My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

MS magazine and @karlajstrand.com have the October round-up of books here: msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...

Pleased to see Nnenna Freelon's "Beneath the Skin of Sorrow" and Robyn Maynard's @policingblack.bsky.social "Policing Black Lives" on @msmagazine.com's list of October books, by @karlajstrand.com: msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

ICYMI My September Reads for the Rest of Us is live @msmagazine.com with 25 of my and Violet’s fave books releasing this month.

Feat new books by @theferocity.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @nikitagill.bsky.social @tinamakereti.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social

It's a joy to see Seth Neblett's MOTHERSHIP CONNECTED: THE WOMEN OF PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC included among this month's "Reads for the Rest of Us" at @msmagazine.com!

"Seth Neblett has compiled an unbelievable archive full of strength, humor, tea, shade and yes, funk."
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Visit wiscon.net to learn about programming, accessibility, volunteering, and our rich history as the world’s longest-running feminist science fiction convention.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Assata Shakur, rest in power.

Heeeeyyyyy so Doe 174 just spewed a whole lotta bullshit but don’t let it distract you. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. That other stuff is all wrong and lies because he’s an idiot. Kthx

Someone has to know who that small dicked short little white man is. Get to it, internet antifa!

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@repgwenmoore.bsky.social Thank you for voting NO on HRes 719!! Appreciative of your consistent leadership.

@pocan.house.gov why vote present on HRes 719?? Why not NO with your whole chest??

Watching The Manchurian Candidate at this time is wild.

Are you keeping score? I am.
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Fellow white people need to look up Trey Reed and Cory Zukatis and then get back to me with your outrage about “political violence.”

It was excellent and you did a wonderful job!

“It’s shocking … did you consider not complying with this request?” Butler said.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

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I'm excited to head to LA to attend and present at the @msmagazine.com Archive Launch and Workshop!

It'll be livestreamed, so check it out: www.msintheclassroom.com/ms-archive-w...

@karlajstrand.com has September's Ms Magazine reads up! I can personally recommend Angeline Boulley's Sisters in the Wind & Mariana Enriquez's Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys msmagazine.com/2025/09/03/b...

September Reads @msmagazine.com from @karlajstrand.com and Violet Pandya #BookSky 💜📚
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