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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 1d

Check out our new series of spotlights on Bay Area worker coops! In our first installment, @soleilho.com drops in on the 50-year-old Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF to find out what makes it work — and to hear some tasty lore (including a fistfight over what color to paint the store building! 👀)

Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store

Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 6d

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

www.theatlantic.com

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 4d

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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 7d

Truly excellent choices.

R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 7d

this one means the world to me 😭 I’m a recipient of the @lambdaliterary.org Duggins Prize, an award that “honors LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels, built a strong reputation and following, and show promise to continue publishing high quality work for years to come”

R. O. Kwon and Carter Sickels Win the 2025 Jim Duggins Prize for PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 7d

ah! thank you so much dear garth 😭🙏🏻

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🙏🏻 thank you 😭

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 7d

gods willing with that last clause, knocking on wood. Extra delighted to have this prize alongside @cartersickels.bsky.social, whose work I deeply admire

queer & trans people, I love you, I love us 💌💌💌💌

lambdaliterary.org/2025/09/r-o-...

R. O. Kwon and Carter Sickels Win the 2025 Jim Duggins Prize for PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize

R. O. Kwon and Carter Sickels win the 2025 Jim Duggins Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 7d

this one means the world to me 😭 I’m a recipient of the @lambdaliterary.org Duggins Prize, an award that “honors LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels, built a strong reputation and following, and show promise to continue publishing high quality work for years to come”

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 8d

it happened again: took care of a dreaded task i’d miserably put off for months, & it took five minutes to complete. it was easy! no trouble at all!

once again i will learn nothing from this experience

R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · Jul 23

i have just taken care of a few dreaded to-do items that weighed on me, very heavily, for months. it took perhaps 10 minutes to finish doing these things

did it feel good? yes. did i feel goofy? also yes. will i learn anything from this? absolutely not

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 12d

“I want to be chill, you know what I mean? It seems nice, but I have this unfortunate personality: I feel the most alive and connected to the world when I’m in the maw of incredible intensity.”

—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social

www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

An Interview with Laura van den Berg - Believer Magazine

The first time I read Laura van den Berg’s stories in her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, I was astonished. The stories, teeming with disaster and fantast...

www.thebeliever.net

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11d

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 13d

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)

Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 15d

it’s yet another good day to donate to @transjournalists.org

i have a recurring donation set up & it brings me a flicker of gladness every time i get an email saying the month’s donation went through, would recommend

www.transjournalists.org/donate/

Support the TJA

Together, we can promote more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media while also supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. Join the TJA'...

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 16d

“I reject scarcity and the feeling that the other writers around you are your competition, and that there’s only so much pie.”

—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social

www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

An Interview with Laura van den Berg - Believer Magazine

The first time I read Laura van den Berg’s stories in her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, I was astonished. The stories, teeming with disaster and fantast...

www.thebeliever.net

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 17d

what luck that I can pursue learning more about “things that greatly interest me” & call it work 😭

www.interviewmagazine.com/art/for-the-...

I fell wildly, urgently in love with Gala Porras-Kim’s work in a Seoul museum, where I saw a replica she made of a sarcophagus held in the British Museum. Taking seriously the beliefs of ancient Egyptians, who built doors facing east to let the dead see the sunrise, Porras-Kim proposed that the British Museum turn their sarcophagus east and wrote a letter explaining why. “Since we cannot yet be certain of the mechanics of the afterlife,” she wrote, “we could consider the perpetual plans of the persons under your charge as a guide for their care and, as such, in their display.”

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 17d

in Seoul, I fell wildly in love with the work of Gala Porras-Kim, a Korean Colombian artist who imagines expansively beyond fights around museums’ return of artifacts often considered stolen

who(!) is this brilliant person & how do I talk to her, I thought, & I’m grateful INTERVIEW let me do so

Interview

For the Artist
Gala Porras-
Kim, Sculpture
Is a Portal to
the Afterlife
By R.O. Kwon
September 19, 2025

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NPR @npr.org · 17d

JUST IN: The law, opposed by police organizations, was aimed by lawmakers at immigration agents and will test state powers over the conduct of federal officials.

California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities

The law, opposed by police organizations, was aimed by lawmakers at immigration agents and will test state powers over the conduct of federal officials.

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