“It’s important that we consider the labour of writing, and all creative pursuits, important. It’s integral that we ascribe a true value to all the steps and setbacks.”

Republican Mythology is a BARRIER TO ENDING POVERTY! Brittany Page is joined in conversation by Nicole Lynn Lewis, author of the new book, "Student Parent: The Fight for Families, The Cost of Poverty, and the Power of College." Nicole is the Founder &…

As the founder of Generation Hope, Nicole Lynn Lewis has received many knee-jerk reactions that teen parents and student parents aren’t smart enough or deserve to get college degrees. This is stigmatizing rhetoric. @brittanyepage.bsky.social

Mud Season Review is looking for volunteer creative nonfiction readers to join our team! Submissions are open 4x a year.

Interested? Please email editor@mudseasonreview.com.

This is a gorgeous essay. Please give it a read!

Missed my flight home
after four hours in the TSA line at the New Orleans airport…are we great yet? Drowning my sorrows with airport cocktails & beignets.

Following the Trail - Reading and Traveling On Staying Curious in the Desert by Jen Bryant The trail leading to the top of Ryan Mountain in Joshua … More

I was fortunate to spend some time in Joshua Tree last month with @arielgore.bsky.social and the Wayward Writers. New essay on hiking, writing, and staying curious at the link.

Excited to be a guest reader for Five Minutes this month. Send us your work!

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

Great reporting - such an important piece.

Honored to have a new nonfiction flash piece in Issue 38 of Door Is A Jar. Timing is a strange thing - I wrote this about the post-9/11 US bombings of Afghanistan, which given the events unfolding, feels relevant again today. Here’s to an end to these forever wars, and thanks for reading. 🖤

027. MIRROR IMAGES. rhyme and rhythm.

Happy to have a new flash nonfiction piece in issue #27 of Paloma Magazine. Thanks for reading! 🔗

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“Reproductive justice is a bridge in a way that choice never could be.”

New at MUTHA: Jen Bryant in conversation with authors, activists, and thought leaders Marlene Gerber Fried and Loretta J. Ross.

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on the lookout for a new labor columnist. feel free to message me or drop a comment if you know of any local writers who might be a good fit.

The free press died so capitalism can keep living and growing and consuming itself.

These folks never thought they would make money in journalism, they are dismantling a vital service that threatens their money and power.

So excited to have a new piece in Issue 38! Can’t wait to see it in print.

Activists call for nationwide general strike to protest ICE, Columbus answers – Matter News In addition to the general strike, a protest will take place at 3 p.m. today (Friday, Jan. 30) at the Ohio Statehouse.

“Many of our rights have been won through peaceful disobedience, working-class struggle, and people demanding an end by withholding their labor,” Pham said.

New from Jen Bryant.

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Opinion: Get ICE out of the Franklin County Municipal Courthouse – Matter News Allowing federal agents to make arrests at the courthouse without judicial warrants or a court order is an affront to justice.

Related: Allowing federal agents to make arrests at the courthouse without judicial warrants or a court order is an affront to justice.

A new op-ed from Liliana Baiman of 614 ICE Watch and Defend and Recruit.

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Hard same. The mind reels.

it is a wild sickness to try and find evidence or reason for why someone's life should have value to the state. When lives are ended by cops in the street the defence is always that they were peaceful and law abiding, as if the opposite would mean they somehow deserved what bullets claimed them.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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ICE increased its numbers in Columbus again. If you can give to CRIS, they are making sure people can stay out of harm’s way with food and resource drop off.

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Jen Bryant - Lessons - MER - Mom Egg Review Jen Bryant Lessons   My son hunches over a math worksheet, brow furrowed in concentration. He solves an addition problem quickly, then reconsiders, doubling back. I watch as he erases carefully, then ...

“At twenty-four, I’m the youngest parent in my son’s first-grade class and the oldest student in my Sociology 201 lecture…”

Thrilled to have a new piece up at @merliterary.bsky.social today! ⬇️

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writing is so funny because you think wow I hope people read this thing I made but also oh no what if people read it

This is powerful. Please give it a read.

Thank you to all the writers who made the #Bully and #Trouble issues so sparkly, including @jen-bryant.bsky.social, @shivpreet.bsky.social, @moomoocamus.bsky.social, @marjorietesser.bsky.social, @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, @yallaalia.bsky.social, @tomljanovic.bsky.social...

Issue 80 of Mud Season Review is here! Featuring art by Roger Camp, poetry by Julie Shulman, fiction by Sally Cunningham, and creative nonfiction by Emily Alice Katz.

📸: "Light Music 19" by Roger Camp.

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ICE is making its way through Columbus. CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) is giving gift cards to families to keep them home and fed.

If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...

Thank you, Thomas!

Thrilled to have a new essay up at JMWW today. Please give it a read if you like stories about love and friendship and growing up. ✨