Lydia Kiesling
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
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This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi....
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Mobility: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi....
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
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Speaking of good opinions, meant to share this piece on OBAA since it echoes my feelings on how the criticisms about the movie’s “positive” and “negative” portrayals of blackness do a disservice to the Black women who are in and of it. The range of their complexity is what makes it successful, IMO.
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Speaking of good opinions, meant to share this piece on OBAA since it echoes my feelings on how the criticisms about the movie’s “positive” and “negative” portrayals of blackness do a disservice to the Black women who are in and of it. The range of their complexity is what makes it successful, IMO.
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Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
To everyone who envisioned and shopped for a giant multicourse meal that they now have to cook and which they should have started yesterday but didn't and maybe just spent an hour doing someone's lice treatment or similar while the minutes ticked by...time to lock in
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
To everyone who envisioned and shopped for a giant multicourse meal that they now have to cook and which they should have started yesterday but didn't and maybe just spent an hour doing someone's lice treatment or similar while the minutes ticked by...time to lock in
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi....
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Mobility: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi....
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Somerville passed their divestment resolution in the city council, 9-2!!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Somerville passed their divestment resolution in the city council, 9-2!!!
My apple pie is sick and it's because I don't use too much sugar, I sub vodka for most of the ice water in the crust, and I put corn or potato starch in the filling so it doesn't ooze. Not to be intimidating but it once won third place in a pie competition and there were at least ten pies in there
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My apple pie is sick and it's because I don't use too much sugar, I sub vodka for most of the ice water in the crust, and I put corn or potato starch in the filling so it doesn't ooze. Not to be intimidating but it once won third place in a pie competition and there were at least ten pies in there
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This was disgusting
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This was disgusting
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I am absolutely seeing this in real time. I get at least 3 emails a day from people I know and people I don't asking me if I have leads on work. I usually have to say I do not. The job market is NOT GOOD right now at all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I am absolutely seeing this in real time. I get at least 3 emails a day from people I know and people I don't asking me if I have leads on work. I usually have to say I do not. The job market is NOT GOOD right now at all.
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Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Attacking women's appearances to silence their voices is misogyny.
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what if we just took all of Phil Knight’s money
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
what if we just took all of Phil Knight’s money
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Overturn Citizens United
Phil Knight is once again rooting for Oregon Republicans next year
A recent $3 million donation to back GOP candidates is the largest single contribution by an individual in state history.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Overturn Citizens United
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
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I got The Competition of Unfinished Stories!
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
We’re heading into the final stretch of our annual Bookmatch. Take this year’s quiz before it’s gone!
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November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I got The Competition of Unfinished Stories!
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
We’re heading into the final stretch of our annual Bookmatch. Take this year’s quiz before it’s gone!
secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
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Amani has been trying to support her five boys all by herself since her husband was killed but she needs help and a friend helped her make this fundraiser
Amani has many unique photos, is friends with Eman whom I’ve shared before and sent me a video with Eman to verify her identity (she unfortunately lost her identification papers when her house was bombed)
Amani has a new fundraiser because she is really struggling to raise her boys on her own
Amani has a new fundraiser because she is really struggling to raise her boys on her own
Support Amani and her 5 young sons
Hello everyone,
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November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Amani has been trying to support her five boys all by herself since her husband was killed but she needs help and a friend helped her make this fundraiser
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.