hah! It was Fade, which actually felt way too long for two very spotlight-shy people, so we forced people to come dance with us after about 9.3 seconds

I love to be so gay I can proudly brag that our wedding intro/outro song was Tracy Chapman (and Mazzy Star for first dance)

thank you for reading! 🌞

"What they don't tell you is this: to live without fear is lonesome."
T Kira Māhealani Madden, Whidbey

#SundaySentence

T Kira Madden Is Not the Dark Person You Might Expect The Whidbey author’s process prioritizes play, even as she crafts deep, difficult stories.

Profiled T Kira Madden for ELLE! Read not only for WHIDBEY BTS, but also for a true example of what committing to this writing life can look like—and how freaking fun it can be amidst all the hard work. www.elle.com/culture/book...

The magazine spread of T Kira Māhealani Madden's profile in our March/April issue, featuring a photo portrait of the author sitting on a window ledge. The title of the profile, "Crime and Compassion," is overlaid in black text.

“I hope reading it feels like staring at the sun,” T Kira Māhealani Madden (@tkiramadden.bsky.social) says about her new novel, Whidbey, published by Mariner Books in March. “I want it to feel unbearable at times because I think that is truer to how life is…” Read more: at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion

Whidbey A Most Anticipated Book by People • Vogue • Esquire • Harper’s Bazaar • USA Today • Seattle Times • Bookpage •Chicago Review of Books • Crimereads • Goodrea...

So thrilled @tkiramadden.bsky.social's new book is coming out!
We are lucky to have her. Hamilton folks can go see her book talk next Thursday!
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Whidbey

761/700 💙📚🖋️📚
📖: Whidbey by T Kira Madden
Genre: Contemporary, Literary
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
Thoughts: A very difficult, yet necessary read. I appreciate the highlighting of white women speaking over women of color, even while both face other harm. Thank you Mariner books for the review copy.

#booksky

should I come back to this app

❤️❤️ thank you for reading, Alex! I’ve held yours close, too

imagine being stuck in space w katy perry

every book is like, what if the CLIMATE could HAVE SEX

hold up in law, also yes. Though I’ve seen it done, particularly with land rights cases (someone mentioned Māori too). To be clear, I agree w your points, only wanted to share that for us it isn’t a bracket of the peoples timeline

some of us define indigeneity not by our people pre-contact, but by naming the land herself our ancestor. In Hawaiian you wouldn’t introduce yourself without naming the mountain, stream, plant that raised or sustained your life, and that naming is also a vow to protect. Spiritual, yes; difficult to

reposting with alt text

and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org

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yeah, I saw the initial email and lost my shit. thanks for clarifying before the follow up came through...

really?

Stop Me If You've Heard This One A Novel

book drops 3/18 and i have a fucking fantastic tour planned - will announce soon - but there is still time to get a preorder that’s signed and personalized by me from the good folks at the lynx

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Visiting Writers Series | Butler University

Do I have friends (friends of friends?) in Indianapolis? I’ll be reading at Butler tomorrow, free and open to the public 💗 www.butler.edu/arts-science...

everything else aside, the *looks* of Milkshake 👩🏻‍🍳🤌🏽

My wife doesn’t know what happens in Part II of Wicked. Just sang a little “For Good” as a teaser and she stared, mouth open, then burst out crying.

48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!!

in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤

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hau’oli makahiki hou 💗 grateful to be home

This is correct. This is a land acknowledgment that I don’t hate. It acknowledges the facts and gives a chance to learn more and is doing something, anything, about it.

in the spirit of xmas I have been reborn after the worst food poisoning in history

same !

thank you for sharing this with me. I cherish any HL story!

Day 14. Some will only talk about Brokeback Mountain (a miracle of a story) but every story in here is gothic, surreal, otherworldly, sometimes campy. I’ve read this book a million times. Listening to it on audio while driving through Wyoming while in love, top experience

moira no 🙈

Day 13. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about Heather Lewis. I wish she were still alive and still writing books. Her characters suffer so tremendously but they’re still alive, full of agency, sensuality, wanting. Fewer ppl have had greater impact on me, though I never met HL