reposted by Mel Williams
what is the point of being Harper’s Magazine if you still have to pretend that Kissick and Dasha have something interesting to say
December 3, 2024 at 11:51 PM
what is the point of being Harper’s Magazine if you still have to pretend that Kissick and Dasha have something interesting to say
Reposted by Mel Williams
This morning, TCT published Ajay Kurian's response to the Kissick article in Harper's. Kurian takes on some of the deeper issues—notions of transgression and the enduring white-universal subject, art-world iterations of larger culture war themes, and more
www.culturedmag.com/article/2024...
www.culturedmag.com/article/2024...
Make Art Great Again? A Response to the Nostalgia and Backlash in Dean Kissick’s Clickbait Manifesto
Artist and critic Ajay Kurian dissects the writer’s argument that identity politics are the enemy of artistic innovation.
www.culturedmag.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM
This morning, TCT published Ajay Kurian's response to the Kissick article in Harper's. Kurian takes on some of the deeper issues—notions of transgression and the enduring white-universal subject, art-world iterations of larger culture war themes, and more
www.culturedmag.com/article/2024...
www.culturedmag.com/article/2024...
December 5: Personal Growth, a solstice greeting to B.
You are unfailingly kind
you tell me things I need to know
and you listen.
You think I’m doing okay.
That is all it really takes to bring clarity to the room
for an individual mind to break the surface
Fresh air, sunlight and wind
You are unfailingly kind
you tell me things I need to know
and you listen.
You think I’m doing okay.
That is all it really takes to bring clarity to the room
for an individual mind to break the surface
Fresh air, sunlight and wind
December 6, 2024 at 5:43 AM
December 5: Personal Growth, a solstice greeting to B.
You are unfailingly kind
you tell me things I need to know
and you listen.
You think I’m doing okay.
That is all it really takes to bring clarity to the room
for an individual mind to break the surface
Fresh air, sunlight and wind
You are unfailingly kind
you tell me things I need to know
and you listen.
You think I’m doing okay.
That is all it really takes to bring clarity to the room
for an individual mind to break the surface
Fresh air, sunlight and wind
December 4: Time Capsule
we're going through:
Heirlooms
Craft projects
Books, movies, clothes. Mother’s things.
I find
tucked away in a file box
beneath primary school projects
and a doily made by Great Grandma Hamill.
A sealed envelope with my handwriting.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
we're going through:
Heirlooms
Craft projects
Books, movies, clothes. Mother’s things.
I find
tucked away in a file box
beneath primary school projects
and a doily made by Great Grandma Hamill.
A sealed envelope with my handwriting.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
December 5, 2024 at 2:12 AM
December 4: Time Capsule
we're going through:
Heirlooms
Craft projects
Books, movies, clothes. Mother’s things.
I find
tucked away in a file box
beneath primary school projects
and a doily made by Great Grandma Hamill.
A sealed envelope with my handwriting.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
we're going through:
Heirlooms
Craft projects
Books, movies, clothes. Mother’s things.
I find
tucked away in a file box
beneath primary school projects
and a doily made by Great Grandma Hamill.
A sealed envelope with my handwriting.
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
December 3 Hidden Passage
in Andersonville I scraped all the paint from the coal box door
a clean cut all around
peel off years of landlord’s special
polish pewter-colored metal
Open up!
In the end, it was not a portal to Narnia
Maybe because I was looking for it
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
in Andersonville I scraped all the paint from the coal box door
a clean cut all around
peel off years of landlord’s special
polish pewter-colored metal
Open up!
In the end, it was not a portal to Narnia
Maybe because I was looking for it
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
December 4, 2024 at 3:03 AM
December 3 Hidden Passage
in Andersonville I scraped all the paint from the coal box door
a clean cut all around
peel off years of landlord’s special
polish pewter-colored metal
Open up!
In the end, it was not a portal to Narnia
Maybe because I was looking for it
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
in Andersonville I scraped all the paint from the coal box door
a clean cut all around
peel off years of landlord’s special
polish pewter-colored metal
Open up!
In the end, it was not a portal to Narnia
Maybe because I was looking for it
#writeradvent #holidayprompts
December 2: First Snowfall
The snow fell for the first time this year and I remembered
A summer threatening to never slow it’s pace,
the scorched garden still kale, bean and Columbine. 1/2
The snow fell for the first time this year and I remembered
A summer threatening to never slow it’s pace,
the scorched garden still kale, bean and Columbine. 1/2
December 2, 2024 at 11:08 PM
December 2: First Snowfall
The snow fell for the first time this year and I remembered
A summer threatening to never slow it’s pace,
the scorched garden still kale, bean and Columbine. 1/2
The snow fell for the first time this year and I remembered
A summer threatening to never slow it’s pace,
the scorched garden still kale, bean and Columbine. 1/2
December 1: The Unexpected Gift
I once received an unexpected gift
A surprise of clarity that did not
Degrade into superiority
But when I offered it to my friend
She thought I was joking
Mocking,
“What would I do with that?”
Whatever you want, Kate.
Whatever you want
#writeradvent #holidaypromps
I once received an unexpected gift
A surprise of clarity that did not
Degrade into superiority
But when I offered it to my friend
She thought I was joking
Mocking,
“What would I do with that?”
Whatever you want, Kate.
Whatever you want
#writeradvent #holidaypromps
December 1, 2024 at 9:17 PM
December 1: The Unexpected Gift
I once received an unexpected gift
A surprise of clarity that did not
Degrade into superiority
But when I offered it to my friend
She thought I was joking
Mocking,
“What would I do with that?”
Whatever you want, Kate.
Whatever you want
#writeradvent #holidaypromps
I once received an unexpected gift
A surprise of clarity that did not
Degrade into superiority
But when I offered it to my friend
She thought I was joking
Mocking,
“What would I do with that?”
Whatever you want, Kate.
Whatever you want
#writeradvent #holidaypromps
Dr. Menakem asked me to breathe and take a walk four years ago and so I closed this book and didn't open it again. I'm ready now
#booksky #resmaamenakem #traumahealing #currentlyreading
#booksky #resmaamenakem #traumahealing #currentlyreading
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Dr. Menakem asked me to breathe and take a walk four years ago and so I closed this book and didn't open it again. I'm ready now
#booksky #resmaamenakem #traumahealing #currentlyreading
#booksky #resmaamenakem #traumahealing #currentlyreading