New Award for Disabled Writers Established | Kirkus Reviews The first winner of the Kenny Fries Disabled Writer Literary Award is Cyrée Jarelle Johnson.

Congratulations to @cyreejarelle.bsky.social, first recipient of the Kenny Fries Disabled Writer Literary Award!

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today marks 16 months of Crips for eSims for Gaza. we've purchased/sent more than 46K eSims & top-ups & have been keeping 4K~ active since Dec '23. we couldn’t have done it w/out everyone’s help.

let’s keep it up!

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In-Person Tarot Circle at Cygnet's Way — shea in the catskills We gather on the last Sunday of the month at noon to play with tarot at Cygnet’s Way in Kingston. These circles are not instructional and : you do not need any previous experience with tarot to parti...

Hey #Catskills #tarot peeps: this Sunday at noon come play with tarot in person at Cygnet's Way in Kingston!

if we're outdoors, masking is optional
if we're indoors, N95 or KN95 masks are required + provided

I'd love to see you there! #tarotsky #kingstonny

In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination On April 13th, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put into effect an emergency order barring trans healthcare in his state. In 2023’s onslaught of trans-hating legislation, this is the f…

brownstargirl.org/in-defense-o... from 2023 written by @cyreejarelle.bsky.social and I, still true. Unfortunately prescient.

Falling in Love with Our Movements Love as a Value + Letting Your Best Be Enough

"But who benefits when no gesture is enough unless we win forever that day? Who benefits when everyone is so afraid that trying means nothing--what can one do then but not try?"

another banger from @cyreejarelle.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

thanks for sharing and for your twee— or is it called a post on bs? idk im new here.

either way, i’m curious about these feelings-based responses to these crises.

my stance is that i can feel all my feels, however unhelpful, and still take considered action.

As usual @cyreejarelle.bsky.social writes in a deeply grounding way about the important things and I think I wrote this around the same time as reading this piece:

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Read this Before Taking Action Valuing Spiritual Resources to Build Resilient Movements

should everyone who can join a movement org? yeah, probably!

but most of those orgs aren’t really ready to meet people where they’re at—so can we blame folks for staying home?

new substack for folk burned by an org who need help coming back into alignment:

thanks for reading 🙏🏽

NGL. I wouldn’t loved if Dot had used this whole debacle to advocate for child survivors of SA. @cyreejarelle.bsky.social made a point a while back about how OFF it is that the song of the summer was making light of a very serious crime and stain on society.

I am slowly getting better at unrhymed iambic pentameter. It would seem like it's the easiest meter, and it *is* sort of the easiest to, like, minimally carry out, but it's might be the hardest to be actually good at, I think. Nowhere to hide

@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crown Death Magic Tarot

@megjoneswall.bsky.social's newsletter + classes + book: Finding The Fool

@leftlanesmith.bsky.social's book: 78 Acts of Liberation

@cyreejarelle.bsky.social's Collective Cartomancy

@thewordwitch.bsky.social Fifth Spirit Tarot

Recently, I saw all the men’s underwear in Target were locked up and just burst out laughing. It’s wild.

I think the long term goal is to drive us away from in-person shopping all together. They’re turn old stores into Amazon-like warehouses.

i can smell #14 through the phone screen.

“untitled (Lyle and Robert, Bronx, New York, circa mid 1980s)” by Lyle Ashton Harris

*and* it relies upon the developmental presentations of autism because that’s what requires the earliest understanding from parents so the child gets what they need.

so when we discount those presentations or act like those who don’t have them are uniquely oppressed by them is disingenuous.

this is especially important to me while autistic people, both children and adults are such a prominent feature on the list during Disability Day of Mourning.

It’s still legal to torture autistic kids. childhood dx isn’t a privilege.

there’s this growing assumption online that these stereotypes exclusively apply to yt boys.

you’ll find that many autistics who were diagnosed in childhood exhibit these same traits.

or—what if we center autistics who these stereotypes render a target instead of prioritizing the broad idea of validity for once?

Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares | Open-Rank Faculty Position in Writing, Literature and Publishing Join our community and experience Emerson College! The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing invites applications for an Editor-in-Chief for the literary journal Ploughshares / open-rank (t...

If you are interested in applying for this dream job, here’s the link: bit.ly/4fCsOsX

a nyt writer was defending the revolting CM piece saying the author is ‘a kid.’ curious how that logic gets applied to a 29 yo man but not a 17 yo girl

estranged people interacting with other peoples’ families over the holidays should be allowed a soundproof crying room

Rupi Kuar—unlike many Pulitzer or NBA-winning poets—has actually takes a stand against genocide. She is more of a real poet and writer than a lot of clowns published by Faber or teaching in the Ivy League because she takes the role of public intellect seriously. Most writers now act like ad salesmen

Reimagining the world creatively—Poetry as spell work on 11/23 at 3 PM EST This is for all creatives willing to reimagine and write it whatever it is into assistance. Join me for a generative workshop it goes about an 1.5 hours to 2 hours long. Let’s put our despair into hop...

For the creatives in despair today I’ll be doing a speculative generative community workshop on 11/23 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination On April 13th, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put into effect an emergency order barring trans healthcare in his state. In 2023’s onslaught of trans-hating legislation, this is the f…

@cyreejarelle.bsky.social and I wrote this 18 months ago, everything and nothing has changed, the tips and analysis about how the fasc hates trans and autistic people because our bodies insist on being free is still spot on. brownstargirl.org/in-defense-o...