This made me tear up. It was arguably this review, and Hoagland’s tennis poem that Claudia Rankine responded to, that started a sea change in poetry against the white old guard. And I still remember who stuck up for Vendler. May she rest.

Being held accountable for your inaction is not the same as being silenced. Your failure to listen to the concerns of your primary stakeholders, the writers you “champion”, has led to these boycotts.

For any discourse to begin, you must first listen. Refuse to listen and…💁🏾‍♀️

As a neurodivergent person who wasn't diagnosed until 39, who has been guilty of thinking I'm the smartest person in the room and often lean towards, but don't act on, a**hole tendencies bc I'm aware of both of those things bc I've heard it since childhood and learned to ADAPT, I…

Let poetry bring you a moment of peace or clarity. We've got an evocative new poem from Amanda Johnston today for National Poetry Month at The Rumpus. Sit with Amanda's 'On the Other Side' when you have a moment by clicking the link. Enjoy and share!
therumpus.net/2024/04/25/nat…

Unfucking believable

One of the primary functions of police is to violently crush progressive social movements. It's one of the reasons expanding the size and power of police is always authoritarian and is never an answer to inequality. *It is a key part of preserving inequality, in all its forms.*

Tear gas for tents. Wow. Tear gas for lying on the same quad everyone lies all over every damn day. Wow.

Every so often I’m reminded of how, after the police killing of Michael Brown, Palestinians shared with Ferguson protestors how to take the sting out of tear gas.

gaslighting courtesy of UT Austin

Crying…

My colleague! My comrade!

Please read this. By the great hearted Yasmin El-Rifae. ❤️Then read her book RADIUS. It is all connected. And she also connects us.

it seems ironic that the Stanford administrator who sent this out is a professor of ethnic studies—a field of study that was established after student activists shut down a college campus for FIVE WHOLE MONTHS.

sometimes, as a writer, you experience the pure bliss of knowing you reached your imagined audience, their waiting ears.

and then, sometimes, they give you the gift of reaching back w/ words of their own.

today’s small miracle of this kind, frm the luminous This 🥷🏾 AGAIN?!?✌🏾 🪴

My miracles in life are my friends. Here’s lovin’ you, ⁦⁦Paul Tran⁩. poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/…

I love Texas—and I am so glad I left.

Sending light over the people of UT standing in solidarity with Palestinians.

Wait! Now I’m 40 and over! Happy Lesbian Visibility Week!💜 Mermaid Edition!

The official trailer for “Black Twitter: A People’s History” is out. It will premiere on Hulu May 9:

TO THE FBI

Strategy can be taught, resistance cannot.