“While all political confabs involve some level of spin and revisionism, the Republican National Convention this year has stood out for its brazen defiance of facts, ethical guidelines and tradition,” @ToluseO reports https://t.co/4oBmBJvMaH
NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street
Hey NYC teachers! We want to see photos of your broken sinks, empty soap dispensers, broken windows, moldy AC units & peeling paint. @NYCMayor lives in a fantasy land where he thinks our classrooms are COVID safe. Tag us or dm.
Whatever happens in September whether we stay remote or try blended learning, which will inevitably be chaotic for teachers and families at best, is the fault of a major public health policy failure on the state and federal level— not the fault of individual teachers or schools
Mum Bett sued her master for her freedom & won in 1781. “Any time, any time while I was a slave, if 1 minute’s freedom had been offered me, & I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I wld have taken it – just to stand 1 minute on God’s earth a free woman – I would.”
YAY! SUPERCONGRATS to Colleen O'Brien on her Pushcart win for "Charlie" - We adore this piece, how it builds and builds, then cuts you with tenderness. Please have a listen at https://t.co/cCQdRisbMu or find us on Apple Podcasts (The Stack New Fiction)
Yay! Happy Tuesday everyone. We're so pleased to share "Waltz" by @somerserin, originally published in @ecotonemagazine. New divorcee Marian is hilarious and stony and messy and sharp as a tack and we love spending time with her. You will too.
So excited to share @tiphanieyanique's piece "The Special World" from @GeorgiaReview on this week's episode of @thestackpod! The story plumbs late adolescence and masculinity, and the intersections of race, faith, and sex - an achievement of imagination.
If NY and NYC had adopted widespread social-distancing measures a week or two earlier, including closing schools and restaurants, then the estimated death toll from might have been reduced by 50 to 80 %, said the former head of the CDC and city health dept https://t.co/RCgBTxvtCY
"Gut" was originally published in @ObsidianLit Issue 45.1 (https://t.co/AA4hmhWJFZ), which you should check out, follow on Twitter, subscribe to, and order back issues from.
Dr. @alexispauline Gumbs is 🔥, and her incantatory prose-poem "Gut" reaches deep into history and makes meaning out of revolutionary motherhood. This is what we needed today.