We're back!* Movement history Connecting dots: * From Progressive.org, a longer read about activists deported during McCarthy era, and * Breaking (to me) news via Bluesky about the detention of Mohsen Mahdawi, another Columbia student and green card holder. Mark your calendar Just the messenger! In case they'
Item 1. Transparent small businesses Is there a small business you'd like to shout out in this moment? ➡️ Reply to this email or leave a comment on the post. Here's the context for the question. A week or so ago, I was down a rabbit hole
Item 1: Art in exchange for... * Monica Trinidad made the postcard-sized prints above. Want one? ➡️ Donate any amount to the Trans Justice Funding Project by May 1. Get all the details at this IG post. * Did you know that Olly Costello – whose work you might recognize from book covers like
Did you know that April is School Library Month? This week I'm delighting my inner child by spending a lot of time volunteering at the book fair in my actual child's school library. To celebrate... ➡️ Tell your Congresspeople that we need libraries. Call, email, sign a
Item 1. Following up on the egg replacements post In light of the tariffs... * Budget Bytes has recipes designed for small budgets. * I just remembered this egg-free chocolate cookie I made in a lot in early 2020. * And there are plenty of breathless articles like What Will Tariffs Make More
Item 1. Free poster template Building on yesterday's theme: Going to a protest this weekend, or just want to display solidarity on a window or bulletin board? ➡️ Meenal Patel shared the design above in her always-lovely monthly email today. ➡️ I also saw this zine about the funding cuts
Item 1. Onward! I never want to spend too much of this space on electoral politics – or at least, I want to balance things out with more focus on mutual aid, the arts, grassroots organizing – but I can't resist this: It is good to pause and cackle at
My kid had off school for Eid yesterday, so I spent the day with her. Here's the usual "M is for Monday and..." material, and I'll save the usual Tuesday art goodies for tomorrow. Happy April.🌸 Item 1. Mark your calendar * Today! ➡️ Know people
Quote source: SNCC Digital Gateway. Item 1. Two weekend opportunities Will tomorrow be the day the world turns on Tesla? (Kelly Hayes) If you are able to show up IRL ➡️ Find a protest near you. You'll be helping to divert attention from this. Read these tips from Oregon-based
I love the Monica Trinidad artwork above, a meditation on something Alicia Garza wrote. Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts student and Fulbright scholar who was abducted by ICE, sounds like a very purposeful person: a truth-teller (read the op-ed she co-authored last spring) and an aspiring picture book author and Highlights
Whew. Hi. You hanging on? Item 1. Where is the goosebumps emoji? For awhile, I've thought about including the oft-quoted words above in an "Artsy Tuesday" post. It was only when I went looking for it today that I found this 2014 piece from The Feminist
*We left off with Columbia caving. Item 1. Know any academics? * If they (or you) work at one of the 60 universities that's been targeted by the Dept of Ed ➡️ Here's an open letter to share with them (via @ProfKori on Bluesky) * If they're