Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them

Writer, activist, philosopher. Formerly Chiara Ricciardone. here for the live-tweets of the end.
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[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

neither AI hype nor AI doomerism, but AI dreams…

(also, this is what my voice sounds like?!)

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

📻 🆕 Can AI help us rediscover our relationship with nature?

Can you imagine a world where new forms of communication and intelligence help heal our democracies?

We do just that in the latest episode of our 'Imagine A World' podcast. Tune in now! ⬇️
https://t.co/vFwJrQ5nNw

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

I was much more nervous about facilitating this convo than I was for the panel about my book!

But I needn't have been, it was delightful, wish could've spoken with @shekharkapur and @martin_puchner for twice as long.

[Sanjoy K Roy @SanjoyRoyTWA]

What does it mean to be human? This has to be at the heart of any conversation. @shekharkapur spks with @martin_puchner and @freetobeChi @JLFLitfest #jlfhouston2025 @InprintHouston @asiasocietytx

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

this was the first time Ragini and I have been together in person since the publication of the book! thank you @inprintguy and everyone @JLFLitfest for a stimulating day

[Sanjoy K Roy @SanjoyRoyTWA]

I was very ill with the virus, and I felt I needed to record my life and I reached out to Ragini and proposed that we write a book together. This book became a book about dialogue and life in the company of a friend. @freetobeChi and Ragini Tharoor in conversation with @inprintguy @JLFLitfest #Jlfhouston2025 @asiasocietytx

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

A bunch of gems in this @ezraklein interview with @dwallacewells and @RBMD1982, including a shout out for The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once 😊

Gift link:

https://t.co/SizJjv5pCV

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

i once taught a class on the art of the question. this guy seems to me to be going about it the right way: questioning categories, opening up concepts.

[Tobias Rees @tobias_rees]

https://t.co/mDUMsbzG8v

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

@ShashiTharoor @TOIIndiaNews @AlephBookCo Thank you Shashi! Your niece is an amazing friend as well as a brilliant writer. 😊 a family trait, from what I know.

You have a cameo or two in the book, btw!

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

@kan_writersside @ShobhaTharoor @shrutisonal26 @AlephBookCo Thank you Kan and @narayani_basu for helping this book become its best self! 🙏🏻

[Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan @ShobhaTharoor]

“It is an incandescent, consummate work of relentless exposition,” says #UtkarshManiTripathi in his review of The End Doesn’t Happen All At Once. https://t.co/I9MNjNnCpk @AlephBookCo @kan_writersside @freetobeChi @BaizeShephard

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"In this mega-hyped attention economy, choosing how we pay attention is actually a small miracle."

Kiese Laymon interviews @freetobeChi and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, "The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once." https://t.co/skdGjVctzi

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

Thank you Shobha for all your support!

I'm tingling all over to see this interview with the one and only Kiese Laymon out in the world.

The fans and the curious, check the uncut version here: https://t.co/MbcUl6RMk7

@AlephBookCo

[Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan @ShobhaTharoor]

This gem published by @AlephBookCo is getting the right kind of critical attention in the west as I had thought it would. Proud of #RaginiTharoor Srinivasan & @freetobeChi for this brilliant interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books. https://t.co/n7seE9GUlN @kan_writersside

[Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan @ShobhaTharoor]

Ragini https://t.co/AueJD8v2Ih wrote an essay about early Covid books, the fifth anniversary of the pandemic, & what she learned from co-writing “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.” Do read & share. https://t.co/nn6AJrpOU5
@AlephBookCo @kan_writersside @freetobeChi

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

It's Sunday. Want a portal to another reality? You should read my friend and co-author Ragini's review of the Covid books that managed to pierce through the publishing firewall, in @philosopher1923 today. https://t.co/U5CMMHHgGQ

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

Wrote about something i keep hearing... https://t.co/6CyD5Mhciw

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

Standing up for your preferred pronouns might seem like small potatoes when there's so much to fight right now.

But having these kinds of difficult conversations builds our capacity for the bigger, harder, and deeper conversations to come. https://t.co/AVWejd0K7m

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

I'd love for you to help launch the book into the world, via a sparkling zoom convo with writers Kiese Laymon, Shruti Swamy, & Johanna Skibsrud, moderated by feminist scholar Carly Thomsen, and Ragini and me, the authors. And most importantly, YOU! ✨

Thursday March 27th , 11am PT / 2pm ET
Free, register here: https://t.co/07FQvfedFI

It's gonna be fierce and loving and a crucial chance to connect what went down then to where we are now.
Hope to see you! 🥰

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

Mask peeps! My best friend & I wrote a book for you. 👀 *The End Doesn't Happen All at Once* is the pandemic story-in-letters about the struggle to stay close when you -- and the world -- transform. https://t.co/Y8P7tkvKMl

Kiese Laymon calls it "necessary and devastating, at once singular & utterly communal… absolutely as honest a book as I’ve ever read.”

You know this story. You are this story. 😷💔❤️

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

@meaning_enjoyer Not sure if it qualifies as a major idea but your mask makes me think you might like it :) https://t.co/BLrIk0WJZR

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

@dwallacewells Thanks, David. Graphs with gaps like this are often harbingers of political movements … I think you’re right we’ll be reckoning with Covid’s aftershocks for some time yet.

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

Kiese Laymon called this book "necessary and devastating, at once incredibly singular and utterly communal"... Trying to get it to the U.S. market. DM me if you know the right editor.

[Aleph Book Company @AlephBookCo]

In the midst of uncertainty, two writers turned to writing letters to each other to find solace, purpose and hope. The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once is a moving pandemic memoir that captures the weight of isolation and the spirit of human resilience.

Swipe through to read excerpts from their correspondence.
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📖 Available Now: https://t.co/M8ReRNiUS1

@freetobeChi #PandemicMemoir #LettersFromLockdown #TheEndDoesntHappenAllAtOnce #bookstagram #Memoir #ReadingCommunity #BookLovers #QuarantineDiaries #alephbookcompany

[Aleph Book Company @AlephBookCo]

In the midst of uncertainty, two writers turned to writing letters to each other to find solace, purpose and hope. The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once is a moving pandemic memoir that captures the weight of isolation and the spirit of human resilience.

Swipe through to read excerpts from their correspondence.
💌✨

📖 Available Now: https://t.co/M8ReRNiUS1

@freetobeChi #PandemicMemoir #LettersFromLockdown #TheEndDoesntHappenAllAtOnce #bookstagram #Memoir #ReadingCommunity #BookLovers #QuarantineDiaries #alephbookcompany

[Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them @freetobeChi]

@phdpeter28 thank you for sharing :)