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A first: I’m on a Delta flight at MSP and the ——potable water lines are frozen— no water for drinking, tea, etc. OR WASHING HANDS 🙃 . (Wipes are being provided in the bathroom.) Also, thanks Open Book for featuring banned books. 📚

A belated Happy Black History Month! Every month i

A belated Happy Black History Month! Every month is BHM.

🕰️ What a time. I continue to return again an

🕰️ What a time. I continue to return again and again to Grace’s and James Boggs’ philosophical and activist work, and their words and life examples feel as or more relevant than ever.

I don’t call myself an activist, I’m a writer and a teacher. Which can be are forms of activism, which I try to make them, but I hope to not fool myself by overselling it or thinking they’re something they’re not. I love working with language and people. I am starting to work with a new cohort of writers where I am doing the main of my teaching right now, and I am so honored that people are trusting me with their time and resources to lead a group for a whole year, almost every week. I hope we will make good trouble individually and collectively through our attention to the power of words to tell the truth and bring people together across space, time, difference. It’s a cliche but we have so much more in common than not. Never to erase the profound realities of differences, and the very real vulnerabilities that are systematically and purposefully distributed differently among us. But damn. We the living. We owe the dead and the future living so, so much.

“What time is it on the clock of the world?”
(Photo of Grace at home in 2012 from Wpedia).

We are not letting AI amok sell us back to ourselv

We are not letting AI amok sell us back to ourselves as forgeries. Or, I suppose we will die trying. I recently finished a major draft of a nonfiction book on immigration and language and becoming a writer (out next year if there’s still books by humans…) and have been thinking about #Skynet since forever.

I appreciate all the efforts everywhere to resist the soul-sucking and water-boiling assimilation into Big Tech’s reckless rebukes of our humanity. I have always loved science and been fascinated with technology at the human interface level — i grew up in the robot era of tv like everyone else in the 80s in America.

Later after college I was a quality control writer and software tester for 10 years while I was having 2 babies and going to expensive-ass k-12 teacher night school / first master’s degree. I thought a lot about how humans use technology to deal with technology… no amazing thoughts then or now (I was learning to be a poet…) but I’m of course being forced like all of us to contend with ever more intrusive and opaque and extractive and wasteful forms of tech mediating all of our relationships with nature, reality, the pay, present, future, ourselves, and each other.
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No one is illegal.

No one is illegal.

A belated 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (saehae b

A belated 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (saehae bok manhi badeuseyo)! Happy Year of the Blue Snake! Let us appreciate the rebirth and growth aspects of snake life, as all snakes molt and some may shed their skin every month. Growth requires energy! “How it happens is even more interesting than why. Just prior to shedding, the snake’s skin begins to turn bluish, and its eyes become opaque, hindering vision. Within a few days, the snake will rub its head on something abrasive—like a rock—to tear open the outer layer.” - Iowa DNR

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