Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

Chris McCormick is an NEA Fellow! So glad to finally get to shout this news from the rooftops. The work to come—I can’t even tell you all how beautiful it’s going to be.

And put the self-help books down , y’all ain’t growing anyway. Read some damn fiction

I feel that if we can’t get the portrayal of Celie & Shug’s lesbian relationship right, then we miss a critical part of Celie’s character development & the subversive message Walker is making about the redemptive potential of the erotic in black women’s relationships.

I call it the Macbeth Syndrome, that you can’t peacefully enjoy the privilege of your own position because you consciously and unconsciously know the violence it took to exact it. You are always haunted by the possibility that what you’ve done to others will be done to you.

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the holy trinity

it already happened mind u

A reminder that even if YOU don’t personally need or want them, ordering them is important to show the US government they should keep supplying them. Gift them to a local mutual aid org or a neighbor if you have enough tests.

An Update about the National Book Awards

Last day!

Published this in March, and was anxious about the definitive nature of the headline (because as the longer story suggested, it’s more complicated than that! & it’s connected to so much else!)

But so far, it’s held up okay: thecut.com/article/aborti…

Children account for 2 out of every 5 civilian deaths in Gaza, surpassing the total number killed across all the world’s conflict zones in any year since 2019, said Save the Children. Families are mourning what feels like the loss of an entire generation. wapo.st/3QHrtXK

A Houston teacher is in disbelief after being fired for attending a drag show downtown.
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Aretha Franklin: Patti you know your 54 girl!