Meredith Arena

Seltzer drinker, writer, interdisciplinarian, teaching artist, facilitator.

[Kerry Sinanan @kerry_sinanan]

They are forcing us to watch spectacles of death so we feel hopeless & become selfish in our complicity. In the face of this, insisting on life-disabled life, 'guilty' life, poor life, Indigenous life, Black life, Arab life, all the wretched of the earth-as precious, is our task.

[Meredith Arena @mereditharena]

@kristenmag @abc7newsbayarea Boo hooo genocide is illegal!

[ABC7 News @abc7newsbayarea]

Both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge have been shut down due to a Pro-Palestinian protest. Demonstrators have blocked the southbound direction of Highway 101. This is the second protest causing major back-ups on Bay Area roadways, the demonstration has blocked northbound I-880 in Oakland. https://t.co/9Dcotu6gFe

[Mona Baker @monabaker11.bsky.social @MonaBaker11]

very good analysis. ⁦@Jodi7768⁩ A Practical Appraisal of Palestinian Violence - Steve Salaita https://t.co/wdx2BYEaBW

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

https://t.co/e6imCeaVs8

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

69 years old Annie Lennox called for ceasefire in Gaza during 66th Grammy Awards after performing ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ in memorian segment. ❤️🇵🇸

[Meredith Arena @mereditharena]

Sometimes I wish I could call @sarahjessicanet to discuss how homophobic the first Sex in the City is.

[Jose Hernandez Diaz @JoseHernandezDz]

Ada Limón, first Latina U.S. Poet Laureate 🔥

[Leslie Jamison @lsjamison]

File under: changed my life

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Translation is a very modest miracle, but one of the greatest on Earth.

-Borges

[Patrycja @jej_sen]

it is incredibly dishonest to frame considering "both sides" as intelligence, as care, and lacks even the most basic analysis of power. you can still change yr mind, you can still say no to genocide, there may still be time to develop a spine. to be on the loving side of history

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

And all who believed some must die
they were already dead

—June Jordan, born #OTD in 1936

https://t.co/OGOttl3ZIy

[Patrycja @jej_sen]

"What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023..." - @sareemakdisi

https://t.co/RnEIKZQPfe

[Meredith Arena @mereditharena]

@jej_sen Where are you moving? I’m moving back to NYC next year.

[Jose Hernandez Diaz @JoseHernandezDz]

Countdown update: 10 months until my book, “Bad Mexican, Bad American” is published with Acre Books, U of Cincinnati Press.🤓🔥

[Meredith Arena @mereditharena]

⁦@CarrotQuinn⁩ these stories are really interesting to me. Thanks for sharing. I would pay for a workshop on self publishing that shares what you learned during your research and experience. https://t.co/yiVxED3kX6

[Meredith Arena @mereditharena]

⁦@sheer_awe⁩ thank you. I feel@seen and held. My brain too. My desk too! My WHOLE LIFE too. And thanks to ⁦@AngelNafis⁩ for the sweet advice https://t.co/ZoZHsoaBtE