Zabe B

ZAH-bay not zayb || she/her/gyal 🇯🇲 || street design & policy || #THWW 22 scholar || querying. two. novels.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

folks. I wrote about discovering a great granddad might have died in The Holocaust. might. out today in The Audacity. I’m so grateful this very personal essay found a home with such care & attention from @MegPillow & @rgay
https://t.co/IAvAaikMcP

[Zabe B @zabebent]

craft. culture. family. love. food. cities! such a treat talking with @AnnellLopez2 about her debut collection I'll Give You a Reason.

[Write or Die Magazine @WriteorDieMag]

.@zabebent interviews @AnnellLopez2 about writing about erasure, MFAs conversations on cultural identity, Newark, and her short story collection, I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON (@FeministPress)
Read here ↓
https://t.co/XPKQh9HFAC

[Zabe B @zabebent]

or maybe I should give in, and make a substack...

[Zabe B @zabebent]

if I cannot sell this memoir-adjacent Jamaican family saga, I might ditch the time travel fantasy novel for an essay collection:

There Are No Washcloths in Europe, and Other Black Nomad Discoveries

[Zabe B @zabebent]

@ShawnGarcia_NYC @TransAlt congrats, Shawn!

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@jonorcutt @JessieSingerNYC thanks, Jon, will take a look

[Zabe B @zabebent]

I can't process the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse w/o thinking of @JessieSingerNYC There Are No Accidents. the disaster exposed issues we didn't care to address.

it speaks volumes abt who bears the impact of failures, how we value immigrants, workers, & infrastructure too

[Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS @panagis21]

“If you knew how to paint or construction, lived in the ‘70s in Highlandtown, chances are you helped build that bridge.” Talking to my dad😞

He was one of those workers who built #FrancisScottKeyBridge

“Built by workers to serve their working class families.”

A massive loss 😞

[Zabe B @zabebent]

@JessieSingerNYC 6+ lives & families forever, 8,000 workers & families for months, millions of dollars a day for months and more.
hoping there are immediate corrections on comms protocols to workers (at minimum) but that remains to be seen.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

@megpillow congrats! excited for this!

[Zabe B @zabebent]

@RickeyFayne @michellebrower @elizmccracken @WilliamsFayne @bencgeorge amazing news!! congrats, Rickey!

[Vanessa Chan @vanjchan]

I’m currently running to catch a train so more later, but it is so rare to love both your UK and US book covers …@HodderBooks was like CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. It is so stunning I am speechless. Coming to you 4 Jan - uk and commonwealth, incl my beloved Malaysia and Australia!

[tamika butler is @tamikabutler.bsky.social @TamikaButler]

It's here!!!!! Love this book already. Congrats sis!! @VeronicaODavis! Join me on June 20th for a dynamic virtual conversation with @islandpress, “Inclusive Transportation: Celebrating the Diverse Tapestry of America’s Biking Culture”. Register now https://t.co/57VIoHkwQD.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

even if the Belt Pkwy is a pleasant drive (when exactly??), it was designed for exclusion. we should be asking WHY such a thing should be admired.

bc niceties & silver linings on bad projects are killing brown ppl, poor ppl, and the planet too.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

except no. we don't have to admire an autocrat who pushed a racist & classist agenda by cutting off access to public & green spaces, by hamstringing public transport, and by bulldozing thousands of homes for each project.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

breaking my break. bc in recent transpo sessions, folks have been excited to finally begin correcting Robert Moses' legacy.
yet. still comments abt how (the Belt Pkwy) is actually a nice ride to the beach. or how we should admire RM's ability to push an agenda & get things built.

[BikeHouston @BikeHouston]

Your city has a transportation engineer who only cares about level of service.

Our city has a transportation engineer who wrote this book:

[kfy @kfillinyeh]

Checking out the electric & Direct Vision vehicles at @NYCDCAS Fleet expo today. It’s part trade show, part job fair (a bunch of automotive HS kids here) and also part cookout (who knew?). 200 vendors showcasing better, safer, greener vehicles and equipment.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

@DrTaraGoddard @arielbphd so many. too many.

[Zabe B @zabebent]

@arielbphd what fresh hell...?

[Mara Gay @MaraGay]

“‘If Stand Your Ground really lets somebody just shoot somebody that rings a doorbell,’ he said, ‘that puts the life of every postal worker, every campaigner, every Amazon delivery person at risk in this country.’” https://t.co/UnPMf7Zc7x

[Damon Gupton @DamonGupton]

Ralph. Yarl. 🙏🏽💔