Susan Stinson
@susanstinson.bsky.social
Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. she/her.
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I just listened to a Radiolab episode from Sept 26, 2025 ("Voice") in which Alice was featured and spoke so powerfully about what it means to lose your voice and yet retain a clear grasp on your own and everyone else's humanity
rest in power and strength of being heard
radiolab.org/podcast/voice
rest in power and strength of being heard
radiolab.org/podcast/voice
Voice
How we got our voices and the power they hold over us.
radiolab.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I just listened to a Radiolab episode from Sept 26, 2025 ("Voice") in which Alice was featured and spoke so powerfully about what it means to lose your voice and yet retain a clear grasp on your own and everyone else's humanity
rest in power and strength of being heard
radiolab.org/podcast/voice
rest in power and strength of being heard
radiolab.org/podcast/voice
Reposted by Susan Stinson
Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Also Beloved by Toni Morrison. As a young, white, aspiring novelist,I read her books one after the other as they came out. I didn't understand Beloved at all at first. When I read it again some years later, I was humbled by it. If I had missed so much of this book, how much else was I missing?
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Also Beloved by Toni Morrison. As a young, white, aspiring novelist,I read her books one after the other as they came out. I didn't understand Beloved at all at first. When I read it again some years later, I was humbled by it. If I had missed so much of this book, how much else was I missing?
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.(Surprised by this.) I went looking for it in the early 80s when I was in college because I was trying to figure out how to be a lesbian. I was embarrassed to buy it. By the end, I knew I was different from Molly Bolt. And I knew more about what I wanted.
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.(Surprised by this.) I went looking for it in the early 80s when I was in college because I was trying to figure out how to be a lesbian. I was embarrassed to buy it. By the end, I knew I was different from Molly Bolt. And I knew more about what I wanted.
Those hooks. They bend and jab. Sometimes I get out my hammer to bend them back.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Those hooks. They bend and jab. Sometimes I get out my hammer to bend them back.
And if you're a little creaky and awkward with the technology like me: I worry about losing my call if I'm swiping from it to look for talking points, so I pulled the Indivisible page up on my computer then let their system call my cell. That way I could read my computer screen while on the call.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
And if you're a little creaky and awkward with the technology like me: I worry about losing my call if I'm swiping from it to look for talking points, so I pulled the Indivisible page up on my computer then let their system call my cell. That way I could read my computer screen while on the call.
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a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)
Way too much! I am so sorry.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Way too much! I am so sorry.
I just called, too, because I saw this here.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I just called, too, because I saw this here.
Oh, the wonderful books. Oh, the typos.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Oh, the wonderful books. Oh, the typos.