On Losing a Daughter The people we were died at the exact moment our child did.

“Maternal grief seizes the body differently from other sorrows,” Danielle Crittenden writes. More than two years have passed, but Miranda’s absence “retains the power to hit me anew each day.” Read more from her essay on the death of her daughter:

Thanks for recommendation. I jut checked it out of my local library.

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

1 am not okay today. So, in the absence of okay. what else can I be? I can be gentle. I can be unashamed. I can turn my pain into connection. I can be a student of stillness. I can be awake to nature. I can sharpen my empathy against the stone of my discomfort. I am not okay today, but I am many worthy things. Jarod K. Anderson

Seen online. resonates.

I am at 15 lbs and it just dawned on me my clothes are tight. Bread and sweets are the culprits-well and inactivity ( too cold to be outside).

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father Vasquez was inspired by her Mexican immigrant parents to paint her celebrated 2017 portrait “The New American Gothic.”

hyperallergic.com/chicana-pain...

New Slavery Databases Document More Than 150,000 Enslaved People in Cuba and Brazil, Opening Paths for Research A decades-long project by Distinguished Professor Laird W. Bergad of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies opens a major new archive on slavery and challenges long-held…

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying slavery in the Americas www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-sla...
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I would read that.

If that is an accommodation she needs per her IEP then she should be allowed to continue, legally allowed to continue

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens.

The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

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Will post updates as soon as one is available.

#MMIP #MMIWG2S #MIPA

Have you read Renee Watson’s book? All the Blues in the Sky is so beautiful and really normalizes grief.

Donate to Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs, organized by Matthew Cortland I'm writing this from a hospital bed at Tufts Medical Center, where I had … Matthew Cortland needs your support for Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs

If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️

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happy to be of service.

for just $8.99 you can preorder my book about the US government’s centuries-long effort to remove Indigenous children from their homes and communities.

it comes out in august, and I will guarantee that you’ll learn something, even though it’s for middle schoolers.

Nonviolent protest moves the political needle. That’s another reason it’s important to show up. #NoKings

Looking forward to reading

This the front cover of Shalaby's 2017 Troublemakers book. It depicts the title but also an open cage with a canary in flight

The chapter on Zora in Troublemakers (Shalaby, 2017) stills stands out.

Looking forward to reading this

Martha, thank you for what you do and for inviting us in to the healing space. I appreciate you. You are not alone in this desire.

Hoping your surgery went well and that you are on a speedy recovery journey.

Do you see how swiftly Cesar Chavez's name and image are being removed? Let this serve as a model for how quickly we can remove his name and image.

Hmm, as a former middle school studies teacher, this sounds like something so familiar. What is the word I am looking for????

Luis Valdez just referenced Chavez's crimes of rape and abuse, as "frailties." FUCK

I remember because it was 4th of July and my mind couldn't wrap around the propaganda that day.

But only on weekends when the markets are closed